All Discussions Tagged 'Rotary' - MyTown Colorado2024-03-29T14:54:26Zhttps://www.mytowncolorado.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=Rotary&feed=yes&xn_auth=noUp With People's 'Live on Tour 2018' Returns with the Support of Rotarytag:www.mytowncolorado.com,2018-02-04:2021996:Topic:1860502018-02-04T23:15:38.818ZAnne Feisthttps://www.mytowncolorado.com/profile/AnneFeist
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<p>Up with People is returning to Broomfield, CO! Their brand-new production, <em>Live on Tour 2018</em>, is scheduled for performance on Thursday, March 1, 2018 at 7:00 PM at Broomfield High School Auditorium at 1 Eagle Way in Broomfield. Up with People empowers youth to be positive agents of change through music and actions to build a more hopeful trusting and peaceful world! 100 participants from 20 countries travel to a new destination each week and strive to impact the…</p>
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<p>Up with People is returning to Broomfield, CO! Their brand-new production, <em>Live on Tour 2018</em>, is scheduled for performance on Thursday, March 1, 2018 at 7:00 PM at Broomfield High School Auditorium at 1 Eagle Way in Broomfield. Up with People empowers youth to be positive agents of change through music and actions to build a more hopeful trusting and peaceful world! 100 participants from 20 countries travel to a new destination each week and strive to impact the communities they visit through host family stays, cultural exchange, 1000+ hours of community service, leadership and diversity programming for 2,500 youth and the international language of music! 100% of the proceeds from the 2018 performance ‘Live on Tour 2018’ will benefit the Broomfield Community Foundation - <a href="http://www.broomfieldfoundation.org/">http://www.broomfieldfoundation.org/</a>.</p>
<p>Up with People is supported by <strong>Boulder Flatirons Rotary, Rotary District 5450 (</strong><a href="http://rotary5450.org/">http://rotary5450.org/</a>)<strong>,</strong> The Broomfield Crossing Rotary Foundation and the Rotary Club of Broomfield..</p>
<p>A major part of the Up with People program is a complete immersion into the different cultures that the cast visits throughout their world tour. This is made possible through host families where a family opens their home to one or more of the 20 different nationalities that are in the cast of Up with People. Being a host family is a great intercultural experience, and it’s easy and FUN!</p>
<p>If you are interested in being a host family for Up with People please contact Likun Tang at <a href="mailto:ltang@upwithpeople.org">ltang@upwithpeople.org</a> and visit <u><a href="http://www.upwithpeople.org">www.upwithpeople.org</a></u></p>
<p>Tickets for the March 1<sup>st </sup> performance of Up with People at Broomfield High School at 7:00 pm will go on sale at <a href="http://upwithpeople.org/Broomfield">upwithpeople.org/Broomfield</a> (<a href="https://upwithpeople.org/events/broomfield/">https://upwithpeople.org/events/broomfield/</a>)</p>
<p>For more information about Boulder Flatirons Rotary, please visit <a href="http://www.boulderflatironsrotary.org">www.boulderflatironsrotary.org</a> or email <a href="mailto:president@boulderflatironsrotary.org">president@boulderflatironsrotary.org</a>.</p>
<p>Please visit Boulder Flatirons Rotary Club! We meet every Wednesday morning from 7:15am-8:30am at the East Boulder Senior Center, 5660 Sioux Dr., Boulder, CO. </p> Boulder Flatirons Rotary Awards Brad Riley of iEmpathizetag:www.mytowncolorado.com,2018-02-04:2021996:Topic:1858942018-02-04T22:16:10.678ZAnne Feisthttps://www.mytowncolorado.com/profile/AnneFeist
<p>Boulder Flatirons Rotary recently celebrated its 20th Charter Night at the Tri-City Elks Lodge in Louisville and awarded the Norris Hermsmeyer Spark Plug Award to Brad Riley of iEmpathize. The Spark Plug Award serves to recognize an individual who has sparked a transformative new initiative.</p>
<p>In the mid 2000’s Brad had partnered with anti-trafficking projects in Southeast Asia. Passionate about the situation, he brought his expertise to the States. In 2009, through their contribution…</p>
<p>Boulder Flatirons Rotary recently celebrated its 20th Charter Night at the Tri-City Elks Lodge in Louisville and awarded the Norris Hermsmeyer Spark Plug Award to Brad Riley of iEmpathize. The Spark Plug Award serves to recognize an individual who has sparked a transformative new initiative.</p>
<p>In the mid 2000’s Brad had partnered with anti-trafficking projects in Southeast Asia. Passionate about the situation, he brought his expertise to the States. In 2009, through their contribution of ideas, expertise, time, service and money Brad and a group of fervent supporters established iEmpathize, a 501(c)3 non-profit committed to combating crimes against children. The iEmpathize project prioritizes prevention and empowers youth and adults with empathy and action to eradicate child exploitation at home and internationally. Teens are targeted for exploitation and therefore need to be empowered to know how to navigate their vulnerabilities in order to stay safe and successful.</p>
<p>Through iEmpathize a multi-media prevention curricula called Empower Youth Program was created and is available in English and Spanish to educators, parents, and youth service providers. The program empowers youth and equips adults to preventatively recognize and respond to issues of exploitation.</p>
