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Bcycle records their 10,000th ride!
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Not only has Boulder Bcycle recorded their 10,000th ride, they have also received 888 annual memberships and as for making a difference they have burned more than 2.5 million calories and, by riding instead of driving, they've saved about 61,400 pounds of carbon from entering the atmosphere.
Now Boulder riders will have more ways to ride those pretty red bikes around town with new station installations
New B-Station Will Provide Greater East Boulder Access
BOULDER, CO (August 24, 2011) -- Boulder B-cycle is excited to announce that, starting August 26, trips to The Village Shopping Center will be easier -- and a lot more fun.
The Village is the great collection of businesses framed by Arapahoe, Canyon, Folsom and 28th Street. Once Boulder B-cycle installs the new B-station on the Arapahoe side, folks will be able to grab a bike at any B-station, ride it to The Village, and securely dock it while shopping or eating.
And the options for both shopping and eating at the Village are top-notch. Whether you are looking for a cup of coffee, a loaf of homemade bread, a romantic dinner or a kitchen sink, The Village is your stop...and a B-cycle will get you there! This merchant community is 90-percent locally owned and hosts some of the longest-standing retail businesses in Boulder.
"We're very excited to add a B-station at The Village," said Elizabeth Train, executive director at Boulder B-cycle. "It's a great destination and an easy bike ride from all over town. In fact, our staff is planning a celebratory ride to Zolo for happy hour on the 26th!"
"As a shopping center with a long tradition of service to the community, we are extremely happy to provide a location for a brand new B-cycle station in Boulder," said Paulajane Moffitt, property manager of The Village. "We look forward to the great success of this program."
This exciting expansion will make the entire B-cycle system more convenient and dynamic, as the 15-doc solar station will complement the Google-sponsored B-station at 26th and Pearl, and the station on 28th street, near Men's Warehouse.
The timing of this installation is great, too. The City of Boulder is in the midst of a transportation improvement project on Arapahoe between Folsom and 30th that will include a multi-use path adjacent to the new B-station, which will make the ride to and from the Village even more enjoyable.
The good news doesn't stop there. In early September, Boulder B-cycle will grow once more, when the much-anticipated Whole Foods Station is installed at the store's 28th & Pearl location. Boulder B-cycle is also excited to announce that, in mid-August, the 10,000th B-cycle trip was taken in Boulder. Seems like this program is really on a roll.


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- Date submitted: 31 Oct 2011
- Stakeholder type: Major Group
- Name: Italian National Council of Economy and Labour (CNEL)
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Full SubmissionNational Council of Economics and Labour OBSERVATIONS AND PROPOSALS: THE CNEL?S CONTRIBUTION TO THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN RIO DE JANEIRO 2012 (RIO+ 20) Assembly, 29 November 2011 1. BACKGROUND 1.1. On 24 December 2009 the General Assembly of the United Nations passed a resolution to hold a conference on sustainable development in 2012 (UN Conference on Sustainable Development -UNCSD). The UNCSD 2012 will be held in Rio de Janeiro, 40 years after the conference on the human environment held in Stockholm, 20 years after the conference on the environment and development in Rio de Janeiro (Environment and Development -UNCED) and 10 years after the world summit on sustainable development held in Johannesburg (World Summit on Sustainable Development -WSSD). 1.2. Based on the resolution of the General Assembly, the UNCSD 2012 will have three objectives, with the proceedings focussing on two topics in particular. The objectives are: -to guarantee a renewed political commitment to sustainable development; -to review the progress made to date, as well as the persistent delays in the enactment of the conclusions of the summits held on sustainable development; -to address the new challenges on the horizon. The two specific topics are: - a green economy within the context of sustainable development and the elimination of poverty; - the institutional framework for sustainable development. 1.3. The CNEL, in light of the noteworthy contribution that the Rio summit can make to reinvigorating political determination and will, on both the global and regional levels, towards making further progress in the direction of more sustainable development, is using the present contribution to make proposals on a number of key issues that, in the opinion of the Council, are of particular importance to the success of the summit. 1.5. The CNEL welcomes the Resolution of the European Parliament and the Communication of the Commission, considering them important points of reference for a joint analysis by the various institutions of the EU, so as to arrive at a common position in preparation for the Rio+20 Conference. The CNEL is especially glad to see that the Communication of the Commission was presented jointly by the commissioners responsible for the environment and for development, making clear the connection that exists between the environment, sustainable development and aid to development. 1.6. In large part, the CNEL concurs with the opinion of the EESC on the Communication of the European Commission to the European Parliament, to the Council, to the European Economic and Social Committee and to the Committee of the Regions �Rio+20: toward a green economy and improved governance. 1.7. Finally, the CNEL is confident that that all institutions and key participants in economic and social life shall work towards ensuring that the proceedings of the Rio + 20 summit serve as an incentive for reinforcing Italy?s commitment to sustainable development. 2. OBSERVATIONS 2.1. The current situation. Although progress has been made over the last 20 years with regard to certain aspects of sustainable development, in many areas the situation has worsened. seen in absolute terms, poverty has increased: 2.6 billion people live on less than 2 euro a day; 1.5 billion workers, meaning roughly half the world total, do not have steady work. In 2010 the employment level was the highest since records have been kept; the levels of carbon emissions in the atmosphere are continually on the rise, and climate change is having increasingly negative repercussions on living conditions in many regions of the world; immigration is increasing on a global scale, placing additional pressure on the environment and on the security of supply flows; based on current Demographic trends, by 2050 the world?s population will have reached 9 billion, making the above problems even more pressing. 2.2. New and emerging challenges. The growth of the world population, plus rising expectations in terms of standard of living and increased consumption of raw materials are beginning to place a strain on supplies of food, energy and other raw materials, leading to higher prices and serious social and political problems. 2.3. One of the most important new challenges that the world must face in the coming century is maintaining or reaching an adequate level of security in terms of food, energy and resources for everyone ? both current and future generations -in a world whose population is on the rise and whose natural resources are limited. What is needed is qualitative economic growth able to contribute to eradicating poverty and social injustice while preserving natural resources for future generations. The key topics on which the 2012 world summit should concentrate its attention include the establishment of institutional structures able to meet these challenges. 2.4. Over the last three years the economic and financial crisis has been the central concern of political leaders and economic and financial bodies. Still, these pressing short-term problems should not deflect attention from the problems of the real world economy referred to above or from the impelling need to channel the activities of the world economy in the direction of increased sustainability, equity and greater respect for the environment. In and of itself, this transition should be a major source of new investments and new employment opportunities, in addition to ushering in increased levels of equity, cohesion, stability and resilience. In short, it could contribute to resolving the current economic difficulties. 2.5. A renewed political commitment. The 2012 Rio summit provides a valuable occasion for outlining this transformation and for determining the high-level political commitment that will be needed if this change is to become reality. It is of fundamental importance that the various heads of government address these problems, participating in the Conference in order to guarantee its success. Furthermore, given that the key issue is transforming the global economy, ministers of finance, the environment and economic development should also take part in the Conference. 2.6. Sustainable development is based on initiatives and on the participation of civil society, which, therefore, should also be involved in both the preparation for and the follow�up to the summit, as well as in the enactment of its conclusions. Forums for discussion should be created on both the national and international levels, in order to promote among the elements of civil society involved, as well as between civil society as a whole and political leaders, a dialogue on the topics of achieving the transition towards a green economy and sustainable development. 3. PROPOSALS 3.1. The green economy 3.1.1 A definition of the green economy. It is proposed that the summit arrive at a shared point of view on the definition and meaning of green economy, as well as on the reasons that make it an especially important objective for the entire world. To this end, the reflections and considerations being developed on the green economy by the UNEP (the United Nations Environmental Program) and within the OECD (the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) constitute important points of reference. 