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Science behind the Soap Opera
The cute and the shocking at Meerkat Manor
Susan Milius
Tim Clutton-Brock has suddenly said, for reasons not at all clear to me, "Hard-boiled egg." Perhaps it's best to ignore this. So, I ask him again in our phone conversation what he would pick as the highlights of his past 13 years of directing a field study of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert. Meerkats, a type of mongoose, cluster in family groups and share the job of raising the top female's pups. Clutton-Brock and his colleagues have published reports on meerkat behaviors ranging from altruism to infanticide. But it turns out that the first highlight that he wishes to discuss actually is a hard-cooked egg.
Meerkats make great subjects for researchers studying the costs and benefits of family life. Meerkat babysitters risk their lives taking care of other animals' offspring, but then again, grandmothers not infrequently kill their grandkids. iStockphoto
When Clutton-Brock, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Cambridge in England, was setting up the desert study, most meerkats ran away if people got within 300 meters. He and his colleagues "tried everything," he says, to find treats that would encourage the animals to tolerate people so that the team could collect data.
"We tried locusts," says Clutton-Brock. "We tried obvious things that other sensible mongooses eat, like peanuts and peanut butter and minced chicken, various sorts of insectivores' [packaged] diets, mealworms, and God knows. They wouldn't eat it at all."
Because meerkats occasionally eat wild-bird eggs, the researchers offered them chicken eggs. But the animals weren't interested. However, when the meerkats came back to hang around their burrow entrance in the evening after foraging, some egg contents earlier spilled on the ground had been cooked by the day's heat. Several youngsters sniffed at it, tasted it, and finally ate it.
"It hadn't occurred to us that they would actually rather like their eggs cooked," says Clutton-Brock.
After that breakthrough, judicious use of hard-boiled egg crumbs enabled the researchers and collaborators from other institutions to collect the most detailed data yet on free-living meerkats. The animals' subsequent tolerance of people has benefited the world of entertainment as well as science. It has given film crews access to intimate views of animal life.
Several projects are in the works, and the television series Meerkat Manor, already a hit, follows the fortunes of one group of meerkats at Clutton-Brock's study site. Despite their species, the characters' adventures with illicit pregnancies, wayward children, and neighborhood rivalries resonate with themes in typical television dramas.
Meerkat close-ups show both the charms of a highly cooperative life and the trade-offs that it requires. To the scientists, the dramatic behaviors have broad implications for the study of social behavior and evolution. But they also make for some great soap opera.
One for all
Meerkats' cooperative side, easy for people to like, is also easy to see. The animals live in groups of 3 to 50 animals, mostly close family members with about equal numbers of males and females. They defend territories of 2 to 10 square kilometers. The animals spend the night together in one of the burrows in their territory. By day, they rove through the scrubby vegetation looking for scorpions, lizards, and other small animals.
WATCH KAT. A meerkat takes a turn on guard duty as its group searches the ground for insects and other delicacies. Its periodic chirps tell the group that it's safe to keep foraging. iStockphoto
As a meerkat group searches the ground, one member typically stands guard. Depending on how robust the volunteer is and how fast the group moves, guard duty can last half a minute to half an hour. When the guard leaves to forage or the group moves on, another meerkat takes over the watch.
The sentinel clambers up on whatever's available for the best view, be it a tree snag or the hat of a note-taking scientist. The guard stands on its hind legs as stably as a person does and watches intently, turning its head this way and that, and twitching its nose. Its paws dangle by its side or cross in front of its body, like someone waiting politely, perhaps in white gloves.
The sentinel provides "a more advanced antipredator system than everybody looking up now and then," says behavioral ecologist Andrew Young, also of Cambridge. Marta Manser, now at the University of Zurich, has investigated the guard's role by recording the soft little chirps that it makeson average, 10 every minute. When a meerkat heard the recording, it spent more time head-down, searching and eating, than it did in the absence of the calls. Silence made the forager look up more often and eat less.