<p>For more information about iEmpathize please contact Brad Riley at info@iempathize.org. Come see the completed #documentary Be Relentless and sponsor prevention in the US and Mexico! 11/18….<a href="https://t.co/X64gCHtr1X">https://t.co/X64gCHtr1X</a></p>
<p>For more information about Boulder Flatirons Rotary, email president@boulderflatironsrotary.org.<br/>Please visit Boulder Flatirons Rotary Club! We meet every Wednesday morning from 7:15am-8:30am at the East Boulder Senior Center, 5660 Sioux Dr., Boulder, CO.</p> Bill and Mary Anne Eckert awarded prestigous District Rotary awardtag:www.mytowncolorado.com,2010-06-15:2021996:Topic:637142010-06-15T22:53:00.625ZBill Hendrickhttps://www.mytowncolorado.com/profile/BillHendrick
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<p><span style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: medium 'Times New Roman'; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="Apple-style-span">Bill and Mary Anne Eckert were recently award the Rotary Club's Major Donor Award. In attendance to present the award were District Governor Mike Oldham and the District's Foundation Chair Tom Wolf.</span></p>
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<p><span style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: medium 'Times New Roman'; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 16px" class="Apple-style-span">Bill has been a Rotarian for 16 years, including 11 years with the Boulder Flatirons Club. Mary Anne was a charter member of the club and her father was a Denver Rotarian for 50 years.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: medium 'Times New Roman'; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="Apple-style-span"><br/><br/>Bill and Mary Anne, in 2002, went on a combined Rotary and Habitat for Humanity build in Durban, South Africa and Mary Anne went on a medical mission to Kenya in 2009.<br/><br/>Congratulations on your service to Rotary and your gracious giving to the charities it supports.</span></p> Hubble Hubbletag:www.mytowncolorado.com,2010-02-08:2021996:Topic:558262010-02-08T21:36:56.896ZBoulder Rotaryhttps://www.mytowncolorado.com/profile/BoulderRotary
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><font color="#000000"><font size="3">The revived Hubble telescope still orbits the Earth, well into its outer atmosphere, and after 20 years still sends us sharp pictures of its observations.</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><br/><font size="3"><font color="#000000">The telescope, named after Edwin Hubble, whose astronomical work included observational verification of the expanding universe, is in a 97-minute orbit around the Earth. With its final retrofit, all of the instrumentation on Hubble has a “made in Boulder” label from Ball Aerospace. New instruments added in 2009 were a wide field camera and a cosmic origins spectrograph designed at CU-Boulder. <br/><br/>“Telescopes have two purposes,” Shull said. “One is to provide magnification and so make distant objects seem closer. The other is to increase the amount of light that forms the observed image by focusing all the light that comes through a large aperture onto a small region that is observed."</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">As used by Shull, “light” means more generally electromagnetic radiation. Hubble's instruments make use of both ultraviolet and infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum that fall outside the region of visible light. <br/><br/>About 100 billion stars make up the Milky Way, our home galaxy, Shull said, “and that is a small galaxy.”</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">“For a long time there has been speculation that around at least one of those stars there would be a planet like earth,” he said. “Photos from Hubble have identified some 500 planets at about the right distance from their respective stars to be earth-type planets, but we don't have the ability yet to observe conditions on these planets and see whether other important characteristics are present.”</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">By then, the larger James Webb telescope, scheduled for launch in five years, should be in position, continuing Hubble's pioneering observations of the universe with the added power of nine times the light-collecting ability.</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">“With Hubble we have enough light-gathering power to see light from stars that left those stars ten to fifteen billion years ago,” said Shull. “Because light travels at a finite speed, we can’t know what’s happened to those stars while the light was traveling to us.</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">“But because of the long time of travel, that light was emitted when our universe was ten to fifteen billion years younger, and so Hubble is showing us what things were like in a much younger universe.”</font></font></span></p>
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The Boulder Rotary Club raised more than $26,000 at its annual Oktoberfest Event last month to benefit the building fund for a new Special Transit facility.<br />
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The Atrium at the new facility will be named for the late Bill Fischer, a Rotarian and former Special Transit board member. Bill’s wife, Betty Fischer, and Lenna Kottke, Special Transit's executive director, both Rotarians, spoke about Bill’s devotion to Special Transit and about Special Transit's activities and importance.<br />
