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Monday, 18 August 2008
Noah Nees is no longer
But back to the overnight stay – without me! It was the first night I have ever spent away from Doo Dah and only the second from Nugget. I don't think Geege got a wink of sleep (they all ended up sleeping together in his bed), but I had a lovely evening on my own. I actually had dinner with some friends, which was an already arranged engagement. It was so strange to wake up in the morning to a quiet, undemanding home! Even the Rube was missing from the scene. Bliss!
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Friday, 1 August 2008
Money Matters #7 - Cutting Petrol Costs
There is no doubting it. Petrol prices are starting to really bite. It is hard to believe that at the time of Nugget's birth in April 2004, I documented that petrol prices has risen to a terrible $1.09c per litre. Shock. Horror. Can you imagine the queue at the petrol station if we could find it that cheap these days? This month Money Magazine asked its readers to send in tips on Cutting petrol costs. There were some good ideas that I thought I would pass on. Many thanks to Amelia, Bert, Tania, Michael, Paul and Bryan (whoever they are) for their ideas.
- Plan ahead and combine multiple household tasks in one trip
- Don't let your tank get down to empty so you are forced to go to the nearest petrol station (they may not be the cheapest)
- Avoid idling - switch off your car if you are waiting for someone
- Drive according to the conditions but as slowly as you can - if you double your speed, your fuel consumption is roughly quadrupled. Most vehicles deliver surprising petrol savings if you travel at 95-100km/h rather than 110km/h.
- Close your windows (reduces drag)
- Don't drive out of your way for a 'discount' - it probably won't be worth the drive
- Convert to gas (rebate available) if you drive a lot and are planning to keep your car for a long time
- Take advantage of fuel discount vouchers. Divide your purchases into $30 lots to obtain multiple vouchers. Don't shop at the majors? Buy your pre-paid phone and mobile phone credits there in order to get the fuel discounts.
- Keep your supermarket discount dockets in your car.
- Look out for increased fuel discount voucher offers and take advantage.
- Double dip on fuel discounts, legally. Use Coles and Woolies fuel discount vouchers to obtain the discount. Use your fuel receipts to obtain a 4c per litre discount at the register at IGA. If you have multiple fuel receipts and divide your groceries into $30 lots, this equates to over 10% discount on your groceries! (I don't fully understand this as I don't shop at IGA but Bryan seems to think it makes sense?)
- Be wary of service station marketing at point of sale. Why buy 2 or even one if you don't need? The 2 cokes for $4 suddenly makes your cheapest fuel dearer than the most expensive.
- If you have two vehicles, use the smaller one as much as possible
- Walk your kids to school - it is good for your fitness and an opportunity to spend some quality time
- Service your vehicle regularly (according to the maker's specs)
- Keep your tyres at the manufacturer's recommended pressure for your vehicle
- Remove excess weight and streamline your car as much as possible e.g. from the boot, roof racks
- Take a good look at other transport options. Can you drive less? Can you ride, walk or use public transport?
- Try to car-pool where possible
- Get to know the pricing cycles in your area and buy petrol on cheap days (Tuesdays and Wednesday mornings usually). If you need fuel at the high point, buy only what you need.
- Use http://www.motormouth.com.au/ to check petrol prices in your area
- When you fill up, reset the odometer. This will provide you with a reliable indication of your economy. If you are getting poor fuel economy, consider an additive to clean your fuel system.
- Brake only when necessary. If safe to do so, allow the vehicle to slow itself when approaching red lights.
- Avoid stop-start traffic. Your car requires more power to accelerate from a complete stop.
- Sell your car and walk (it's good for you!)
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Today I raced in my country's XCM championships and the whole time I felt great but then after around 45 kilometers out of nowhere I got this insane pain in my right leg then after a couple seconds it was also in my left leg, I couldn't pedal at all, I just got off my bike and tried walking the short climb up but even walking was such a pain, I think it was a cramp and it was caused by dehydration since at about 3/4 of the second lap (25km per lap) I ran out of water, can anyone confirm this or tell me what it might be caused by? During the whole race I had 3 energy gels and only drank water. Fortunately someone came right by me and gave me water and helped me on but the pain kept coming back every couple minutes for the rest of the race. (Finished 7th after I was 3rd before the pain)
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LAPEER, Mich. (AP) - The lead singer of rock group The Calling was abducted, beaten and robbed after performing at a Michigan festival, the band said Monday.
Alex Band was attacked outside a store in Lapeer early Sunday, the group told The Associated Press. The Calling had performed Saturday night at a festival in the city of 8,800, about 45 miles north of Detroit.
Band had a spinal fracture, three broken teeth and needed 15 stiches in his chin, The Calling said in a statement.
Police asked the public for help in investigating.
Detective Sgt. Craig Gormley said in a statement – that doesn't name Band by name_ that the victim reported two males forced him into a minivan, then assaulted and robbed him before dropping him off at a railroad crossing.
The Los Angeles-based group's 2001 song, "Wherever You Will Go," was used in several TV series and in the movie "Coyote Ugly."
In its statement, The Calling said Band was visiting a mini-market after the show when "Alex was grabbed by his shirt and hit from behind."
It said he was beaten with a baton and had a gun put to his face while an attacker demanded his "Hollywood money."
The Calling said Band is going to be a father and told his assailants as much, to which one responded "We don't kill fathers" before releasing him.
Band acknowledged having past substance abuse problems, but denied what he said were rumors that the abduction report was either drug-related or faked.
"I take my rehabilitation very seriously," he said. "I was near death due to this unbelievable situation, and the rumors are categorically false."
