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In May, the University of Arizona announced plans to help offset energy costs and heat the campus's two large swimming pools by adding solar electricity panels and solar hot water heaters to the roofs of several campus buildings, including its student recreation center. The University of Oregon also installed solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on its rec center roof and recently purchased gym equipment retrofitted to produce user-generated energy. The Green Microgym in Portland, OR, hosts a solar PV array, Energy Star-rated ceiling fans, as well as custom spin bikes that let members produce electricity.
As these three examples show, green building and energy efficiency projects are gaining broader mainstream attention. Forty-two percent of architects said their clients requested green building elements on their projects, according to the annual 2008 Autodesk/American Institute of Architects Green Index survey. Nearly 60 percent of those architects cited reduced operating costs as the reason behind the green building requests, while 39 percent of those surveyed are incorporating renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power, in more than half of their new building designs.
Fitness facilities nationwide are engaging in green energy efforts to save money. Although the upfront costs for some energy efficiency projects may appear prohibitive, increased demand, technological advancements and leasing options are making energy efficiency projects more affordable.
In addition, as consumers become more environmentally aware, they will expect their fitness clubs to be a model of health — both for members and the environment, says Will Phillips, CEO of REX Roundtables for Club Owners.
"Through the rest of the recession is a great time for clubs to start getting on the energy bandwagon because it makes them good citizens," he says. "Within five years, it could hurt you if you're not green because people will really notice. It will be like going to a club back in the 1950s where people could smoke. People are going to think not being green will have a similar flavor because people want to be healthy."
Club of the Future
One fitness club that's ahead of the curve is The Green Microgym. The facility hosts a solar PV array, plus spin bikes that owner Adam Boesel retrofitted to produce energy.
In addition, the club has created a culture of energy efficiency in which members turn off TVs when they're not in use and ride their bikes to the gym. Boesel positioned his club as a green, energy-efficient facility to set it apart from other gyms.
"When I went from a personal trainer to wanting to own my own small gym, I was writing a business plan and trying to figure out how to differentiate myself from the other small gyms," he says. "Then I came across a gym in Hong Kong that was experimenting with generating electricity that mentioned it wasn't that much of a challenge to do it. I'm the kind of person who says if I'm going to say my business is green, then I want to do it all the way."
While other gyms may not be as green as The Green Microgym, progress is on the horizon, he says.
"I really do feel like there is potential for us to make really good headway in the next few years. We need to help educate people on energy savings instead of energy production," Boesel says. "I get a lot of club owners contacting me, but probably 1 percent of them want to change their gym. More people want to start a new gym. Universities that call usually want to change, but that's a different story — they have different resources."
Saving on Solar
Dennis Munroe, director of physical education and recreation at the University of Oregon, says the student-run Ecological Design Center came up with the idea for the solar panels on the rec center roof, then offered to do the fundraising. The center even designed a Web site (edc.uoregon.edu/solar) to show students how much power the array is producing in real time.
Oregon's solar panels consist of a 12-kilowatt array of 84 PV panels that have produced 56,240 kilowatt-hours of energy since their installation in January 2005. They've offset 24,126 pounds of carbon dioxide emission and saved the school $14,060 in energy costs.
"Last year we got a rebate check from the local utility for $3,000," Munroe says. "Considering our energy budget is $150,000 to $180,000, it's really more about the educational value of having a living, learning lab for students on campus. Efficiencies of the system become more valuable all the time, and the more we do them, the more we learn and the sooner we get to where it's more economically viable."
Although the return on investment for a solar electricity system is about eight to 10 years, according to Robert Politzer, president and CEO of GreenStreet Inc., New York, leasing options for solar arrays are becoming more widely available.
The University of Arizona worked in conjunction with an energy services provider to minimize the cost of its initial solar investment.
"The company actually maintains, owns and operates the solar panels, and the University of Arizona will purchase the energy it produces," says Juliette Moore, director of campus recreation at the university.
By renting the solar equipment, Arizona avoided the upfront costs to purchase and install the equipment.
The model for onsite power generation is gaining popularity in the corporate world, as is the notion of green design, Politzer says.
"In many ways, we're in the relatively early stages of a green industrial revolution, though it's already quite a bit better today than it was 10 years ago. Another two to three years from now, it will be much more mainstream," he says.
Politzer notes that after World War II, large energy-producing plants that were located miles from usage sites were the norm, but that paradigm is losing ground.
"A distributed power model where buildings produce electricity onsite — like CHP [combined heat and power] systems, solar, waste to energy, wind — this model is growing in intensity as we move forward," Politzer says.
Energy Audits
Although it can be more cost effective to build energy-efficient systems into a new facility, green renovations also can reduce a club's energy usage. The first place to start is with an energy audit, Politzer says. An energy audit can help a fitness facility owner develop an integrated energy use strategy and point to places where efficiency can be improved.
Phillips notes that local utilities generally will do an audit for free, though they probably will be less detailed than if a club hires an energy consultant. To find an auditor, he suggests doing an Internet search for "industrial energy audits."
Chelsea Piers in New York City scheduled a comprehensive energy audit of its entire complex before deciding late last year to purchase all of its energy as renewable wind energy, says Erica Schietinger, vice president of corporate communications with Chelsea Piers Management. The club also invested in energy-efficient lighting by replacing 690 light fixtures with high-pressure sodium fixtures at a cost of $200,000.Continue on Page 2
"Our goal is to achieve a 6 percent decrease in energy use and a 10 percent reduction in solid waste by December 2010," Schietinger says. "It's been a process because trying to do all the things you want to do in a week or two, you're just not going to do it that well."
An energy audit can highlight inefficiencies in areas such as insulation, air sealing and lighting, all of which are significant contributors to a club's electric bill, Politzer says.
Smart Lighting
Gary Graham, co-founder of Graham/Meus Inc. architects in Boston, says lighting in a club can account for almost a quarter of its electricity use, so cost savings in this area can be dramatic. Some energy companies may provide rebates to businesses who re-lamp their clubs, he notes.
Politzer compares incandescent light bulbs to gas-guzzling Lincoln Town Cars. He says the majority of energy leaves incandescent bulbs as heat, not energy, and only 15 percent of that energy is used for light. He recommends upgrading incandescent bulbs with light-emitting diodes or compact fluorescent bulbs. Older clubs with fluorescent tube lights can save energy by switching from thicker T-12 tubes to T-8 tubes.
The lighting choices for health clubs are important, says Philip Racicot, founding partner of Summit Health & Fitness in Bedford, MA, whose club opened from a build-out in 2006.
"If you're building or remodeling a gym, you really need to consider everything from lighting choices to the type of sheetrock you use," Racicot says. "With lighting, we used 99.99 percent fluorescent and used the most energy-efficient fixtures we could find at the time."
Simply turning off lights in rooms not being used also cuts energy costs. To manage electricity use at its 19-acre facility, management at The Claremont Club in Claremont, CA, installed an energy management system (EMS) to regulate the facility's usage from a desktop computer.
"We have a whole online monitoring system for the air conditioning system and boilers," says Mike Boos, facilities director for The Claremont Club. "In places like our yoga room that's not used all the time, we can schedule the air conditioner to come on before a class and turn off when there's no occupancy. It's an elegantly designed system that helps us manage our energy usage."