3.1.2. Put concisely, the objective of the green economy is to render models of production and consumption more respectful of the natural resources they utilise, and specifically to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. In practical terms, the intent of the green economy is to supply new tools capable of more effectively achieving the objective of sustainable development, resulting in an improved integration of these same tools within the framework of the other economic objectives pursued by governments and businesses. 3.1.3. The principles of the green economy. It is held that the RIO + 20 summit represents an excellent opportunity to establish a framework of principles capable of guiding the transition in the direction of a greener global economy. Such principles should be draw from the underlying contents of the principles of Rio '92, of the Earth Charter, of the activities of the UNEP, the OECD and the ILO, as well as from other sources of note, so as to focus, though without taking the place of these existing principles, on those values that prove to be of particular importance in terms of sustainable economic management. Such principles should explicitly include the internationalisation of external factors affecting the environment and social concerns, decreases in flows of natural resources, increased defence of ecosystems and the elimination of perverse subsidies, as well as the principles of equity, cooperation and shared but differentiated responsibilities. 3.1.4. In particular, a well-balanced framework of principles should ensure that the transition towards a green economy is managed in such a way as to prove advantageous for all the world?s regions and not merely for a group of countries, such as those of the developed world. 3.1.5. Tools and measures. It is recommended that tools and political measures geared towards promoting sustainable development be shared: they could be grouped into five main categories: ? direct public spending geared towards sustaining the development and spread of greener technologies (for example, through R&D programs, subsidies for the start-up of new businesses and investment programs, programs of public tenders, direct consumer incentives etc.); ? tax measures designed to discourage activities damaging to the environment by ceasing to subsidise them or by taxing them; ? regulations meant to prevent or limit the less sustainable activities practiced by businesses or by other subjects, or that require the utilisation of greener methods or procedures; ? programs designed to inform, educate, supply with consulting and motivate businesses, workers, consumers etc. with respect to the challenges to be faced in terms of sustainability, as well as the contribution they can make to achieving the transition towards sustainability; ? shared tools for assessing the impact of anthropogenic activities on natural resources (the accounting of natural resources, the ecological footprint, ?Factor 10? etc). 3.1.6. It is to be hoped that the RIO + 20 summit will provide a major occasion for formulating an overview of the progress made to date in terms of sustainable development throughout the world. Even though measures of note have been introduced in many parts of the world, including Europe, over the last 20 years, the overall impact of such initiatives is not yet sufficient to contrast the persistent tendency to engage in non-sustainable development. Seeing that today, compared to 20 years ago, any of the dangers and problems tied to unsustainable development have become all the more menacing and urgent, the summit should consider how to revive global and regional efforts to enact the objectives of sustainability. To this end, the summit should specifically reflect on how to apply the different types of tools in a more rigorous fashion, and how to mobilise the public and private capital needed to carry out the transition in an equitable and balanced way throughout the world. 3.1.7. The obstacles. It is held that the lack of sufficient progress in terms of sustainable development can be traced to four general factors that the summit should, to the extent possible, examine in greater depth: ? the lack of consistent, reliable information of the impact of the different activities on the sustainability of the economy; ? the lack of confidence in the feasibility of the transition towards more sustainable models of production and consumption, as well as in the potentially positive impact of a similar transition on the wellbeing of individuals, on employment and on equity; ? the lack of confidence in the good faith of other countries and organisations, along with the fear that being the first to enact measures for sustainability can undermine the competitive position of whomever takes such action; ? the lack of commitment to sustainability on the part of those sectors of the public administration responsible for economic and financial operations, as well as from the managers of major companies and from the representatives of financial interests. 3.1.8. Assessment of the progress made towards a greener economy. One possibility proposed is to establish parameters to measure the progress made by businesses and by other organisations in the field of sustainability. In particular, methods should be drawn up to measure the different types of natural capital found in our territory, in our seas, in our atmosphere and in the biosystems that they sustain. Another necessary step would be to measure the negative or positive impact that the various economic activities can have on this capital. 3.1.9. The summit could establish international mechanisms, together with a timeline, in order to create a uniform set of procedures to be followed when countries draw up and publish the balance-sheets for their natural capital and when annual reports are issued on the impact of economic activities in terms of strengthening or weakening the natural capital, plus, in general terms, when the framework for achieving the shared objective of sustainable development is formulated. 3.1.10. It is also proposed that international processes and mechanisms be established in order to specify and analyse the way in which the different political tools and practices in the individual countries either contribute to progress towards stability or hinder it, so as to favour, over time, a greater convergence towards more sustainable economic policies throughout the world. 3.1.11. Even today, special attention is still focussed on the growth of the GDP alone as an index of development. Little or nothing is said about the consumption of natural resources and the promotion of equity. A more sustainable approach to policies of development calls for a wider-ranging vision that also considers the maximisation of wellbeing as a full-fledged goal for society. The summit should have as one of its specific objectives arriving at a commitment to establish a system for measuring the wellbeing of communities, in order to supplement the purely economic gauging of processes of development. 3.1.12. It would also be helpful if, in each country, information on the environment, on the progress made towards a greener economy and on other aspects of sustainable development were made more readily available, in order to facilitate more fully informed public discussion of the key issues. In Europe, the 1998 convention on access to information, on the participation of the public in decision-making processes and on access to the law with respect to environmental issues (the Aarhus Convention) has broadened and reinforced public rights to obtain access to information, at the same time promoting public participation and recourse to the law. Discussions are currently being held on the possibility of drawing up a similar convention in Latin America. The UNEP has formulated a more general framework that addresses a number of these considerations. The summit should encourage initiatives geared towards establishing similar conventions in all the regions of the world, within a global context. 3.1.13.Giving visibility to instances of success. There are countries, regions, cities, companies etc. in which noteworthy results have been achieved in the course of the transition towards sustainability. They have demonstrated that it is possible to reduce the negative environmental impact of the various economic activities while, at the same time, creating new opportunities for employment, thus improving overall wellbeing. More should be done to highlight the success stories recorded throughout the world, using them as examples capable of convincing others to follow the same path. 3.1.14. Reinforcement of international trust. Certain elements of the transition towards sustainability are starting to be shared. For example, technologies featuring low carbon emissions have become widespread in a series of key sectors, and they will probably serve as one of the main driving forces behind future economic growth, improvements in wellbeing and the creation of jobs. It would be helpful if the summit were to provide further impetus to this transition, in order to increase the flow of resources and investments earmarked for the green technologies of the future, extending the scope of the transition to attract adequate investment flows for the sectors most often neglected, or that have registered less impressive results, such as the protection of the biosphere and the marine environment. 3.1.15.Turning the tax base greener. The most important challenge facing the 2012 Rio summit will be how to reach a more practically effective, far-reaching global agreement on mobilising public and private resources allocated for the development of skills and know�how, for transfers of technology and for programs of sustainable investment to aid the less developed countries, as well as countries currently experiencing development, to keep pace with the transition towards sustainability, but in an equitable manner. In order to arrive at a solution to this problem, it is proposed that the summit give greater impetus to national and international efforts aimed at making the tax base greener. Indeed, it is held that the time has come to launch an initiative in favour of a tax on financial transactions, through an agreement reached on a global level, with the revenues to be used to finance investments in the field of sustainable development. We hold this to be a point of paramount importance, seeing that the capacity to make the transition towards sustainability can vary significantly from one country to another in terms of natural, economic and human resources. 