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The American bison is one of several big game animals in Alaska. The bison was transplanted to Alaska from Montana in 1928, after becoming almost extinct in America. Twenty of these animals were delivered to an area around Delta Junction and by 1985 the population had grown to approximately 700.
The bison is a spectacular animal in size, measuring six feet at the shoulders, almost ten feet long and weighing over a ton. The head and front quarters are the largest part of the body, making this section look out of proportion to the hind quarters, which are smaller.
The bison sheds its coat in the spring of the year, after winter is over. Then, in the fall, it grows its winter coat, which is a rich, dark brown color. The coat changes color during the winter and by spring is a lighter color. Bison bulls have large, heavy horns that curve upward. Cows' horns are lighter and not as large.
Calves are born anytime from May to August and at first have a brownish red coat. At ten weeks old, this brownish red coat starts to darken and about five weeks later, turns to the dark brown color. They are very active almost immediately after birth, being able to run and kick their hind legs up in the air about three hours after birth. They also begin grazing at an early age – about six days old. They will stay with their mother, following her until the next spring, when they are about a year old, before they venture out on their own.
These animals are natural grazing animals, but in Alaska, their food is only found along rivers and areas where fires have burnt old vegetation growth and created fresh foliage. They eat various grasses, also silverberry, willow and ground birch. Since Alaskan winters are extremely severe, it can be hard for the bison to survive. Their thick layers of hair and plenty of stored fat are an advantage to them in surviving the cold winds and temperatures. In fact, strong winter winds tend to benefit the bison, as the winds will blow the snow, preventing it from accumulating and becoming too deep. The healthy bison usually survives the winters.
They migrate to a winter range in the northwest around Farewell Lake, where there are many small rivers and ponds with vegetation available for them to eat. They are able to smell food beneath deep snow and they use their huge bodies to push the snow away to get to the food.
Bison hunts have to be controlled to prevent the population from overburdening the limited range areas. Hunting bison is a challenge, as stalking them is difficult; and bringing them down also is quite a feat. They are the hardest of all Alaska's big game to bring down. Their meat tastes much like beef and is delicious to eat.
Bears and wolves are predators of bison calves, but usually do not have much luck, as the adult bison will fight to protect the calves. All predators will leave adult bison alone, because of their size, which intimidates and their large horns, which they use to fight with, and can easily kill another animal. They are second only to the black bear for viciousness towards any threatening creature.
Approximately sixty million bison roamed the Great Plains from Mexico to Canada and north into Alaska up until the nineteen century. Then came the insurgence of settlers crossing the United States. They killed thousands of bison mainly for their hides. Before this, the Plains Indians depended on bison for their food and hides. The Indians used the hides to make their clothes, their tents, etc. The bison had a great economical value for the Indians.
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Two days into his tenure as secretary of the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Pinehurst businessman John Skvarla distributed a mission statement to agency employees outlining several goals for the future.
Two days into his tenure as secretary of the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Pinehurst businessman John Skvarla distributed a mission statement to agency employees outlining several goals for the future.
First among them was to establish an atmosphere more committed to customer service, including a renewed effort to improve what he categorized as the contentious nature of interactions between the workers and citizens attempting to obtain permits.
"DENR must always be a customer service-friendly organization � whether we�re issuing permits or educating citizens about recycling," the document reads. "To best serve the public, DENR must become an agency where collaborative stewardship among citizens, government regulators and the business community works for everyone."
Since 2005, Skvarla has served as president, chief operating officer and finally CEO of the Raleigh-based Restoration Systems, a company he describes as a "premier environmental firm" that restores wetlands for credits it then sells to developers to negate those destroyed in other places, as mandated by the federal Clean Water Act.
That background allowed Skvarla to see firsthand what it�s like for members of the public to interact with state agencies, a process he found largely combative and fraught with red tape.
"It�s been much more adversarial than it�s needed to be," he said. "People don�t have to have their fists up all the time. Neither side is a bad guy. In permitting situations, people on the environmental side want the needle to fall on one side, and people on the development side want it to fall on the other side, but I don�t think the two sides are that far apart."
Skvarla hopes to change that climate by encouraging agency employees to embrace customer service as their first priority, a mindset that�s grown steadily throughout state government for about the past year. That focus received a burst of renewed energy following the election of Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, legislators said.
"We want all government to adopt a service mentality," said state Sen. Thom Goolsby, R-New Hanover. "It is our tax money and they do work for us, and we expect the laws to be enforced and we expect the environment to be protected, but we all have to realize that we�re in this together."
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As secretary, Skvarla lacks the authority to change policy � including repealing or relaxing regulations and environmental protection measures. He has said repeatedly that he has no intention of spearheading similar measures through the legislature.
"We�re not going to go backwards in terms of the quality of environment," Skvarla said. "Our quality of environment will be maintained."
That includes the persistent rumor that Republicans will seek to dismantle DENR into separate factions � one consisting of zoos, aquariums and other beloved groups, another isolating the less popular regulatory branches, including the divisions of air and water quality.
"I think I can make a very good case that all DENR agencies can be kept under one umbrella," Skvarla said. "I have not had that conversation with anybody at the legislature, but I�ll bet that they will be good listeners if DENR can show they are able to strike the correct balance between environmental protection and our business community, to allow jobs to be created and growth to occur."
That mindset, coupled with a Republican super-majority in a state government that has in recent years slashed both DENR�s budget and its oversight capabilities, could spell disaster for protective measures currently in place to preserve natural resources, according to environmental experts.
"It will absolutely be easier for deregulation to take place under this administration," said David Webster, a biologist at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and a member of the state�s Coastal Resources Commission. "I�m always suspicious of the influence that special-interest groups have on the political process. By nature, they are advocates for their own narrow agendas and unfortunately, our political process allows that."