The Claremont Club hired an energy consultant, Franz Kurth of Energy Systems, to orchestrate its EMS system. Kurth says the club's EMS system controls everything from light bulbs to pool pumps.
"It all starts with energy management," Kurth says. "It's computerized, so you can control every function in a club with EMS. It's very efficient."
Cogeneration Systems
To address The Claremont Club's energy usage and heat its two large swimming pools, Kurth recommended that the club install a CHP, or cogeneration, system that uses natural gas to produce energy and heat water.
CHP and district energy systems can achieve efficiencies of 80 percent, compared to 45 percent efficiency for conventional heat and power production, per a recent release from the U.S. Department of Energy.
CHP technology has been scaled down for smaller scale use in recent years, and it offers a significant return on investment, Phillips says.
"The possibilities for savings are spectacular for single clubs, particularly if they have a pool," Phillips says. "Savings range in the thousands of dollars a month in real savings, and it's paid off faster than expected."
Since The Claremont Club has a one million-gallon Olympic-sized pool in addition to an 80,000-gallon family pool, it was a prime candidate for a CHP system, Kurth says.
"Claremont uses a cogeneration system which takes natural gas energy to drive a high-powered generator, but all of the heat generated in the process is captured in hot water — 50 percent is heat and 50 percent is power," Kurth says. "You burn natural gas to produce power and heat at the same time."
The heat is kept as stored hot water, which heats the pools. Since natural gas is cheaper to buy than electricity, the CHP system saves on utility bills, plus natural gas has virtually no emissions, he notes.
"The local utility charges 25 cents per kilowatt-hour of power. We produce it at 11 cents. That makes a huge difference in the annual power cost," Kurth says.
Although the upfront costs for a CHP system are high, Kurth says that The Claremont Club had a fairly short return on investment.
"The club management was farsighted in that they were able to convince the board to spend $50,000 to $100,000 for long-term benefits that have had a payback of three years," he says.
Local utility companies provided rebates for the project. Since the electric company benefited from the club's reduced energy load to the grid, it provided the largest contribution, he says.
"Each project is different, but generally we find we get one-third to two-thirds of the cost of the system as a contribution," Kurth says. "If you look at the benefits to produce energy as opposed to burning coal, it reduces your energy load, so they also may give you a preferential rate. It's a two-way street. Gas companies love us. You increase your natural gas bills and decrease electric bills."
Even though rebate incentives vary by state, an energy consultant can help file the right paperwork, Kurth says. Information also is available online (see sidebar at right).
Some club owners also are working with companies that install and maintain the CHP system, then sell the power to the club at lower costs than local utility companies.
Laury Hammel, founder and owner of The Longfellow Clubs in Natick, MA, said by working with a CHP rental company, his clubs had no upfront costs to install the system, which has reduced its utility bills.
"We've increased our purchasing of natural gas, which is what creates the electricity more inexpensively, reduces our carbon footprint and creates the byproduct of heat that is used to heat our pools and showers," Hammel says. "We haven't used our pool heater for a year now. We've reduced our purchasing of electricity. We are thrilled with this arrangement and highly recommend it to other health clubs."
With increased rebates and incentives, as well as advances in technology and financing options, energy-efficient projects for clubs are becoming more affordable. And as members expect health clubs to become stewards for a healthier environment, many people in the industry consider energy-efficient projects a win-win investment.
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Green Gym Equipment Gaining Popularity
By Stephanie Bloyd, senior associate editor
OVERLAND PARK, KS—Students at the University of Oregon recently started seeing the light about renewable energy—literally. At the May debut of the school's elliptical machines retrofitted to tap user-generated energy, officials hooked up one of the machines to light bulbs to physically show students the energy they produced. One of the three bulbs was an energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulb (CFL) to further drive home the point.
"When you turned on the first incandescent bulb, you could really feel the resistance in your feet because you were connecting to the electric grid," says Dennis Munroe, director of physical education and recreation at the University of Oregon (UO). "With the second light, you felt even more resistance. But since the third light was a CFL, you barely detected a difference because it used less energy."
UO estimates that if the 20 ellipticals retrofitted with ReCardio devices are used by its students for six to eight hours a day, they will produce about 6,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, which is about enough to supply a small, energy-efficient house for a year.
Together with solar photovoltaic (PV) panels installed on the school's rec center roof in 2005, the university's renewable energy projects provide some savings on its energy bills, though to Munroe, that's icing on the cake.
"It's probably more about education than dollar savings, but that's what we're here for," he says. "The PV makes electricity for the building every day, and ReCardio collects energy from machines. Both together have a net effect of reducing the speed of our energy meter."
Exercise equipment retrofitted to create energy is making waves in the fitness industry and beyond. Although the amount of energy generated probably isn't enough to cover a club's total power needs, it can reduce utility bills, depending on local utility codes. Plus, the educational and public relations (PR) aspects that the machines provide can translate into member retention since they add incentives for people to exercise.
Joe Cirulli, owner of Gainesville Health and Fitness Centers (GHFC), Gainesville, FL, says his club's ReCardio fitted machines have generated a positive image for the facility.
"It makes the members feel good to know that we're doing renewable energy projects, because we get such good PR for it, and as the country and our members continue to be concerned about environmental issues, anything you can do for good PR in your community has got to be helpful," he says.
Cirulli has initiated a number of green projects in his clubs, including recycling, low-flow shower heads and motion sensors for lights. GHFC also was a beta test site for ReCardio fitted ellipticals.
"The ReCardio system has given members a chance to do something productive, and in some cases, makes exercise more rewarding," Cirulli says. "Often times, it's a cumulative measurement to help people stay motivated and on a routine."
Cirulli met ReCardio founder Hudson Harr at a University of Florida meeting of the school's entrepreneurs club. Harr says the ReCardio system currently is in about a dozen fitness facilities nationwide, but he expects 30 clubs and universities to come online with the system in the next few months.
The ReCardio parent company, ReRev.com of St. Petersburg, FL, also is in talks with Precor for a possible future partnership, he says. Precor's ellipticals use small generators rather than alternators, making them easier to tie into the electric grid, he notes.
Many of the company's early adapters have been universities, Harr says, because of the product's strong educational aspect, in addition to schools' diverse funding options.
UO received funds from several sources to buy and install the 20 ReCardio devices on its ellipticals. Some $7,000 came from an EWEB Partners in Education Grant, $12,000 from the UO Office of Sustainability and $2,880 from the UO rec center advisory board.
Green exercise studios also are attracting Hollywood investors, such as Ryan O'Neal, who signed on as a financial backer for Kinetic Cycling in Brentwood, CA, says owner John Scarangello.
Kinetic Cycling is a newly opened spin and yoga studio that hosts five spin bikes retrofitted with user-generated energy devices produced by The Green Revolution, Ridgefield, CT. Kinetic Cycling holds about 40 spin classes a week, and an individual can produce about 100 watts an hour on the retrofitted spin bikes. Scarangello says he hopes the energy produced in the classes will pay for the 1,450-foot studio's monthly electric bill.
"We don't think we're going to power the whole city of Los Angeles, but the concept of our gym is to raise community awareness and do it with health," Scarangello says.
Scarangello designed the studio to be energy-efficient by choosing low-heat LED lights as workout room lighting, which use a total of 300 watts of energy when they're all lit. In addition, Kinetic Cycling hosts a filtered water vending machine for use with reusable water bottles.
