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The ABI's new code of conduct titled "Consumers in the Retirement Income Market" will help ensure that people are informed and equipped with the information they need to understand their options.
The ABI said that its members would adopt the new code of conduct by March 2013, or sooner if they wish.
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One year ago, on February 14, 2011, Wisconsin erupted in demonstrations against Governor Walker's assault on collective bargaining rights for public employees. A two-week occupation of the State Capital Building ensued, along with the flight of 14 state Democrats who left Madison to seek refuge in Illinois in order to delay a vote. All the while massive protests took place daily at the State Capital Building with weekend demos witnessing crowds of 100,000 plus.
Twelve months later one can easily assess the damages inflicted by Walker, as well as the significance of the protest movement that is still ongoing. First and foremost it is important to recognize that the protests in Madison did NOT stop Walker and the Republicans from enacting the majority of their draconian plans. Walker and company was successful in ending collective bargaining rights, passing a voter ID bill, pushing forward a redistricting map that will make it easier for Republicans to win elections for the next decade, and passing a "budget reform bill" that has gutted the public sphere - particularly public education - while handing over massive tax breaks and incentives to the corporations who back Walker.
After one year of protests - and the lack of strikes - one should also critique the strategy of the unions who have asserted leadership in the protest movement. So far the strategy of the higher-ups in the unions has been to support democratic candidates and to push for recall elections. This has brought very mixed results and their strategy has drawn criticism, including on this blog. Elections and recalls failed to unseat a right-wing conservative Supreme Court judge (David Prosser), and recalls failed to tip the balance in the Senate back to the Democrats.
However all is not lost. The recent recall movement against Walker generated over a million signatures that essentially guarantees that a recall election will take place this summer. This election will pit Walker against a democratic challenger. If Walker is recalled, Wisconsin will celebrate a huge people's victory against corporate power and right-wing ideology. If Walker wins, Wisconsin will be on a race towards the bottom and will likely become a "right to work" state in the not-so-distant future. Already Wisconsin has had the dubious distinction of losing more jobs than any other state from June to October of this past year, and the cuts to higher public education are the third highest in the country. Expect the retirement funds for public employees to be looted and expect the public health care program (Badger Care) to be massively defunded, resulting in thousands of families losing access to this essential program. Also expect the northwoods to become ground zero for environmental struggles against multi-national mining corporations.
If the calls for demonstrations by the Wisconsin AFL-CIO (highlighted on the new poster designed by Susan Simensky Bietila) are any indication, February and March will hopefully rev up the protest numbers and bring a renewed commitment to resisting the Walker agenda. Let's hope so. Last February awakened a sleeping giant and exemplified the power of working class people uniting across common goals. Let's turn this Winter and Spring into another season of collective struggle.
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The ways cities around the globe can make themselves smarter are as varied and multi-layered as the different sizes and shapes of the world's urban areas.
Cities face different problems. For one it might be dealing with transport, or crime, while for another sustainability, or streamlining public service provision and access to technology for all, might be important. There is no one-size-fits-all model.
What is good for one part of the UK might not be good for another; what works in Europe may not translate to the Americas. Making an existing urban area – London or New York, say – smarter is a very different prospect from starting afresh on a greenfield site.
"Everyone seems to have a different model of what constitutes a smarter city, depending on whether you are talking about sustainability or intelligent use of technology," says Dave Fitch, project manager at Edinburgh Napier University for the EU Smart Cities project, which is aimed at improving the development and delivery of joined-up e-services in a series of northern European municipalities including Norfolk and Edinburgh. "We have colleagues in Belgium who have listed 10 different models – for tourism, business, citizens etc," says Fitch.
Improving life for all
The places that do best in terms of smart-city innovation show a desire – shared by leaders, town planners, utility companies, the providers of public services and reinforced by demand and involvement from citizens – to make things work better with the aim of creating an improved life for all.
"It's about people at the leading edge having a vision of what they are going to do,'' adds Fitch.
"There needs to be a commitment to use technology to improve services – there needs to be a political vision."
The level of ambition and nature of the issues being tackled varies enormously. In Glasgow, for instance, the principal emphasis is on energy providers and local government coming together to provide a more environmentally sustainable city. The aim is to dramatically reduce energy usage while not sacrificing economic growth or social welfare.
In Greater Manchester – about four times bigger than Glasgow – the focus is on better unification for an area of 2.6 million people and 10 different local authorities. The aim is to achieve "efficiency through collaboration" by streamlining structures that deal with health, economic regeneration, public services, planning, transportation and governance; taking advantage, wherever possible, of the latest technologies.
But in the West Midlands, which has a similar size and number of different authorities, there is less appetite for a "Greater Birmingham", leaving the main city to pursue its own agenda for a digital Birmingham, promoting "greater connectivity" with its citizens. This includes access to online databases on public consultation exercises and a TV channel giving details of local authority services and realtime bus services.
The Centre for Cities thinktank believes that larger city regions like Manchester are the ideal size to achieve smart policies. Such areas are felt to be in a better position than, say, London – which is too big, and has too many competing layers – or smaller towns, which lack human and financial resources and have different problems and priorities.
In the UK, Peterborough has ambitious plans to become the country's most environmentally conscious city through almost every aspect of local government, particularly in terms of managing its physical growth, while Southampton is one of many cities developing its own version of London's Oyster card, for use on all types of public transport.
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Other areas have some way to go. Four selected British cities – Cardiff, Aberdeen, Leicester and Portsmouth – came only halfway up a table of 70 smaller European cities ranked for their "smartness" in transport, the environment, the economy, governance and quality of life. The list was topped by Luxembourg.