Still, Webster said he would largely refrain from judgment before changes are enacted.
Sometimes, he said, a diversity of opinion within state government can prove valuable, particularly in environmental regulations which can have an important effect on attracting businesses to the state.
"Although political appointees can influence the policy decisions, they tend to know better than to try to contradict what the experts in the discipline are telling them," Webster said. "I�m cautiously optimistic that we�ll get the ability to continue to do the good things we�re doing for the environment, because it is so important to our economic growth."


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Monday, November 21, 2011
Fresh off the back of bombing Libya under the guise of "humanitarian intervention" while calling on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down over mistreatment of protesters, the Obama administration has taken a noticeably different approach to Egypt's brutal military junta that is now busy torturing and killing demonstrators on the streets of Cairo.
"Clashes have again erupted in the Egyptian capital as security forces continue their efforts to clear Cairo's Tahrir Square of protesters. At least 33 people are reported to have died since the violence began on Saturday with hundreds more injured," reports BBC News.
The demonstrators are incensed at the ruling military council's failure to relinquish power ten months after Hosni Mubarak was ousted. Members of the council have openly admitted their plan to maintain overall control even after Parliamentary elections take place later this month.
"The legislature will remain in a subordinate role similar to Mr. Mubarak's former Parliament, they said, with the military council appointing the prime minister and cabinet," the New York Times reported last month.
The realization that one form of dictatorship has merely been replaced by another has prompted the unrest to spread to other cities, including Alexandria, Suez and Aswan.
However, while crackdowns on Libyan rebel fighters, who were still being described as "protesters" by the Obama administration and the western media even as they commandeered fighter jets and fired rocket-propelled grenade missiles, were robustly condemned, just as Syrian security forces have been similarly scorned for their treatment of militants in an unfolding civil war, the silence with regard to Egypt has been deafening.
Indeed, if anything the Obama administration has sided with the ruling military junta that refuses to hand over power to a democratically elected government and has responded to demonstrations by murdering protesters and carrying out brutal beatings.
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The U.S. government has 'shrugged off the abuses', reports Salon, with U.S. Ambassador for Middle East Transition William Taylor attributing the murders to the "inexperience" of Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF).
The Obama administration has worked through the SCAF to ensure that Egypt remains compliant with US and NATO geopolitical interests in the region.
"Ever since the mass uprising that led to the ouster of Mubarak on February 11, the Obama administration has worked closely with SCAF to try to end strikes and protests by Egyptian workers demanding social equality and democratic rights. It has sought at all costs to prevent a second revolution," writes Johannes Stern. "This fear of an independent movement of the Egyptian working class is shared by the entire Egyptian ruling elite."
The United States' support for the ruling Egyptian military junta is unsurprising given the fact that the majority of aid sent to the country has gone directly to the armed forces – including $1.3 billion in 2010 alone, with the Obama administration keen for this level of funding to be maintained despite America's own financial woes.
Indeed, the Egyptian military plans to entrench its power by building more M1A1 Abrams tanks via financial assistance from the U.S.
While openly threatening Syria with military under the pretext of averting a humanitarian catastrophe, the likes of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have not uttered a word of dissent against Egypt's brutal ruling military junta which is now in the process of killing and torturing its own people while the world looks on in horror.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.


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If a lighting ballast fails, do you change it out hot? That's a fairly common practice, but you can get electrocuted by 277V just as surely as from a higher voltage. If you're on a ladder, the fall might kill you even if you survive the shock. When you lockout and tagout the breaker supplying that ballast, you inconvenience people who work in that area. Nevertheless, unwiring the ballast while hot puts you at risk.
If you really must change ballasts while others are working in the area (instead of between shifts), you can shrink the time window if you first wire the ballasts with listed quick disconnects. In fact, you can find quick disconnects made specifically for luminaires. These special connectors prevent reverse wiring and are finger-safe. Consequently, you can unplug the ballast just as safely as if you were unplugging a floor fan. You could convert to the quick disconnect configuration case by case as ballasts need replacement. However, consider scheduling a mass conversion during a normal plant (or office) shutdown, in a manner similar to mass re-lamping.
Caution: This quick disconnects don't eliminate ladder safety requirements. Rope off the area around the ladder. You don't want to drop a heavy tool onto someone's unprotected head. Nor do you don't want someone knocking your ladder over while you're on it.


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7 Tips For Finding A Dubai Personal Trainer Certification
There are many great reasons for hiring a personal trainer, after all what better investment to make than in your own health. But before getting started there are 7 questions you should ask your Dubai personal trainer course.
Follow this step-by-step process…
1. Registered, insured and qualified: Your Dubai personal trainer should be certified by a reputable association who rigorously test their students, they should hold a certificate 4 in personal training or a university degree. Your personal trainer should have liability insurance cover up to 10 million and be certified with REPS.
2. Consultation: Does your personal trainer look the part? Let's be honest, your Dubai personal trainer should be in good shape. If they can't motivate themselves and live by what they preach how will they motivate you? Also do your personalities match? It's important to find a personal trainer you feel comfortable with otherwise you'll unlikely stick with the program.
3. Determine goals and timeframes: Your personal trainer should help you determine your fitness goals and set you realistic timeframes to achieve them by. Whether it's to lose a few kilos or to run a marathon your Dubai personal trainer should set out a set by step plan for you to follow and leave nothing to chance. Every time you reach your goal, a new set of goals and timeframes should be set.
4. Testimonials: Ask your Dubai personal trainer qualification for case studies from past clients, most personal training companies will have before and after pictures on their websites.
