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Tony Award winner Christine Baranski, Academy Award winner Matt Damon and Emmy Award nominee Gloria Reuben have joined the Public Theater's "What Are We Worth? Shakespeare, Money, and Morals" event June 17 at the Delacorte Theater.
The free Public Forum event, which will include Shakespeare readings, will take place at 8 PM. Theatregoers are invited to participate in the town-hall conversation that will be conducted by Harvard professor Michael Sandel. It will explore "the way the language of money has been taking over our lives – the subject of his recent book, 'What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets.'"
In addition to Baranski, Damon and Reuben, the event will feature the previously announced talents of Alan Alda, Lily Rabe, Vanessa Redgrave, Liev Schreiber, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Raúl Esparza, Hamish Linklater, Jesse L. Martin and more.
"The Delacorte is ideally suited for town-hall meetings, and we are delighted to be partnering with the Aspen Institute and the brilliant Michael Sandel to create this lively and passionate evening," said Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis in a statement. "Shakespeare was writing at the birth of the modern economy, and his searing insights into money and value will be the perfect frame for this exhilarating event."
Free Public Forum tickets for "What Are We Worth?" will be distributed two per person at noon on June 17 at the Delacorte Theater. Free tickets will also be available via the Virtual Ticketing drawing at shakespeareinthepark.org on the day of the event.
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...to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Curecanti National Recreation Area Outreach Education is committed to: Creating an awareness and fostering an appreciation for the mission of the National Park Service and the natural, cultural, and historic resources of Curecanti National Recreation Area and Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park.
Title: Beavers
Grade level: All Ages
Time length: 2.5 to 3 hours
Subject areas: Science, history
Teacher: Two NPS Education Specialists
Colorado Content Standards:
Theme: Beavers are nature's amazing engineers and are well adapted for the aquatic lives they live. Beavers not only affect their natural environment but they have affected history as well.
NPS focus: Public Law 39-535 (Organic Act)
Environmental concepts:
Environmental learning hierarchy: Analogies, sensory awareness, ecological principles, problem-solving processes, and decision-making.
Check for student understanding: AQUATIC ADAPTATIONS ACTIVITY
Diet: "Beavers are herbivores (plant eaters). They eat twigs, leaves, bark, cambium (the growing layer under the bark), and aquatic vegetation. Some of their favorite trees include aspen, alder, willow, poplar, maple, birch, and cottonwood. As a snack, beavers sometimes will eat the bark off of a tree while working; rotating it like eating corn on the cob. In zoos, beavers are fed yams, lettuce, carrots, and commercial rodent chow.
Daily Life: "Beavers are nocturnal animals, meaning they are active at night. (Animals that are active in the daytime are diurnal). Female beavers can reproduce at two and a half years old. Newborn or young beavers are called kits. They are born in the spring in litters of 1-6. Kits are born with their eyes open and are ready to swim the next day! By autumn, they are put to work. Beavers are very dedicated creatures--to their mates, their families, and their work. Kits remain with the family for up to two years, gathering food, harvesting trees, making lodge repairs, and even caring for younger siblings. Once a beaver finds a mate, it mates for life."
Engineering: (Pass around some sticks and logs with visible evidence that a beaver has been chewing on them.)
Dams: "Dams are constructed by diverting the stream to lessen the pressure of the flowing water. Then sticks and logs are forced into the mud of the streambed to form a framework. Once the framework is completed, mud, sticks, grass, leaves, rocks, and just about anything else available is added to the structure. Beavers carry mud by packing it against their chest. A common misconception is that beavers pound materials into place with their tails. They do not! An average beaver dam is about six feet high and fifteen feet long, but remember the record? Dams can be much larger, too! Dam building techniques vary, depending on the water conditions. In slow moving water, they may be built straight across a stream. In fast moving water, they are curved. If water is moving more swiftly than a dam can sustain, spillways or passageways are built to carry off excess water until the pressure subsides, or until the dam can be strengthened. Sometimes smaller dams are also built to lessen the pressure. Dams are generally wider at the base than at the top. They are also usually tilted upstream, against the force of the current. Once a dam has slowed down the current and broadened the food and building supply territory, work on the lodge(s) can begin. All the members of the colonies work constantly to maintain the dam."
Lodges: "Lodges are cone-shaped, approximately fifteen feet in diameter and about five feet above the water line. They are used for living quarters and as many as a dozen offspring can share the lodge at once. Like dams, they are started by "planting" the foundation sticks into the mud and building up from there. Lodges can also be burrows into banks or limestone caverns. The thick, sloping walls of branches, plastered over with a mortar of mud, protects the animals from predators. The mud becomes airtight and water tight, except for at the very peak where there is an opening for ventilation. The roof and walls of the domed lodge are a single structure, eliminating the weakness of the stress between roofs and walls that could collapse under the weight of snow. Once the mound is completed, the beavers approach from below the water's surface and chew tunnels and chambers. The tunnels are built so that the only access to the lodge is under water. This protects them from their predators, such as coyotes, mountain lions and eagles. Two chambers are cleared out inside the lodge. The first one is just a few inches above the water and is used as an eating place and an area to drain off excess water from the fur. The second is above the first and layered with shredded wood for sleeping resting, caring and nursing kits. The stacked chambers reduce the weight and possibility of cave-ins. During the winter, lodges are much warmer on the inside than the temperatures on the outside. You can even see warm moist air rising from the top of the cone, much like smoke rising from the center of a teepee. Before the water freezes in the winter, extra food and building materials are stored beneath the surface of the pond."
Canals: "Not only do beavers build dams and lodges, but they also build canals for easier transportation of construction materials. When rich food supplies surrounding the beaver's pond are used up, they can use the canals for accessing and transporting food materials to the lodge. Canals are also a good safety feature! When beavers are out working away from the pond, they can quickly swim to shelter by jumping into the canals if a predator approaches."
Comparison: "What other animal has the ability to alter their environment?" HUMANS!
SLIDES: If slides are available of human dam constructions, they can be a great addition to this program. Show slides (or pictures) of the progression of dam construction from the bottom up. Also show spillways, diversion tunnels and other features that can be compared to the natural features of beaver construction. Show comparisons of beaver reservoirs behind beaver dams and man-made reservoirs behind man-made dams. If available, show pictures of curved dams that tilt toward the direction of flow, just as beavers build their dams. Then ask the audience, "do you think humans had all of these ideas first?" "Of course not! They got all of these great engineering ideas from beavers, nature's engineers!"