Elsewhere in Europe, Malta is trialling the first large-scale attempt at smart metering, in order to achieve much closer realtime monitoring of its water and electricity consumption. Meanwhile, plans are afoot to transform farmland outside Paredes in northern Portugal into Europe's first smart city, with networking embedded into 100,000 homes, buildings and infrastructure.
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At Paredes, designated a project of national importance by the Portuguese government, sensors embedded into the 17.5 sq km site will mean "realtime information can be shared quickly to facilitate decision-making on everything from traffic management to crime prevention". The £10bn project is forecast to create 3,000 technology jobs.
But the £14bn Masdar City project in Abu Dhabi is perhaps the grandest smart city project currently underway, significant because the developers are using new technology to create the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste city.
The 6 sq km city will incorporate sustainable technologies as part of its design and will house research facilities, businesses and institutions active in the fields of renewable energy and sustainability. Cars will also be banned and all transport in the city will be by public transit systems.
The city has been designed by British architect Norman Foster, who says it will "question conventional urban wisdom at a fundamental level". Perhaps it will become the model smart city for the future.
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Glasgow is on course to become one of Europe's most sustainable cities over the next decade.
The city's huge potential for reducing carbon emissions was discovered by an "unprecedented" partnership between the commercial and public sectors, who joined forces to work on improving Glasgow's energy efficiency.
A key part of the project will be the creation of the UK's largest district heating system. New underground pipes will supply heat from a mix of low-carbon sources, including: energy from the city's waste; biogas from sewage; combined heat and power systems; and waste heat, captured through heat exchangers, from companies such as breweries, bakeries and IT businesses.
This joined-up use of the city's low-carbon energy resources will produce a 9% decrease in carbon emissions, as well as reducing heating costs for low-income households.
Among the other aims of the plan, costing between £1.5bn and £2bn in public and private-sector money, is planting trees in vacant spaces to absorb carbon, and the creation of wind turbine areas. Vehicles will be encouraged to run on biofuels or electricity. The initiative aims to deliver a 30% decrease in carbon emissions by 2020.
Richard Bellingham, senior research fellow in energy policy at the University of Strathclyde, says: "We've taken a strategic look at Glasgow – seeing it as a whole, rather than in pockets. Rather than making one building sustainable, or focusing on one low-carbon technology, by taking a holistic approach we are able to identify how organisations can help each other, and how different technologies can support each other."
Sandy Gillon, head of transport and environment for Glasgow city council, says: "the scheme not only benefits Glasgow environmentally, it will benefit the city's people, bringing in a whole raft of social opportunities as it attracts investment and jobs are created."
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Mt. Ste. Anne, Quebec, Canada Santa Cruz Syndicate's Greg Minnaar races into 2nd place behind Aaron Gwin at Mt. Ste. Anne in the UCI Downhill World Cup Series. After two weeks of constant rehab of Steve Peat's torn hamstring he was ready to give the race a serious go, but he slid out on the upper part of the track which skewed his front end making it impossible to continue attacking and he placed 71st. Josh Bryceland felt he was capable of a better run while his efforts netted him a 12th place position.
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Oklahoma State University's College of Osteopathic Medicine is hosting a run next month to benefit a charity that promotes transplant donor services.
The annual Osteopathic Scrub Run will be March 1 at the OSU Center for Health Sciences. Proceeds from the event will go to support LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma.
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Much in the same way as it offers reproductions parts for the 1965-70 Mustang bodies, the Blue Oval is now venturing further into the past with the release of a full body shell of the 1940 Ford Coupe, a favorite among hot rod builders.
"The 1940 Ford Coupe has always been highly sought after and collectible," says Dennis Mondrach, Ford Restoration Parts licensing manager. "Unfortunately, good, solid restorable examples have become hard to find and expensive, so this faithful reproduction is bound to prove popular."
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Shimshal شمشال (in Urdu) is a village located in Gojal, Hunza–Nagar District, in the Gilgit–Baltistan region of Pakistan formerly known as Northern Areas of Pakistan. It lies at an altitude of 3,100 m above sea level, and is the highest settlement in Hunza Valley of Pakistan. It is the bordering village that connects Gilgit-Baltistan province of Pakistan with China. The total area of Shimshal is 3,800 km2 and there are around two thousand inhabitants with a total of two hundred and forty households. Shimshal is made up of four major hamlets; Farmanabad, Aminabad, Center Shimshal and Khizarabad. Farmanabad is a new settlement that comes first on reaching Shimshal. Aminabad is announced by vast fields of stones hemmed in by dry stone walls, and fortress-like houses of stone and mud. As you approach Shimshal look for a glimpse of Odver Sar (6,303m) also known as Shimshal Whitehorn. Shimshal has hydroelectricity from Odver stream for five months (June–October) of the year (when the water isn't frozen). Non availability of electricity for seven months is a big problem of the local community because during this period they have to rely on kerosene oil, firewood, solar plates and compressed natural gas in cylinders as an alternative .
The village was inaccessible by motor road until October 2003, when a new road from the Karakoram Highway at Passu was constructed. The construction of non-metallic Jeep-able road started in 1985 and completed in 2003. Eighteen years (1985-2003) of handwork finally become successful because of hard work, dedication and self-help. It become possible to connect Shimshal with rest of the world by mutual cooperation of the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, Government of Pakistan and the local community. It now takes maximum three hours to reach Shimshal by jeep from Passu. Self-help or Nomus ( in local Wakhi language) is the major factor for infrastructure development in Shimshal. Brock University Canada has recently launched a new project A Critical Ethnography of the Shimshal Road.