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The Boulder Rotary Club raised more than $26,000 at its annual Oktoberfest Event last month to benefit the building fund for a new Special Transit facility.<br />
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The Atrium at the new facility will be named for the late Bill Fischer, a Rotarian and former Special Transit board member. Bill’s wife, Betty Fischer, and Lenna Kottke, Special Transit's executive director, both Rotarians, spoke about Bill’s devotion to Special Transit and about Special Transit's activities and importance.<br />
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The Rotary Club is also the title sponsor of Friday’s [Nov. 13] sold-out concert in Boulder featuring Young@Heart, a rock group from Northampton, Mass., whose performers range in age from 73 to 89. Some have prior professional or amateur theater or music experience, but others never stepped onto a stage before turning 80. The original group was formed in 1982. A 2006 documentary film, Young@Heart, shows the group in action.<br />
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More information about Special Transit is available at <a href="http://www.specialtransit.org">www.specialtransit.org</a>. Formore information on Rotary, see <a href="http://www.boulderrotary.org">www.boulderrotary.org</a> or <a href="http://www.rotary.org">www.rotary.org</a>.<br />
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Contact: Sue Deans, 303-579-9580 News Release - Boulder Valley Rotary Club and Art Cleaners Sponsor 2009 Share-A-Coat Programtag:www.mytowncolorado.com,2009-11-03:2021996:Topic:433442009-11-03T15:52:13.594ZRobert Harberghttps://www.mytowncolorado.com/profile/RobertHarberg
NEWS RELEASE<br />
For Immediate Release<br />
For Information: Robert Harberg 303-941-1664<br />
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BOULDER VALLEY ROTARY CLUB AND ART CLEANERS<br />
SPONSOR 2009 SHARE-A-COAT PROGRAM<br />
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November 1, 2009 - Boulder, Colorado<br />
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Boulder Valley Rotary Club and Art Cleaners announced today that the 19th Annual Share-A-Coat program is underway. Both adults’ and children’s coats, along with hats, scarves, mittens, and gloves are collected, cleaned, and distributed each year to people in need.<br />
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Boulder Valley Rotary Club…
NEWS RELEASE<br />
For Immediate Release<br />
For Information: Robert Harberg 303-941-1664<br />
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BOULDER VALLEY ROTARY CLUB AND ART CLEANERS<br />
SPONSOR 2009 SHARE-A-COAT PROGRAM<br />
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November 1, 2009 - Boulder, Colorado<br />
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Boulder Valley Rotary Club and Art Cleaners announced today that the 19th Annual Share-A-Coat program is underway. Both adults’ and children’s coats, along with hats, scarves, mittens, and gloves are collected, cleaned, and distributed each year to people in need.<br />
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Boulder Valley Rotary Club spearheads this all-volunteer activity and will distribute the coats to people in need living in Boulder directly and through the help of local charities. In 2008, through the generosity of people in our community, more than 3,000 coats were collected, cleaned and distributed last year. Collection boxes will be placed at more than 40 Boulder County schools and other local businesses until December 3rd.<br />
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Art Cleaners, Inc. will clean the coats and clothing items and accept donated coats. Locations in Boulder include: 3980 N. Broadway, 1715 15th St., Meadows Shopping Center, Basemar Shopping Center, 1501 Lee Hill Road, #6 and in Longmont at 1631 Pace St.<br />
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Volunteers are needed for collecting, moving, sorting and distributing coats. Monetary donations may be sent to the Boulder Valley Rotary Club, Share-A-Coat program, P. O. Box 17485, Boulder, CO 80308.<br />
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For additional information, call Robert Harberg at 303.941.1664<br />
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Jim Voss has been busy in space for many years, but he likes his new gig as a faculty member at the University of Colorado-Boulder in Aerospace Engineering Sciences, the Bioastronautics group.<br />
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He told the Boulder Rotary Club on October 2 that he’s delighted to return to CU, where he earned a master's degree some years ago.<br />
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Voss, an astronaut from 1987 until his recent retirement, was a member of the second expedition to the International Space Station and spent six months there, orbiting the…
Jim Voss has been busy in space for many years, but he likes his new gig as a faculty member at the University of Colorado-Boulder in Aerospace Engineering Sciences, the Bioastronautics group.<br />
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He told the Boulder Rotary Club on October 2 that he’s delighted to return to CU, where he earned a master's degree some years ago.<br />