Benefits: "Do any benefits occur when beavers alter the riparian zone?" "The beaver pond itself has a profound impact on the surrounding habitat. Yes, it causes the death of some trees, but even dead trees provide shelter for various animals. There are new wetland habitats for birds and various other animals, such as ducks, geese, fish, insects, reptiles, and amphibians. This also provides a good opportunity for the predators of all of those animals! Aquatic vegetation thrives around the pond. Pond water retention causes the local water table to rise. The pond and surrounding area acts as a reservoir, preventing rapid runoff of water and erosion of soil during rains. It also provides steady stream flow throughout the year. Good fishing becomes available, too."
This is a good point in the program to take a break. After the break, have the participants reconvene at a designated location.
Begin the transition into the second half of the program by saying, "can you think of any predators of the beaver?" "What about humans?" Quickly introduce the historical role of trappers.
Human History: "Why did explorers seek to find unknown places in the western United States? Well, the dreams of gold brought many explorers to the West. However, there was another more reliable way to find wealth in a strange new land. Trappers and fur traders found new places to set their traps." (Hold up pictures of the trappers, found on the Internet, as you talk about them.) "Some of these trappers became famous like Kit Carson, who has many places named after him. Jim Beckworth later became a Crow Indian leader. There was also Joe Meek, Jim Baker, Jim Bridger, and many others. Life for a trapper was not easy. Some traps cost $12.00 to $15.00, and they weighed 8 to 10 pounds. Flint or percussion cap single shot black powder rifles were the only things the early trappers had for protection. There were no grocery stores, fast food places, rangers, or sheriffs, not even a 911 emergency phone number. Why do you think they would go to such wild parts of the country? The answer is, in part, beavers."
Check for student understanding: BEAVERS AND TRAPPERS SCENARIO:
1. What is North America's largest rodent?
Did You Know?
The Black Canyon stretches far beyond the 14 miles within the national park. Including the canyon within Curecanti National Recreation Area and Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area, the total length is 53 miles.


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Steve Niles has been a faithful fighter for the little guy in the word of indie publishing and films. In Part Two he wraps up his feelings on the comic industry and looks forward to his own future. A future, it seems, that he is much more able to have a hand in shaping.
The indie publisher almost can't afford a failure. So does indie publishing actually just come down to the comic creators?
It really does, more and more. I had a nice experience when I did the Little Bloody Pulp Book. We were wondering how we were going to do direct sales. One thing that surprised us was we sold 500 copies in a minute. We put it online and FOOM! 500 copies. Now had I not put a $5.00 cover price on it... We sold 2,000 over a period of time. I can't make a living selling 2,000 through the Diamond direct market. I can make a damn good living selling 2,000 directly to fans.
One of the things I've already told Bernie Wrightson (now that Steve has moved to Austin, TX where Bernie lives – editor's note) is that I'm dragging him out to book festivals and art festivals. Can you imagine walking by a booth at an art festival and seeing Bernie Wrightson art? We can get new fans. That's what we need. Because every month we're all like a bunch of rabid dogs fighting over the same pie.
Is saying "We want to get new fans" also saying "We want to move out of graphic novels and into new things"?
In general I think the entire approach needs to be different. All we're trying to sell is words and pictures. It's not that hard of a sale. But I believe that Marvel and DC have kept us in this "it's little boy's escapists fantasies/superheroes" and if you ask most people about comic books they either think that Spider-Man is for kids or the funny... the Peanuts. They don't realize it's like a lot more.
Is there anything in the works concerning you and the film world?
Definitely. You know I spent 10 years constantly meeting, constantly developing stuff, trying to get anything made and at the end of it I got two movies.
Two movies meaning 30 Days of Night and Remains?
Yeah I got 30 Days and I got a TV movie and the sequel. But nothing has been as big as 30 Days. Even that took almost ten years to get on screen.
Thank you, David Slade, you did a fine job.
Without David Slade (see photo of David and Steve - editor) and Brian Nelson it wouldn't be what it is. I just decided to take a few steps back. What I want to do is focus on my comics and then if something else happens, Great. I'm right there. I'll be the first person at the premiere. But I'm not going to get preoccupied with it anymore because honestly I know how to make a book. I know how to make a comic and get it out there. I don't have a clue how to get a movie made.
So in the meantime you are firmly entrenched in the comic world?
I just want to make my comics. I think that's where I'm most comfortable anyway. I'm just going to do that. What's so funny, of course, is that as soon as I say that, I get signed by a new agency and there's all kinds of heat on my projects again. We've got Transfusion, Criminal Macabre, Freaks of the Heartland all these things are starting to spark again. I think it's all because I'm leaving Southern California and people just want to make me feel bad.
Are we going to see anymore Bloody Pulp publications?
Absolutely. I'm going to be doing stuff with Bernie, doing some posters. I've got two more of the little books going to come out. One with James O'Barr and Bernie Wrightson and really I'm the hold-up at this point. Because those things are so affordable to make I've got to finish the stories. I've just been so busy doing the comics.
What about publishing other people's books under the Bloody Pulp banner?
You know, we did the Lance Henriksen thing and that was really fun. If something really unusual came along. But I don't want to become a publisher. I tried that already once with Arcane and lost everything. The fact that I was a teenager probably didn't help. I want to try a little bit of everything. Now Alex Lodermeir (Steve's partner in Bloody Pulp) is talking about wanting to do more comics. So that's what a big part of this move is to try and get my expenses down to where I can afford to take all these chances. Well, you know. Since all the stuff in my life I've had to work double time for the last, what, five years?
If you could go back and change anything what would you do?
I just wish I'd of had all the experience I have now. That's just age. I learned everything, especially the Hollywood stuff, with trial by fire.
You didn't have a mentor or anybody?
No. That was really odd. Nobody came to help me. They just wanted to rake my money. In looking back there is a lot of stuff I would have handled differently. Just a little calmer. You've just got to have patience. I didn't know that. I was at 110% every day. I just burned myself out. You can't be that way. You've got to roll with the stuff and that's what I'm finally realizing. You know I'm not swearing off movies by any stretch. I'm just not making it my priority anymore.
With the way the industry has changed would you advise new people to break into comics?