Another social nicety shows up when the group has young pups. Until the kids are old enough to tag along with foragers, one of the older meerkats stays home and babysits. For the first 2 or 3 weeks of pups' lives, the babysitter spends the day underground with the newborns. When the pups are old enough to clamber out of the burrow, the nanny keeps watch near the burrow mouth. Youngsters tumble over each other in wrestling matches and chases and then nap, often cuddled against the babysitter. Should a youngster stray too far, the nanny picks it up by the scruff of the neck and carries it back to safety.
Nannies have to stay alert for attacking birds or other predators and for rival groups of meerkats that occasionally invade and kill pups. "One of the most spectacular things a babysitter will do is defend against a raid," says Young.
Faced with a raid, a babysitter sends the pups into the burrow and takes a stand in front of them. Because meerkat tunnels are narrow enough to force raiders to enter one at a time, the baby-sitter has a chance of holding off even a big party, at least for a while. However, the raiders soon start digging around the main entrance, and "get very excited," says Young. If they widen the tunnel enough, they can gang up on the babysitter or even reach the pups directly. When they do, "it's gruesome," says Young.
Yet even excited meerkats need time to excavate. Young says that he has watched a babysitter fight off attackers for more than 2 hours before the rest of the family came home and chased away the intruders.
A more mundane, but serious, threat to the caregiver is weight loss, says Young. The other adults don't bring home anything for the babysitter to eat. Thanks to the magic of hard-boiled eggs, the researchers coaxed meerkats onto a scale at the beginning and end of several days. During a 24-hour period that included a daylight shift with the kids, a meerkat typically lost 1.3 percent of its body weight, the team reports. An animal that hunted all day gained 1.9 percent of its body weight during the same period.
Although the colony's most dominant male and female parent 80 percent of the pups, "one of the most striking things is that dominant individuals hardly ever babysit," says Young.
He speculates that the mother doesn't baby-sit much because she needs to eat to keep providing milk. She becomes fertile again soon after giving birth, which may explain the dominant male's behavior. "The last thing he wants to be doing is sitting at the burrow with the pups, when she's out there fertile and available," says Young.
So, it's the subordinate adults, with teenage backup now and then, that do most of the child minding. Both females and males babysit, but the females do it more often.
TAKES A VILLAGE. Meerkat pups are usually the offspring of the top male and female, but the whole group pitches in to feed, guard, and snuggle them. iStockphoto
As far as the researchers can tell, meerkat babysitters volunteer for the job. An animal, apparently spontaneously, hangs back at the burrow as the rest of the group sets off. There's none of the snarling and nipping that meerkats use for coercion. Rarely does the same meerkat volunteer two days in a row, and younger and underweight animals are less likely to babysit than are more-robust animals.
Hormones may have something to do with the sitter's self-selection, says Anne Carlson, based in Missoula, Mont., who works for the Tropical Biology Association, headquartered in Cambridge, England. She investigated hormones known in several species to vary with care giving to youngsters. For example, scrub jays that are feeding younger siblings tend to have blood higher than normal in prolactin.
Carlson and her colleagues found that a male meerkat about to spend the day with the kids has higher blood prolactin concentrations than does a similar male in the same group preparing to go off on a day's foraging. After a day at the burrow, though, the babysitter's prolactin concentration has gone down, the team reported in the June 2006 Hormones and Behavior.
Clutton-Brock considers an evolutionary question: What drives a meerkat to go hungry and risk death in battle for somebody else's pups? The standard answer to such a riddle invokes the power of kinship, he says, but the meerkat data are leading him elsewhere.
Among meerkats, he says, tighter kinship bonds don't match up with extra babysitting or other effort on behalf of the group. So, he and his colleagues began thinking about an additional factor: the importance of group size. A small group may not field a full complement of sentinels or babysitters, and rivals may snatch territory, kill pups, or even take over a comfortable burrow. "As group size declines, life goes to hell in a hurry," Clutton-Brock says. "It's in everybody's interest to maintain group size."
Dark side
In some ways, meerkats look as if they have "the ultimate family lifeone for all and all for one," says Clutton-Brock. But that tight intimacy leads to extremes in family feuds.
MEER MELEE. In rough-and-tumble play, meerkats show the teeth they'll use in earnest should a rival group attack or a subordinate get presumptuous. Young
Young and his collaborators have been studying dominant female meerkats' tendency to violence during the last month of a pregnancy. The supermoms attack subordinate, mature females in the groupeven their own daughtersseemingly without cause. The dominant female often wounds subordinates around the base of the tail. Eventually, supermom harries the subordinate out of the group. However, after the dominant animal gives birth, the exile often returns home.