The Green Revolution's spin bike technology is currently in four facilities nationwide, with installations planned for 20 more by the end of the year, says Michael Curnyn, chief marketing officer for the company. To best leverage the investment for the retrofits and inverter, he recommends that clubs connect a minimum of 15 bikes.
To be able to use a single green spin bike in his small Portland, OR, facility, Adam Boesel, owner of The Green Microgym, developed his own custom retrofit device. His equipment also is tied to the electric grid, which he says should help save costs and track the energy generated.
"The interesting thing about the fitness industry is that people say [that] 20 years from now, the machines will generate all the energy, but I think it will be based on supply and demand and what's available," Boesel says.
Though green exercise equipment is in its infancy, the potential for greater energy savings and member retention strategies makes it an area to watch in coming years.


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Come on, Damonk. 3 comics a week, and you can't even get those posted on time? You're not even trying, man.
(Before Damonk's hordes of fans lynch me, he knows I'm kidding!)
I just find it interesting that you posted that lateness apology on your front page the very same day I posted mine.
Although, I did stay up until 2:00 last night to get mine up. I'm not saying I'm more dedicated than you, but--well, that's exactly what I'm saying. What's the matter with you, Damonk? It used to be about the comics. The comics!!!


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Greg Grunberg with the other members of the Band from TV (Jessie Spencer (Fox's House), Scott Grimes (American Dad, ER and Robin Hood), Adrian Pasdar (Heroes, Desperate Housewives), Bob Guiney (The Bachelor and daily host of GSN) and James Denton (ABC's Desperate Housewives) ) celebrated the 30th Birthday of Eli's Cheesecake and the Taste of Chicago at the Taste on Saturday, June 29th.
On Monday, August 23rd. Grunberg stars in the premiere of "Bond of Silence"on Lifetime. Based on real events, Grunberg plays Paul Jackson, a detective investigating the death of an individual trying to stop a teenage house party on New Year"s Eve.
This marks Grunberg's first TV movie which he agreed to do because of Oscar winning director. Pete Werner and the great cast. Greg stars in NBC's Emmy Award-nominated ensemble drama series "Heroes" Prior to "Heroes," Grunberg is best known for his role as Sean on Felicity and Eric Weiss on Alias.
Greg uses the proceeds from his appearances with the Band from TV to raise funds for the Pediatric Epilepsy Project, which raises money for UCLA Pediatric neurology department.
Congratulations Greg on "Bond of Silence" and your commitment to charity and the community!


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Millennium Entertainment has picked up North American rights to Anthony Silverston's 3D animated movie "Khumba," with plans for a summer 2013 release.
Story follows a half-striped zebra who's blamed for the lack of rain by the rest of his herd and sets out on a search for a legendary waterhole.
Story was written by Jonathan Roberts, Anthony Silverston and Raffaella Delle Donne. Stuart Forrest of Triggerfish Animation produced.
Voice cast includes Jake T. Austin, AnnaSophia Robb, Loretta Devine and Roger Jackson.
It's the first animated release for Millennium Entertainment.
CMG closed the deal at the American Film Market. It has already sold international rights to VC Multimedia for Portugal; Film Pop for Turkey; Kino Swiat for Poland; Luxor for Russia (CIS); and Santo Domingo for Mexico.


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Keep your members coming back with a competent and enthusiastic staff that offer comprehensive personal training and group programming options and an exceptional customer experience. The American Council on Exercise (ACE) developed the Club Partnership Program to help fitness club owners and managers accomplish this goal, ultimately enhancing member service, retention and revenue.
As a participant in the ACE Club Partnership Program, your staff members receive fitness service training, assessment tools, professional development resources and career planning materials. They also receive discounts on ACE certification exam study materials and registration fees for all four of ACE's NCCA-accredited certifications. Additionally, as a benefit of this program ACE will conduct a facility needs analysis. This valuable study reviews your current staffing model and assists you in identifying the professional development needs of your staff to ensure you're in a position to meet your business goals and provide the level of support you desire for your members.
About American Council on Exercise: ACE is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the benefits of physical activity and protecting consumers against unsafe and ineffective fitness products and instructors through NCCA-accredited fitness certification programs, continuing education and university research studies.
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sorry for the delay! the sunday linkfest hasn't appeared on a wednesday since … gee … the last time it appeared on a wednesday! (*^_^*)
Butterflies show origin of species as an evolutionary process, not a single event – "The evolution of new species might not be as hard as it seems, even when diverging populations remain in contact and continue to produce offspring…. 'We find that only a small fraction of the genome is markedly different between closely related species, but then much more of the genome — more than you'd expect — shows similar differences between more distantly related species…. That indicates that the genetic changes that are important for causing speciation are tightly clustered early in speciation, but not so later on in the process; the overall pattern of genome divergence starts slow and then skyrockets.'"
Mating advantage for rare males in wild guppy populations – "Negative frequency-dependent selection (NFDS), a form of selection in which genotypes are favoured when they are rare, can potentially maintain such extensive polymorphism, but few experimental studies have confirmed its operation in nature…. Here we use highly replicated experimental manipulations of natural populations to show that males with rare colour patterns have higher reproductive fitness, demonstrating NFDS mediated by sexual selection. Rare males acquired more mates and sired more offspring compared to common males and, as previously reported, had higher rates of survival." – h/t rob brooks!
Japanese north–south gradient in IQ predicts differences in stature, skin color, income, and homicide rate – "In Japan, there is IQ gradient from north to south. Stature and average income cline is also from north to south. Homicide rates increase from north to south. Fertility rates and suicide rates decrease from north to south. Infant mortality is not correlated with latitude."
Global patterns of sex-biased migrations in humans – "We found that genetic differentiation between populations was higher for Y chromosome than for the mtDNA at global scales. The migration rate of female might be three times higher than that of male, assuming the effective population size is the same for male and female." – h/t hbd bibliography!
Intra-African variation in Neandertal admixture is due to non-African admixture – @dienekes' – h/t charles!
Shape Differences Between the Faces of Homosexual and Heterosexual Men – "Homosexual men showed relatively wider and shorter faces, smaller and shorter noses, and rather massive and more rounded jaws, resulting in a mosaic of both feminine and masculine features." – h/t neuroskeptic!
The rule-dependence model explains the commonalities between the Flynn effect and IQ gains via retesting – "[W]e propose that Flynn effect gains are partly a function of the degree to which a test is dependent on rules or heuristics. This means that testees can become better at solving 'rule-dependent' problems over time in response to changing environments, which lead to the improvement of lower-order cognitive processes (such as implicit learning and aspects of working memory). These in turn lead to apparent IQ gains that are partially independent of general intelligence. We argue that the Flynn effect is directly analogous to IQ gains via retesting, noting that Raven's Progressive Matrices is particularly sensitive to both the effects of retesting and the Flynn effect." – from woodley and armstrong! (^_^) – see also dr. thompson.
Civilizations rise and fall on the quality of their soil – "Great civilisations have fallen because they failed to prevent the degradation of the soils on which they were founded…. This is according to Professor Mary Scholes and Dr Bob Scholes who have published a paper in the journal Science, which describes how the productivity of many lands has been dramatically reduced as a result of soil erosion, accumulation of salinity, and nutrient depletion."