You know it's so hard. Even while I was at a Dark Delicacies signing somebody asked if I had advice for a young comic writer. My first response is "Run." Get a real job. It's tough. The only advice I can really give people is that if you don't love it, forget it. The odds have always been against you no matter what for being a musician, for being an author, comic writer, filmmaker, whatever. But is has just gotten worse now. The odds have gotten a little worse that you are not going to get anything done. But on the same token I feel there is more reason for movies. I'm hoping we'll get an independent film scene back.
Bloody Pulp Pictures?
Oh boy. But right now everything is tent pole. Everything is a big, ridiculous, overdone Hollywood movie.
Nowadays everything is about branding.
Yep. I want other stuff. As a horror fan especially some of my favorite films are little pieces of crap.
But for you your name is your brand.
That's what my agent is telling me now. I have to start branding myself. Whatever that means.
Read Part 1 of the interview here.
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— TRAVERSE CITY — Who wouldn't want to build a Thanksgiving feast around a 32-pound factory-raised turkey that bastes itself in juices injected into its flesh after it was killed?
Well, it turns out quite a few people have begun looking for alternatives to the traditional frozen, bowling balls of meat that come from large production farms.
Each year Thanksgiving cooks are looking more and more to local and regional farms for fresh, unfrozen turkeys that have been raised by the farmer down the road rather than the corporation three states away.
It's a trend that Rob Hentschel, manager of Roy's General Store, has watched firsthand with increased demand for the fresh Amish-raised turkeys he sells.
Orders for turkeys sold through the store have increased by about 10 percent each year recently, Hentschel said.
Stuart Kunkle and Genevieve Pfisterer stood Wednesday morning inside the turkey pen at their farm, Morganic Farm, where they raise a variety of animals, including turkeys, the old way.
"The meat is more flavorful," Kunkle said of the 16 turkeys on his farm near Kingsley. "These are definitely a more athletic bird."
The heritage breed birds Kunkle chose to raise this year are smaller than the traditional Broadbreasted White turkeys that are common in grocery store freezers. In fact, they are a few steps closer to wild turkeys than those typically in the food supply in the U.S., he said.
Kunkle's turkeys roam freely in a small pasture on the 30-acre farm. They've already sold eight of the 16 turkeys they raised.
"They're more sort of like the original turkey," Pfisterer said. "They'll be more like a family size."
And Kunkle's not the only one who has been raising turkeys to sell fresh locally.
The Duerksen Turkey Farm in Mancelona has been pasture raising turkeys without antibiotics, growth hormones or GMOs since 2007. Rick and Sue Duerksen ran the farm for decades as a breeder operation for several thousand turkeys.
But in 2007 the couple decided to begin raising their birds differently. They began letting their turkeys roam freely in pastures, eating grasses and bugs much like they would in a wild environment.
"I think that they way the bird is raised has a lot to do with taste," Sue Duerksen said. "I think people are very, very concerned about where their food is coming from."
Duerksen sells her turkeys at Oryana Natural Foods Market, Grain Train Natural Foods in Petoskey and at Evergreen Market in Acme.
When they began producing pasture-raised turkeys in 2007, the farm sold 50 birds for Thanksgiving. Since then, that number has grown to 1,400 and they're all sold for this year, Duerksen said.
"I think people have a notion that fresh is always better," she said. "I think people are so aware of where their food is coming. People want to know their farmer. They read, they know what is going on out there."
Factory-farmed turkeys often look very uniform because of processing techniques and the injection of saltwater into their flesh, Duerksen said.
So buyers getting fresh turkeys from a local farm for the first time shouldn't expect the perfect uniformity they've seen in the past.
"From factory farms, they are a uniform plump round bird, you can fell the water in them," she said. "Our birds are individual and unique, not every bird is going to look exactly the same."
Nonetheless, buyers will taste the difference, Duerksen said.
"I have only had a store bought turkey once," she said. "I remember my kids saying 'this doesn't taste like how dad raises them.'"
If you want to try a fresh turkey, you can contact Morganic Farm at www.morganicfarm.com, or go to Roy's General Store or Oryana Natural Foods Market.


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All forces act at a distance. This is obvious for the gravitational force. Earth and the Moon, for example, interact without coming into contact. It is also true for all other forces. Friction, for example, is an electromagnetic force between atoms that may not actually touch. What is it that carries forces between objects? One way to answer this question is to imagine that a force field surrounds whatever object creates the force. A second object (often called a test object) placed in this field will experience a force that is a function of location and other variables. The field itself is the "thing" that carries the force from one object to another. The field is defined so as to be a characteristic of the object creating it; the field does not depend on the test object placed in it. Earth's gravitational field, for example, is a function of the mass of Earth and the distance from its center, independent of the presence of other masses. The concept of a field is useful because equations can be written for force fields surrounding objects (for gravity, this yields at Earth's surface), and motions can be calculated from these equations. (See Figure 1.)
Concept Connections: Force Fields:
The concept of a force field is also used in connection with electric charge and is presented in Electric Charge and Electric Field. It is also a useful idea for all the basic forces, as will be seen in Particle Physics. Fields help us to visualize forces and how they are transmitted, as well as to describe them with precision and to link forces with subatomic carrier particles.
The field concept has been applied very successfully; we can calculate motions and describe nature to high precision using field equations. As useful as the field concept is, however, it leaves unanswered the question of what carries the force. It has been proposed in recent decades, starting in 1935 with Hideki Yukawa's (1907–1981) work on the strong nuclear force, that all forces are transmitted by the exchange of elementary particles. We can visualize particle exchange as analogous to macroscopic phenomena such as two people passing a basketball back and forth, thereby exerting a repulsive force without touching one another. (See Figure 2.)
This idea of particle exchange deepens rather than contradicts field concepts. It is more satisfying philosophically to think of something physical actually moving between objects acting at a distance. Table 1 lists the exchange or carrier particles, both observed and proposed, that carry the four forces. But the real fruit of the particle-exchange proposal is that searches for Yukawa's proposed particle found it and a number of others that were completely unexpected, stimulating yet more research. All of this research eventually led to the proposal of quarks as the underlying substructure of matter, which is a basic tenet of GUTs. If successful, these theories will explain not only forces, but also the structure of matter itself. Yet physics is an experimental science, so the test of these theories must lie in the domain of the real world. As of this writing, scientists at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland are starting to test these theories using the world's largest particle accelerator: the Large Hadron Collider. This accelerator (27 km in circumference) allows two high-energy proton beams, traveling in opposite directions, to collide. An energy of 14 million electron volts will be available. It is anticipated that some new particles, possibly force carrier particles, will be found. (See Figure 3.) One of the force carriers of high interest that researchers hope to detect is the Higgs boson. The observation of its properties might tell us why different particles have different masses.