However "bizarre," to use Young's word, such behavior might seem at first glance, the researchers have proposed an explanation. If the stress of eviction reduces the chances of a subordinate getting pregnant, aggressive behavior would increase the chances that the dominant meerkat would bear the only pups in the group.
In the Aug. 8, 2006 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team reported an analysis of observations of banished females. Those meerkats were much less likely to conceive when they encountered a male during exile than they were while living with a group, and they were more prone to abortions than were subordinates in their group. Blood concentrations of stress-related hormones were unusually high in the outcasts, and tests showed that their pituitary glands did produce the surge of hormones needed for ovulation. Young suggests that the work provides some of the strongest evidence yet that dominants can monopolize reproduction by stressing out their underlings.
If harassment doesn't keep her colony mates from getting pregnant, the top female meerkat can always kill the subordinate's pups. Never mind that many of them are her grandchildren.
Meerkat infanticide is difficult to study because most of it probably happens underground, says Young. He and Clutton-Brock combed through records that they'd compiled over years and found only 13 cases of a female meerkat carrying one or more pups out of the burrow and killing them. "Often, she eats them," says Clutton-Brock.
In seven of those cases, the dominant female was the killer, but in the other six, the killer was a subordinate. On two startling occasions, a subordinate killed the dominant's pups, Young and Clutton-Brock reported in the Sept. 22, 2006 Biology Letters.
The big motivator was pregnancy. In 12 of the 13 cases, the observers knew that the killer female was pregnant.
Another analysis confirmed the violent tendencies of pregnant subordinates. In looking at records of 248 litters, the researchers found that pups faced half the normal chance of surviving their first 4 days if any of the subordinate females was pregnant.
In the logic of meerkat survival, pup killing makes sense, the researchers say. When youngsters first venture out on a group-foraging trip, they're such inept hunters that they depend on handouts from the older meerkats. As the number of pups rises, the older foragers catch and distribute more prey, but not enough to compensate fully for the extra pups. So, more pups result in less food for each. An infanticidal mom improves the odds of her offspring getting a square meal.
Although female meerkats have this pup-killing streak, Young notes that, unlike lions, the males don't kill the offspring of other males. Male meerkats commandeer groups now and then, driving out the resident males and taking over their family roles. As the usurpers settle in, though, they don't typically attack pups of the previous dads. The new arrivals even take a turn feeding the youngsters during foraging. The researchers note that killing pups doesn't trigger fertility in female meerkats as a cub's death does in lionesses.
The evolutionary force of sexual selection bears down more intensely on female meerkats than it does on males, Clutton-Brock and his colleagues argue in the Dec. 21/28, 2006 Nature. In the fight to reach the top spot in the group, female meerkats look forward to the bigger prize.
A supermom can dominate a colony for a decade if she's fit, tough, and smart, and top females average 17 pups during their tenure. Males tend not to hold the top spot for as long, and they father only 9 pups, on average.
Throughout their lives, the females show more aggression than the males do. For example, females start more of the clashes in a group than males do, and females are also more often on the receiving end of aggression. And as pups play together as they grow up, females win more of the tussles than males do.
Such tough gals may not be everybody's ideal moms. Yet they're invaluable to researchers studying the forces that underlie such matters as infanticide.
Clutton-Brock says that he watches with interest to see how filmmakers attracted by the animals' charisma handle such shocks to human sensibilities. Meerkat Manor, he says, has been "prepared to tell the hard side, the down side, the dark side, as well as the cute side and the up side. I salute that."
More projects are in the works that will face the same challenge. "How meerkats are presented," says Clutton-Brock, "is an interesting test case in whether we are happy to allow animals to be animals."
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Best. Reality TV show. Ever!
I watched it for an episode but found the anthropomorphizing too much to take. I suppose next we will find out the meerkats would vote for Hillary and are pro-choice.
I watch it every week and wife just can't figure out why. :)
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ST. LOUIS — St. Louis police say officers shot and killed a 23-year-old man who was wielding a knife and refused to drop it.