Bad reporting generates bad arguments – "The Sunday Times gets 3.5 million readers a week. Anything mentioned in it has a chance of influencing public understanding and opinion in Britain. Last week they did a piece on Professor Robert Plomin's recent book 'G is for Genes' which focuses on the genetic contribution to scholastic achievement. The newspaper's coverage was misleading…." – of course. – from dr. james thompson.
Embryo Selection for Cognitive Enhancement – "We find that embryo selection, on its own, may have significant impacts, but likely not drastic ones, over the next 50 years, though large effects could accumulate over multiple generations. However, there is a complementary technology, stem cell-derived gametes, which has been making rapid progress and which could amplify the impact of embryo selection, enabling very large changes if successfully applied to humans." – h/t mike anissimov!
They might be giants – from greg cochran.
Why Can't We All Just Get Along? The Uncertain Biological Basis of Morality – "[S]ome of our deepest moral intuitions are gut feelings that are with us for no more lofty a reason than that they helped our ancestors protect themselves and spread their genes." – h/t urho lintinen! – see also: You Can't Learn About Morality from Brain Scans.
War Before Civilization – from peter turchin.
Cooperation and conflict between women in the family – "Reproductive competition within and between families may have underpinned the biological evolution of fertility patterns (such as menopause) and the cultural evolution of marriage, residence, and inheritance norms (such as late male marriage or primogeniture), which can enhance cooperation and minimize the observed incidence of such conflicts."
Do human females use indirect aggression as intrasexual competition strategy? [pdf] – yes. (duh.) – h/t michael w. story!
Bone flute discovery indicates 9000 years of Chinese music tradition – "Archaeologists announced the discovery of three ancient flutes made of red-crowned crane bones that may prove that Chinese have been playing music for 9,000 years. The flutes were excavated at an ancient tomb in the site of a Neolithic settlement in Henan Province…. The bone flutes, pictured above, are thought to be the world's earliest heptatonic musical instruments ever discovered."
Total Fertility Rate – "Oversimplifying, if your tribe has 60 men and 40 women, if each woman has two kids during her lifetime, when the next generation turns over, your population will have declined from 100 people to 80. Conversely, if your tribe has 40 men and 60 women, and each woman has two kids, your tribe will have grown from 100 to 120. The female sex is the limiting factor when it comes to reproduction, after all." – from the awesome epigone.
Earlier Onset of Puberty in Girls Linked to Obesity – "[T]he respective ages at the onset of breast development varied by race, body mass index (obesity), and geographic location. Breast development began in white, non-Hispanic girls, at a median age of 9.7 years, earlier than previously reported. Black girls continue to experience breast development earlier than white girls, at a median age of 8.8 years. The median age for Hispanic girls in the study was 9.3 years, and 9.7 years for Asian girls. Body mass index was a stronger predictor of earlier puberty than race or ethnicity." – h/t hbd bibliography!
What color are Whites? – "In reality, most *Français de souche* act as individuals and have only a weak sense of their collective interest. Collective action is instead wielded by better organized factions, particularly the globalized business community—which lobbies hard to outsource employment to low-wage countries and insource low-wage workers." – from peter frost.
Openness to Experience – That Liberal Je Ne Sais Quoi – from staffan.
Redefining Confluence – "We examine an ethnicity that is itself a confluence of various racial and ethnic backgrounds – the Hispanic/Latino (hereafter Latino) ethnicity."
Long-term memory helps chimpanzees in their search for food
Schadenfreude: Feeling pleasure over the misfortune of those you envy is biological – "[P]eople are actually biologically responsive to taking pleasure in the pain of others…."
Researchers find striking similarities between bird song and human music – cheep, cheep!
Ice Roads Used to Build Forbidden City
Stone tools found in northern China 'could shake-up theory of man's African origins' – "Anthropologists are thrilled – but puzzled – that sediment deposits in northern China where a large number of ancient stone tools have been unearthed appear to have been formed much earlier than the emergence of man's earliest ancestors." – chinese busy trying to disprove out-of-africa theory.
bonus: How Mass Immigration Destroys the Economy Over Time – "Because it reduces the velocity of money and thus creates a hidden deflation." – from grey @banksta stuff.
bonus bonus: There's a global morality gap — and it's getting wider – "It is now clear, though not much talked about, that humanity, all 7.1 billion of us, tends to fall into one of two distinct camps. On the one side are those who buy into the whole post-Enlightenment human rights revolution. For them the moral trajectory of the last 300 years is clear: once we were brutal savages; in a few decades, the whole planet will basically be Denmark, ruled by the shades of Mandela and Shami Chakrabarti. And there's some truth in this trajectory — except for the fact that it only applies to half the planet. The other half resolutely follows a different moral code: might is right, all men were not created equal and there is a right and a wrong form of sexual orientation. You can identify those countries in the dark half of the divide by their attitudes to homosexuality and women; to honour killings, race, disability, mental illness, religious minorities and to crime, torture and punishment, even animal rights and the environment." – h/t ed west!
bonus bonus bonus: Racist Red Lobster receipt may be hoax, analysts say – from chuck ross. (my verdict: that girl is such a liar!)
bonus bonus bonus bonus: EU Proposal to Monitor "Intolerant" Citizens – "'There is no need to be tolerant to the intolerant' — European Framework National Statute for the Promotion of Tolerance, Article 4" – oh! – h/t mr. mangan, esq.!
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: The Myth of Americans' Poor Life Expectancy – h/t john hawks!
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: About superdiversity – thus my little joke about "human superbiodiversity." (~_^)
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms – GIANT MUSHROOMS!
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: Founding of the Darien Colony – "The Darien Colony [in panama!] was founded by Scottish emigrants on November 3rd, 1698. But it all went horribly wrong."
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: Lord of the sofa! The 'cosplay' enthusiasts who love to survey their two-bedroom kingdom dressed as knights and goblins – for those of you wondering what cosplay is. (^_^) (don't say you never learned anything new on hbd chick!)
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: Horrific FLESH-EATING PLATYPUS once terrorised Australia – no, really!
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Welcome to the second annual World Club Cricket awards night. Tonight we will honour and praise all those that have achieved success this season as well as recount what has been another great year for WCC. We have many awards to get through tonight so lets get started.
The first award of the night is the rookie of the year. This seasons batch of youngsters displayed some great individual performances throughout the season with a number among the best in their teams statistically. Coming third in this award is Yorkshire batsman J Bradshaw. Finishing runner up was the leading run scorer in this years Twenty20 competition Cobras batsman B Allen. In a very close vote Tasmanian bowler G Allen wins the award by 1 vote and wins this years Rookie of the year award. Allen was amazing in First Class cricket in particular where he took 54 wickets at a shade over 23. Well done to to him.


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Anxieties of Influence
Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History
Black Athena Revisited
The Western Greeks
The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity
Among the junk mail that arrives through our doors we find letters, sometimes impressively produced, promising to trace our name and ancestry back through the generations. We, too, can be entitled, for a fee, to claim kin with eminent or at least socially presentable ancestors; to have a pedigree drawn up and illuminated, on quality paper or indeed (why not?) on parchment, complete with the coat of arms of some long-dead person of the same name: some armigerous Griffin of yesteryear, who may impress our friends and put a snap in our walk and a sneer on our lip as we mingle in a world where, in these democratic times, we have to live on terms of apparent equality with poor fellows who have no ancestors at all. At the individual level, such attempts to gain status raise a smile. But it is a sad truth that groups, and nations, behave without shame in ways that would make their individual members blush; and the age we live in is one in which groups make such claims with great tenacity and great seriousness.