Shimshalis use numerous seasonal mountain grasslands, located several days walk from the village, to sustain herds of yaks, goats, and sheep. The area was founded by Mamo Singh and his wife named Khudija.They have the only son Sher. According to Shimshal's history and tradition, their first child won the local polo game from Kargiz (Chinese) riding yak while the Chinese rode horses.The Shimshal River comes from this area and then transforms the shape of Hunza River, which mixes with the Indus River below the capital city Gilgit.
The people of Shimshal are Wakhi and they speak the Wakhi language. They belong to the Ismaili sect of Shia Islam.
The entire community is the follower of Aga Khan as their 49th spiritual leader who is the direct descendant of Muhammad. The Ismaili Community
Two books by Pam Henson about Shimshal, "Shimshal" and "Women of Shimshal" have been published by the Shimshal Trust. Henson is a teacher from New Zealand and wrote these books based on her experiences teaching and living in Shimshal. Details about her books are available on Shimshal Trust website. شمشال بے مثال written by مستنصر حسسیں تارڑ Mustenssir Hussain Tarrer is one of the best books on Shimshal in Urdu.
Shimshal Pass (Ṣ̌ʉw Wʉrt)[edit]
Shimshal Pass (Ṣ̌ʉw Wʉrt) (4,735 m) rises above the village. It lies on the watershed between the Indus River and Tarim River basins, and leads to the valley of the Shimshal Braldu River, a tributary of the Shaksgam River on the border with China. Francis Younghusband was probably the first Englishman to reach the pass (1889). At the time it was used by raiders from Hunza to attack caravans traveling between Leh and Yarkand. There was a fort manned by Hunza soldiers, or raiders, or both. The pass is not part of Khunjerab National Park, but the Shimshal community has set an organization called SNT (Shimshal Nature Trust) which oversees the entire region and takes care of its own land. It is a community-based organization and is registered with the Government of Pakistan.
Annually, in the last week of July or the first week of August, there is a festival at Shimshal Pass, where locals partake in a yak race, followed by singing and dancing. In Wakhi language it is called Woolyo. This yak race is the only one of its kind, and is a unique event organised at high mountain settlements of Pakistan .
Shimshal Nature Trust[edit]
Shimshal Nature Trust is a community-based development organization.
Shimshal Nature Trust - Fifteen Year Vision and Management Plan (1994-2009) The Science and Practice of Ecology & Society Award (SPES) was granted to Shimshal Nature Trust in Pakistan. Details available here, SPES Award to Shimshal Nature Trust also see Report on Shimshal Nature Trust
Navbahar Educational, Welfare and Development Organisation (NEWDO) is the most active organisation working for the educational development in the valley by constructing educational facilities. Navbahar Secondary School, Shimshal is one of its kind educational institution in the village .
Shimshal Health Care Center was recently constructed with the financial help of German donors.
Shimshal Mountaineering School (SMS) is the best mountaineering school in Hunza valley. It is owned and managed by Shimshali mountaineers.
Nomus (Self-Help Village Development Programme)[edit]
Nomus is a Wakhi word commonly known in Shimshal valley. It is a unique social philanthropic( showing concern for humanity ) system of the local community. Details are available here Nomus and Oral testimonies from Shimshal It is one of its kind model of participatory community development in Gilgit-Baltistan area of Pakistan.Self-Help Village Development Programme
Samina Baig from Shimshal First Pakistani woman to scale Mount Everest][edit]
Tourism in Shimshal[edit]
Shimshal valley has its largest adventure area in Hunza and is a major attraction for tourists. Its mountains like Distaghil Sar (7,885 m), Shimshal White Horn (6,303 m) Minglik Sar (6,150 m), Lupghar Sar (7,200 m), Yazghail Sar (6,000 m), Kunjut Sar and others are well known among mountaineers. Gigantic glaciers include Malangudhi, Yazghail, Khurdopin (5,800 m), Braldu, Odver, Ver Zharav, and main passes are Chafchingoal, Khurdopin, Mai Dur, Braldu, Boi Sam and others. Shimshalis are to Pakistan as Sherpas are to Nepal. More than twenty well known mountaineers from this valley have made Pakistan proud in the field of tourism. Some people call it " The Valley of Mountaineers". Some of them are Rajab Shah, Mehrban Shah, Shambi Khan,Aziz Ullah, Qudrat Ali, Sarwar Ali, Shaheen Baig, Ali Mussa, Amr Uddin Shah, Amin Ullah Baig, Sajjad Karim, Aziz Baig, Qurban Muhammad, Tafat Shah, Farhad Khan, Wahab Ali Shah, Fazl Ali, Hasil Shah,Yousaf Khan, Muhammad Ullah, Ezat Ullah, Muhammad Bari, Shafa Ali, Muhammad Abdul,Saeed Ahmed,Jalal Uddin,mehrban karim and others. Rajab Shah has the distinction of scaling all five peaks more than eight thousand meters located in Pakistan. Rajab Shah and Mehrban Shah have received Presidential Award for Pride of Performance in recognition of their extra ordinary achievement in the field of tourism and mountaineering.
Some useful links that may provide good information about tourism in Shimshal are;
- Way to K2 Adventure Tours
- Shams Alpine
- Shimshal Mountaineering School
- KET Pakistan
- Pakistan Youth Outreach
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- Blankonthemap The Northern Kashmir WebSite
- 2000 Mock & O'Neil Oprang Expedition Report
- Shimshal Trust
- http://www.shamsalpine.com.pk
- Article in The Washington Post


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Back in 2004, the American Institute of Biological Sciences and the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study organized a well-attended and well-received two-day symposium on evolutionary science and society at the annual meeting of the National Association of Biology Teachers. In 2005, the proceedings of the symposium were published as Evolutionary Science and Society: Educating a New Generation, edited by Joel Cracraft and Rodger W. Bybee.