Tiny particles also have wave-like behavior, something we will explore more in a later chapter. To better understand force-carrier particles from another perspective, let us consider gravity. The search for gravitational waves has been going on for a number of years. Almost 100 years ago, Einstein predicted the existence of these waves as part of his general theory of relativity. Gravitational waves are created during the collision of massive stars, in black holes, or in supernova explosions—like shock waves. These gravitational waves will travel through space from such sites much like a pebble dropped into a pond sends out ripples—except these waves move at the speed of light. A detector apparatus has been built in the U.S., consisting of two large installations nearly 3000 km apart—one in Washington state and one in Louisiana! The facility is called the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Each installation is designed to use optical lasers to examine any slight shift in the relative positions of two masses due to the effect of gravity waves. The two sites allow simultaneous measurements of these small effects to be separated from other natural phenomena, such as earthquakes. Initial operation of the detectors began in 2002, and work is proceeding on increasing their sensitivity. Similar installations have been built in Italy (VIRGO), Germany (GEO600), and Japan (TAMA300) to provide a worldwide network of gravitational wave detectors.
International collaboration in this area is moving into space with the joint EU/US project LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna). Earthquakes and other Earthly noises will be no problem for these monitoring spacecraft. LISA will complement LIGO by looking at much more massive black holes through the observation of gravitational-wave sources emitting much larger wavelengths. Three satellites will be placed in space above Earth in an equilateral triangle (with 5,000,000-km sides) (Figure 4). The system will measure the relative positions of each satellite to detect passing gravitational waves. Accuracy to within 10% of the size of an atom will be needed to detect any waves. The launch of this project might be as early as 2018.
"I'm sure LIGO will tell us something about the universe that we didn't know before. The history of science tells us that any time you go where you haven't been before, you usually find something that really shakes the scientific paradigms of the day. Whether gravitational wave astrophysics will do that, only time will tell." —David Reitze, LIGO Input Optics Manager, University of Florida
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1984 - Manual on the Design, Construction and Maintenance of Low-Cost Pour-Flush Waterseal Latrines in India. Roy, A.K., Chatterjee, P.K., Gupta, K.N., Khare, S.T., Rau, B.B., Singh, R.S. The World Bank. [4.22 MB]
This manual has been prepared for agencies, contractors and …
Uploaded on 13 Jan 2012 • Views: 1380 • Downloads: 135
2000 - Urine Separation - Closing the Nutrient Cycle. Johansson, M. Stockholm Water Company, Stockholm, Sweden. [3.28 MB]
This report presents the present state of knowledge about urine-separating toilets and systems for the recirculation of urine as an agricultural fertiliser. It is aimed at a broad …
Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 912 • Downloads: 15
2001 - Closing the Loop - Ecological sanitation for food security. Esrey, S., Andersson, I., Hillers, A., Sawyer, R. Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000. [1.22 MB]
"Closing the Loop - Ecological sanitation for food security" is a final outcome of a workshop of the same name held in Mexico in October 1999. The workshop brought together …
Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 928 • Downloads: 16
2001 - Market Survery - Extremely Low Flush Toilets - Plus Urine Diverting Toilets and Urinals for Collection of Black Water and/or Urine. Petersens, E. SwedEnviro and WRS Water Revival Systems Uppsala AB. [1.11 MB]
The interest in low flush toilets and blackwater systems for single family homes, as well as for blocks of flats, has in recent years increased among homeowners and in the …
Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 808 • Downloads: 4
2002 - Concepts Innovateurs sur l´Eau - haute - intermediaire et basse technologies. Otterpohl, R. TUHH Technical University Hamburg-harburg. [4.45 MB]
Problèmes majeurs relatifs à la (mauvaise) Gestion des Eaux Usées : …
Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 828 • Downloads: 0
2003 - Ecosan: An unsuccessful sanitation scheme at a rural school - Lessons learned from the project failure. Austin, A. [574.64 KB]
Emzamweni High School is a rural educational institution in South Africa that serves a number of low-income communities. Sanitation was a badly neglected aspect, with the …
Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 1200 • Downloads: 21
2005 - Ecological Sanitation Literature Review. Austin, L.M., Duncker, L.C., Matsebe, G.N., Phasha, M.C., Cloete, T.E. WRC. [2.25 MB]
This literature review forms part of the Water Research Commission project "Strategy for the furtherance of knowledge and good practice of ecological sanitation (ecosan) …
Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 2143 • Downloads: 129
2006 - Sanitation Concepts for Separate Treatment of Urine, Faeces and Greywater (SCST) - Results. Peter-Fröhlich,A. , Bonhomme, A., Oldenburg, M. Berlin Centre of Competence for Water. [4.61 MB]
The main goal of this SCST-project was to develop new sustainable sanitation concepts which have significant advantages in relation to ecological as well as to economical aspects …
Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 909 • Downloads: 19
2006 - Desviacion de Orina: Un Paso Hacia el Saneamiento Sustentable (in Spanish) - Urine Diversion: One Step Towards Sustainable Sanitation. Kvarnström, E., Emilsson, K., Richert Stintzing, A., Johansson, M., Jönsson, H., Petersens, E. af, Schönning, C., Christensen, J., Hellström, D., Qvarnström, L., Ridderstolpe, P., Drangert, J. EcoSanRes. [5.32 MB]
Suecia se encuentra bien posicionada entre los países que trabajan con el desarrollo de alternativas de saneamiento sustentable. En los últimos 15 años se ha visto una …
Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 1071 • Downloads: 15
2006 - Ecological assessment of alternative sanitation concepts with Life Cycle Assessment. Remy, C., Ruhland, A. Final report for subtask 5 of the demonstration project "Sanitation Concepts for Separate Treatment of Urine, Faeces and Greywater" (SCST), Technical University Berlin, Germany. [1.5 MB]
The goal of this study is the identification of ecological advantages and disadvantages of alternative sanitation systems in comparison to conventional wastewater treatment. The …
Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 916 • Downloads: 25
2007 - Sanitation concepts for separate treatment of urine, faeces and greywater (SCST) - Final report: EU-demonstration project. Peter-Fröhlich, A., Bonhomme, A. Oldenburg, M. KompetenzZentrum Wasser Berlin gGmbH, Berlin, Germany. [4.51 MB]
In the SCST-Project (Sanitation Concepts for separate treatment of urine, faeces and greywater), different sanitation concepts were demonstrated as alternatives to coventional …
Uploaded on 5 Dec 2011 • Views: 1163 • Downloads: 62
2007 - NoMix - a new approach to urban water management - Novaquatis final report. Larsen, T.A., Lienert, J. Eawag. [3.64 MB]