5. Fitness test and analysis: To evaluate your current level of fitness and to uncover any potential health issues your Dubai personal trainer should perform a thorough fitness test and health analysis. This should be repeated on a regular basis as tool to monitor your progress.
6. Nutrition plans: Every personal trainer knows that nutrition accounts for approximately 70-80% of any weight loss program, if they don't have an effective nutrition blueprint for you to follow you will only achieve 20-30% of your possible results. A reputable Dubai personal trainer or fitness company should provide you with all the necessary tools to take the guesswork out of getting your diet right.
7. Where, when and how much: Most Dubai personal trainer courses will come and meet you in your home or local park. Establish a time that is convenient and agree upon a fixed rate. It's not always advisable to go with the cheapest option, after all you get what you pay for and if a more expensive trainer can get you better results in half the time it may work out cheaper in the long run.


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Nick Woodman is the 36-year-old founder and CEO of GoPro, a wearable camera produced by Woodman Labs that can capture footage for athletes as they whiz down a mountain or surf 6-foot waves. Last week, Foxconn purchased 8.88 percent of Woodman's camera company for $200 million. Forbes learned that Woodman is the majority owner. Even if he owns a minimum of 51 percent of the company, that means Woodman is now a billionaire, worth at least $1.15 billion. Inc interviewed the GoPro founder over the summer. Reporter Tom Foster paints a picture of a "total bro" who throws around the word "dude" frequently. He's a thrill-seeker and also the survivor of a failed dotcom startup.
Here's his story: Woodman was a visual arts major from UC San Diego who started a marketing company called funBag in the early 2000s.He raised outside capital for the operation, and things were looking good. Then the tech bubble burst, and Woodman found himself failing to save his company and out of a job. So in 2002, when he was inspired to try a startup again, he decided he'd do whatever he could to bootstrap the operation and build something that could be instantly profitable. An idea struck him while surfing in Australia and Indonesia for five months. Woodman had been frustrated that he couldn't take good action shots of himself or his friends while they were catching waves. Surfers were using disposable cameras strapped to their wrists with a rubber band. It would often fly off in the middle of the action and hit them in the face.
Woodman wanted to invent a strong, adjustable, elastic band that could secure a camera to a person's body as they participated in an extreme sport.
To fund the project, Woodman and his now-wife purchased 600 belts made of sea shells from a Bali market. Each cost them $1.90. When the Woodmans returned to the states, they drove up and down California's coast selling the belts for as much as $60 a pop.
With that money and a $35,000 loan from his mother, Woodman created the first GoPro camera straps. It took him 2 years to perfect the product. Jill, Woodman's wife, took the position as the straps' salesperson. The company's first break came in 2004, when a Japanese company ordered 100 items at an action sports tradeshow.
Eventually, Woodman began creating his own cameras and mounts, so extreme athletes like racecar drivers could point the cameras back on themselves while racing. Enthusiasts began uploading videos of their GoPro experiences online, and word spread.
Now, GoPro's cameras retail for $300 with all sorts of add-ons that can be purchased to capture amazing moments in real-time. The company has grown to 150 people and Woodman is rolling in cash.
Here's what footage taken by GoPro looks like:
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Golf ATX golf courses offer a great golf experience at an affordable price. The six city-operated public golf courses and one short-practice course are centrally located and minutes from downtown Austin. Each course is unique in design and setting, and golfers of all ages and skill levels visit the Golf ATX courses to play recreationally and competitively. Golf ATX - experience a round for yourself.


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The Great Orion Nebula
A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a region of the Great Nebula in Orion, as imaged by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2.
This is one of the nearest regions of very recent star formation (300,000 years ago). The nebula is a giant gas cloud illuminated by the brightest of the young hot stars on the right side of the picture. Many of the fainter young stars are surrounded by disks of dust and gas, that are slightly more than twice the diameter of the solar system (or 100 Astronomical Units in diameter).
The great plume of gas in the upper left in this picture is the result of the ejection of material from a recently formed star.
The diagonal length of the image is 1.6 light years. Red light depicts emission in Nitrogen, green is Hydrogen, and blue is Oxygen.
The picture was obtained with the second generation Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC-2), which was installed in the Hubble Space Telescope during the STS-61 Hubble Servicing Mission. The WFPC-2 includes within it optics that correct for the aberration of the telescope's primary mirror, restoring the optical quality of images obtained with the telescope to the level that the telescope was originally designed to provide.
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because models allow the trained user to study the design before it is built and analyze its properties. Usually, testing and analyzing a model is cheaper and faster than fabricating and refabricating the product.
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TomTom touts second iPhone GPS-boost car cradle
ProClip attachment this time
TomTom has introduced its second iPhone accessory: a new cradle that fits onto a special dashboard fixture.
Said car mount is the ProClip, from the US company of the same name. ProClip - the product - is clipped around the dashboard's air vents so it should keep your phone in place better than a mount that's attached to the windscreen by suction. Which is how TomTom's first iPhone cradle works.
TomTom's ProClip iPhone cradle: better than a sucker?
TomTom's new cradle screws onto the car mount. ProClip makes a range of mounts, each for a specific model of motor.
Like the first cradle, the new model incorporates an extra, SirfStar III GPS pick-up. It also has a microphone and speaker for hands-free calling.
TomTom is taking orders for the cradle, which costs £100, now. Orders are due to be fulfilled from 25 February, the company's website says. That price doesn't include the ProClip car mount, which has to be ordered direct from ProClip and chosen to match your car. ®
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To watch Kinect Sesame Street TV on your Xbox 360 console, you need the following:
To start Kinect Sesame Street TV later, go to apps, then My Apps and then browse or search for the Kinect Sesame Street TV app.
When you start the Kinect Sesame Street TV app for the first time, you are prompted to select a storage device to track progress and record achievements.