What is at stake when a group or a nation claims or is assigned descent from a past community? Very often it has been primarily a matter of glorifying one's own group, attaching it to some prestigious name or dominant tradition from the past: thus the Romans descended from the city of Troy and the goddess Venus; the British are the Lost Tribes of Israel. It has also been a common way of fitting a foreign group, or a newly encountered people, into one's own picture of the world and of history: Who, for instance, were the indigenous peoples of the New World, and how did they fit with the Bible and with Aristotle? In a modern mixed society it may be an assertion that one's particular ancestors were the most important element in the mixture. At all times it has generally been true that statements apparently about the past are really claims about the present.
The early Greeks, "Hellenes" in their own language then as now, produced a simple genealogical account. They supposed that they were descended from a man called Hellen, the separate branches of the Greek people deriving from his sons and grandsons: Doros for the Dorians, Ion for the Ionians, and so on. As for Hellen's parents, since he must have had some, they were simply declared to have been Deucalion and Pyrrha, the only couple to have survived the Flood. The claim here for the historical period is that all those who were called "Hellenes" really were related to each other, that they did form one people. No other claim is made.
Naturally, other peoples had their own ancestors. At various times, as a foreign people became significant or interesting to the Greeks, they could be attached to the Greek genealogical legends. The point was to explain how they were related to us. Thus the Latins were early declared to be…
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With the opt-out removed, many remodeling pros say the EPA is hurting the construction and remodeling industry, which had been seriously impacted by the economic downturn. "There's a lot of validity to support the implementation of these lead-free requirements," points out a Northern California contractor who didn't want to be named, "but they [the EPA] are making it so onerous for contractors and homeowners alike."
A coalition of housing industry groups, including the National Association of Home Builders, The Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association, the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association, and the Window and Door Manufacturers Association, announced in July 2010 that they are filing a lawsuit against the EPA to remove the opt-out provision from its RRP rule.
"Removing the opt-out provision more than doubles the number of homes subject to the regulation," says NAHB Chairman Bob Jones, a homebuilder and developer in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. "About 79 million homes are affected, even though EPA estimates that only 38 million homes contain lead-based paint. Removing the opt-out provision extends the rule to consumers who need no protection."
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Lead paint poisoning affects more than 300,000 children under five years of age each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the face of this unsettling statistic, the EPA's new RRP rule requires contractors whose renovation, repair, and painting projects can disturb lead-based paint in homes, schools, and child care facilities constructed before 1978 to be certified and follow specific work practices to prevent lead contamination.
"Lead poisoning from paint in older homes harms an unacceptable number of children each year," says Lisa Jackson, administrator of the EPA. "Dust and chips from lead paint can cause serious health problems like learning disabilities and behavioral issues leading to a lifetime of challenges."
Lead is a toxic metal that was used for many years before 1978 in products found in and around homes. In older homes, it may be found in deteriorating lead-based paint, lead-contaminated dust, and soil. It can also enter drinking water through plumbing materials.
Eighty percent of all housing in the United States built before 1978 contains some lead-based paint on the interior or exterior, according to the EPA. Lead-based paint is defined by the federal government as paint with lead levels greater than or equal to 1.0 milligram per square centimeter, or more than 0.5% by weight.
Exposure to the substance can cause a variety of serious health problems, ranging from behavioral issues and learning disabilities to seizures and even death. Although lead can harm everyone, children six years old and younger are most at risk. In fact, babies can be affected by lead while they are in the womb.
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In 1996, the Lead-Based Paint Disclosure Regulation was enacted. It required owners of pre-1978 'target housing' to disclose all known information about the presence of lead-based paint in the property to potential buyers or renters. The regulation also required that the potential buyer or tenants be given the lead information pamphlet, 'Protect Your Family from Lead in Your Home,' or another pamphlet approved by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, as well as a specific disclosure statement.
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The Exp. Share is a held item introduced in Generation I. When the player gives an Exp. Share to a Pokémon in their party that isn't first in the lineup and battles, part of the experience points gained by the battling Pokémon is given to the one holding the Exp. Share. However, the Pokémon who is battling does not gain the regular amount of experience; it gains half of the normal amount. There is usually only one Exp. Share found in each game, you can however obtain more by cheating, winning one at the lottery, trading Pokémon holding another Exp. Share, or, in Pokémon Black and White, receive a second one from the Pokémon Fan Club Chairman.
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After Delays, Smuttynose's Egelston Confident of 2013 Opening in Hampton
By Michael McCord
Hampton Union, Friday, September 16, 2011
[The following article is courtesy of the Hampton Union and Seacoast Online.]
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HAMPTON -- The construction of a new $16 million Smuttynose Brewery and restaurant in town remains solidly on track.
"We are coming into the homestretch," said owner Peter Egelston, who updated Seacoast Media Group about progress on the project that has been in the works since 2004.
Smuttynose recently went before the Hampton Planning Board to get an extension for its site plan on Towle Farm Road, and Egleston said moving the farmhouse and barn currently on the land will take place later this year. Full construction is now expected to commence in the spring.
"We plan to begin moving in beginning in late 2012 and open in early 2013," he said. "I'm very confident of that."
Egleston said the site plan extension request, the second the company had made, was "a precautionary move" because "a lot of things are happening simultaneously" for the project. Egelston said the educational process to find a location, finance and construct a new Smuttynose brewery has been equal "to going to Harvard for 20 years."
Delays and detours are nothing new since Egleston and partner Joanne Francis purchased the land in 2008 to build the 42,000-square-foot brewing facility and restaurant. In July 2009, financing issues during the height of the recession's credit crunch led to a major construction delay, pushing back the project to its current status.
While the new brewery project has proceeded at a snail's pace, Egleston said Smuttynose continues on a major growth spurt that is exceeding its capacity to keep up with demand.
"It's a blessing and a curse," Egleston said about the "organic" double-digit increase in sales despite not expanding its distribution or marketing efforts in more than a year. In particular, Egleston cited the continued 20 percent growth in the New Hampshire market, which reflects the company's strengthening and growing brand since its founding in 1994.
The ability to produce more beer while reaching productive capacity led to the farming out of some production of its old Brown Dog Ale brand to a Utica, N.Y. brewer. Even as Smuttynose begins to gear up for the move from its location in Portsmouth to Hampton, he said the company will expand its brewing production at its Heritage Avenue facility with new fermentation tanks that will occupy 5,000 feet of former warehouse space. The goal is to begin bringing back as much of the outsourced brewing as possible.
"It's a great problem to have, but it's not an ideal situation," Egelston said about the cost and potential quality control issues that come with outsourcing production. Ultimately, the new Hampton brewery will allow Smuttynose to double its brewing capacity from 30,000 to 60,000 barrels annually.
The quest for a new Smuttynose brewery has made headlines in the Seacoast region since 2004. After a potential relocation to Newmarket fell through, he hoped to build in a new brewery and restaurant on Lafayette Road in Portsmouth. But strong neighborhood opposition and shaky political support led to the shelving of that plan when the City Council denied a zoning amendment application in 2007.