Dworkin on "intelligent design"
In the opening section of his recent essay "Three Questions for America" (published in the September 21, 2006, issue of The New York Review of Books), the eminent legal scholar Ronald Dworkin answers the question "Should alternatives to evolution be taught in schools?" with a decisive no.
FASEB adds its voice for evolution
The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, which is composed of twenty-two scientific organizations representing over 84,000 members, issued a public policy statement on the teaching of evolution on December 20, 2005 -- coincidentally, the same day in which teaching "intelligent design" was ruled to be unconstitutional in Kitzmiller v. Dover.
AAAS releases The Evolution Dialogues
In a press release issued on August 9, 2006, the American Association for the Advancement of Science announced the publication of The Evolution Dialogues, written by Catherine Baker and edited by James B. Miller. As the book's prologue notes, "there are deep misunderstandings about what biological evolution is, what science itself is, and what views people of faith, especially Christians, have applied to their interpretations of the science.
Research!America raises its voice for evolution
A strong position statement supporting the teaching of evolution and opposing the teaching of "intelligent design" was issued by Research!America, which describes itself as "the nation's largest not-for-profit public education and advocacy alliance working to make research to improve health a higher national priority." The statement reads:
Research!America supports the scientific community's unanimous position that intelligent design does not meet the criteria of a scientific c
A physicist's outreach for evolution
Writing in the July 2006 issue of Physics Today, Murray Peshkin describes his experiences in speaking to small groups -- "service clubs such as Rotary, high-school and college students of science and science journalism, a school-based community event, a League of Women Voters chapter, a Unitarian church, and a microscopy club" -- about science, religion, and evolution education. "The response to my talks has been almost uniformly positive," he reports.
Congratulations, evolution bloggers!
A brief story in Nature lists [Link broken] the top five science blogs -- "those written by working scientists covering scientific issues" -- by popularity, including P. Z. Myers's Pharyngula and the collectively authored The Panda's Thumb, both of which provide a wealth of information and commentary on the creationism/evolution debate.
The Episcopal Church reaffirms evolution education
At its 75th General Convention in June 2006, the Episcopal Church passed a resolution supporting the teaching of evolution in schools.
Brian Alters discusses evolution and education at NIH
On May 10, 2006, Brian Alters delivered a lecture on "Evolution and Education" in the National Institute of Health's Evolution and Medicine lecture series, presented by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the Office of Science Education, and the National Human Genome Research Institute. His lecture is now available on-line to view in RealPlayer format.
"Intelligent Judging"
Featured in the May 25, 2006, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine is George J. Annas's article "Intelligent Judging -- Evolution in the Classroom and the Courtroom." Annas distinguishes three waves of activity seeking "to banish or marginalize the teaching of evolution" in the public schools: attempts to ban the teaching of evolution, attempts to teach "creation science" alongside evolution, and attempts to teach "intelligent design" alongside evolution.
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Michael Moll was named the Head Football Athletic Trainer in July of 2012. He joined the Badger Athletic Training Staff in the fall of 2000 and has provided athletic training coverage for football since 2003. While at Wisconsin, he has covered a variety of sports including Women�s Basketball, Wrestling, Men�s and Women�s Tennis and Wrestling. Prior to coming to Wisconsin, Moll served as the head athletic trainer at Lakeland College.
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Steve Martin steps into Spencer Tracy's boots for this remake of the 1950 classic which sees a protective dad struggling to accept his daughter is about to flee the nest with another man - her soon-to-be husband. Both sidesplitting and poignant. Trivia: Eugene Levy appears in both this and the sequel - as different characters.
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This glossy, slightly ruder remake of the Spencer Tracy-Joan Bennett-Elizabeth Taylor classic is not far short of the original in warmth and humour, with Steve Martin superb as a doting father who careers off the rails at the news of his beloved daughter's impending wedding.
The script hardly makes the most of Diane Keaton's talents as his wife, though, and Kimberly Williams not unexpectedly lacks Elizabeth Taylor's beauty and glow; at least for once they picked an actress the right height for her on-screen parents: not as tall as Martin, but taller than Keaton.
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Heritage Hall, the last jewel in the Camp Randall Stadium renovation, was opened Aug. 31 in festivities attended by nearly 250 donors to the project as well as a number of university and athletic department staff. The $2.5 million meeting room was completely paid for by donated funds from Badger student-athletes, coaches and administrators.
Located in the area formerly occupied by the athletic administration on the second floor of the stadium, the beautifully decorated room meets a host of needs for the Department. Heritage Hall will be used to host activities such as recruiting visits, team banquets, alumni receptions and administrative meetings. The area will also be made available to the National W Club on football game days so former student-athletes may come together in fellowship.
Situated adjacent to Kellner Hall on the south end of the Stadium, the 5,000 square-foot area boasts rich finishes and custom carpeting. Finishes were selected to have a traditional feel, and to be a backdrop for the collection of memorabilia in the exhibits. The displays celebrate the history of Wisconsin Athletics and represent all sports.
Cherry stained wood wainscoting and trim was selected for its rich coloration, beautiful graining, and timelessness. The carpet tile was custom designed, incorporating the Motion-W logo. Cherry framed French doors with etched glass incorporating the traditional W-shield allow the lounge (bar area) to be closed from Heritage Hall proper. Red color accents were introduced in carpet, furniture and adjustable lighting. Bathed in natural light, the room looks out over the Hall of Fame and the Brick Walk at the front of the Camp Randall Memorial Sports Center.