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Voss, an astronaut from 1987 until his recent retirement, was a member of the second expedition to the International Space Station and spent six months there, orbiting the Earth some 240 miles above the ground.<br />
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"The Space Station is about the size of a four-bedroom house," Voss. "Our team trained for four years for the expedition." The international team included two Americans and one Russian.<br />
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Once on the Space Station, they focused on the effects of microgravity on living organisms, both human and plant.<br />
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"We did daily monitoring of our human bodies to see what an extended period of living without the normal gravitational load on our movements would do to muscles and bones," he said.<br />
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The result? Significant loss of bone mass – about 1 percent of total bone mass each month. They also observed that renal calculi, commonly known as kidney stones, grew faster, "but we don't know why," he said.<br />
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These observations are likely to place restrictions on travel by humans to other solar system destinations.<br />
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"It took almost three years back on Earth for me to come back to normal, as determined by medical tests," Voss said.<br />
He also experienced muscle weakness because of easier movement of arms and legs in a low gravity environment.<br />
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"We just lay down when we got back, feeling weak all over," he said.<br />
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Looking to the future, Voss said the space program seeks to search for life beyond Earth, to help in understanding solar behavior and to prepare for future human exploration.<br />
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The space shuttle, used to move astronauts to and from the Space Station, is showing its age and will retire in 2011 at the latest. Its replacement, the ARES 1 crew launch vehicle, will not be ready yet so people and equipment will travel to the Space Station on Russian space capsules.<br />
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As a final temptation to engage in space travel, Voss showed spectacular pictures from 240 miles up of Manhattan, Lake Powell and the delta of the Nile.<br />
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"As we orbited the Earth at five miles a second we saw sunrise and sunset every 45 minutes," he said. "It's an unforgettable experience."<br />
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Contact: Sue Deans, 303-579-9580 DIRE ECONOMY NOT HOLDING BACK CUtag:www.mytowncolorado.com,2009-10-04:2021996:Topic:423732009-10-04T16:42:57.008ZBoulder Rotaryhttps://www.mytowncolorado.com/profile/BoulderRotary
There is no doubt who is in charge of the University of Colorado Boulder's campus, and that person is CU Chancellor Phil DiStefano, who spoke to the Boulder Rotary Club last week about his job and the situation on campus.<br />
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DiStefano, also a Boulder Rotarian, brought club members up to speed on the whirlwind of developments and achievements at his campus, causing them to share his pride in how well the university is doing in spite of dire economic times.<br />
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A sampling of his many dramatic…
There is no doubt who is in charge of the University of Colorado Boulder's campus, and that person is CU Chancellor Phil DiStefano, who spoke to the Boulder Rotary Club last week about his job and the situation on campus.<br />
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DiStefano, also a Boulder Rotarian, brought club members up to speed on the whirlwind of developments and achievements at his campus, causing them to share his pride in how well the university is doing in spite of dire economic times.<br />
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A sampling of his many dramatic headlines:<br />
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• Enrollment is at an all-time high, with 30,196 degree-seeking students, including 5,519 freshmen, 42 percent of whom come from other states and from foreign countries.<br />
• A major flagship initiative was launched this fall, that of housing professors in student resident halls. The head of the engineering honors program moved into Andrews Hall with his wife and two daughters. DiStefano considers this and other unique initiatives a major plus for academic enrichment.<br />
• Heavy construction of academic facilities is in high gear on the campus, none financed from shrinking state tax dollars but rather by private fundraising and some federal stimulus dollars. Two key projects are a 300,000-square-foot biotech building and a visual arts complex, both state of the art.<br />
• Speaking of fundraising, in spite of the bad economy this has been a record year for research grants, making CU a national leader in grant awards. Grants this year total $340 million, a $60 million increase.<br />