Police Chief Sam Dotson said officers responded to Tuesday to a store where the man was reported to have stolen energy drinks and a pastry.
Dotson says the man was acting erratically and told responding officers to "shoot me now, kill me now." He says officers opened fire when the man began approaching them with the knife.
KMOV reports a large crowd gathered at the scene, not far from Ferguson, which has seen days of protests over the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer.
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"I thank you for doing this site. I found it when I needed it most. It was a blessing. Even today, your writing was perfect timing. Please keep it up. The information is and has been helpful to me and a friend. Most people do not understand emotional rape. Again, your site is a blessing. Thank you." KT
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"I feel as though I stumbled upon this blog and the information contained it in through divine intervention. I have been in this type of relationship for almost 4 years now as a victim…I feel hope since I found this information. Thank you from the bottom of my heart…I pray your ministry helps others as it has me." Tracy from Ohio
"It is fitting on this day before Thanksgiving to thank you so much for showing me the light! I found you yesterday and am so grateful to you. Thank you for your courage to come forward and share with the rest of us. Thank you for touching so many. May you enjoy peace and love." Gail S.
"I want to thank you so much, this website has finally given me the strength to stand up to the person who has been controlling me for about 10 years now. I want to preface this by saying I have a masters degree in clinical psychology and have diagnosed patients at my assessment practicum with psychopathy, no one is immune to being conned in this way, especially if you have never been down this road before…it wasn't until I read your blog that I was able to identify exactly what was going on. Again, thank you…This website is extremely well written and comprehensive. I commend your making this website, you are helping so many. I have passed this website along to my clients, as well as to my therapist." Michele L.
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"I have been visiting for about 2 months, this site has been so revealing, healing and I'm sure saving lives & happiness. I wish I knew then, what I know now–it's all about awareness & support. Thank You for offering such a blessed resource & for service through this media. This site has helped me come to terms & begin healing—hopefully have better radar now. Prayers for all those coming to terms with the reality of their situations and recovery. May you be continually blessed in this service." EmpathicLove
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"I just want you to know what a valuable service you've provided by creating this site. I stumbled upon it the other day while doing some research on psychopathy in an attempt to understand how the individual I was involved with could do all the things he did. It was such a relief to realize, after reading several of your posts, that this monster who had me believing he was one in a million is actually just one OF a million… psychopaths. He's no more than a common, predictable set of symptoms and patterns. He fits the mold perfectly. I understand better than ever now that none of this was my fault; that he targeted me; and that the mental anguish he put me through was something I could not have resisted if I tried… because I could never be someone who thinks the way he does. Your information helped me realize that fully and take that last step of discarding any last little attempt to "reconcile" the unthinkable." L.B.
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"I truly believe this info saved my life! I thank God I found it and I thank God you are eloquent enough to cut right through to all the things I have been experiencing with this monster but was never able to verbalize! it felt like you were speaking directly to me! Thank you again for all the incredibly insightful info." Duped
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This website is for people victimized in false relationships with predators known as psychopaths.
Popular media creates the beliefs that psychopaths are extremely rare (they're not) and that they're all sadistic killers (some are). But the very real possibility exists that you could find yourself in a relationship with a psychopath who duped you into believing s/he loved you…and that if you do, the outcome will be not be good.
Psychopaths are calculating social predators who are out and about in society and who may be found living in your neighborhood, working in your workplace, or even sleeping in your bed.
This website is based on my personal experience with a psychopath and the research and reading I did and continue to do in the aftermath.
Find out what a psychopath is, how to spot the red flags of a psychopath, how to know if you're being subject to covert emotional abuse, learn if you're a victim of devastating emotional rape (if you've been with a psychopath, you are), and learn about healing after a relationship with a psychopath. Read some illuminating quotes about psychopaths that sum up the danger that they are.
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I've just spent the last 18 months of my life totally convinced that I was crazy, that it was my fault that my husband of almost exactly 16 years left us in June of 2013.
Now, I understand that I did not even KNOW this man, and I still don't. He swept me off my feet in 1996; it was all the usual stuff ("I've always loved you, I didn't approach you because you were in another relationship, you are my soulmate, it will be forever, I've never loved anyone the way I love you, no one has ever looked after me like you do…..").