3.1.16. Investments in research and development activities. The competent bodies within the United Nations should be assigned to identify sectors of research and development on technologies and tools favouring a green economy that could benefit from a move to combine such efforts through international cooperation. It is important that the new, greener technologies be rapidly implemented throughout the world. The responsible bodies of the UN should specifically identify any barriers to the rapid transfer of such technologies, determining ways in which they can be overcome. 3.1.17. Programs of public tenders can constitute an effective tool for moving manufacturers in the direction of greener products and services. Europe already has experience in holding "green" public tenders in compliance with the principles of free trade and within a European framework. The competent bodies of the UN could be assigned the specific task of promoting successful practices in this field throughout the world. 3.1.18. Investment flows. A new global understanding. According to widely accredited estimates, over the next 40 years the global investment needed to achieve the transition to a low-carbon-emissions economy in the energy sector alone shall be on the order of trillions of euro. And other elements of the transition to sustainability will also require massive sums. The ability to achieve this transition varies from one country to another in terms of natural, economic and human resources. One of the most important challenges facing the Rio 2012 summit will be finding a way to arrive at a more practically effective, farther-reaching global understanding to mobilise public and private resources for the development of capabilities, transfers of technology and programs of sustainable investment meant to aid the less developed countries, as well as countries currently in the development stages, so that they can keep pace with the transition towards sustainability, but in equitable fashion. The responsible bodies of the UN should be assigned the task of monitoring the progress made in terms of financial commitments and other efforts undertaken to assist developing countries in making the transition to sustainability. 3.1.19. Involvement of economic and financial leaders. Earlier discussions on the topic of sustainable development were essentially prepared by ministers of the environment and their departments, which inevitably played the dominant role. This phase provide to be of use when it came to identifying and assessing the problems. But now that the world has moved on to taking more practical action in the field of sustainability, implementing important measures involving taxes and industrial policy and redirecting major flows of financing and investment, it is proposed that economic and financial departments take on a more leading role. The summit should stimulate the political will and commitment needed to make sustainable development a priority item on the agendas of ministers of economics, finance and industry, in addition to establishing mechanisms capable of transforming this commitment into effective action extending over a long-term time frame, both nationally and internationally. 3.2. The institutional framework. Governance. 3.2.1. International governance. For the last 19 years responsibility for international monitoring of the progress made throughout the world in terms of sustainable development was held by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD). Nevertheless, national participation in the activities of the CSD is handled primarily by the ministries and departments of the environment, which do not possess the authority, either individually or collectively, to take effective measures in the fields of economics or finance, or in other sectors falling outside the scope of their responsibilities, and this despite the crucial importance of such measures for the progress of sustainable development. 3.2.2. It is held that the summit can remedy this problem by establishing a more effective mechanism within the UN system, meaning one that brings together the ministries and departments of economics, industry and labour (plus other ministries, if necessary), in order to jointly formulate global policies and programs of action involving sustainability. The above mechanism could take the form of a council on sustainable development that supplements and reinforces the activities currently carried out separately by Ecosoc and by the CSD of the UN. These supplementary activities could also be supported by a committee organised to ensure coordination of all the UN agencies that handle issues of sustainable development, including the IMF, the WTO, the WHO, Unesco etc. In addition, the UNEP should be reinforced, allowing it to make a more incisive contribution within the framework of all these processes. 3.2.3. Such a council should have as its members all the countries of the world, represented by their highest-placed political leaders. The Council should give priority to global initiatives involving all aspects of sustainable development, promoting the transition towards a greener economy while initiating activities that regard new and increasingly important issues such as food and energy security. 3.2.4. This new council should establish close ties with the World Bank and with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which would be assigned a new mission, namely that of making the promotion of sustainable development a central focus of their efforts. 3.2.5. The United Nations program for the environment (UNEP) and its development program (UNDP) should be reinforced, so that together they can make a more incisive contribution to the environmental aspect of sustainable development, as well as to development per se. 3.2.6. National governance. New vigour should be instilled in the national mechanisms designed to promote sustainable development. The primary responsibility for promoting sustainable development should be clearly placed with the government and with all the ministries most directly involved. Steps must be taken, in particular, to revive and update national strategies for sustainable development, ensuring the full involvement and support of businesses, workers and all the different sectors of civil society. At the same time, advisory bodies should be established, such as the national councils for sustainable development, and give adequate resources to make a full-fledged contribution to the introduction of new ideas, as well as to efforts to maintain the pressure for further progress. 3.2.7. Regional and local governance. Within the context of progress towards sustainable development, regional and local government bodies hold a number of key responsibilities, as shown by the many excellent examples of the results such bodies have achieved throughout the world. Nevertheless, to date the progress made has not been uniform. The summit could contribute to more widespread progress by highlighting the best results, as well as by encouraging national authorities to set objectives for further progress by their respective regional and local government bodies and to support them in fulfilling such commitments. 3.2.8. Businesses. Over the last 20 years, businesses have made noteworthy improvements, increasingly moving in the direction of sustainability. Still, progress in this sense has been uneven. It is held that the moment has arrived to encourage, based on the best examples, improved practices in terms of sustainability. The summit could serve as a useful occasion for initiating discussion and reflection on a similar effort. 3.2.9. Employment. It is held that the ILO?s ?Decent Work? principles and objectives should be made a full and integral part of the commitments of the UN conference. This is the main path to be taken in terms of guaranteeing fairness in the course of the transition towards equitable, sustainable development both in developed countries and in those where development is currently underway or has been delayed. Of particular importance is the need to support programs of education and training, especially for young people, and in all countries; it is held that the promotion of new skills and know-how will contribute to creating new jobs on the global labour market, generating positive social repercussions worldwide. 3.3. Objectives in key sectors 3.3.1. It is proposed that the summit assess the ways in which the green economy concept will influence the primary economic sectors. Steps should be taken in each sector to encourage a more efficient use of energy, as well as of all other natural resources, so as to reduce the impact of pollution and of the production of waste, in addition to which greater attention should be focussed on the environment and on biodiversity. In the case of the developing countries, the current projects revolve around the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). It is recommended that, on the occasion of the revision of these goals in 2015, new development objectives be set, with greater emphasis placed on objectives of sustainable development. To this end, the Rio + 20 summit could issue a mandate providing guidelines for the revision of the MDG. 3.3.2. Energy. Turning the energy sector green constitutes the single most important challenge of the overall push towards a green economy. In today?s world, the production and consumption of energy practically underlie all economic activities carried out worldwide. According to the 2010 report of the IEA (International Energy Agency), the world energy outlook for 2035 is characterised by an increase in the demand for energy, together with an essentially unchanged production mix. Basic access to energy remains a pressing need in some of the world?s poorer regions. Meanwhile traditional fossil fuels (especially oil) are becoming increasingly rare, in addition to proving more difficult and costly to procure. What is more, emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels are the primary cause of the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, as well as the ominous changes in the climate, in the levels of the sea etc., the effects of which are already starting to be seen. 3.3.3. The ambitious objectives for reducing greenhouse gases make necessary an attentive assessment of the tools available for limiting CO2 emissions to the greatest extent possible, while guaranteeing, at one and the same time, minimum cost expenditures and a maximum level of safeguards for the competitiveness of industry. In identifying such tools, mention can be made of, from among other options, the production of energy from renewable sources and energy efficiency, with the synergy between the two being of fundamental importance when it comes to achieving the objectives with higher levels of flexibility and lower costs for each country system. As part of this effort, the European Commission has already established a new working plan (the Low Economy Roadmap) for achieving an 80% reduction in carbon reductions by 2050, as compared to 1990 levels. Leading the shift on the planetary level towards a low-carbon emissions economy should represent the main objective in efforts against climate change. 