• Construction is under way on the bio-tech facility, which will have 60 faculty members and 500 researchers and staff engaged in interdisciplinary research. Their targets will be a multitude of diseases and health problems, including cancer, aging, tissue engineering and vaccine development.<br />
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CU's 11th chancellor even had two words for those football fans and alumni calling for the heads of Athletic Director Mike Bohn and football coach Dan Hawkins: "Totally ridiculous," he said with disgust.<br />
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DiStefano says in evaluating athletic programs, "I don't just look at wins and losses. I look at a lot of things, including the academic record of athletes." Obviously he likes what he sees. Graduation rates for athletes are not only up, he said proudly, but the overall athletic grade point average is at new high of 2.9.<br />
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Contact: Sue Deans, 303-579-9580 THERMAL ENERGY FROM THE OCEAN ?tag:www.mytowncolorado.com,2009-09-29:2021996:Topic:422432009-09-29T21:52:51.990ZBoulder Rotaryhttps://www.mytowncolorado.com/profile/BoulderRotary
Physicists would say that a heat engine is a simple thing.<br />
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What’s needed is a cylinder with a movable piston closing one end, the working substance (a gas or liquid that will evaporate) inside, a big tub of something hot, and a big tub of something cold.<br />
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Push the piston in, put the cylinder in the hot tub and let the gas expand at the hot temperature, letting the push of the piston drive the wheels of the railroad engine or the rotor of a dynamo. Take it out and let the gas expand, growing…
Physicists would say that a heat engine is a simple thing.<br />
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What’s needed is a cylinder with a movable piston closing one end, the working substance (a gas or liquid that will evaporate) inside, a big tub of something hot, and a big tub of something cold.<br />
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Push the piston in, put the cylinder in the hot tub and let the gas expand at the hot temperature, letting the push of the piston drive the wheels of the railroad engine or the rotor of a dynamo. Take it out and let the gas expand, growing cooler as it does so, until it's at the temperature of the cold tub.<br />
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Put it into the cold tub and push the cylinder in – that takes work, but less than was obtained by the expansion because the gas is now held at the cold temperature and the pressure is less. Then start all over again.<br />
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The physicist is correct, of course, but impractical. It takes an engineer like Bob Cohen, speaking to the Boulder Rotary Club this month, to put flesh on those physical bones and really make things work. Still, the essential conditions remain – a big tub of something hot, a big tub of something cold, and a working substance that can expand and contract.<br />
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Cohen's interest for many years has been the possibility of using the ocean as the source of those big tubs.<br />
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"Solar radiation falls on the ocean surface, heating it, and the motion of the water mixes the surface water with the water just below the surface to form a ‘mixed layer,’” close to the top, he said. Below the mixed layer, the water doesn't warm from the sun's radiation, and at one kilometer down, ocean water is a steady 5 degrees Celsius. Those are the two tubs: the warm mixed layer at the surface, the cold reservoir a kilometer down.<br />
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"The French scientist d'Arsonval observed as early as 1881 that these two volumes of ocean water could in principle be used for a heat engine," said Cohen. The devil, of course, is in the engineering details, and it has taken well over a century to arrive at something promising.<br />
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Ammonia is a good choice as a working substance for a thermal engine operating between the temperatures of the working layer and the cold below, and in 1974, TRW and Lockheed developed commercially feasible concepts for an engine using the thermal energy of the ocean. Working models have been constructed, but the costs of construction are still too high in comparison with the savings from not using fossil fuels, so the engines remain in test mode.<br />
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Lockheed has built a small plant in Hawaii that generates 15 kilowatts net power, and in 1981 the Japanese built a 34 kilowatt plant on land, piping the warm and cold water from intakes at sea.<br />
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The most promising area of the ocean for such a plant is near the equator, where the mixed layer temperature is highest. On an island, the economic competition is fossil fuel, which must be shipped in, giving the ocean thermal engine a better price break. Alternatively, ocean thermal plants could be mounted on floating platforms or "plantships," possibly generating electricity. The power could be sent to shore by underwater cables or be used on the ship to obtain hydrogen by electrolysis – a portable energy source when bottled – or to refine aluminum, a process requiring large amounts of electrical energy.<br />