When I started asking too many questions, he became uncomfortable. Then the discoveries about his promiscuity began. The coldness, the distance, the wounding remarks and the GASLIGHTING were all too much to bear. I very, very nearly "lost it", and had it not been for my sister as well as a very accomplished psychologist, I doubt that I would be sitting here enjoying my coffee and writing this reply today. Alcohol became a good friend of mine and, let me tell you, I didn't count too many of the wine corks for quite a while.
Yesterday marked a milestone in my journey. I finally said the WORD. Sociopath. I said it to my psychologist. She agrees, and she told me that I have taken a very huge step towards more objective thinking. I need to observe the events now, and try not let them re-run continuously, like an old movie. Because if I let him, he'll bait me again, and again, and again until he drills my head into the ground. Why is he mad at me? Because I'm the first woman who figured him out. I cracked his shell. He's horrified.
Somehow, some way, I will get my self-esteem back. I will learn to trust the male species again. I will shore up my finances which, because of him, are now a complete disaster. I will take care of my son who, at the age of 12 just told me on Sunday night that he has no idea if his father loves him. We will help each other.
This is vary sad. One of the scars from a Sociopath is the events going over and over in your mind. Because the events are so unreal.It has been four years since a Sociopath was in my life and I still have this problem. I'm sorry for you and your son, Sociopaths don't love any one. Love is what makes you human.
The years we devote our lives to the monsters out there is unbelievable. I thought my story was so unique that no one would see it.
DAV, I agree with you! Love is what makes you human and because we have the ability to love, we cannot fathom their behavior or how they not know what they do is evil, nor care for that matter. It hurts me for them. For their families and for myself because I still tell myself my love will save him. Just put a wrapper on my head and call me SUCKER!
A year ago I found this site and realized I had been involved with a psychopath. It was after learning about him through what I read here, that I was finally able to leave him. I am forever grateful.
I have been in an abusive relationship for nearly 15 years. Even in the early stage, he showed signs of being controlling. He would call 10 times within an hour on my landline looking for me. Soon after, if I did not answer my cell on the first ring, he would swear at me and be accusatory. I had to give up my girlfriends and could not talk to any male friends. By then, I moved in with him. He kicked me out when angered. He was even more controlling. Mothers Day, 2004, he calls and don't hear the phone as I am having lunch with my daughters. When I finally pick up, he swears and I put my daughter on the phone so he knows I am with them. That night, my daughter comes over and grabs my belongings and tell me,"you need to get out." Of course, I still love him, so during the 1 1/2 year we broke up, I continue to see him on his terms. I go back and live with him, and he doesn't use his initial controlling antics and I think he's changed. Now, it's the blaming, the mind games, the isolation, the silent treatment, the punishment, cruel devastating harsh words, angry looks, telling me to get out of his house and that I just won't leave, which he always kicks me out. I'm scared of him, he's not approachable, I have to carefully choose words when talking to him. Years go by, and the treatment and punishment gets worse and I am miserable, so quietly leave on November 12th, when he's not at home, still thinking if only I did not do this or that. I have left this relationship about 5-7 times before but I initiated the calls to him and everything was on his terms. Although I've read this incredible article and learned the characteristics of the abuser and other info that I was not aware of, I'm stuck in denial and grief. I've gained the knowledge, see a therapist and attend a support group, and am so depressed that I've lost an incredible amount of weight, still miss him despite knowing he's an abuser, have no drive to do a thing but stay in bed all day, and afraid that I can't get over him. So, now that I understand his innate and insidious character, what else must I do to severe the bondage I let him hold to me?