The NoMix technology promotes water pollution control and conserves resources. Public attitudes to this innovation are favourable. Various methods have been developed for treating …
Uploaded on 14 Nov 2011 • Views: 842 • Downloads: 26
2008 - Separate Erfassung und Behandlung von Urin, Braun- und Grauwasser: Erfahrungen aus einem EU-Demonstrationsprojekt (in German) - Separate collection and treatment of urine, brown - and greywater: Experiences from an EU demonstration project. Peter-Fröhlich, A., Pawlowski, L., Bonhomme, A., Oldenburg, M. Berlin, Germany. [170.96 KB]
Das Hauptziel dieses EU-Demonstrationsprojekts war die Erprobung neuer Sanitärkonzepte zur Prüfung der Nachhaltigkeit gegenüber konventionellen Sanitärsystemen …
Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 1066 • Downloads: 21
2008 - Efficient nutrient management - A key component of ecological sanitation for the green olympics and long term sustainable maintenance of the olympic forest park. Germer, J. [2.14 MB]
In connection with the 2008 Olympic Games an exceptionally large park, the Olympic Forest Park, is being established in the city of Beijing, China. In addition to hosting a …
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2008 - The black water loop: water efficiency and nutrient recovery combined. Lindner, B. PhD thesis, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Hamburg, Germany. [1.37 MB]
Objective of this thesis is to develop a system for purification of black water for its reuse as a toilet flush water, which fulfils all hygienic as well as aesthetic needs (black …
Uploaded on 8 Nov 2011 • Views: 834 • Downloads: 17
2008 - Europe's sanitation problem - 20 million Europeans need access to safe and affordable sanitation. Buitenkamp, M., Stintzing, A. R. Women in Europe for a common future (WECF). [4.93 MB]
As follow up of the high level European conference on January 29 in Brussels, the seminar "Europe's Sanitation Problem" in the Stockholm World Water Week addressed the …
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2008 - Ecological Sanitation Projects from around the World and their Links with the Solid Waste Sector. Rüd, S., von Münch, E. ORBIT 2008, 13th - 15th Oct. 2008, Wageningen, The Netherlands. [430.68 KB]
The paradigm of ecological sanitation (ecosan) regards human excreta and water from households not as a waste but as a resource that should be made available for use. Ecosan does …
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2008 - European Sanitation Policies and Practices in the International Year of Sanitation 2008 - Finding solutions for more than 20 million citizens of the European Union who lack safe and affordable sanitation. Buitenkamp, M., Wendland, C., Gabizon, S. WECF. [4.8 MB]
As the official European opening of the International Year of Sanitation, 120 participants met in Brussels on the 29th of January 2008 to address the problem of more than 20 …
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2009 - Urine-diversion vacuum sanitation system Beijing, China - Case study of sustainable sanitation projects. Germer, J. Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA). [516.03 KB]
This case study is a project to introduce vacuum urine-diverting sewerage system at an university building in Beijing, China. The project was implemented in a 9 storey building …
Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 3056 • Downloads: 96
2009 - Going to Scale with Urine Diversion in Sweden - From Individual Households to Municipal Systems in 15 Years. Johansson, M., Kvarnström, E., Richert Stintzing, A. Global Dry Toilet Association of Finland. [150.87 KB]
The Swedish development of "modern" urine diverting systems have been of interest also in an international context. This paper tries to describe this development as four …
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2009 - Urban urine diversion and greywater treatment system Linz, Austria - Case study of sustainable sanitation projects. Oldenburg, M., Werner, C., Schlick, J., Klingel, F. Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA). [1.89 MB]
This case study discusses a medium-scale pilot project in a new urban area in Linz, Austria. The project serves 250 inhabitants in 88 flats and 270 school pupils. It was developed …
Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 4238 • Downloads: 188
2009 - Comparing Sanitation Systems Using Sustainability Criteria. Lennartsson, M., Kvarnström, E., Lundberg, T., Buenfil, J., Sawyer, R. SEI, Sweden, EcoSanRes Series, 2009-1. [855.08 KB]
This report presents how criteria-based comparison of sanitation systems can be used to guide decision makers and planners to take strategic decisions based on sustainability when …
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2009 - Closing nutrient cycles in decentralised water treatment systems in the Mekong Delta - SANSED – Project Final Report. Arnold, U., Gesens, F. University of Bonn, Germany. [3.76 MB]
The SANSED project was initiated in the frame of the German-Vietnamese collaboration in research and technology on water research and environment, agreed on by the responsible …
Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 1226 • Downloads: 65
2009 - Public Sanitation Block, Kenya - To cater for 500 - 1000 people a day. WSTF Water Services Trust Fund (WSTF). [962.91 KB]
Planning institution: Water Services Trust Fund (WSTF) …
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2010 - Trinkwasser kein Vehikel für Abfalltransporte (in German) - Drinking water is no appropriate medium for waste transport. Genath, B. Georg Siemens Verlag. [1.01 MB]
In German: …
Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 1178 • Downloads: 7
2010 - GRET and IDE Easy Latrine + Shelter Handbook 2010 - English Printable Version. Clouet, B. International Development Enterprises (IDE), Professionnels Du Développement Solidaire. [5.2 MB]
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2010 - Schlussbericht BMBF-Verbundvorhaben "Ökologische Kreislaufwirtschaft an der Valley View University, Accra, Ghana (Teilprojekt 2: "Sanitärtechnik innerhalb von Gebäuden") (in German) - Final Report of BMBF joint project, sub-project 2:. Berger, W. Berger Biotechnik GmbH, Germany. [2.91 MB]
Summary in German: …
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2010 - Economic feasibility study of the new sanitation system in building 1 in the GTZ headquarters. Lazo Páez, A. [3.49 MB]
Based on the guidelines published by the Länderarbeitsgemeinschaft Wasser (LAWA, 2005), this study evaluated the economic performance of part of the system for the treatment and …
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2010 - Public toilets in Vienna - Operation between cost efficiency and service for the public. Klaesener-Metzner, N. Published in EcoSan Club Sustainable Sanitation Practice Issue 2, pp. 4-9. [324.29 KB]
The keys to sustainable and therefore successful operation of public toilets are cleanliness and accessibility, unfortunately in most cases these qualities cannot be found easily. …
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2010 - Economical feasibility of using urine versus struvite as fertiliser - Using the example of GIZ in Eschborn. Braum, C. Bachelor Thesis, Faculty 09 - Agricultural Sciences, Nutritional Sciences and Environmental Management, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. [1.07 MB]
The research's aim was to identify the most favourable alternative of human urine and struvite usage as innovative fertilisers compared to traditional resources. …