Next, on the Sesame Home hub, you are prompted to Activate your Season Pass either by redeeming your DVD code or by purchasing a season pass. From the Sesame Home hub, you can:
From the Library hub, you can:
From the Your Journal hub, you can:
In the Parent Tips area, you can find educational episodes for your child, such as "Goodbye Pacifier" and "Siblings".
From the Settings hub, you can:
When you purchase the two-game disc pack from a local retailer, you get access to a full season of interactive TV episodes. Each disc contains four standalone episodes that you can watch offline, even if you're not connected to Xbox Live.
For a richer experience, go to the Get More Sesame section, where you can download and install the Kinect Sesame Street TV app. To use the Kinect Sesame Street TV app, you need to be connected to Xbox Live and have an Xbox Live account. However, as part of your game disc purchase, you receive a DVD code unlocks the full experience with in the app. For more information, see Redeem a Code.
The game disc option gives you and your child the ability to interact and play without ever going online.
To watch Kinect Sesame Street TV on your console, you need a Season Pass.
The first time you start the app, you are prompted to activate a Season Pass by selecting Try it Now. If you select Maybe Later when you start the app, you are prompted to activate or purchase a season pass each time you interact with content that requires a Season Pass.
The Season Pass comes with the game disc set. It can also be purchased separately. With the Season Pass, you receive:
You can purchase individual interactive episodes separately, but you will not be able to access the additional video content.
Note Purchasing each of the episodes separately does not unlock the additional video content that is included with the Season Pass, and there are no discounts on the Season Pass based on prior episode purchases.
With the game discs, you receive a game token card that has a 25-digit number on it. Here's how to redeem the code:
You can also redeem your code from the Xbox Dashboard. For more information about how to do this, see Redeem a Code.
If you have downloaded the Kinect Sesame Street app from the Apps Store without purchasing the game discs, you can still take advantage of all of the game content by purchasing a Season Pass. Here's how:
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Hordeland Security is a guild that started at launch. Over our World of Warcraft history, we raided on Blackhand, Baelgun, and now Turalyon. We are a semi-hardcore 20-25-man raiding guild. Our goal is to finish Heroic mode before the next tier and then dabble into Mythic content; all while having a weekly raid time of less than 5 hours a week. We are a fun group of mature adults, but we take raiding seriously. Members are expected to know when to goof around and when it's time to be serious.
Raid Schedule: Tuesday, Thursday, 20:00- 22:15 CDT. (If you can show up 10-15 minutes early that would be great.)
We understand that no one has an unlimited amount of time to play. We hold ourselves accountable when utilizing the time we invest. We only expect the same level of commitment in return.
Applicant requirements:
- Be excellent to one another. We emphasize bringing the player, not the class - it's our recipe for success these past 9 years.
- Maturity.
- Raid awareness.
- Ability to listen and respond on Discord.
- Ability to respond positively to constructive criticism - own up to mistakes.
- Dedication and reliability. Show up consistently and on time.
- History of performance, either through logs, references, or general raiding experience.
- Stable internet connection and a computer decent enough to not lock up or lag consistently.
- Willingness to contribute actively. This entails reading up on boss mechanics ahead of time and researching class-specific tips for upcoming fights.
- Competitive progression while having a light raid schedule.
- Dedicated roster of close-knit players that show up prepared and ready to progress.
- All raid consumables - flasks, potions, enchants, gems and buff food - are covered and we expect raiders to maximize the use of these tools. We have a stipend for guild repairs from the guild bank.
- Ranged DPS
- Ranged or Melee DPS with an alternate heal spec
- We are always accepting great players, regardless, so if you do not see your role posted, please do not hesitate to apply.
- We use Openraid as our main recruitment tool. We pull in as many Openraiders as we can for our Heroic raiding content, and will utilize repeat Openraiders with good performance, good attitude, and good attendance. This lets us figure out if a prospective member is a good fit for us.
- If you are interested in joining us, please talk our recruitment officer: Maplefire, and sign up on Openraid. You may also make a new thread in this forum with some information about yourself.
- If we like what we see and hear, we will you bring you in for a 1-4 week trial period. It is up to you to wow us at this point both ingame and in communication.
- Link to our Openraid link to sign up for raids:


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Keeping a vehicle clean is not as hard as some people might think. The basics of cleaning are getting easier and easier, as today's car care companies have spent millions in R&D ("research and development") to bring you the best products for your needs. These companies know that different people have different needs; some people want to get down and dirty while others want to get the same results with minimal effort.
That's why some manufacturers have developed new technologies like "wax as you dry," which leaves a smooth, deep finish on your car without turning it into an all-day project. Today's technology has come a long way from years ago. For one thing, the involvement of environmental groups has forced the industry to "clean up its act" and step up its game. Car care companies have had to create products that can clean while using less water, as the run-off can contaminate the oceans. They have developed car washes that recycle water, and most car washes in the nation are being converted to this new technology.
The paint finish industry has really evolved as well, producing urethane paints that can be color-sanded and buffed just a few hours after they've been sprayed (if shot properly). This means that the process and products for buffing a car's finish have also evolved. The chemicals and solutions involved to give you a deep color are better than ever. Automotive paints-whether a single-stage lacquer or three-stage urethane-are not the same as in the past. To this day, paint manufacturers spend thousands of hours making sure that their finishes look as rich as the old-style paint jobs. By 2009, custom painting is going to be done with water-base format paint. The paint companies will most likely have to reinvent themselves, in turn bringing new care products to accommodate the new paint finishes.