Primary guest access will be via the existing stadium stairs below Section W, near the south end of Badger Alley, or the new ADA accessible elevator below Section V. The area contains a 3,000-square-foot main room and a 1,050-square-foot wet bar. Easy access to the service kitchen one floor below will meet all food service needs.
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What do Buffalo Bill, John F. Kennedy, Vince Lombardi, Dorothy Day, Fulton Sheen, and Andy Warhol have in common?
They're all Catholics who have shaped America. In this page-a-day history, 365 inspiring stories celebrate the historic contributions of American men and women shaped by their Catholic faith. From famous figures to lesser-known saints and sinners, The American Catholic Almanac tells the fascinating, funny, uplifting, and unlikely tales of Catholics' influence on American history, culture, and politics. Spanning the scope of the Revolutionary War to Notre Dame football, this unique collection of stories highlights the transformative role of the Catholic Church in American public life over the last 400 years.
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-The first immigrant to arrive in America via Ellis Island was a 15-year-old Irish Catholic girl?
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Six-year-old John Zorbas of Colonie can't wait until he's big and strong enough to lift ballerinas high into the air – and he's well on his way.
Zorbas will be dancing with the New York City Ballet in their production of "Firebird" at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center through a program that has been in place since 1968 that allows young local dancers to take the stage with the renowned ballet company.
"I'm so excited to be dancing in the ballet," said Zorbas, who has been dancing for a year now.
His mom, Colleen Zorbas, said she first started seeing hints of interest in ballet from her son when he was 3 years old.
"He'd watch his sisters dance … I always knew he had something just in him and he knows he's doing a good job," she said.
John's sisters, Calista, 12, and Eemetra, 9, have been dancing for several years.
Colleen Zorbas added that at first John didn't see any other boys but he doesn't let that worry him. She's also seen a lot of other benefits for her son.
"His balance is great … he also really appreciates the arts and notices things when he watches ballets," she said.
Every year, over 200 local dancers audition to take the stage with the ballet company. Zorbas is one of 19 dancers who made the cut for this year's ballet season at SPAC, which will be in residency until July 21. SPAC's Director of Arts Education Siobhan Dunham said this partnership dates back to at least 1968, two years after SPAC opened.
She said that at 6, Zorbas is a little on the young side to be starting ballet, and is especially young for a boy.
"Boys tend to come to it a little bit later…it's often not on their radar unless they have sisters who dance," Dunham said. Performing with the ballet can be a priceless experience for any dancer, though.
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Don't Hate Sarah Palin Because She's Beautiful
Female pundits like Maureen Dowd sound more like mean girls than serious political analysts. (Also read Victor David Hanson: ( Sarah Palin and Her Critics)
July 8, 2009 - 12:30 am
Remember those old Pantene shampoo ads with '80s modeling sensation Kelly LeBrock? "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful."
Apparently women like Maureen Dowd and Liz Trotta didn't get the memo. (Perhaps Keith Olbermann fits into this category as well.) They're still hounding Sarah Palin — Dowd with her recycled "Caribou Barbie" shtick that passes for humor in the sourly elite pages of the New York Times, and Trotta's contention that Palin is "inarticulate and undereducated," hadn't accomplished anything, "brought the attacks on herself," is "wacky and nutty," and only got ahead because of her looks. Oh, and Trotta thinks Dowd is funny and witty. So do I — when compared to having a root canal. Actually, I think the root canal is preferable (yes, I have had one).
What Trotta finds amusing is Dowd's latest snark against Palin, which is chock full of her usual tired repartee: we are treated to phrases like "girlish bubbling" and "Sarah's country music melodramas," which is code for white trash. And we all know how liberals feel about white trash, a.k.a. average Americans who don't read the New York Times — they're beneath contempt until it's time to ask them for either their votes or their money. Or both, depending on who's doing the asking.
Meanwhile, the woman who criticized Palin's "girlish bubbling" did some bubbling of her own back in 2005 when she was pushing her book Are Men Necessary? (Answer: yes, they are, except for those who can't seem to get one of their own.) Myrna Blyth wrote about Dowd's behavior during the publicity blitz at the time:
We know from that adoring cover story in New York magazine a few weeks back that Maureen favors green cowboy boots, a pink Burberry — and lots of lame. That story also confided that Maureen is just such a "fox," an assertion that was somewhat belied by the photos, both old and current, accompanying the feature. The truth is that she is now a woman in her 50s who looks like an attractive woman in her 50s. Except for her forehead, which is age 27 and so smooth (I wonder, how come?) that it seems she wouldn't be able to frown even if Gloria Steinem hit her over the head with a frying pan.
But it isn't only that this 53-year-old mutton is shopping in the wrong boutiques; what's really striking is that Maureen acts so lamb-like in these interviews, gamboling and simpering, giggling and flirting and telling everyone she is "such a ditz." To the New York magazine reporter, she admitted that she is always losing cell phones and laptops — just the kind of behavior a mother would find intolerable in any child older than 16.
Wow, Dowd is a ditz? Who knew?


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The Unified EL from the Trenches
It's always been my plan to write about the new EL-API, but based on some recent blogs and questions online, I thought I'd finally post something.
How does the
javax.servlet.jsp.el Relate?
Lets approach this by example with what you know in JSP. With JSP you had:
FunctionMapper fnMapper = ...
