New Game For Light Exercise: Bucket-Disk...

One Bucket-Disk (invented by Yours Truly) set: (4) aluminum tent stakes @ $0.79 each at Dick's Sporting Goods, (2) Home Depot bucets @ $3.00 each, one Disk Golf fairway driver @ $10-21.00 depending on brand & style. Notice how the bucket on the right is already tent-staked to the ground on either side of the white plastic handle grip. The disk hitting the back of the bucket would move the bucket otherwise, so would the wind on a windy day. Click on image to view full-size.


Set up buckets with openings facing each other 15 feet apart. Stake bucket handles so goals don't move. Stand behind your bucket and toss at the other bucket. Teams take turns, 1 throw each. First 20 duckets wins. Disk must be more than halfway in the bucket to count a ducket.

Teams toss at one bucket to see who goes first. Closest to bucket OR most duckets goes first.

Lose two duckets for your team if you hit another player, or physically get in front of your bucket while the other team is throwing. (Off-sides rule; throwing team must declare a throw starting and do a 5-count to let other players clear the target bucket. IE: "THROW-2-3-4-5")

Advanced rules: Get a 2nd disk. The off-turn team may attempt to throw a block at the throwing team's disk AFTER it has left the thrower's hand. Next person up on the off-turn team is also the blocking disk thrower. Lose a ducket for your team if you throw your block before the disk leaves the thrower's hand.

Skips off the ground still count as a ducket if the disk goes all the way into the bucket.

You get a very satisfying "THUNK" sound  when the disk bounces off the back of the bucket.


It's very easy to pack up and carry to the park or the beach.


Let fly!

Dan

Save the Bees

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Date: Jun 25, 2012 2:40 PM
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To: "Daniel A. Stafford" <aquarianm@gmail.com>

Clicking here will automatically add your name to this petition to the EPA: "The EPA must take action to stop the alarming rate of bee die-offs. Please protect bees and our food system by immediately banning the use of the pesticide Clothianidin pending a full review of its safety." Automatically add your name: Learn more about this campaign Tell the EPA: Ban the pesticide that's killing bees Dear Daniel, In the next week, the EPA is expected to issue a decision on the pesticide Clothianidin — which scientists believe is a major factor in this alarming decline in U.S honey bee populations, known as Colony Collapse Disorder. Since 2006, one third of U.S honey bee populations have been dying off yearly. One third. Every year. That's a terrible rate of species destruction on its own, but it's also a serious threat to our food supply. Honey bees play a crucial role by pollinating 71 of the 100 most common crops, which account for 90% of the world's food supply.1 More than 125,000 CREDO Activists joined the Pesticide Action Network and other groups this March in urging the EPA to suspend its approval of Clothianidin. The EPA is about to respond, but if the agency doesn't actually act, it likely won't review Clothianidin again until 2018 — and by then it could be too late for the bees. Tell the EPA: Bee die-offs are an emergency. Ban the pesticide that's killing bees. Click here to automatically sign the petition. While the causes of Colony Collapse disorder are complex, studies are increasingly pointing to the role played by pesticides like Clothianidin. Produced by the German corporation Bayer CropScience, it is used as a treatment on crop seeds, including corn and canola, and works by expressing itself in the plants' pollen and nectar. Not coincidentally, these are some of honey bees' favorite sources of food. Shockingly, Clothianidin was approved without any independent study verifying its safety. The Pesticide was conditionally approved for use in 2003, and then fully approved by the EPA in 2010, on the basis of only one test conducted by Bayer, which EPA scientists later said was unsound and not sufficient to be the grounds for unconditional approval of the pesticide.2 Tell the EPA: Ban the pesticide that's killing bees. Click here to automatically sign the petition. Clothianidin has already been banned in France, Italy, Slovenia, and Germany — the home of Bayer — but it continues to be applied to over 100 million acres here in the U.S., at the peril of bees and our ability to produce foods like apples, blueberries, almonds, pumpkins and dozens of other vital crops. For the EPA to take action and suspend the use of Clothianidin it must declare bee die-offs to be an "imminent hazard." And with massive continuing die-offs of the species that is a cornerstone of our crop production, it's clear that is the case. For too long, the EPA has turned a blind eye to the problem, trusting a sham study by pesticide makers over the mounting evidence that Clothianidin is not safe for our food system. It's time for the EPA to ban Clothianidin and save the bees. Click below to automatically sign the petition: http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6902377&p=bee_decision&id=42313-2914033-Po1q2ax&t=10 Thanks for defending the bees. Elijah Zarlin, Campaign Manager CREDO Action from Working Assets 1. "Pesticides and Honey Bees: State of the Science," Pesticide Action Network North America 2. "Leaked document shows EPA allowed bee-toxic pesticide despite own scientists' red flags," Grist, 12/10/10 Share on Facebook Post to your wall Tweet this Post to Twitter © 2012 CREDO. All rights reserved. To remove yourself (Daniel A. Stafford) from this list, please visit our subscription management page at: http://act.credoaction.com/s?i=42313-2914033-Po1q2ax To change your email address or update your contact info, please visit: http://act.credoaction.com/subscrip/coa.html?id=42313-2914033-Po1q2ax