New waxes are not like the old waxes that you had to strip off after several coats and start over due to too much build-up. Believe it or not, there are now a few waxes on the market that are designed to work with having more wax put on top of it, getting rid of all the unwanted swirl marks and light scratches caused by improper care or even normal wear and tear. Some manufacturers, like Turtle Wax, have developed wax that dries clear. These waxes also don't stain plastic trim like other waxes did in the past.
How to keep it clean is sometimes easier than you think. A little elbow grease and you're on your way. The first step in cleaning the interior of your car is to vacuum it thoroughly. Use a vacuum with a flexible extension and a crevice tool. This will help to reach difficult areas like around the dash and console. The first step in washing your vehicle's exterior will normally be to clean the tires and wheels, which prevents splashing your car's freshly cleaned and waxed paint.
This is an extremely important step, since brake dust, if allowed to remain, can permanently bond with and etch some wheel surfaces. When you're ready to wash and wax your vehicle's exterior, make sure that the paint surface is cool to the touch. It's also a good idea to start washing your car from the top and work your way down.
Here are nine simple steps for maintaining a clean, beautiful car. How many of these steps do you perform when cleaning your ride? Following this order should help keep your car looking like a champ.
1. Vacuum the interior2. Clean the wheels3. Wash/dry the exterior4. Quick wax5. Polish/wax6. Dress the tires and exterior trim7. Dress the interior8. Glass surfaces9. Final wipe and touch-up
Our 2007 Car Care Guide will take you back to basics, as we're going to show you how to clean and wax your ride the lowrider way. Now check out some of the latest car care items that you should not be without.


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It is surprising to many Canadians today that 150,000 Aboriginal children were forced to go to Indian Residential Schools from 1831 to 1996 as part of Canada's official efforts to assimilate the Indigenous people. It is not surprising that many victims did not survive the experience.
Walking with a survivor through the trauma of being removed from his home, language and culture at 6 years of age is emotional and uncomfortable. This uncomfortable journey is necessary if we are to empathise with those who eventually find a path to healing and a productive life.
"Yummo Comes Home" is the story of an Okanogan/ Thompson Aboriginal man who revisits the Kamloops B.C. Residential School building where he was hurt to reclaim and bring back home his boyhood innocence and confidence. The son of a settler immigrant, Don Klaassen, portrays the sentiments of the descendants of the immigrant settlers who are discovering this often forgotten portion of Canadian history.
The two men demonstrate what it means to experience reconciliation and take bold steps to shape a hopeful future in this 28 minute documentary video.
PURCHASE THE VIDEO for your church or group to start your own journey.
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The Dolphins have announced plans to renovate Sun Life Stadium, making clear that they want to host another Super Bowl.
"Our intention is to make Sun Life Stadium a world-class facility that is competition-ready for Super Bowls, college football championships, and global soccer events, as well as providing a much better environment to watch the Dolphins, Hurricanes and Orange Bowl every year," Dolphins owner Stephen Ross said in a statement. "I think our planned modernization will maintain the special outdoor flavor of Miami, while giving us the look of the best stadiums around the world."
Although the Dolphins' statement says private funds would cover the majority of construction costs, the Miami Herald reports that the Dolphins are planning to ask state and local governments to foot some of the tab for the projected $400 million cost of stadium upgrades.
That could be a problem in Miami, where Major League Baseball's Marlins got a sweetheart deal on their new stadium — a deal that, according to public opinion polls, most Miami residents view as an expensive mistake. The Florida State Senator who represents the district that includes Sun Life Stadium told the Miami Herald that there's no way the Dolphins will get the same kind of deal that the Marlins got.
But the Dolphins will ask for some public money for renovation plans including installing more comfortable seats and new seating closer to the field, HD video screens, a partial roof that gives fans shade on hot days and shields fans from the rain but allows the team to keep playing on natural grass, and better concession areas.


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Fifteen candidates from area school districts came out for a forum sponsored by the Monroe County Tea Party at the Eastern Monroe Public Library.
Fifteen candidates from area school districts came out for a forum sponsored by the Monroe County Tea Party at the Eastern Monroe Public Library.
Platforms rarely veered from goals of fiscal responsibility and lower taxes, but differences came into play when talk centered on how to achieve both, especially in dealing with teachers' unions and pay raises.
"We can't afford it," said Stroudsburg Area School District candidate Bruce Stewart. "Our school boards are getting squeezed on the budget, and the kids are paying the price."
Stewart noted a more than 10 percent drop in enrollment since the 2006 and 2007 school year.
"We continue to lose students. Now our budget is $94 million, and I constantly hear about cuts to kids' programs," Stewart said.
Centering on the topic of teacher raises in light of declining student enrollment, Pocono Mountain School District candidate John Coyle asked, "Why are our taxes going up and our enrollment going down?"
However, he was fully in support of teacher raises and a recent 30 percent boost in salaries for about half a dozen district employees.
"These are the people that pretty much pulled in the carriage for us. These were the people that were doing all the extra work for us," Coyle said.
Accountability was another topic of discussion.
Cindy Blake, a daycare teacher who is running for the Stroudsburg Area School Board, said she wanted to see more community involvement and board transparency.
"As the years go by, parents aren't welcomed as much," she said about school board meetings. "We need to be more careful in how we spend our money."
Pocono Mountain School Board candidate Dawn Wood, a personal trainer, was in support of increased activity in the schools. While her primary goal was fiscal responsibility, she was outspoken about the need for gym class and athletics in schools.
"When I heard that most furloughs are going to be gym teachers, it broke my heart," Wood said. "We need more movement, not less."
She said children spend more time sitting, on the bus, in class and at home than they do engaged in exercise.
The primary election for school board directors and local government officials will be held May 21.