3.3.4. Discussions regarding the objectives and the timeline for the transition to a more ecological economy have already been initiated in any forums, in particular within the framework of the UN convention on climate change. As part of a global understanding, it would be helpful if the summit forecast the level of investment that will necessary over the next 40 years in the less developed countries and in small, relatively isolated states in order to provide them with adequate access to sources of clean energy while establishing suitable international mechanisms capable of contributing to generating the necessary funds and to monitoring the progress made. 3.3.5. Transportation. Reducing dependency on fossil fuels and promoting an efficient use of resources constitute the primary challenge with regard to sustainability in the transportation sector as well. To meet this challenge, it will be necessary to: ? reduce or limit increases in the demand for transportation through improved planning of the constructed environment; ? promote collectives modes of public transportation rather than individual modes of transport; ? increase the energy efficiency of all modes of transport; ? abandon fuels with higher levels of carbon in favour of fuels with zero or low carbon emissions, such as green electric energy or bio-fuels produced in accordance with the tenets of sustainability; ? further improve existing agreements on the disposal of vehicles and other transportation materials at the end of their life cycle. 3.3.6. The constructed environment. Urban environments vary significantly throughout the world, mirroring specific climatic, physical, social and economic conditions, as well as the different historical backgrounds. Still, they all face a number of common underlying challenges tied to the need to achieve greater sustainability. For example, a decidedly higher level of efficiency must be attained in the use of energy to heat or cool all the types of buildings, as well as in the use of other materials and resources. Steps should be taken to promote forms of transportation that are greener and less damaging to the environment everywhere, and efforts must be made to improve the management and conservation of water resources worldwide. Improvements should also be made in the management of waste flows, with emphasis placed on reducing waste production and supporting reuse and recycling. Another priority objective in urbanised areas, and one whose pursuit can no longer be put off, is the objective of improving the quality of the air: this constitutes a determining factor (as reported by the WHO) not only in the health of citizens, but also in the rising levels of healthcare spending. All the above considerations call for renewed attention, in light of the ongoing growth of the urban population, with a further result of the situation being a powerful impetus towards the innovation of processes and products. 3.3.7. Agriculture and the rural environment. It is held that, from the perspective of the green economy, thoroughgoing changes must occur in agricultural practices in many parts of the world. In numerous countries government intervention is essentially geared towards safeguarding the income of farmers or limiting the prices of basic foodstuffs or meeting both goals. While these are fundamental concerns, they should be supplemented with equal attention for the roles played by the agricultural and rural worlds in guaranteeing food security, conserving the natural capital of the land and its resources of biodiversity and defending food security against the threat of hydrogeological disruptions and flooding, together with their contributions to energy policies, which are not of secondary importance either. A further concern is the development of more virtuous policies for the use of farmland exposed to continuous erosion on account of invasive urbanisation. 3.3.8. Another point to be stressed is that deforestation and the deterioration of forestry resources lead to environmental and social damage that proves difficult to reverse, such as prolonged alterations in the balance of water tables, the onset of steppe-like terrain or desertification, climate changes and a loss of biodiversity, as well as rural poverty and conflicts over land and access to resources, rights and benefits, the overall economic cost of which proves to be far greater than the cost of eventual preventive and corrective efforts; it is held that the Rio+20 Summit should set itself the objective of ensuring participatory governance in the forestry sector, together with an equitable and fair distribution of benefits, plus the conservation and sustainable use of forests worldwide. 3.3.9. The CNEL holds that the key to sustainable agriculture lies in food production that is quantitatively sufficient, qualitatively excellent and regionally diversified, being implemented throughout the territory, in compliance with respect for nature and in such a way as to safeguard and defend the rural environment, preserve the differentiation and distinctive quality of production activities and promote both cultural landscapes rich in a wide variety of different species and rural areas. 3.3.10.Effective measures should be taken to improve the operations of agricultural markets while rendering them more transparent. Unacceptable fluctuations and increases in the prices of food products should be contrasted. The use of renewable raw materials for the production of energy cannot be promoted at the expense of the procreant of food supplies worldwide. Secure supplies of food should be guaranteed by establishing reserves on a regional basis. There should also be a push to make increased use of the residual biomass generated by agricultural activities and food production. 3.3.11. Steps must be taken to guarantee workers? rights in the agricultural sector, through application of the existing ILO conventions. The active participation of civil society in projects of regional and local sustainability is indispensable and, to this end, particular emphasis should be placed on the role of women in developing countries. 3.3.12. The FAO and the UNEP could be entrusted with the task of jointly examining the sustainability of current agricultural practices, and of the management of the land, in each country, further analysing possible options for reforming these sectors, while also looking at the regulations and incentives under which they are currently governed, all for the purpose of promoting a greener rural sector. 3.3.13. The marine environment. In the same way as we discuss the green economy, we can also speak of a Blue Economy with regard to marine resources. Here too increase attention and efforts must be forthcoming from the international community. The marine environment is currently subject to growing pressure on account of pollution and excessive exploitation of marine resources, which, in certain limits, has reached the danger level. It balances, which not only ensures flows of food resources, but also serves as one of the most potent systems of climate regulation, could be threatened by policies of unwise use. The summit should make it obligatory that a new international procedure be established to reinforce and coordinate the existing mechanisms for safeguarding the marine environment. The summit should also assign to the responsible bodies of the UN the task of implementing a new international procedure designed to strengthen and coordinate existing mechanisms in the field of defence of the marine environment, in addition to finding a more effective approach to preserving stocks of fish and other marine resources than that taken under current rules and regulations. 3.3.14. Biodiversity. The safeguarding of biodiversity should be viewed as one of the primary guarantees of survival. We ask that the Conference reiterate this principle, in light of what we hold to be an excessive tendency to underestimate the loss of living species that occurs on a daily basis. This issue undoubtedly entails an ethical problem that cannot be ignored: namely that of the relationship between mankind and nature. But even when biodiversity is considered in purely economic terms, it appears as an extraordinary resource for policies of sustainable development. 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Camptosaurus was an herbivore dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic period, about 145 million years ago. It was a larger Ornithischian dinosaur that grew up to 25 feet in length. Camptosaurus had a horny beak, and a long snout with hundreds of teeth. Camptosaurus resembled iguanodontid dinosaurs, it had legs that were longer than its arms; it had four toed and five fingered arms, all with hooves. Its main way of locomotion was on four legs, but it could probably stand on two legs and walk for short distances. Researchers believe that Camptosaurus may have traveled and lived in herds. Fossil discoveries have been made in parts of North America such as Wyoming, South Dakota, Colorado and Utah. Fossils have also been discovered in parts of England, in Europe.