Urgent: Save Rio, Save the Planet

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Dear friends, Over a million people have called on world leaders to end fossil fuel subsidies at the Rio Earth Summit, but our leaders have so far failed to deliver. Now, the only chance to save the talks from disaster rests with Brazil's Dilma -- sign this urgent petition calling on her to emerge a planet hero and end the polluter payouts! Over a million people have called on world leaders to end fossil fuel subsidies at the Rio Earth Summit -- a no-brainer policy that could take one trillion tax dollars from Big Oil and reinvest it in green energy. But they've failed to deliver -- even with the backing of the EU, the US and most G20 countries! The talks end in 48 hours. Now is our chance to save them and the planet's future. Brazil's President Dilma is hosting the summit and has the power to reopen discussions and demand a timeline for ending polluter payouts, but she is considering walking away with the weak language presented by a team of bureaucrats. We can stop her in her tracks. Dilma has 2 days to emerge as a global climate hero. Sign this urgent petition now and forward to everyone -- at 500,000 signers, Avaaz will deliver it straight to Dilma's hands and run an urgent, hard-hitting ad in the Financial Times: http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_rio_save_the_planet/?bqZPOab&v=15350 In the last 2 weeks, we've already made huge strides towards an end to fossil fuel subsidies. Together, we've: Unfurled giant trillion dollar bills with our friends 350 on beaches in Rio and in Los Cabos that garnered the attention of major media across the globe and delivered a 1 million strong call to end harmful polluter subsidies. Delivered a petition with over 750,000 signers directly to UK Prime Minister Cameron and the Mexican chair of the G20 summit. Massively impacted the vote in a UN poll -- making fossil fuel subsidies the top priority for the Earth Summit. We won with over 66% of the vote! Flooded the Mexican and New Zealand environment ministers with messages calling on them to push for an end to polluter payouts. And our team on the ground in Rio and Los Cabos has tirelessly lobbied politicians -- attending dozens of meetings with high level officials from key countries. The stage is set and Dilma has the perfect solution to turn the talks around: a clear and timely end to fossil fuel subsidies. We only have 48 hours for this final push to action --- click below to sign: http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_rio_save_the_planet/?bqZPOab&v=15350 The movement to end fossil fuel subsidies is at a tipping point. Over 1 million of us signed petitions calling for action, from Rio and Delhi to London and Sydney. As we enter the 11th hour of the Rio Earth Summit, let's continue to push until we win!     With hope, Iain, Antonia, Jamie, Emma, Ricken, Diego, Pedro and the rest of the Avaaz team MORE INFORMATION: UN environment haggle runs into problems ahead of summit (France 24): http://www.france24.com/en/20120618-un-environment-haggle-runs-problems-ahead-summit Rio+20: anger and dismay at weakened draft agreement (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jun/19/rio-20-weakened-draft-agreement #EndingFossilFuelSubsidies in Pictures, Video & Tweets: Why Rio+20 Needs to Act (Huffington Post) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jake-schmidt/endingfossilfuelsubsidies_b_1607288.html G20 Fossil Fuel Protest Video (Reuters): http://in.reuters.com/video/2012/06/19/g20-fossil-fuel-protest?videoId=236062951&videoChannel=117460 Activists hail success of Twitterstorm (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jun/18/twitter-storm-fossil-fuel-subsidies?newsfeed=true Update on #EndFossilFuelSubsidies Proposals at Rio+20 (350.org Blog) http://www.350.org/en/about/blogs/update-endfossilfuelsubsidies-proposals-rio20 Negotiations text "an epic failure" (Greenpeace) http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/press/releases/Greenpeace-comment-on-state-of-Rio20-negotiations-text-for-adoption/ Latest text of the Rio+20 conference http://avaazpress.s3.amazonaws.com/295The%20Future%20We%20Want%2019%20June%202.45am.doc

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Study: Renewable sources could supply 80% of U.S. electricity by 2050 | The Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/21/study-renewable-sources-could-supply-80-of-u-s-electricity-by-2050/

As I've been trying to tell people for years now, modernizing our power grid is key.

Dan

Solar cell breakthrough taps previously unused energy source | The Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/21/solar-cell-breakthrough-taps-previously-unused-energy-source/

E THIS WEEK

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