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2010 - Three years of operation of the urine-diversion system in GTZ headquarters in Germany - User opinions and maintenance challenges. Blume, S., Winker, M. [389.02 KB]
In the main office building of GTZ in Eschborn, Germany a resource-oriented sanitation system containing urine-diversion toilets and waterless urinals is in operation since 2006. …
Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 789 • Downloads: 13
2011 - Urine and brownwater separation at GTZ main office building Eschborn, Germany - Case study of sustainable sanitation projects. Winker, M., Saadoun, A. Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA). [661.57 KB]
This case study is about a demonstration project in the headquarters of GTZ in Eschborn, Germany. The project consists of 50 urine-diversion flush toilets, 23 waterless urinals and …
Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 4261 • Downloads: 278
2011 - Abwasser-Recycling für Deutschland und die Welt: Für Abwasser-Experten kann Wertstoff-Rückgewinnung ein Export-Produkt werden (in German) - Wastewater recycling for Germany and the world: The issue of nutrient recovery can be an export good for wastewater experts. Genath, B. Georg Siemens Verlag. [663.54 KB]
Ziel des Projekts "Saniresch" ist die Behandlung und Verwertung von Urin, Braunwasser und Grauwasser, gesammelt im Eschborner Hauptgebäude der Deutschen Gesellschaft für …
Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 1952 • Downloads: 91
2011 - Toolkit for urban public sanitation projects in Kenya (Version 1.0). WSTF Water Services Trust Fund, Kenya. [429.31 KB]
This toolkit contains the complete set of tools (e.g. drawings, BoQs, management guidelines) that the Water Service Providers (WSPs) need to plan, design, implement, manage, …
Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 2468 • Downloads: 1564
2011 - Worldwide listing of suppliers for urine diversion squatting pans (for UDDTs or for urine diversion flush toilets) - Appendix 2 of technology review of urine diversion components. von Münch, E., Winker, M. Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. [260.33 KB]
This document contains a worldwide list of suppliers for urine diversion squatting pans. …
Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 1597 • Downloads: 153
2011 - Worldwide listing of suppliers for urine diversion pedestals/seats (for UDDTs or for UD flush toilets) - Appendix 3 of technology review of urine diversion components. von Münch, E., Winker, M. Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. [430.25 KB]
This document contains a worldwide list of suppliers for urine diversion pedestals/seats (for UDDTs or for UD flush toilets). …
Uploaded on 28 Oct 2011 • Views: 1474 • Downloads: 137
2011 - Internationale Übertragbarkeit der in der GIZ Zentrale in Eschborn installierten Braunwasserbehandlungsanlage (in German) - International transferability of the brownwater treatment plants installed in the GIZ's headquarters in Eschborn.. Yue Wu [3.17 MB]
NASS ("Neuartige Sanitärsysteme") streben die Rückgewinnung von im Abwasser enthaltenen Ressourcen wie z.B. Nährstoffen und Energie an. Eine Trennung der Abwasserströme ist …
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2011 - Mutual learning for social change - Using social research to support the introduction of urine diverting toilets in the Kinglake West Sewerage Project, Final Report. Mitchell, C., Fam, D., Aabeysuriya, K. Prepared for Yarra Valley Water by the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. [1.06 MB]
YVW commissioned the Institute for Sustainable Futures to conduct social research to support its introduction of innovative sewerage servicing technologies as a pilot project at …
Uploaded on 15 Nov 2011 • Views: 899 • Downloads: 29
2012 - Piloting and testing the pour flush latrine technology for its applicability in South Africa. Still, D., Louton, B. Report to the Water Research Commission, WRC Report No. 1887/1/12 ISBN 978-1-4312-0289-8, South Africa. [6.31 MB]
This project investigated the potential for modifying the pour flush design, which is used widely in Asia, to meet the needs of the South African context. The development and …
Uploaded on 28 Nov 2012 • Views: 1006 • Downloads: 39
2012 - NASS-Tage. Neue Wasserinfrastrukturkonzepte in der Stadtplanung (conference proceedings) (in German) - NASS Conference. New water infrastructure concepts for urban planning. Winker, M., Stäudel, J., von Münch, E., Londong, J. Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasser und Abfall e. V. (DWA). [2.42 MB]
This document contains the conference proceedings of the conference "NASS-Days" that took place at the headquarters of the GIZ in Eschborn, Germany, from 6 to 7 November, 2012. At …
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2012 - Zusammenstellung der SANIRESCH-Datenblätter (in German) - Compilation of SANIRESCH factsheets. Winker, M., Schröder, E., Saadoun, A., Kilian, F. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Eschborn, Germany. [1.45 MB]
Diese Zusammenstellung enthält die Datenblätter des MAP-(Struvit)Reaktors sowie der Grau- und Braunwasseranlage, welche im Rahmen des SANIRESCH Projektes betrieben werden. Die …
Uploaded on 20 Jun 2012 • Views: 1151 • Downloads: 20
2013 - Integrated urban sanitation at scale - Discussion paper. Keipp, W., Schuen, R., Hoffmann, H. KfW Bankengruppe, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. [1.25 MB]
This trilogy of working papers covers the topics of technology, finance and hygiene and gives specific recommendations for the integration of non-sewer-based sanitation in urban …
Uploaded on 3 Jun 2014 • Views: 487 • Downloads: 42
2013 - Schlussbericht SANItärRecycling ESCHborn (SANIRESCH) (in German) - Final report SANItaryRecycling ESCHborn (SANIRESCH). Winker, M., Rieck, C. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Eschborn, Germany. [9.36 MB]
The project SANIRESCH investigated and demonstrated the implementation of a urine diversion system in an office building. The project showed that the technical realisation with …
Uploaded on 8 Feb 2013 • Views: 1255 • Downloads: 28
2013 - eToilet (India's first electronic public toilet) - Various documents on results from research grant. Baby, B. Eram Scientific Solutions, India. [3.58 MB]
This library entry contains background documents for a grant that Bincy Baby is leading and which is funded by the WSH Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation under the …
Uploaded on 25 Feb 2013 • Views: 1526 • Downloads: 202
2013 - Transitioning to sustainable sanitation - A transdisciplinary project of urine diversion. Mitchell, C., Fam, D., Abeysuriya, K. Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. [10.15 MB]
This research project was initiated and delivered by the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). ISF's mission is to create change …
Uploaded on 21 May 2013 • Views: 963 • Downloads: 20
2013 - Using waste to move waste (Using urine to flush waste) - Various documents on results from research grant. Illian, M. Nature Healing Nature (NHN), Texas, USA. [1 MB]
This library entry contains background documents for a grant that Mark Illian is leading and which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. …
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McCoy, a 1991 San Marin High School graduate, signed a four-year contract to take over the AFC West team. McCoy helped lead the Denver Broncos to the AFC Divisional Playoffs last weekend as the team's offensive coordinator. The squad lost to the Baltimore Ravens, ending Denver's season with a 13-3 record.