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Dimorphodon was an early pterosaur from the early Jurassic Period about 197-195 million years ago. Fossil remains of Dimorphodon have been found in southern England, near Lyme Regis. The first fossils were first dug out in 1828. It was later named in 1858 by the very scientist who also invented the name "dinosaur," Richard Owen. When we look at Dimorphodon's anatomy we clearly see that its head is much bigger than that of others of its kind, looking like it might have been transplanted from a larger, terrestrial theropod dinosaur. The mouth had four large teeth on each side at the front, in both the upper and lower jaws. The upper jaw had a row of smaller teeth behind them, and in the lower jaw there were small, sharp teeth. Compared to other pterosaurs the bill was tall from top to bottom but narrow from side to side. It seemed much too large simply to catch food, which is assumed was fish and other small sea animals. So why was the bill so big? Was it colorful or contained ornaments to possibly attract other members of the opposite sex? Dimorphodon's head may have been large, making one quarter of its total length, but it was not heavy. The skull was made of thin struts of bone rather than large slabs, making it very light. Most of the head was made up of the large bill. Dimorphodon's legs and feet were quite large and strong built for a pterosaur. It is possible that Dimorphodon was able to crawl well on all fours and maybe even stood up to run on its legs. Dimorphodon's wingspan was about 4.5 feet, and its total length was just over 3 feet. It was roughly the size of a goose.
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Anteosaurus was a large synapsid reptile that lived during the Middle Permian Period 260-265 million years ago in what is now South Africa. Anteosaurus was a semi aquatic reptile, it had a similar built as the modern crocodiles with a long tail and short limbs, which indicate that the reptile spent most of its time living in water. It is estimated that Anteosaurus measured up to 20 feet in length and it grew up to 1100 lbs. Some of the most noticeable characteristic include a skull which was tall and narrow 2.6 feet long. The skull shows signs of pachyostosis (thickening of the roof of the head), suggestive of head butting behavior, possibly protecting their territory and fighting over a mate. This feature indicates that these reptiles were active on land as well. There are 16 well preserved skulls of Anteosaurus. Anteosaurus is known to have existed during the time of Titanophoneus and Doliosauriscus.
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Agriotherium was one of the largest bears that ever lived. Grew up to 8 feet long and could reach weights of 1,000-1,500 pounds. It lived during the Late Miocene and Early Pleistocene Era approximately 10-2 million years ago. It roamed the plains of North America, Eurasia at the time and Africa. Agriotherium was an omnivorous prehistoric mammal. Its diet consisted of fish, fruits, and vegetables. One distinguishable characteristic about Agriotherium is that they had very long legs which gave it a dog-like build.
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Askeptosaurus belonged to a family of early diapsid reptiles known as thalattosaurus. It lived during the Triassic period, about 220 million years ago. Askeptosaurus specimens have been found in Italy and Switzerland, Europe. Askeptosaurus habits resemble those of the modern reptile; they spent most of their time in the water, only venturing on to land to lay their eggs. Askeptosaurus had a slender built, with a long neck, body and tail. It is possible that Askeptosaurus move in the water like modern eels do. Its diet consisted of fish, and it may have dive deep in search of its prey, which it snapped up with its long, toothy jaws.
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Cladoselache was a fast moving prehistoric shark due to its streamlined body and deep forked tail. This primitive shark grew to be a 6 feet in length and roamed the oceans of North America. Cladoselache is one of the best-known prehistoric sharks due to the well preserved fossils that were discovered on the Cleveland shale on the south shore of Lake Erie. The fossils were so well preserved that they included traces of skin, muscle fibers, and internal organs, such as kidneys. Cladoselache had smooth and blunt teeth, which weren't sharp and tearing like those of most sharks and indication that the shark swallowed fish whole after grasping them in its muscular jaws.
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The 1996 amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act require that all public water suppliers with more than fifteen (15) service connections provide their customers with a report that summarizes the water quality information that has been accumulated for the system.
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Robert D. Masten, of Millsboro, DE passed away on November 15, 2013 with his family at his side at the Delaware Hospice Center in Milford. He was 88 years old. He was born on July 8, 1925 to the late Eurie and Maude Calloway Masten in Laurel, DE. He was a Veteran of World War II and served in the US Army in Patton's Third Armored Division, earning a Bronze Star. In 1946, he married his wife, Rose Dowdy in Milford, DE and worked as the branch manager of Pensupreme Ice Cr�me for more than 30 years. He is a member of Mary Mother of Peace & St. Michael's Parish of the Roman Catholic Church. Formerly, he served as a commentator at St. John the Apostle Catholic Church in Milford, DE and was active in the Milford Kiwanis Club, serving as its President in 1962. He was a former member of American Legion Post 28. He loved deer hunting, fishing, and boating – owning his own boat, the "Skipper Rose." In addition to his wife, he is survived by five children: Robert Masten, Jr., of Ft. Meyers, FL; William Masten, of Millsboro; Stephen Masten and his wife Patricia, of Milford; John Masten and his wife Vickie, of Bear, DE; and Carolyn Masten, of Ft. Meyers, FL. He is also survived by three grandchildren: Stephen Masten, Jr.; Jonathan Masten; and Kelly Shontz. There are two great-grandchildren: Kailyn Shontz and Corynne Shontz. He also leaves behind many extended family members, friends, and associates including Lyn Morgan, Millsboro, DE and Villy Shank, Ft. Myers, FL – along with his beloved feline friend: "Kami-O." A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 AM, on, Nov. 21, 2013, at Mary Mother of Peace Roman Catholic Church, on Rt. 24 in Millsboro. Friends may call one hour prior, at the Church, for viewing and visitation. Interment will follow at Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Millsboro. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to Delaware Hospice Center; 100 Patriots Way, Milford, DE 19963.
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Governor's Medicaid Proposal is a Step in The Wrong Direction
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Gov. McCrory's plan to reform Medicaid is a step in the wrong direction. The answer to improving healthcare is not to turn care for 1.5 million North Carolinians over to out-of-state, profit-driven managed care companies. We've tried that before and it simply did not work. What has worked is empowering local physicians and healthcare professionals to coordinate care in their own communities through patient-centered medical homes. This is the foundation of North Carolina's homegrown care management program, Community Care of N.C. (CCNC). CCNC (communitycarenc.org) is recognized as a national model for improving care and lowering costs. In fact, CCNC's success meant North Carolina enjoyed the lowest average annual increase in Medicaid costs in the country from 2007-2010. Many states that tried Medicaid HMOs are now implementing the CCNC model instead. Ironically, on the same day the Governor announced his plan to gut CCNC, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) helped present another national award to CCNC, this one from the Healthcare Leadership Council. North Carolina's family physicians implore Gov. McCrory to immediately reconsider his proposal and instead join us in building on the success of North Carolina's existing physician and hospital networks. We can preserve jobs and maximize healthcare dollars in our state while improving care for thousands of North Carolina families. Gov. McCrory's heart may be in the right place, but his head is moving us in the wrong direction.
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If Titan has a methane atmosphere and seas of methane, then why doesn't some meteoroid / chemical reaction ignite and blow the whole thing?
Titan is one of Saturn's moons. Titan has a dense atmosphere, at about 1.5 bars. It also seems to have lakes of liquid methane.
For a conventional combustion, you would need a good Methane-Oxygen mix. Every combustion is basically an oxidization. Apart from very energetic events, such as SL9 hitting Jupiter, you will need quite a bit of oxygen to get a nice, explosive fireball in Titan's atmosphere.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Jan. 22, 2010) - Saturday's much anticipated match between the 62nd-ranked ETSU men's tennis team and in-state rival No. 5 Tennessee has been moved back a half an hour to 10:30 a.m., inside the Goodfriend Indoor Tennis Center on the Volunteer campus.