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Fish landings are the part of the fish catch that is put ashore. (Please refer to the European Environmental Agency's website at
http://glossary.eea.europa.eu/terminolo ... html?term= fish%20landing [last accessed: June 19th 2009]).
A boat day is a measure of fishing effort (e.g. example, ten vessels in a fishery, each fishing for fifty days, would have expended five hundred boat-days of effort). (Please refer to the FAO Fisheries Glossary at http://www.fao.org/fi/glossary/default.asp [last accessed: June 19th 2009])
To catch: to undertake any activity that results in taking fish (sensu lato) out of its environment dead or alive. To bringing fish on board a vessel dead or alive. Modified from FAO (1998): Guidelines for the routine collection of capture fishery data. FAO Fish. Tech. Pap, 382: 113 p.
Catch: The total number (or weight) of fish caught by fishing operations.
Catch should include all fish killed by the act of fishing, not just those landed. Restrepo V. (1999): Annotated Glossary of Terms in Executive Summary Reports of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas´ Standing Committee on Research and Statistics (SCRS). ICCAT.
The catch is usually expressed in terms of wet weight. It refers sometimes to the total amount caught, and sometimes only to the amount landed. The catches which are not landed are called discards.
Cooke, J.G. (1984), Glossary of technical terms. In Exploitation of Marine Communities, R.M. May (ed), Springer-Verlag


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You can easily add or remove your Xbox profile on any Xbox 360 console. See the steps on this page to find out how.
Note Your Xbox profile is the same for both the Xbox 360 and the Xbox One console.
You may want to use your Xbox profile on a friend's Xbox 360 console for multiplayer gaming, or to re-add it because it was accidentally deleted from your own console. You can also remove it from another Xbox 360.
Here's how to add your Xbox profile to any Xbox 360 console:
Note Not seeing Download Profile? This means that you're signed in under another profile. Press the X button on your controller to sign out, confirm, and then select Download Profile.
Note If you have a child account, your parent's Microsoft account information is required to download your Xbox profile on the Xbox 360.
Keep in mind that when you choose this option, anyone who uses your console can sign in as you and use your account information. This includes any credit card information you might have saved.
Important If you downloaded your Xbox profile to another console and you chose the Remember Password option, you can remotely remove the password so that your Xbox profile can't be accessed by someone on the other console. To learn how, see Manage your sign-in preferences on your Xbox 360 console.
Here's how you can remove any Xbox profile from your Xbox 360 console:
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Salesforce Announces Timing of its Fiscal 2015 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Financial Results Conference Call
SAN FRANCISCO – Feb. 2, 2015 – Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM company, today announced that its fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2015 results will be released on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, after the close of the market. The company will host a conference call at 2:00 p.m. (PST) / 5:00 p.m. (EST) to discuss its financial results with the investment community. A live web broadcast of the event will be available on the Salesforce Investor Relations website at www.salesforce.com/investor. A live dial-in is available domestically at 866-901-SFDC or 866-901-7332 and internationally at 706-902-1764, passcode 76220312. A replay will be available at (800) 585-8367 or (855) 859-2056 until midnight (EST) Mar. 25, 2015.
Salesforce, the global CRM leader, empowers companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way. For more information about Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), visit: www.salesforce.com.
Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase Salesforce applications should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CRM." For more information please visit https://www.salesforce.com, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.


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Jolt Productivity Award: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages, by Bruce A. Tate
Ever wonder what the attraction is to those programming languages that have built up ardent followers? Have you wanted to have the time to compare and contrast these languages with a fair and honest approach? Bruce Tate, author of Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, asked these questions and took the time to find the answers. His answers make up this chapter.
Unlike Andrew Binstock's editorial, which condemns books that hope to teach languages to naïve readers in 24 hours, this book proposes only an overview of the languages to give the experienced reader a sense of each language. In this sense, Seven Languages in Seven Weeks offers a tapas of modern language analysis; small portions offering just enough of a taste to decide whether the selection is good enough for a second helping or even a main dish. Each language is presented with its history (along with an interview with its creator); a quick tour of interesting syntax, conditionals, operators, and features; and a summary of the language's core strengths and weaknesses along with author's final thoughts on his experience. You will have to buy the book to find out which languages the author found most to his liking.
Each chapter's introduction begins with the featured languages being matched with popular movie characters:
- Ruby = Mary Poppins
- Io = Ferris Bueller
- Prolog = Rain Main
- Scala = Edward Scissorhands
- Erlang = Agent Smith
- Clojure = Yoda
- Haskell = Spock
These character analogies are spot on, and had a profound effect on orienting my mind on how to interact with the syntax and capabilities of each of the languages analyzed in the book. Personally, the book helped me gain a deeper understanding of Prolog and Haskell, enough to prompt me to warrant a closer look. I have also been tracking Scala closely, and Haskell is one of those "when I'm stranded on a desert island" languages to learn. As for Io, I don't anticipate having a need for that language any time soon, but at least now I know what its strengths and weaknesses are and how to write a simple Io coroutine.
Perhaps the reason for Ruby's inclusion into this exclusive club of languages (with otherwise-limited market awareness/penetration, like Io and Haskell) had to do with Pragmatic Bookshelf's heavy bias toward the language. After all, the majority of Pragmatic's titles are Ruby-centric. For those who are already Ruby fans, this chapter is a wash. As for fans of other popular dynamic languages like Python or Perl, they won't find them mentioned anywhere in the book. However, I contend that anyone who feels strongly about such and such language that didn't get included in the book is missing the point of the author's experiment. This isn't a book about cheering on the winners and sneering at the losers. It's about one developer's quest to understand those languages that are making waves in the computing ocean of established, well-marketed languages like Java and C#.