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I am recently out of a 3+ year relationship with my fiance. I am a mother of two (from a previous marriage) and in therapy now. Everyday is a struggle. My kids loved him and like all of you, I believed he was my soul mate. I was the perfect victim…lost my sister to cancer, then found out my son has muscular dystrophy and finally divorced my alcoholic husband of 17 years. I was vulnerable and looking for someone to love me. This man comes into my life and all my friends and family are so happy for me because I am a good person to EVERYONE and I deserve happiness. Everyone loved him, he was such a great guy and does so much for charities. It was pure bliss in the beginning until I discovered his infidelities…then the emotional, sexual and sometimes physical abuse began. I blamed myself, I was stuck because I didn't want it to end. Now it's over, he has moved onto his next victim. I am broken and afraid. I have blocked him but he lives in my community. His relatives are all around me. I fear he wants to destroy me when all I've done is love him. How do you reach out and talk about it? I feel trapped and alone because if word gets back to him, he'll target me. His own sisters fear him. His ex wife is hiding from him…I can't move away. I am a teacher in the community. What do I do?
One woman has recently come out with her true story about how she met a man who pretended to be "just a normal guy." He told her he was single and a virgin, he loved her and wanted to "lose his virginity" to her. Turns out he is a married religious leader public figure…and psychopath. Story here: http://www.kmlessing.is She talks a lot about topics that are rarely discussed: men's accountability for their sexual behavior and the abuse of spirituality to seduce women.
I ONLY WISH I COULD GIVE YOU A HUG!!! thank you for sharing about the amount of ABUSE suffered from the CLERGY! The victims who come forward are COURAGEOUS ! I am a Christian and sadly, ADMIN, those statistics are "spot on" about the higher rate among Clergy! BRAVO TO YOU ADMIN !! -
I have intensely researched psychopaths since I left my psychopathic relationship almost two years ago. I applaud you and this amazing site. The information you provide and the way you deliver it is so accurate and helpful. For example: I had never read about the psychopath's "purification process" and why it is essential for the psychopath to restore his sense of being superior. You have newly enlightened me! Also, you are so accurate when you speak about certain psychopath forums that invite open discussion. I have witnessed participants being devalued and discarede on these forums for not "toeing the line" and acting in complete accordance to the dictate of the moderators. The sites compound the psychopathic abuse! Other participants. on these sites, bully as well. Anyway, thank you! I appreciate your wisodome and research enormously. You have helped me in my healing from psychopathic abuse. PS. I am trying to subscribe, but the promts are not working.


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August, 4, 2011
By ESPN.com staff | ESPN.com
The fourth of 12 quick updates on offseason Pac-12 goings on.
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- The Buffaloes, who haven't posted a winning record since 2005, start their first season of Pac-12 play picked at the bottom of the South Division. But they won two out of their final three games in 2010 and have enough talent to be immediately competitive in the conference.
- While team speed in general is a problem, it's most glaring in a secondary that was rotten last season, despite the presence of a pair of senior cornerbacks who became early-round NFL draft choices.
- New head coach Jon Embree retained two members of fired former coach Dan Hawkins' staff: linebackers coach Brian Cabral and Darian Hagan, who switched from running backs coach to recruiting coordinator. You can read about all Embree's staff changes here.
- Colorado opens at Hawaii. The Buffaloes have lost 17 consecutive road games, last winning away from Boulder on Oct. 27, 2007 at Texas Tech.
- The Buffaloes play 13 consecutive weeks with no byes, and their nonconference schedule includes Hawaii, Colorado State, California and a trip to Ohio State. No, the schedule isn't easy.
- The game with Cal doesn't count in the Pac-12 standings. It was a previously scheduled nonconference game that the programs opted to go ahead and play.
- Colorado is healthy, consider this note from the Boulder Daily Camera: "The only player listed as questionable for the first session is offensive lineman Blake Behrens, who recently aggravated a biceps muscle injury. It's a far cry from the 23 players listed on the injury report for the spring game. Many of those players were either hurt during spring drills or recovering from surgeries after last season ended."
- Players who missed spring practices who are returning from injuries include safety Anthony Perkins, cornerback Parker Orms -- both projected starters -- and running back Brian Lockridge, Rodney Stewart's backup.
- The Buffs picked up two transfers from Georgia who are eligible this season: defensive back Makiri Pugh and receiver Logan Gray.
- Five players left the team in the offseason, including defensive end Forrest West, who had 5.5 sacks last season but transferred to N.C. State. Further, senior center Mike Iltis, a returning starter, opted not to play this season.
- Incoming freshman center Alex Kelley will grayshirt -- join the team in January -- after he broke his ankle this summer. Incoming freshman running back Rashad Hall didn't academically qualify.