Originally, Tennessee and ETSU were scheduled to play at 10:00 a.m., before UT moved back the time due to its second match of the day with Chattanooga later in the evening.
Saturday's contest marks the third time in the last year the Vols and Bucs have played each other with Tennessee sweeping both matches last spring.
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UNCW sports - softball team falls to James Madison
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Freshman pitcher Jailyn Ford allowed one run on two hits in a complete-game effort to lead James Madison to a 6-1 victory over UNCW in a Colonial Athletic Association softball contest Sunday at Boseman Field.
The Dukes improved to 27-9 overall and remained undefeated in league play as they moved to 9-0 versus conference competition with the three-game sweep. The Seahawks, meanwhile, slipped to 12-22 and 1-7. UNCW returns to action April 13th as they open a three-game CAA series at Georgia State with a Noon doubleheader.
In other UNCW sports | The 57th-ranked UNCW men's tennis team remained perfect at home and won the doubles point for the 16th time this season with a 5-2 verdict over visiting Georgia State on Sunday at the UNCW courts.
The Seahawks raised their record to 14-4 this spring with their sixth straight win. The Panthers stand 11-10 in Coach Joerg Barthel's first season in Atlanta.
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Sometime around age 40 or 45, you wake up and find yourself facing a labor problem: Your metabolism has staged a work slowdown. Whereas once it incinerated calories with the ferocity of an eight-burner Viking range, it now warms them with the timidity of an egg poacher. You've had to go up a jeans size or two . . . or three. If you're a practiced dieter, you may turn to the weight-loss methods that have been so reliable in the past—and discover they no longer work.
Though this metabolic slowdown takes most of us by surprise, it has been developing for many years. Our metabolic rate—the total number of calories the body burns every day—dips 2 to 4 percent a decade starting in ourtwenties, says David Heber, MD, PhD, director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition. The cause of this decline is a shift in our body's muscle-flab ratio. Every 10 years we lose five to seven pounds of muscle, which is replaced by fat, and this exchange continues for the rest of our lives. In metabolic terms, lean tissue is a champ, and fat is a -slacker: A pound of fat burns a mere three calories an hour, while muscle burns 14.
Say you're a moderately active woman who burned 2,000 calories a day when you were 25. Keep exercising and eating exactly the same way, and you'll burn 1,900 calories a day at 35. At 45, you'll burn only 1,800.
And it gets worse. The loss in muscle mass accelerates when we approach menopause, and our levels of sex hormones like estrogen and progesterone drop. Wendy Kohrt, PhD, founder of the Image Research Group (Investigations in Metabolism, Aging, Gender, and Exercise) at the University of Colorado, found that our metabolic rate is highest when estrogen and progesterone are at their peak. When these hormones dip, we require about 70 fewer calories a day to maintain body weight. Jennifer Lovejoy, PhD, a researcher in Seattle who studied how body composition changes during menopause, estimates that over the roughly 10-year period of perimenopause and menopause, about 50 percent of women gain 10 to 15 pounds because of a lowered metabolic rate.
The bottom line: If you've gained weight and you're thinking, "It's not me; it's my metabolism," you could be right. However, with some tweaks to your diet and exercise regimen, you can get your metabolism to hum the way it did when you had a shag haircut and were living in your first apartment.
To effectively rev up your metabolism, you need to understand the components. Basal metabolic rate, or BMR (also called resting metabolic rate, or RMR), accounts for 60 to 75 percent ofdaily calorie expenditure. Sit still all day and your body will burn up this chunk of energy through activities like pumping blood, breathing and maintaining body temperature. An additional10 percent of your daily calories are spent on digesting food. The balance of your calorie tally—15 to 30 percent—is expended through movement, from tapping your feet as you listen to Pink to training for a half-marathon.
Your goal is to increase the number of calories burned in each of these areas. To do that, you need to eat and work out smarter, which will mean something different for each of us. Here, the stories of four women who took different paths to boosting their metabolism. You can try whichever strategies best suit your lifestyle and athletic abilities. Ladies, start your engines!
Rita Tretter's Secret: Constant Movement
Age: 52
Height: 5'5"
Used to weigh: 169 lb.
Now weighs: 133 lb.
At the end of 2011, Rita Tretter set out to lose weight, and at first she did. Without changing her diet, she dropped 17 pounds in three months by taking a one-hour power walk every day. But at 152 pounds she hit a plateau—and then started to gain. So in April 2012 she changed her strategy: She added running intervals to her morning walks and began to build other mini bursts of movement into her life. A St. Paul, Minnesota, medical biller who works at home, Tretter typically spent 70 to 80 hours a week sitting at her desk. For her new regimen, she paced her house for a few minutes every hour, bounced in her chair while studying a spreadsheet and replaced her 2 pm coffee-and-chocolate break with a leisurely 15-minute walk outdoors. She found other means to be active as well. "I changed the way I do pretty much everything," she says. Four months later, she's 133 pounds, her weight at age 35.
Tretter's behavior changes raised her level of what Mayo Clinic researcher James Levine has dubbed NEAT, or non-exercise activity thermogenesis. Basically, NEAT is all the movement you engage in that isn't actually -exercise—so while Tretter's morning run counts as a workout, all her other changes fall into the NEAT category. In this way, Levine says, the average person can boost her daily energy expenditure by 350 calories. "Just getting off your bottom and standing up requires so much muscular activity that your metabolism spikes immediately," says Levine. Tretter's new strategy was inspired by a compact-size gadget called the Gruve Personal Activity Monitor (gruve.com), which was specifically created to keep track of NEAT. The device counts the calories you burn throughout the day, and as the number rises, the Gruve changes color from red to orange to yellow to blue to—yay!—green. You can customize it with your own target: For example, to lose one pound a week, you have to burn roughly 3,500 calories a week, or 500 a day. Sit too long at your desk, and the device vibrates, reminding you to get moving. "Sometimes I hit green by 2 o'clock, but sometimes it's 7:30 at night and I'm not at green yet, so I'll take the dogs for an extra walk," Tretter says. She isn't the only one surprised, and heartened, by how effective mini bursts of exercise can be. In a new study, a team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen found that participants who worked out at moderate intensity for 30 minutes a day actually lost more weight than those who worked out vigorously for 60 minutes a day. In 13 weeks, the hour-a-day exercisers dropped five pounds, whereas those who exercised half as long dropped seven. Why? The study suggests that the latter group was deliberately more active throughout the day. "When people work out for an hour, consciously or not they tell themselves, Great, now I can sit on my butt the rest of the day," says Mark Blegen, PhD, a researcher on the effectiveness of exercise on metabolism at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Also lifting Tretter's metabolism: She has started sleeping through the night for the first time in decades. The reason that helps, says David Katz, MD, director of Yale University Prevention Research Center, is that when you're sleep deprived, your hormones go haywire, leading to surging levels of insulin and cortisol, which in turn contribute to the accumulation of body fat. Furthermore, getting less than six hours' sleep for just a couple of nights pumps up the hormone ghrelin, which tells us we're hungry, and causes a slump in leptin, the satiety hormone that promotes sensations of fullness. "I feel younger than I did at 40," Tretter says. "At 35, before my daughter was born, I felt perfect—slim and curvy—and I feel pretty much the same way now."