"That was an expensive civics lesson," Egelston said. The town of Kittery, Maine, also courted Smuttynose, but Egelston said he found the right piece of land and great cooperation with the town of Hampton. While that combination made the process politically pleasant, it has not made it any easier to finance.
"People ask me, 'Why the hell this is taking so long?'" Egelston said. "In a word, it's money." He admits to taking responsibility for being "naive" about the financing of a project of this scope. He saw the project as a business expansion, while lenders and their appraisers have seen it as something much different.
"They view this as real estate development," he said. "I am not a real estate developer."
Egelston said lenders don't care for the company's desire to build a more than $1 million waste treatment system or the more than $2 million investment to become a Leaders in Energy and Environmental Design certified facility.
Egelston said the company's perseverance through the detours and delays has proven fruitful. He has found a local bank willing to be a major finance partner and compliments local organizations such as Rockingham Economic Development Corporation and Coastal Economic Development Corp., which have been crucial in helping secure tax credits, loans and grants for the various aspects of new brewery project.
"I am happy to say that we are moving forward," Egelston said. "I go down to Smuttynose and walk in the door and see how hard everybody is working and what they are doing. It's very gratifying and has made this process worth it every single day."


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Steadicam Smoothee Now Available For iPhone 5
The Tiffen Company announced the Steadicam Smoothee system will now be ready for the iPhone 5. The Smoothee is a lightweight , handheld image stabilization bracket that has been available for the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4/4S, FLIP MonoHD, iPod touch and GoPro Hero.
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Fans of PBS Kids TV show Cyberchase will be delighted to see the arrival of Cyberchase: Ruckus Reader, an iPad app aimed at continuing the educational fun that the TV show is so famous for.
Aimed at 5-8 year olds, Cyberchase: Ruckus Reader offers a new story for fans to delve into, following an exciting problem that Hacker has left the Cybersquad with. Three hours of puzzles are promised as players set out to save Solaria from being transformed into a garbage dump.
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Apr 16, 2012
Isenberg to accept LIRAP Distinguished Insurance Service award
GLENMONT, N.Y.–David Isenberg of the D.C. White Agency, a division of the Lancer Insurance Group, will accept the LIRAP Distinguished Insurance Service award from The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. on April 19, 2012, at the annual Long Island Regional Awareness Program, at Leonards of Great Neck.
A highly recognized industry veteran, this is the second Distinguished Insurance Service award Isenberg will accept from PIANY, a trade association he has loyally served for nearly 25 years. The award is presented to individuals in the insurance industry who have a history of significant contributions and support to the regional insurance community.
"David is admired and respected by his peers and colleagues in the industry. This award recognizes his long-standing commitment to the insurance industry, and commemorates his dedication and hard work, as well as the unwavering loyalty he has demonstrated to independent agents throughout his career," said Richard Savino, CIC, CPIA, president of PIANY.
Isenbergs 45-year career began at Consolidated Insurance Group, where he learned the insurance business. In 1978, he became president of D.C. White Agency in Long Beach, N.Y., from which he retired in 2011.
Isenberg served as president of PIANY in 2002-03 and on virtually every committee at the association. He is secretary of PIA Management Services Inc., the umbrella corporation that manages the Glenmont, N.Y.-based Professional Insurance Agents associations of New York State, New Jersey, Connecticut and New Hampshire. In 1998, he received the Louis A. Morelli award from PIANY and he was honored as the Council of Insurance Brokers of Greater New Yorks Man of the Year in recognition for all his work in the insurance industry. In 2007, PIANYs MetroRAP committee recognized him as General Agent Executive of the Year.
In 2010, he was recognized at the PIANJ/PIANY joint annual conference and PIANYs MetroRAP committee also presented him with its Distinguished Service Award earlier this year.
"David has represented our industry with a unique and professional style," said Michael Cracco, Long Island RAP chair. He is someone everyone admires and a model of professionalism for everyone in our industry."
In addition to the presentation of the Distinguished Insurance Service award, PIANYs LIRAP also will feature David Delaney, president and chief executive officer for Lancer Insurance Co. Delaney will present the keynote luncheon address. The day also will include an expansive trade show, and timely education sessions approved for continuing education credits. Participants can attend the education session Avoiding EPLI Exposures in the morning and Emerging Cyber and Privacy Exposures in the afternoon.
PIANY is a trade association representing professional, independent insurance agencies, brokerages and their employees throughout the state.
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Try it! A black background is far less strain.
tried it Sage. Many times. many monitors. Many conditions.
In theory yes. In practice I find black on white background more legible.
We dont use black paper with white print.
That is why grey is a good compromise for those extolling the virtues of their preference - which clearly don't appear black or white . . .
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Black paper costs more to make and white pencils are less than satisfactory. Those technologies don't apply here, and the green credentials are reversed for electronic media.
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Sage, you obviously require a bit more convincing so here are two more excerpts from serious ergonomics sources:
From FAQ at
5)Q. Is there an optimum screen brightness and color scheme to help prevent eye strain?
A. Black characters against a light gray background are often easiest on the eyes for long periods. Its suggested that contrast and brightness should be adjusted to create the brightest screen without blurring.
, excerpt from the "Ergonomic Survey to see if you have task/risk factors"
(the lower the points the better)
4. The primary screen used has:
a. A very light background with dark characters similar to print on paper (2 points)
b. A light colored background with darker characters (4 points)
c. A dark colored or black background with light characters (8 points)
I could find any number of authoritative sources supporting this: for best computer ergonomics, ie, to make is easier on the eyes, you should have
dark characters on a light background
Sage, please show me a serious reference that recommends what you suggest: light characters on a dark background.
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This fact is both subjectively as well as intuitively evident
Have you tried it yet?!
The eye is a remarkable instrument. It can discriminate a candle flickering at three miles. It is degraded by bright lights which tend to saturate the rods and cones all too easily. Everyone knows this - try shining a torch into one eye - it takes a few minutes to recover. The phenomenon of persistence of vision is known to every schoolchild. Furthermore, once your eyes accostom themselves to a 'dark' room, most folks begin to discern the objects around them, since the complete absence of light is difficult to achieve. You may get a good view of the stars up there in the archipelagos, but down here in our crowded towns (and countryside), we are blighted by street lights, commonly referred to as light pollution.
So, go on try a black background and see how much you will like it and how soothing it is on the eyes. If you wish, put up yellow text. The nearer you can get to a green text and still resolve it the better as there is a sharp dip in response in this part of the spectrum.
Light, especially toward the blue end, degrades nearly everything organic ie based on carbon, that includes people! The chemistry is irrefutable.
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Posted: Tue 01 May 2007, 06:59
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Ahh....... let there be a light-errrr touch on this.....
light characters on a dark background
> The Sky ?
In the beginning - there was no light - so God said "
Let there be Light
& by G - there was
In "The Beginning" There was nothing but dark
Nothing however, could be seen.
So G created light: nothing could still be seen - but it was now evident, since in all wisdom > light had been cast on the subject
So you see, Ergo - How this is "felt" is now the topic.
Seeing the background is as dark as ever it was
the Beginning
Sage, do ya follow the code ?
Oh BTW - colour as we see it - is NOT
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Too true - as we've
before, nothing is what it seems. Red is blue and blue is red. Who's that walking on the ceiling?
Glad you were able to shed light on the matter - or anti-matter, if travelling in the parallel of our own space-time continuum.