VariableResolver varResolver = new VariableResolverImpl(pageContext);
Expression expr = ExpressionEvaluator.parseExpression("${foo.bar}",String.class,fnMapper);
String value = (String) expr.evaluate(varResolver);
With the Unified EL-API, you have:
ELContext ctx = new ELContextImpl(pageContext);
ValueExpression expr = ExpressionFactory.createValueExpression(ctx, "${foo.bar}",String.class);
String value = (String) expr.getValue(ctx);
So what's the difference? Is it just syntactic modifications? A resounding, "No." With the new EL-API, it's all about context!
Problem Areas with Old EL
In hopes of proving some worth, I will take you through an example with c:forEach. In this example our goal is to create a collection of references (Expressions) for evaluation later, like on a succeeding request to the server. We want to display and update some reference from the UI using EL.
<c:forEach items="${bean.list}" var="foo">
<my:input value="${foo.bar}"/>
Here we've created our own pseudo-Struts form tag called 'my:input' that retains reference to '${foo.bar}'. The user posts back to the server and you go evaluate '${foo.bar}'-- but
foo is now null? Wait, in the example Java code above, I had EL create me an Expression, why is
foo null? Shouldn't it point to the Nth item in the list? It makes sense that I should be able to evaluate these expressions later to have the same meaning as they did in my web page.
To fix this the Unified EL supports what's called, "deferred" expression evaluation. This means that when child expressions, like '${foo.bar}' are created by the new ExpressionFactory, it will check to see if you've already bound reference to 'foo'. Well, we did, we said foo is an item from '${bean.list}'. Here's how we keep those references in the Unified EL.
ExpressionFactory fact = new ExpressionFactory();
ELContext ctx = new ELContextImpl();
ValueExpression items = fact.createValueExpression(ctx, "${bean.list}",..);
ValueExpression var = null;
ValueExpression[] values = new ValueExpression[10];
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) { // whatever number of items
// we want to just have reference to the i'th item
var = new IndexedValueExpression(items, i);
// assign the i'th reference to our VariableMapper
// create an Expression that stores foo = i'th reference
values[i] = fact.createValueExpression(ctx, "${foo.bar}",...);
// de-reference the i'th item
// grab some coffee and come back later
// basically deferring evaluation
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
// each expression is basically the same as ${((bean.list)[i]).bar}
System.out.println(values[i].getValue(ctx)); // works!
With this example, you see that we create expressions that have reference to other expressions. This is so any related expression can be evaluated later, in a composite fashion. It's as magical as Disney.
Flexible Resolution
Probably the coolest thing in the new EL-API is the idea of ELResolvers. For those familiar with JSF, it's a combination of VariableResolvers and PropertyResolvers into one supporting method. This allows implementations and frameworks to take a user's expression like ${user.roles['admin']} and translate that any way they want at runtime by providing custom ELResolvers. Here's the sequence of calls to an ELResolver:
ELResolver resolver = elContext.getELResolver();
// Example: ${user.roles['admin']}
// first need to resolve user-- what is it?
Object user = resolver.getValue(elContext, null, "user");
// user is a security Principal, interesting..
Object roles = resolver.getValue(elContext, user, "roles");
// roles is a special RolesDefinition object...
Object admin = resolver.getValue(elContext, roles, "admin");
// oh, admin is a Role object!
Well the example shows how the Unified EL can process almost any object graph you want without requiring the EL implementation to know anything about your objects or where the variables come from-- btw, where did 'user' come from?
In implementation, the ELResolver is actually a composite (there we go again on composites). So you could have had a chain of default ELResolvers for Maps, Lists, Array, and Beans-- while also injecting your own ELResolvers for security which specifically handle objects like a 'Principal' or 'RolesDefinition'.
I hope you realize how expressive this can get! I realize this is a really scary thought, but you could use Seam ELResolvers in the same composite as Spring ELResolvers...
While the JEE spec is putting the Unified EL to excellent use with JSF 1.2 and JSP 2.1, you can use the new EL API with your own framework too-- such as using annotations that have EL expression as their values for IoC containers that can (EL)Resolve themselves!
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8 November 2012
The new U.S. Ambassador to Poland, Stephen Mull, arrived in Poland November 3 and presented his credentials to President Bronisław Komorowski on Thursday, November 8.
Mr. Mull was confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Poland on September 22, 2012. He served as Executive Secretary of the State Department from June 21, 2010 until October 5, 2012. Before then, he had served since August 2008 as Senior Advisor to Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns, in which capacity he coordinated U.S. diplomatic efforts on Iran, managed the State Department's crisis response during the Russian-Georgian war of August 2008, and led negotiations on a range of U.S. national security issues, including the agreement permitting the flight of U.S. military resupply flights to Afghanistan through Russian airspace. At the beginning of the Obama administration, he led and exercised the authorities of the Office of the Under Secretary for International Security Affairs and Arms Control pending the arrival of a permanent Under Secretary.
Ambassador Mull served as Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs from January 2007 through August 2008. He served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Lithuania 2003-2006, and was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia 2000-2003.
He previously served as a diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw during the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s. His other overseas assignments have been in South Africa and the Bahamas. In Washington, he has served as Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department, Director of the Office of Southern European Affairs and Deputy Director of the Operations Center.
Ambassador Mull is the recipient of two Presidential Meritorious Service Awards, the Baker-Wilkins Award for Outstanding Deputy Chief of Mission, the Director General's Award for Reporting, two Superior Honor Awards, two Distinguished Honor Awards, and more than ten Senior Foreign Service performance awards. He joined the Foreign Service in March 1982, and holds the rank of Career Minister.