Kelly Boyer's Secret: Frequent Meals
Age: 47
Height: 5'4"
Used to weigh: 137 lb.
Now weights: 109 lb.
Kelly Boyer, who'd had a successful career in human resources, went back to school at age 38 to change fields—and ended up gaining the freshman 15. A lifelong foodie, she enrolled at Pasadena's Le Cordon Bleu culinary school and was soon preparing dishes such as banana-hazelnut soufflé and braised lamb risotto with bucketfuls of butter and cream. At one point during the 18-month program, Boyer weighed 137 pounds, her all-time high. "I had a tire around my belly, breasts that had doubled in size from 32B to 34DD and ham hocks flopping from my upper arms," Boyer says. "It was as if someone had flipped the metabolism switch to off."
She tried several diets, including Weight Watchers, the Zone and Atkins. They all worked . . . kind of. "They'd get me down to 115, so I liked the way I looked," she says. "But I was hungry all the time, and on diets where a big proportion of my calories was coming from beef, I felt as if my insides were dying."
In the summer of 2005, after studying up on nutrition, Boyer stopped skipping breakfast (and sometimes lunch) and started a daily pattern of three small meals and two snacks. For example: ground turkey patty, poached egg and roasted broccoli for breakfast; apple slices with peanut butter for a late-morning snack; three ounces of grilled chicken with a white bean salad and asparagus for lunch; a few bites of hummus on cucumber wedges for a late-afternoon snack; and, for dinner, a four-ounce portion of steak and a big salad of arugula and tomatoes.
The strategy was a sound one. By spreading your total calories among frequent meals—without eating more overall—you supply your body with a steady stream of nutrients. This helps you avoid the spikes and dips in insulin levels that can make you drowsy at 3 pm or ravenous at 7. Those slumps often lead to poor food choices. "I'd get so hungry by 7 pm that I'd wolf down whatever I could get my hands on," says Boyer.
Four months after she started eating mini meals, Boyer achieved her target weight of 108. She also had the energy to stick to a regular exercise program. In the past, she'd seesawed between two- to three-hour treadmill marathons at the gym and no exercise at all. "I used to be too tired to work out regularly," she says. Now she exercises five days a week and builds high-intensity interval training into her 45-minute sessions (she runs at an I-can-barely-do-this pace for a minute every seven minutes). Those spurts help charge metabolism by increasing the number of mitochondria, the cell's microscopic energy generators, and they burn fat nine times as effectively as endurance training.
As Boyer started looking tauter and more toned, many friends started asking for her secrets, so she drew on her culinary-school experience and launched Paleta (paleta.com), a meal-delivery business that focuses on fresh seasonal ingredients. Since its start in 2005, Paleta has served more than 15,000 clients.
Boyer says her mini meals and regular workouts have not only slimmed her but also soothed her. "I feel calmer and -smarter," she says. "I feel more capable of making good decisions in everything from whether to add new services to my business to what kind of vacation to plan."
Debbie Puig's Secret: No More Sugar
Age: 53
Height: 5'2"
Used to weigh: 179 lb.
Now weighs: 139 lb.
In her midtwenties, Debbie Puig was an amateur body builder, entering local East Coast competitions in the middleweight division. She worked out four hours a day and followed a strict diet (one example she offers: "I'd weigh my lettuce"). Her weight was 125 to 133 pounds, with only 4 percent body fat. (A healthy range of body fat for women in their twenties is 21 to 32 percent.)
Over the next couple of decades, Puig gained weight, but to drop the pounds, she needed only a couple of extra sessions at the gym, some attention to portion size or a short Weight Watchers stint. Then, at age 52, she shot up to 175. "My clothes were tight, my arms and legs looked thick, and my stomach was hanging over my belt," she says. None of her old weight-loss tactics worked. "I couldn't understand what was happening to me," she says.
The time for professional help arrived in September 2011 when Puig stepped on a scale and it hit 179. She hired Lauren Slayton, a registered dietitian and the founder of Foodtrainers, a New York City nutrition-counseling service. Reviewing her new client's food log, Slayton immediately spotted a dietary villain: sugar. Puig gobbled Jolly Ranchers throughout the day and also regularly ate simple carbohydrates—which are basically sugar—in the form of pasta and rice.
Slayton swapped those offenders for foods that have a lower glycemic load (your GL is a number that estimates how much eating a certain food will raise your blood glucose level). Her suggestions included legumes, such as cannellini beans; whole grains, such as quinoa and brown rice; gluten-free pasta and bread; and nonstarchy fruits and veggies.
These low-glycemic-load foods are the utility infielders of weight loss. They kick up your metabolism by burning "hotter" than simple sugars and carbs, says Katz. This means your body must spend more calories to convert them into fuel, so the part of your metabolism that's devoted to digesting food—what scientists call TEF, the thermic effect of food—is revved up. Furthermore, low-glycemic foods keep sugar levels steady, so you avoid the insulin spikes that can stimulate hunger.
Puig's diet from Slayton allows four servings of simple carbs a week, but these days Puig often skips them. "I don't have those cravings anymore," she says. Instead, she finds fullness in the roster of healthy fats that have been added to her diet: avocados, tuna in olive oil, whole eggs and yogurt with 2 percent fat. She has also integrated into her diet nutritionally rich superfoods such as green tea, chia seeds and shredded coconut. All show some evidence of boosting metabolism slightly.
Forty pounds lighter than she was just over a year ago, Puig says, "I feel like my body is running the way it should. I can honestly say that when I look in the mirror, I like what I see."
Ashley Loging's Secret: More Muscle
Age: 35
Height: 5'8"
Used to weigh: 190 lb.
Now weighs: 135 lb.
Like the smoker who's so good at quitting she's done it a dozen times, Ashley Loging was a pro at losing weight. "I put 30 pounds on my hips with my first child and 30 pounds on my butt with my second," she says. Each time, she explains, her weight-loss plan consisted of spending up to two hours a day "killing myself" on the treadmill and "starving myself" on 1,100 calories a day. She never ate breakfast and often skipped lunch, especially if she was meeting friends for dinner. That approach worked, but only temporarily. Loging would drop 15 or 20 pounds, then gain it back a couple of months later, a cycle that repeated itself a half dozen times.
According to experts, Loging was trapped in a doomed war with her metabolism. Skipping meals frequently puts your body into preservation mode, so it's likelier to store calories as fat than to burn them, says Joy Dobust, PhD, RD, a Washington, D.C., nutritionist and a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Loging found a better strategy four years ago, when she signed up with Rick Kattouf, a fitness and nutrition coach who was training her husband for a triathlon. Kattouf changed Loging's regimen radically. He slashed her cardio sessions to 30 minutes a day and added 30 to 40 minutes of weight training six days a week.
Building muscle through strength training is the only reliable way to kick up your basal metabolism (the energy required to keep your body functioning while at rest). But to achieve this, you need to work out consistently and strenuously. In the past, Loging had done biceps curls and triceps kickbacks with three- or five-pound weights. That will get you toned but won't necessarily increase your muscle, says UCLA's Heber. "To do that, you need to stretch the muscle fibers apart to the point where they get inflamed and have to repair themselves," he says. The energy expended in repairing is what burns extra calories.
Kattouf switched Loging to fewer repetitions with heavier weights, which grew even heavier as she got stronger. Today she works her biceps with 20- pounders and leg-presses 140 pounds, almost triple the 50 pounds she pressed four years ago. These strength-training sessions also raise her heart rate, giving her even more of a metabolic boost.