And, on that note, I just know that Lob is going to want to join the party.
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Posted: Tue 01 May 2007, 07:52
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To continue -umm: Isn't that Approx when I came in ~
The Lobster Quadrille ?
"Will you walk a little faster" said a whiting to a snail -
"Theres a purpose close behind me" - and he's treading on my tale.....
Who will come and join the dance
~ The snail replled; "Too far too far" & gave a look askance
"What matters it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied.
"There is another shore, you know, upon the other side."
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Oh dear, the 'other side' sounds ominous.
Is that the same as the 'dark side'?
Come in Lob., we need your directions....
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Posted: Tue 01 May 2007, 09:07
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I am busy trying to buy a 'Dimensional Warp Generator'
. . . as for the dark side of the force (and the screen)
In the realm of the Grey Lords, harmony is achieved by balancing the complimentrary elements.
The important thing is not what is right or wrong, for that is dependent on perception and persuasion.
What is important is what works. This is why Linux allows the followers of light to shine and the followers of the void to empty the lighter side . . .
I follow the Middle Way . . .
The Middle way has four truths*
Existence includes Darkness
Darkness has a cause
Light exists
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* based on the four Noble Truths of Buddhism
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Location: Knoxville, TN, USA
Posted: Tue 01 May 2007, 11:40
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Try reading anything on a white background in a dark room at 3am. Even if you do overcome the pain and make your eyes adjust, as soon as you finish and stand up, you'll fall flat on your face because your roommate left a chair in the middle of the floor.
With a dark background you don't hurt your eyes and your night vision isn't quite so depleted, so hopefully you'll see that chair.
On the other hand, though dark backgrounds aren't very bright during the day, they don't hurt your eyes.
As for green or white on black, it's just too much contrast. I always reset my terminal to use black a background and gray text. (My desktop icons generally don't have text, just an image, so that's why I'm talking about terminals.)
Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. --Muad'Dib
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Posted: Tue 01 May 2007, 16:46
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My old eyes find any color text on a black or dark background to be nearly impossible to read. Sometimes, if I'm in a good mood, I copy the text and paste it into a word processor so I can read it. Mostly I just close that page and read something else instead. Black text on a white or light green or yellow background is the most readable for me.
If you youngsters don't want us old fuddys to read your stuff, use red letters on a black background. If you're asking me to send you some money, better use black ink on a white background.
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Posted: Wed 02 May 2007, 02:09
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From one old fuddy to another - nicely put Flash
To others who find a 'white' background too bright - so do I. The recommendations are for dark text on a
- not
- background. Nowhere does it say you should use a 'white' background (re-read the quotes I gave earlier). The 'earlgrey' image I posted earlier in this thread is about as bright as I would want a background to be. Normally I use a somewhat darker colored image which still gives me good contrast with dark text and the desktop icons. I also have my LCD panel's brightness set quite low.
Methinks Raspberry Pi were ideal for runnin' Puppy Linux
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Posted: Wed 02 May 2007, 02:48
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Extremely unusual for a Swede to reject the eco-friendly option! I might have to report you to the eco-warriors, pakt! Black = OFF. Less power, less landfill. Quite apart from the fact that a black background is more restful to the eyes. But if you must ape conspicuous consumption, try a very dark blue. The entire argument is spurious, anyway, since most active time is spent looking at coloured images rather than the desktop or a blank screen screensaver.
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Posted: Wed 02 May 2007, 02:59
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Extremely unusual for a Swede to reject the eco-friendly option! I might have to report you to the eco-warriors, pakt! Black = OFF. Less power, less landfill.
Quite the contrary, Sage. On a TFT panel the back light is on whether your background is light *or* dark. It's the back light that uses the most power in a TFT panel. Otherwise I have my panel set to standby after 20min of unuse *then* the back light turns off. Ergo my electricity bill isn't any higher than your's
Methinks Raspberry Pi were ideal for runnin' Puppy Linux
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Posted: Wed 02 May 2007, 04:01
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It's not only the cold cathode tubes that consume power, each pixel is one (or three, depending how you count them) transistors - even at the pico-Ampere level each, that's still a significant total when summed over all units, over the year. The case for crt s, still used by the majority around the world, is even more compelling, even though the guns are still, technically, ON.
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text: Claiming, "it's more important to click with people than to click the shutter," Alfred Eisenstaedt defined the practice of photojournalism as one of its pioneering practitioners, from the years leading up to World War II to the closing decade of the 20th century. He took his first photograph at 29, one of more than a million he would take over the course of his career. In 1935, he emigrated to New York and was hired by LIFE Magazine as one of its first staff photographers. Using a 35mm camera, Eisenstaedt captured world leaders, celebrities, artists, and everyday people and scenes with decision and tenderness. Among his most iconic images is VJ Day in Times Square (1945), the passionate kiss known worldwide between a sailor and a woman, who arches back, surrendering to his embrace in the heart of Times Square.


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The Village of Palazzo
The village of Palazzo belongs to the municipality of Città di Castello, in the province of Perugia, region Umbria.
>>>COVID-19<<< Data about spreading of Covid-19 in Palazzo are not yet available.
For the province of Perugia, to whom Palazzo belongs, on 2020-05-24 are reported 1,003 cases. In the previos day there were 1,003 cases, thus having a variation of 0 cases, i.e. 0.00% with reference to the number of cases reported in the previous day.
Please follow this link for updated information on Covid-19 including new cases and percentage changes for the whole of Italy, regions and individual provinces
The village of Palazzo is 16,29 kilometers far from the same town of Città di Castello to whom it belongs.
To the municipality of Città di Castello also belong the localities of Antirata (10,40 km), Armanni (10,13 km), Badia Petroia (11,40 km), Badiali (3,62 km), Barzotti (8,35 km), Baucca (5,26 km), Baucca San Martino d'Upo' (5,52 km), Belvedere (4,12 km), Bivio Canoscio (11,04 km), Bivio Lugnano (11,06 km), Bonsciano (13,29 km), Breccione (11,58 km), Ca di Molinello (15,43 km), Caifirenze (14,95 km), Campersalle (19,03 km), Campersalle - Canalicchia (17,56 km), Canalicchia (19,03 km), Canoscio (9,89 km), Case sparse (-- km), Cavine di Sopra (5,20 km), Celle (7,26 km), Cerbara (4,64 km), Cinquemiglia (10,52 km), Col di Chio (15,62 km), Colcello (16,44 km), Cornetto (10,82 km), Croce di Castiglione (7,52 km), Fabbri (16,24 km), Fabrecce (10,03 km), Falerno (8,96 km), Fiume (5,34 km), Fraccano (9,36 km), Giove (4,87 km), Giove di Sopra (4,57 km), Grumale (3,98 km), Lerchi (3,89 km), Lugnano (12,91 km), Madonna di Canoscio (11,24 km), Martignano (17,62 km), Marzocchi (9,30 km), Mezzavia (5,80 km), Molinello (4,11 km), Molinello I (5,24 km), Molino dei Lunghi (17,36 km), Morra (14,39 km), Muccignano (16,23 km), Nuvole (2,10 km), Olmitello (8,55 km), Palazzetto (16,03 km), Palazzone (13,61 km), Passerina (6,17 km), Petrelle (15,53 km), Piandana (14,20 km), Picchetto (1,70 km), Piosina (3,91 km), Pistrino (15,96 km), Ponte d'Avorio (7,24 km), Promano (11,79 km), Pulciarati (5,37 km), Regnano (3,33 km), Riosecco (2,46 km), Ripole (7,38 km), Roccagnano (16,18 km), Ronti (11,59 km), Rovigliano (8,86 km), San Leo Bastia (18,08 km), San Maiano (8,98 km), San Pietro a Monte (16,31 km), San Secondo (7,11 km), Santa Lucia (5,92 km), Santo Stefano del Piano (2,81 km), Sasso (6,48 km), Scarzola (5,45 km), Segapeli (9,24 km), Sterpeto (15,01 km), Tassinara (11,42 km), Terme di Fontecchio (5,09 km), Titta (2,47 km), Trestina (11,29 km), Trito (5,48 km), Uppiano (3,32 km), Userna (3,65 km), Vallurbana (8,90 km), Vingone (1,26 km), Volterrano (19,00 km), Zoccolanti (3,58 km).