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Cohen reported that Lockheed Martin is now doing further exploration of using thermal ocean energy through its own funding – possibly a harbinger of future development of a physical phenomenon that holds promise of cleaner energy for civilization.<br />
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Contact: Sue Deans, 303-579-9580 Colorado’s Castlestag:www.mytowncolorado.com,2009-09-12:2021996:Topic:412692009-09-12T17:15:08.439ZBoulder Rotaryhttps://www.mytowncolorado.com/profile/BoulderRotary
Ann Westerberg of Littleton is fascinated with modern castles.<br />
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“Most were built by men who were dreamers, or as ego boosters,” she said this month in a talk to the Boulder Rotary Club.<br />
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Westerberg has written a book, “Castles of Colorado: Scandals, Hauntings, and Tales of the Past,” about the local crop. What is a castle?<br />
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“I call it a castle if it is large, made of stone, has crenellation, and a tower or keep,” said Ann. “Just big houses are mansions or palaces.”<br />
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Ann described several of…
Ann Westerberg of Littleton is fascinated with modern castles.<br />
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“Most were built by men who were dreamers, or as ego boosters,” she said this month in a talk to the Boulder Rotary Club.<br />
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Westerberg has written a book, “Castles of Colorado: Scandals, Hauntings, and Tales of the Past,” about the local crop. What is a castle?<br />
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“I call it a castle if it is large, made of stone, has crenellation, and a tower or keep,” said Ann. “Just big houses are mansions or palaces.”<br />
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Ann described several of Colorado’s castles. Here are a few of her choices:<br />
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There’s Baron von Richthofen's castle in the Montclair section of Denver. “Von Richthofen was a real estate speculator," said Ann.<br />
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He constructed his castle not only as a home for his family, but also as the centerpiece of a new Montclair subdivision - at the time (1886) far out in the country some fifteen miles east of Denver. Alas! The Baron was ahead of the times, and his speculation collapsed. Only years later, after Denver had sprawled farther out on to the high plains, did Montclair attract other homes. Now, of course, it is a well-established, perhaps even old-fashioned, section of the city. The Baron’s castle is still there, in use, and, given its sturdy stone construction, is likely to remain for many years more. Baron von Richthofen was an uncle of the famous World War I German flying ace, the Red Baron.<br />
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Also in Denver was the castle of Charles Kittridge, built not far from the Baron’s. The Kittridge castle is now known only through photos and descriptions, since it was razed a number of years ago. But Kittridge’s name lives on in another of his real estate ventures: the Kittridge Building on the Sixteenth Street Mall in downtown Denver - you probably know Marlowe’s Restaurant, which occupies one corner of the street level of the office building that has been a Denver landmark for many years.<br />
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Down south near Colorado Springs is Glen Eyre, the castle built by General William Jackson Palmer for his bride Queen. Palmer came to Colorado after the Civil War, where he served as general of a Pennsylvania cavalry troop. Scion of a wealthy Philadelphia family, his family connections to British investors helped him finance a new railroad to run from Denver to the Pacific (it didn't make it). He built his track south from Denver to Pueblo on the Arkansas River, intending to use the valley of the Arkansas to push tracks through the Rockies and on to the Western Slope. After a disagreement with the Santa Fe construction crew (and a modest amount of gunfire), he was able to win the Royal Gorge route and then go north along the Arkansas. (The Santa Fe, meanwhile, went south from LaJunta and over Raton Pass to take the easy path across the desert to California.) On his way south from Denver, Palmer saw the possibilities of a city in front of Pikes Peak, and acquired large quantities of land east of the existing Colorado City. He platted a city with wide streets to be called Colorado Springs. And he built for himself a castle in a secluded area north of his city. That is Glen Eyre. It's still there, now serving as a conference center. Queen never felt at home on the high plains, and she returned to her family in England. The General stayed at home in Glen Eyre, a somewhat lonely man, but a benefactor to his city. Palmer Hall at Colorado College is one mark of his generosity - but it's not a castle (nor even a palace), so that's another story.<br />
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Every castle in Colorado has its own clutch of tales. Ann Westerberg has opened the book that contains them.<br />
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