The bonus of any exercise session: afterburn, the extra calories your body expends to restore its pre-exercise equilibrium. One recent study showed that participants burned about 500 calories in 45 minutes of vigorous cycling and an additional 190 calories in the next 14 hours. Kattouf also tweaked Loging's diet, upping her calorie intake to a healthier level of 1,500 to 1,900 calories a day. And he advised her to swap calorie-dense but nutritionally empty food, such as french fries, for fruits, vegetables, lentils and whole grains. At first, Loging was shocked at the volume of food she was consuming. "I asked Rick, 'Are you sure I'm supposed to be eating this much?' " she says. But by normalizing her calorie intake with high-nutrient foods, she actually boosted her metabolism, and the weight started coming off. She dropped 40 pounds in 18 months and in October 2011 hit 135, a weight she's maintained ever since. The best part, says Loging, is that she has simultaneously slimmed and toned. "Women who lose a lot of weight in a small amount of time often end up with a roll of skin hanging over their jeans or flapping from their arms," she says. "But because I gained muscle as I lost pounds, I've been flab free."
SHELLEY LEVITT is a Los Angeles–based freelance writer.
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Sauk Trail on 17 is smokin' again, from the meats to the menu
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Sauk Trail on 17 has wound its way to this point in time.
In 2006, Marc Lancaster opened Sauk Trail Bar & Grille in Union, Mich, as a roadhouse that later became a barbecue joint.
In 2007, a group of people opened Indigo on 17 at 56039 Parkway Ave., Elkhart. It was a fine dining establishment with an elegant dining room and a chic bar.
Indigo on 17 changed as Karen Kennedy and Kelly Graff left to open Kelly Jae's Cafe in Goshen.
In July 2010, Sauk Trail was lit on fire. The arson has never been solved, as far as I know.
So in late 2010, Lancaster and the Indigo owners agreed to merge and form Sauk Trail on 17. It's opening was one of the most anticipated in recent history and the place got slammed when it opened.
Over time the food was less consistent. The crowds were smaller. The buzz was largely gone.
But Sauk Trail on 17 may be back. The crowds are back. The menu is smaller and more focused. The service is attentive without being overbearing. It feels like it's grown up and settled in a bit.
Chad Coryn is back as the chef, a job he had before Indigo became Sauk Trail.
And Ray Stults never imagined he'd be the manager of his own restaurant, but he's running the place now after being retired for about 15 years. Lancaster left this fall and moved out of state, Stults said.
Stults once oversaw companies with about 3,000 employees. Now he has about 20 at Sauk Trail and they seem to be doing good work. "We're getting there," he said. "I'm pretty happy."
He's been one of the owners since the beginning, but now is the primary person in charge. His son Lindsey Stults and Dan Valhala also have part ownership.
He's been focused on bringing consistency, a strong draft beer list and getting people in the door. "We're getting new people all the time," he said.
Despite being open just 30 hours a week or so, Sauk Trail on 17 is having strong nights and the lines are back on weekends, he said. But he wants to expand the hours to include Monday nights and lunches.
A new bar menu is on its way, as is a kids' menu and a menu for those in the bar after 9 p.m.
But the menu as it is now works better than the initial one that tried to mix Indigo and Sauk Trail. This one is focused on smoked meat and the sides that go with it.
I've been a fan of Sauk Trail's smoked chicken wings since they hit the menu in Union. But for a time, they tended to be dry, as did the ribs. The consistently moist meat has returned to the plate. Stults has made sure the kitchen isn't taking shortcuts and is planning ahead. He said it's what you have to do when consistency rules and the brisket process is four days. The pulled pork takes 13 hours. "Chad follows it to the letter," he said of the process.
He's critical of other restaurants that serve pulled pork they buy. "We differentiated ourselves from people who sell pulled pork sandwiches and it's the smoky stuff out of the can," he said.
A non-smoked half chicken is on the menu, but now it's mostly pork, beef, chicken or salmon that came out of the smoker. "We are what we are. We're a smokehouse," he said.
He doesn't plan to make Sauk Trail on 17 a sports bar. He does plan on fixing the rotating front door when he can find someone who can do it. The bar is a comfortable place to eat food from this menu and it's where I eat at Sauk Trail, though the dining room doesn't have televisions and allows children.
The smoked sausage has snap. The ribs, wings and rib tips have enough smoke and bear any of the five sauces well.
The value at Sauk Trail is good, with large piles of meat coming on the plate for $12 to $18. The smoked salmon isn't cheap, but it's smoked inhouse and is worth a taste.
I like the rhythm Sauk Trail has found, but would like to see a couple things tweaked.
The drink menu has a bunch of sweet martinis, good craft beers and a revamped wine list. Conventional wisdom pairs sweet or fruity drinks with barbecue, but I also want something like a manhattan that has a little heft, not something that puts sweet liqueur in a martini glass. The sangria is excellent but the Sauk Trail Snake Bite had too little bite. Cortney James is a spirited, talented bartender and I'd love to see her expand the offerings.
The wasabi crusted salmon was initially Kelly Graff's dish. It's still on the menu, though the salmon has some smoke, But the night I ordered had it, the dish paled in comparison to Graff's version, which is still on her menu at Kelly Jae's. The Sauk Trail kitchen put sweet chili sauce over the top, making the coating gummy. At the very least, I'd put the sauce on the side, but Sauk Trail needs to make the dish its own if it's going to keep it on the menu.
Stults said the restaurant will start serving lunch by offering carved meats and salads by the pound. You place an order, get your food immediately and pay as you leave. That's a quick, flavorful lunch I'd go for if the price is right.
Sauk Trail didn't need swagger. It has a menu that works and a staff that's working to improve it.
"We'll get there," Stults said.
This restaurant has gotten better. And the crowds that are coming back seem to prove it.
I'm hungry. Let's eat.
Marshall V. King is news/multimedia editor and food columnist for The Elkhart Truth/eTruth.com. You can reach him at email@example.com, 574-296-5805, on Twitter @hungrymarshall or via Facebook. His blog is at www.blogs.etruth.com/diningalaking/.
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Where: 56039 Parkway Ave., Elkhart (at the corner of C.R. 17 and C.R. 14)
Fare: Smoked meat
Hours: 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday, though the bar may stay open later
Details: Credit cards accepted, catering orders accepted, reservations aren't taken except for large groups, delivery will become available this spring for some orders, available for private events, handicapped accessible.
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Davidson County Department of Senior Services' Senior Dynamics program will host a seminar titled "Toxic Thinking, The Mind Body Connection" Dec. 4.
The event will be at 10 a.m. at the Lexington Senior Center, 555-B W. Center St. Ext.
County residents age 55 and older are invited to attend. This free presentation is open to the first 20 people who register by calling the Lexington Senior Center at 242-2290 or emailing firstname.lastname@example.com; include full name and phone number. Deadline to register is Dec. 2.
Thessia Everhart-Roberts, senior services director, will lead the self-help presentation that reveals the dangers of toxic thinking and gives participants easy-to-use techniques to eliminate negativity for good.
"Toxic thinking results in physical, emotional and mental stress and anxiety and can be a precursor to disease," Everhart-Roberts said. "The good news is that habits of thinking can change if you are willing to put the energy and time into reprogramming your mental attitude."
For more information on this event or other senior services programs, call the Lexington Senior Center or go online to www.co.davidson.nc.us/seniorservices.
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