The number in parentheses following each village name indicate the distance between the same village and the municipality of Città di Castello.
Please notice that in what follows no statistic nor population data are available at the moment: the same are available for the Italian places having al least the status of municipalities ad for most of the villages too.
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Just fill in the free text search box placed on top of the map with any of previous categories and then press enter.
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Videos about Palazzo Città di Castello, Perugia, Umbria
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Q. Is there somewhere I can send my old, ripped jeans for recycling? I've seen home insulation made from denim, but don't know how to donate. – Kristina, NJ
A. There is indeed. Bonded Logic makes insulation out of old denim, proof of which is that Newsweek profile of Adrian Grenier. The tree-hugging Entourage star is caught posing suggestively in front of his recycled jeans wall at his eco home in Brooklyn. Hot.
Most of the fabric Bonded Logic uses comes from factory floors, but some does come from jeans-wearing consumers, as well. Send yours to Green Jeans Insulation, at this address:
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Once you've got the old things off your hands, consider replacing them with sustainable, organic ones. The denim industry—what with all that toxic blue dye, stone washing, and chemical-intensive cotton—has been known to really do a number on rivers, soil, and Mama earth at large. Fortunately, enough companies are now making sustainable jeans that you can green your pants without sacrificing style. We love J Brand's new green line. Nothing comes between you and your sustainable slacks.
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Unveiled this week at Gamescom in Germany, Hitman: Absolution's Contracts Mode gives players the power to create their own kill scenarios, challenging the world to be the best murder-for-hire technician they can be.
It's Play-Create-Kill! Contracts Mode adds user-generated content to the Hitman franchise, ensuring that players will have plenty to do long after the last fetish nun has stopped breathing.


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Mancuso v. Florida Metropolitan University, Inc., 2011 WL 310726 (S.D. Fla. January 28, 2011 )
Plaintiff sued his former employer seeking back overtime wages. In preparing its defense of the case, the employer sent supboenas to Facebook and Myspace seeking information about plaintiff's use of those platforms. (The employer probably wanted to subtract the amount of time plaintiff spent messing around online from his claim of back pay.) Plaintiff moved to quash the subpoenas, claiming that his accounts contained confidential and privileged information. The court denied the motion as to these social networking accounts, but did so kind of on a technicality. The subpoenas were issued out of federal district courts in California, and since this court (in Florida) did not have jurisdiction over the issuance of those subpoenas, it had to deny the motion to quash.
But there was some interesting discussion that took place in getting to this analysis that is worth noting. Generally, a party does not have standing to challenge a subpoena served on a non-party, unless that party has a personal right or privilege with respect to the subject matter of the materials subpoenaed. The employer argued that plaintiff did not have standing to challenge the subpoenas in the first place.
The court disagreed, looking to the case of Crispin v. Christian Audiger, Inc. 717 F.Supp.2d 965 (C.D. Cal. 2010), in which that court explained:
[A]n individual has a personal right in information in his or her profile and inbox on a social networking site and his or her webmail inbox in the same way that an individual has a personal right in employment and banking records. As with bank and employment records, this personal right is sufficient to confer standing to move to quash a subpoena seeking such information.
This almost sounds like an individual has a privacy right in his or her social media information. But the p-word is absent from this analysis. So from this case we know there is a right to challenge subpoenas directed at intermediaries with information. We're just not given much to go on as to why such a subpoena should be quashed.


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Interested in learning more about archaeology, preservation, or education? Come join us for volunteer lab night, every Tuesday night at the CAPE (Center for Archaeology, Preservation and Education) at the corner of Main Street and Route 14! Volunteers can participate in a variety of activities including washing, sorting, and identifying artifacts, labeling and mending artifacts, or helping with other small projects. All are welcome!
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David Y. Iha selected as recipient of 2007 Willard Wilson Award for Distinguished University ServiceUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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Posted: Aug 3, 2007HONOLULU — The University of Hawaiʻi has announced the recipient of the 2007 Willard Wilson Award for Distinguished Service to the University. Named after the long-time UH employee and secretary to the Board of Regents who set a standard for exemplary service to the university, the award is presented this year to David Y. Iha.
Iha has more than 40 years of employment service to UH under his belt and is currently fulfilling an approved position in the Incentive Retirement Program at 40 percent with the UH Office of the Board of Regents. In October 2006, he retired as Secretary to the UH Board of Regents (BOR) after serving for nearly nine years.
Prior to serving as the executive responsible for planning, coordinating, and directing the administrative support services for the BOR, he served as provost of Kauaʻi Community College for 16 years, director of administrative services at Kauaʻi Community College for 12 years, and held many budget positions throughout the UH system.
Many of Iha's former colleagues praised him for his numerous contributions toward improvements in the community and throughout the university system. At Kauaʻi CC, he saw the college through two of the state's worst hurricanes, Iwa and Iniki, leaving his home as one of the last to be repaired because of his attention to helping others. As an advocate for international education, he helped establish on-going exchange programs and partnerships for students from Okinawa and Kauaʻi CC for over 20 years. Due to his careful management, he saw Kauaʻi CC's new campus in Puhi develop fully from inception to completion. He also sought funds for various projects such as Kauai CC's One-Stop Center, Technology Center, the Performing Arts Center and the Culinary Arts facilities.
During his tenure at UH, Iha held several regional and national positions in higher education associations, including the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, for which he was president and chair of the Board of Directors from 1993-1995, and the American Council on Education and American Association of Community Colleges.
He has received numerous awards for his service to the state and university, including the 1986 State of Hawaiʻi Governor's Award for Employee of the Year, UH Manager of the Year award in 1993 and the UH Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award in 1988.
Iha is an active participant in community organizations, including the Kauaʻi Chorale and as Honorary President of the Kauaʻi Chapter of the Urasenke Foundation, a Japanese tea ceremony group. He also sits on the board of directors for the Hawaiʻi Public Schools Foundation and Community Links of Hawaiʻi. Recently, Iha was nominated to run for the Board of Directors of the Kauai Island Utility Cooperative.
A former colleague shared, "David promoted not only the educational credibility of Kauai CC and the University of Hawaiʻi system, but also the spirit of goodwill and aloha for the state of Hawaiʻi."
Iha will be recognized for his contributions to the community along with other UH award winners at a systemwide awards ceremony in September.
For more information, visit: http://www.hawaii.edu/about/awards/wilson.php