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(Nov. 16, 2011) -- The California State University Board of Trustees today unanimously approved its 2012-2013 budget, which requests that the governor and legislature provide an additional $333 million in state funding for the upcoming fiscal year. The board also approved an increase in tuition of $498 a year that will go into effect for fall 2012. The vote was 9 to 6*.
"The additional revenue requested in this budget is critical to addressing the deep and painful cuts the CSU has had to absorb, and to ensure that students have access to needed courses and support services," said CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed.
"While there is still so much uncertainty in the state's fiscal condition, we wanted to provide students and parents with as much notice as possible that tuition will go up in the fall. That said, we must all work with state leaders to restore the funding needed to maintain access and quality for CSU students."
CSU is also actively reviewing options to more effectively package financial aid with the goal of providing more grant aid to a broader number of students.
"We recognize that increased tuition impacts many of our students in varying degrees, so we will be looking at financial aid options for students who have not to this point been eligible for full financial aid," said Reed.
Under CSU's current financial aid, students from households making $70,000 or less on average pay no tuition. Since 2007, annual financial aid to CSU students has increased nearly $800 million, with grants, scholarships and waivers making up $475 million of this total.
In two of the last four fiscal years, state funding to the CSU has been dramatically reduced, forcing the board to approve sizable tuition fee increases. However, increases in revenue from tuition hikes – after setting aside one-third for financial aid – have not kept pace with state funding cuts. For the current fiscal year 2011-2012, tuition increases raised approximately $300 million, but CSU's budget was cut by $650 million, with another $100 million trigger cut looming. This would reduce CSU state funding to $2 billion or a year-over-year reduction of 27 percent.
The approved budget request for 2012-2013 assumes that any additional "trigger cuts" that occur in the current fiscal year will be one-time and not affect the ongoing base of state support the CSU receives.
The budget plan identifies increased funding needs of $535.6 million, and asks the legislature for a total increase of $333 million in state general funds. Approximately $64 million in revenue will come from tuition fee revenues associated with enrollment growth of 5 percent or approximately 20,000 students, and $138 million from the tuition fee increase. In addition, included in the budget ask is a 3 percent compensation increase for all employees (subject to collective bargaining for represented employees), funding for the Graduation Initiative and related efforts for student advising and counseling, as well as funding for increased mandatory costs including employee health care benefits.
Specific expenditure increases include:
- Enrollment growth (5 percent) $155 million
- Mandatory costs (health benefits, energy) $ 26 million
- Compensation increase (3 percent "pool") $ 85 million
- Graduation Initiative /Student Success $ 58 million
- Urgent maintenance needs $ 30 million
- Information technology infrastructure $ 20 million
Tuition Rates
Tuition for full time undergraduates in fall 2012 would rise from $5,472 to $5,970. Including the CSU average of campus-specific mandatory fees of $1,047, total fees would average $7,017. Approximately 45 percent of CSU undergraduates would not pay the tuition fee increase due to grants or aid.
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CSU provides a total of $2.0 billion in financial aid for students each year, and most CSU bachelor degree recipients graduate without any student loan debt. Types of financial aid provided to CSU students includes:
- $700 million State University Grants
- $611 million Pell Grants
- $350 million Cal-grants
- $270 million American Opportunity Tax Credit
- $54 million fee waivers
- Total excludes subsidized federal loans
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The California State University is the largest system of senior higher education in the country, with 23 campuses, approximately 412,000 students and 43,000 faculty and staff. The CSU awards about 90,000 degrees annually and since its creation in 1961 has conferred nearly 2.6 million. Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the CSU is renowned for the quality of its teaching and for the job-ready graduates it produces. The mission of the CSU is to provide high-quality, affordable education to meet the ever changing needs of the people of California. With its commitment to excellence, diversity and innovation, the CSU is the university system that is working for California.
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United Arts Council hosts star-studded luncheon gala
Launched with a champagne reception in the Naples Grande Resort, the Stars in the Arts 2011 Awards Luncheon March 4 recognized five recipients of the annual honors and raised $50,000 for its programs to help at-risk students.
The 250 attendees clustered around the silent auction displays that featured art-oriented packages and items including an extensive range of jewelry fashioned by Pat McCarty; an original batik painting, "Indigo Palms," created by Muffy Clark Gill; and an organic dinner party and art discussion at the Old Naples home of artist Paul Arsenault and wife Eileen.
Following remarks by co-chairs Roz Travis and Mally Khorasantchi, artist/designer and Arts Council president, 10-year old Zofia Majewski entertained the audience with four songs. Having appeared in Opera Naples productions and sung at St. William church, she exclaimed, "It was wonderful to sing in this room since it's so bright." Travis, an interior designer, had transformed the ballroom using large blue globes and iridescent stars suspended from the ceiling and napkins in a wide range of colors.
With Lois Thome, WINK-TV news anchor at the mike, honorees called up to receive awards were Kristin Coury, founder and artistic director of Gulfshore Playhouse; Mark Danni, director of performing arts at the Community School of Naples and founding artistic director of the TheatreZone on campus; and Donna Fiala, Collier County commissioner and a founder of the Bayshore Arts group.
Marilyn Bogen represented the Naples Music Club, which since its inception in 1970 has awarded $420,000 in scholarship money to more than 600 promising middle and high school music students. Soprano Steffanie Pearce, founding director of Opera Naples, Southwest Florida's professional opera company, accepted the award on behalf of the company.
According to UAC Executive Director Elaine Hamilton, net event proceeds from ticket sales at $95 per person and the silent auction took in $50,000 that will benefit the Council's arts education program for at-risk students.