- Two senior walk-ons have been put on scholarship: DL David Golberg and DT Tony Poremba. Also put on scholarship was sophomore snapper Ryan Iverson.
- Four players were late additions to the 2011 recruiting class: WR Tyler McCulloch, WR Austin Vincent, ATH D.D. Goodson and C Brad Cotner.
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L'Uritonnoir is a cross between a urinal ("urinoir" in French) and a funnel ("entonnoir") and was designed by Faltazi as a tidy and eco-friendly method of outdoor sanitation. To set up a urinal, L'Uritonnoir is pushed into the side of a straw bale and fixed in a place by looping a strap through its top holes. As the bale collects liquid, nitrogen from urine combines with carbon in the straw and starts a process of decomposition. After use, the bale can either be taken to a local composting facility or left on the spot for six to 12 months to become compost, before being scattered on the soil or used as a planter.
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In this application, the heat is provided by a large area of ground heated by the sun and covered by a transparent surface that traps hot air, in the manner of a greenhouse. MIT's All-in-One Solar ORC to Provide Heat, Electricity, and Hot Water For African Communities. MIT-based nonprofit STG International is looking to make isolated African clinics and schools much more self-sufficient with a new hybrid power and heat solar system.
The unique system combines off-the-shelf technologies to provide electricity, hot water and space heating, with potential cooling as well. The heart of the system is a brilliant type of refrigeration cycle – instead of using hot refrigerant gases to remove heat, it uses heat to run a common compressor in reverse to make electricity. The unique solution does double and triple duty for a small African clinic, saving significant amounts of money on fuel.
McCamley's New Vertical Axis Wind Turbines Could Make Urban Wind Farms a Reality. Urban wind turbines face an up-hill battle, as many people feel they are too big, too expensive, and potential eyesores.
However McCamley just unveiled a prototype for a new vertical-axis turbine with a revolutionary design that allows it to overcome many of the issues associated with large horizontal-axis turbines. The company just installed its first prototype of the McCamley MT01 Mk2 in the UK at Keele University. The new vertical-axis turbine has been installed at Keele University Science and Business Park by McCamley UK Ltd as part of a plan to transform how cities generate renewable energy. Whereas most turbines rely on a steady wind speed, McCamley's vertical-axis turbine can cope with stronger, more turbulent gusts that are often found in urban environments. DryBath Takes Water Out Of Showering. (Reuters) - With inspiration from a friend too lazy to take a shower and a few months of research on the Internet, South African university student Ludwick Marishane has won global recognition for an invention that takes the water out of bathing.
Marishane, a 22-year-old student at the University of Cape Town invented a product called DryBath, a clear gel applied to skin that does the work of water and soap. The invention, which won Marishane the 2011 Global Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award, has wide applications in Africa and other parts of the developing world where basic hygiene is lacking and hundreds of millions of people do not have regular access to water. The product differs from the anti-bacterial hand washes by eliminating the heavy alcohol smell. It creates an odourless, biodegradable cleansing film with moisturisers.
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At any given moment, about half of the world's poor are suffering from waterborne diseases, of which over 6,000 – mainly children – die each day by consuming unsafe drinking water. The world's most prolific killer though is diarrhoeal disease from bacteria like typhoid, cholera, e. coli, salmonella and many others. Safe water interventions have vast potential to transform the lives of millions, especially in crucial areas such as poverty eradication, environmental upgradation, quality of life, child development and gender equality. LifeStraw was developed as a practical response to the billions of people who are still without access to these basic human rights.


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text: ABSTRACT: SHOUTS AND MURMURS about "personalities" in tennis. Writer defines "personality" as an exact synonym of a seven-letter duosyllable starting with "a" and ending with "e" (& also featuring, in order of appearance, an "ss," an "h," an "o," & an "l"). Ilie Nastase, 47, was probably the most complete "personality" the game has ever boasted. In his memoir, "Days of Grace," Arthur Ashe, while acknowledging that Nastase was an "unforgettable personality," also recalls that Ilie called him "Negroni" to his face and "nigger" behind his back. Ashe also reveals that John McEnroe once called a middle-aged black linesman "boy."


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