McCoy, 40, played quarterback at Long Beach State and the University of Utah and played several seasons in the NFL as a backup QB. He started coaching in the NFL in 2000 with the Carolina Panthers and has steadily risen through the ranks.
Here's a story from the San Diego Union Tribune about McCoy's hiring, and here's a Union Trib column about how McCoy will have to learn how to delegate to coaches working under him. In the Denver Post, there's a story about how the Broncos and QB Peyton Manning will have to deal without McCoy's offensive guidance.
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I write about the future of science, technology, and culture.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who many political observers think has a strong shot to be a 2016 Presidential candidate, just finished a lengthy interview with GQ that you can read here. One thing that struck my interest here, as someone who often reports on science, was Rubio's answer when he was asked the question, "How old do you think the Earth is."
In response, Rubio told GQ that, "I'm not a scientist, man. I can tell you what recorded history says, I can tell you what the Bible says, but I think that's a dispute amongst theologians and I think it has nothing to do with the gross domestic product or economic growth of the United States. I think the age of the universe has zero to do with how our economy is going to grow. I'm not a scientist. I don't think I'm qualified to answer a question like that. At the end of the day, I think there are multiple theories out there on how the universe was created and I think this is a country where people should have the opportunity to teach them all. I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says. Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."
The emphasis in Rubio's statement is mine. I say that because the age of the universe has a lot to do with how our economy is going to grow. That's because large parts of the economy absolutely depend on scientists being right about either the age of the Universe or the laws of the Universe that allow scientists to determine its age. For example, astronomers recently discovered a galaxy that is over 13 billion light years away from Earth. That is, at its distance, it took the light from the Galaxy over 13 billion years to reach us.
Now, Marco Rubio's Republican colleague Representative Paul Broun, who sits on the House Committee on Science and Technology, recently stated that it was his belief that the Universe is only 9,000 years old. Well, if Broun is right and physicists are wrong, then we have a real problem. Virtually all modern technology relies on optics in some way, shape or form. And in the science of optics, the fact that the speed of light is constant in a vacuum is taken for granted. But the speed of light must not be constant if the universe is only 9,000 years old. It must be capable of being much, much faster. That means that the fundamental physics underlying the Internet, DVDs, laser surgery, and many many more critical parts of the economy are based on bad science. The consequences of that could be drastic, given our dependence on optics for our economic growth.
Here's an even more disturbing thought – scientists currently believe that the Earth is about 4.54 billion years old because radioactive substances decay at generally stable rates. Accordingly, by observing how much of a radioactive substance has decayed, scientists are able to determine how old that substance is. However, if the Earth is only 9,000 years old, then radioactive decay rates are unstable and subject to rapid acceleration under completely unknown circumstances. This poses an enormous danger to the country's nuclear power plants, which could undergo an unanticipated meltdown at any time due to currently unpredictable circumstances. Likewise, accelerated decay could lead to the detonation of our nuclear weapons, and cause injuries and death to people undergoing radioactive treatments in hospitals. Any of these circumstances would obviously have a large economic impact.
If the Earth is really 9,000 years old, as Paul Broun believes and Rubio is willing to remain ignorant about, it becomes imperative to shut down our nuclear plants and dismantle our nuclear stockpiles now until such time as scientists are able to ascertain what circumstances exist that could cause deadly acceleration of radioactive decay and determine how to prevent it from happening.
The bottom line is that this economy, at its root, is built on a web of scientific knowledge from physics to chemistry to biology. It's impossible to just cherry pick out parts we don't like. If the Earth is 9,000 years old, then virtually the entire construct of modern science is simply wrong. Not only that, most of the technology that we rely on most likely wouldn't work – as they're dependent on science that operates on the same physical laws that demonstrate the age of the universe.
Now, this doesn't mean that our representatives to the Congress and to the Senate should be scientific experts. But if they hold ideas about the world around us that are fundamentally at odds with scientific evidence, then that will ultimately infringe on their ability to make reasoned judgments about a host of issues where the economy touches technology. And that could end up harming the economy as a whole.
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What I find worrisome is that despite overwhelming evidence we have influential members of our government ignoring facts and coming to a baseless conclusions. If this is indicative of how of their thought process then we be concerned. I have no problems with their religious belief, unless it overcomes reasonable and logical thought. It doesn't matter if their Republican, Democrat or other.
Wow, this is a real stretch. Funny how the economist can't tell the scientist that the age of the earth doesn't matter in economics, but the scientist can tell the economist that it does. Of course every field is going to overstate it's importance to feel relevant, but I'd expect this kind of rant from an internet troll. It's difficult to believe this was published by Forbes.
Oh please, when in college, Marco was active in College Republicans instead of learning about carbon dating. To your average Republican carbon dating sounds like some kind of an unnatural act, akin to gay marriage. You can't expect Rubio to endorse paleonthology.
You create a straw man and then proceed to throw spaghetti, hoping something will stick. Senator Rubio doesn't question the speed of light, nor that isotopes have a half-life. He questions the conclusions you embrace.