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June Chapter Meeting
For our June chapter meeting we are fortunate to have Drs. Elliott and Dholakia offering a program on "The Next Frontier: Commercialization of the Lunar Surface and Cislunar Space in the 21st Century". This will be based on their article of the same name that was published in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. Chapter members received a copy of the paper with this month's North Texas Spacecraft chapter newsletter, and are encouraged to review the paper before the meeting.
Cislunar space was a prominent theme at this year's ISDC, so be sure to be at the meeting for the latest on this hot topic!
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Dutch Designer Foekje Fleur made it her task to raise awareness about this serious environmental issue. Inspired by the waste she found washed ashore at the local Maas river, she designed a collection of porcelain vases modelled after plastic bottles that used to contain oil or detergents. For production she went to Jingdezhen – the chinese "capital of porcelaine – set up a desk at a workshop and with the help of the skilled local artisans managed to create the first 150 items.
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When you've got a hook as tantalizingly unique as "indie folk band signs to Skrillex's label," there's probably a sense of complacency that can creep into the music. Hundred Waters have that intriguing narrative, but rather than settling on their brostep brethren's co-sign-by-proxy, the Gainesville band decided to create an album of beauty and clarity. That second word is a big one for the band; there's no reverb to muddle what is, at heart, a very earthy record. Guitars pluck, violins shimmer and drums hammer in the background as vocalist Nicole Miglis shows off her ethereal harmonizations. It's a thrilling ride that shows what can happen when a talented band takes a new perspective on an old genre.
Opener "Sonnet" is perhaps the most charming of songs present on Hundred Waters, starting with a slow guitar line, picked among a woozy backdrop that recalls a walk through the mists of a fall morning. Miglis's vocal style recalls Julia Hotler's, only more immediate; it's not a surprise that the band recently played in support of Holter, and really, it's not a surprise that they stole the show. What comes through both on the record and in a live setting is that the band does not need to hide behind tricks; every instrument is played at an astounding level of proficiency, including the multiple vocals. "Visitor" starts off with a drone that threatens to knock down what the band built up on the opener, but then just as quickly it cuts away to reveal a xylophonic loop, giving Miglis the perfect backdrop for her vocals.
There are shifts in genre expectations here, but the band keeps one foot firmly planted in the folk sphere. "Thistle" sounds like something Radiohead would come up with if they were to take up the fight for the liberation of the pastoral resident, while "Theia" adds some brass to the proceedings and plays off of a cowbell that disappears within the mix at the most convenient times. The ritualistic "Wonderboom" seems destined to soundtrack many a night among the stars; as a native of the same Florida as the band, I can attest to its appeal for a late-night beach excursion.
The band can even get creepy at times, such as in the unfortunately named ". . . _ _ _ . . ." and its almost-horror-movie sparseness and ghostly vocals that run back and forth between the forefront and the darkest corners of your mind. It's the courage to try such things that sets Hundred Waters apart from scores of bands; while not inaccessibly technical, they respect the music they are making enough not to drown its inherent beauty. By relying on their talent and confidence, the fivesome takes the listener to a futuristic setting, one where '60s British pastoral music fuses with electro in order to fill a hole in the musical landscape. Just don't expect them to drop the bass any time soon.


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At Meeting with University Hospital Leadership, Brown Calls for Continued Support of Pediatric Research and Graduate Medical Education
Despite Children Making Up 20 Percent of U.S. Population, Just 5 Percent of NIH's Research is Dedicated to Pediatric Research; National Pediatric Research Network Act Expands NIH's Investments into Pediatric Research, Including Rare Diseases
WASHINGTON, D.C.—At a meeting today with representatives from three Ohio children's hospitals—including Char Fowler and Heidi Gartland of University Hospital Rainbow Babies—U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) continued his support for critical funding in the areas of children's hospital graduate medical education and pediatric research. Earlier this year, Brown reintroduced his bi-partisan National Pediatric Research Network Act aimed at strengthening pediatric research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
"Ohio is fortunate to have top-tier hospitals like UH Rainbow Babies," Brown said. "But pediatric research institutions and pediatric researchers face real financial challenges that threaten their important work. That's why I introduced the National Pediatric Research Network Act, to improve and increase investments into pediatric research—especially research on pediatric rare diseases."
Although children make up about 20 percent of the entire U.S. population, NIH dedicates only about 5 percent of its annual extramural research budget to pediatric research. If this rate of investment is not expanded, discoveries of new treatments and therapies for some of the most devastating childhood diseases and conditions will be hindered, and the next generation of researchers will be less likely to enter the field of pediatrics. The National Pediatric Research Network Act would work to reverse the current situation by strengthening and expanding NIH's investments into pediatric research. This expanded investment will help accelerate new discoveries and directly impact the health and well-being of children throughout the country.
In April, Brown led 25 Senators in a letter to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor-Health and Human Services-Education urging the committee to provide Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) funding support necessary to maintain the gains made under the program over the last decade. CHGME helps cover training and residents' salaries for those who treat pediatric populations.
Brown has led the fight in Congress to expand research into pediatric illnesses and their treatments, and has worked to increase funding to train medical professionals that treat children. While serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, Brown authored the Children's Hospitals Education and Research Act of 1998, which first proposed the CHGME program. In March 2011, Brown led 19 other senators in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) urging him to preserve the funding. In May 2011, he led 15 senators in urging Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Administrator Mary Wakefield to allocate ample funding for Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) program in the 2011 operating budget. Ohio is home to seven institutions that depend on more than $30 million annually in CHGME funds. Brown is also the author of the Creating Hope Act, which works to spur private-sector innovation aimed at treating rare and neglected pediatric diseases.


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