Your argument is so weak I was surprised to see it on Forbes website. Countless inventors and scientists have been orthodox Jews and Christians. Many or most of those who contributed to the invention of the CD, DVD, and laser surgery were able to contribute even though they were, as you argue, burdened with the belief that the Earth was only 9000 years old.
Furthermore, the fact that we could detect EM waves that appeared to be 8 billion years old in the 70s and 9 billion years old in the 80s and 11 billion years old in the 90s and then 13-15 billion yeard old today does not establish the age of the universe. You are correct that the most viable explaination is that the universe is at least 15 billion years old and I don't think Senator Rubio would disagree.
I assume you also agree that human life ends when electricity stops passing through the brain and the heart stops beating. Do you also agree that human life begins when electricity starts passing through the brain and a heart starts beating? I'm guessing your passion for science ends when it isn't convenient.
So you are pro-life?
Pardon the irony of my response…Amen!
Rubio is a handsome crafty tool! The most special thing about him is his hispanic heritage. In the end he is not smart enough! His speech at the Republican convention was rubbish, offering no glimpse of independent thought. He is not going to get there.
The question asked of Mr. Rubio was designed to begin making him look bad in the publics eye. Democrats seem to see him as a threat in 2016 and will likely spend the next four years trying to trash him in the public eye. His answer was a typical politicians answer like Obama or Hillary would give. Your articel is a weak bunch of drivel, and neither you nor the "experts" can verify the age of our world. Mr. Rubio gave an honest answer which is something we don't seem to get from our current president.


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Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in this country--especially in children.
About 17 percent of children are over-weight in our country--that's almost two out of every five. There is a program at the University of Virginia that teaches families how to eat healthy and exercise.
"Since I lost 22 pounds I can run a much faster and longer distance. It's a lot better and I'm happier," said 4th grader Scotty Hancock Jr.
Scotty lost another 10 pounds before he started at UVa's Children's Fitness Clinic--making his total loss 32 pounds.
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Dieticians provide meal plans--such as the plate method.
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"The size of my meat should be like the palm of my hand. If I have a pasta, it should be the same size as a mouse. I should have one meat, one starch and one vegetable," explained Scotty.
Any child at the BMI's 85th percentile or above can take part in the clinic.
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If 73-year-old coach Bill Snyder of the Kansas State Wildcats wasn't beloved enough, his recent response to a 24-21 upset loss at the hands of North Dakota State will garner even more affection from college football fans around the country.
Instead of griping about officiating or simply ignoring the Bison feat, Snyder congratulated his opponents.
A photo surfaced Saturday of the coach's letter to NDSU quarterback Brock Jensen. It is on Kansas State letterhead and written in Wildcat purple marker.
Snyder commends Jensen for playing "so very well, virtually error free and with such poise," before instructing the senior to relay the message to his teammates.
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Floyd Mayweather, Jr., (born February 24, 1977, Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.), American boxer whose combination of speed, power, and technical prowess made him one of the best pound-for-pound fighters of his generation.
Mayweather earned the nickname "Pretty Boy" during his amateur career because of his unmarked face. He won the national Golden Gloves in 1993, 1994, and 1996 but ended his amateur career on a sour note at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, where he lost a controversial decision to Serafim Todorov of Bulgaria in the semifinals and had to settle for a bronze medal in the featherweight division. He turned pro on October 11, 1996, scoring a second-round knockout of American Roberto Apodaca. Despite a bitter feud between his two trainers—his father, former boxer Floyd Mayweather, Sr., and his uncle Roger Mayweather, a former holder of the World Boxing Council (WBC) super featherweight (junior lightweight) and super lightweight (junior welterweight) titles—Mayweather flourished, winning the WBC junior lightweight title on October 3, 1998, in his 18th bout by stopping veteran American titleholder Genaro Hernandez in the eighth round. Mayweather also won Ring magazine's Fighter of the Year award in 1998.
Mayweather moved up in weight four times, capturing Ring magazine and WBC lightweight titles in 2001, the WBC super lightweight title in 2005, and Ring magazine and WBC welterweight titles in 2006. At the beginning of 2007, he was already widely considered the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world, remaining undefeated in 38 professional bouts (24 by knockout). However, it was not until he defeated fellow American Oscar De La Hoya for the WBC super welterweight (junior middleweight) title that Mayweather gained mainstream recognition. More than the fight itself, it was the four-part documentary 24/7, which was broadcast on HBO cable television during the buildup to the fight, that boosted Mayweather's profile. He emerged as a riveting character with an ego as large as his talent and a proclivity for being alternatively obnoxious and charming. Mayweather's fight against De La Hoya was an enormous financial success, smashing existing pay-per-view and live-gate records; some 2.4 million households purchased the fight, generating approximately $134.4 million in pay-per-view revenue, and a crowd of 16,700 spectators at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas created a live gate of $19 million.
Later in the year, in a bid to enhance his crossover appeal, Mayweather appeared as a contestant on ABC television's Dancing with the Stars. He returned to the ring in December 2007 and scored a 10th-round knockout against Britain's previously undefeated Ricky Hatton in Las Vegas. The bout attracted another capacity crowd and, together with his victory over De La Hoya, earned Mayweather Ring magazine's Fighter of the Year award for that year.
In June 2008, just months before a scheduled rematch with De La Hoya, Mayweather announced his retirement from boxing. While most observers assumed that the "retirement" would be temporary, some 18 months passed between Mayweather's fight with Hatton and his return to the ring in September 2009 against Juan Manuel Márquez, a natural lightweight and crowd favourite who moved up two divisions to accept the bout. Although Márquez showed great fortitude, the judges awarded Mayweather a unanimous decision after 12 rounds.
Much excitement and more than a little gamesmanship attended the buildup to Mayweather's next scheduled fight, against Filipino sensation Manny Pacquiao, whom Mayweather's father accused of using performance-enhancing drugs, leading to prolonged wrangling over the nature of the blood testing that would precede the fight. With the Pacquiao fight stalled, Mayweather won a unanimous decision over three-time welterweight champion Shane Mosley in a May 2010 non-title bout. Mayweather next fought Victor Ortiz in September 2011, recapturing the WBC welterweight title after he controversially (though legally) knocked Ortiz out when Ortiz approached him with his guard down to apologize for an earlier head butt.
In December 2011 Mayweather was sentenced to 90 days in jail and 100 hours of community service after pleading guilty to reduced domestic violence battery and harassment charges that stemmed from a September 2010 incident involving Mayweather, his ex-girlfriend, and two of their children.
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