I enjoyed exploring the insights that Seven Languages had to offer, and I commend the author for taking the time to delve into up-and-comers like Clojure and Scala; doing so helped me decide which of these are worth my time to pursue further. The book offers an engaging travelogue with highlights of what to see and what to avoid. Mr. Tate, who wrote several Java books before undertaking Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, should consider writing a sequel, perhaps "Another Seven Weeks with Another Seven Languages" that will examine another batch of languages, perhaps even those suggested in the book's discussion forum (Ada, PL/I ,and Google's Go for starters).
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Biological Sciences
Research Highlights
May 2009
Energy Source Influences Found in Bacterium Immobilization of Radionuclides
A. dehalogenans makes technetium and uranium less mobile, less soluble, less risky
Transmission electron micrograph image of A. dehalogenans 2CP-C.
Results: Recent scientific findings show that the bacterium Anaeromyxobacter dehalogenans can efficiently use either organic carbon or hydrogen as an electron donor—or energy source—to reduce the solubility of uranium. This could benefit cleanup efforts at the U.S. Department of Energy's Hanford Site, where subsurface sediments have electron donor variability that may work with versatile bacteria such as Anaeromyxobacter to make uranium less risky to the environment.
A research team led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory investigated mechanisms involved in reducing radionuclide contaminants by A. dehalogenans. At the Hanford Site, uranium and technetium are contaminants whose migrations in the subsurface are anticipated being a major risk factor to the Columbia River in the future. Biotransformation of uranium and technetium can reduce their mobility in the subsurface by converting them to less soluble forms, thus decreasing their eventual threat to the river.
Previously, scientists showed that A. dehalogenans coupled cellular growth with uranium reduction; however, they knew little about the biotransformation product of this reaction or the interaction of this bacterium with other radionuclides. In this study, scientists observed that the electron donor source provided for uranium reduction influenced the reduction rates and the extent of aggregation of extracellular uraninite, a solid form of uranium resulting from microbial reduction. Their results were published in the February 2009 issue of Environmental Microbiology.
They saw that when Anaeromyxobacter cells were provided with an organic electron donor source, distinct nanoparticle aggregates formed that were ten times larger in diameter than individual nanoparticles produced during hydrogen oxidation. Similarly, individual extracellular technetium dioxide nanoparticles aggregated in clusters greater than 50 nm in diameter, although this was not linked to the electron donor source.
Why it matters: The results of this work provide the scientific community important insights into Anaeromyxobacter electron transfer to contaminants found at DOE sites that will aid in finding remediation solutions. Recent findings indicate that members of the Anaeromyxobacter genus contribute to metal and radionuclide reduction in contaminated groundwater and sediments at DOE's Oak Ridge Field Research Center in Tennessee. They may also be present at other contaminated DOE sites, including Hanford.
Methods: Using high-resolution electron microscopy, the scientists determined the localization, size and degree of aggregation of the nascent nanoparticles. These findings provide a better understanding of the importance of electron donor type on radionuclide reduction by Anaeromyxobacter and the nature of the insoluble oxide precipitates. They then used kinetic studies and transmission electron microscopy to determine the localization, size and degree of aggregation of the less-soluble technetium and uraninite nanoparticles.
What's next: The results produced in this study suggest that Anaeromyxobacter uses biomolecular mechanisms similar to other model metal-reducing bacteria such as Geobacter and Shewanella to transform radionuclide contaminants. Further investigations will be needed to consider the biomolecular mechanisms contributing to metal reduction by Anaeromyxobacter and the physiochemical properties of the nanoparticulate end products and their long-term behavior in porous subsurface such as that at the Hanford Site.
Acknowledgments: The scientific team included Matt Marshall, Alice Dohnalkova, Dave Kennedy, Andy Plymale, Oleg Geydebrekht, John Zachara, Jim Fredrickson and Alex Beliaev at PNNL; Sara Thomas and Frank Löffler at the Georgia Institute of Technology; and Rob Sanford at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This work was supported by DOE's Environmental Remediation Sciences Program, and high-resolution transmission electron microscopic imaging was performed at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory through the Scientific User Proposal system. EMSL is a DOE national scientific user facility located at PNNL.
Reference: Marshall MJ, AC Dohnalkova, DW Kennedy, AE Plymale, SH Thomas, FE Löffler, RA Sanford, JM Zachara, JK Fredrickson, and AS Beliaev. 2009 Electron donor-dependent radionuclide reduction and nanoparticle formation by Anaeromyxobacter dehalogenans strain 2CP-C. Environmental Microbiology 11:534-543 (doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01795.x).


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Few Cool Ideas to Make Funky Animal Costumes
If you aren't the owner of an animal onesie shop, there are still many ways to get mammal dresses for competition or party. With a little crafting, creativity, and a bit of decorative accessories, you can make animal costumes, which are great for productions, playtime, and events, like Halloween, masquerades. Follow these guidelines to unleash your wild side, creating an awesome animal suit for your little ones. You can as well utilize your own dress, customizing few things here and there, to reflect your creativity and suit your needs, while saving costs as well.
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You can view some creative pieces at http://www.kigurumionesies.co.uk to get an idea of what the animal costumes look like. These attires are a great way to have fun, while looking totally different. The mammal dresses are available in adult size as well, but looks really cute on children. You can get dresses from dinosaurs to simple cows, bears, etc.
Variety of Choices
These are available as goofy, baggy costumes, as well as couple dresses, which is a pair of male and female version of same species. These are made up of range of materials, such as spandex, and polyester. These ideas will help in you in creating a safe and sturdy animal costume.
Safety Matters the Most
Security should be your primary reason for concern; when creating animal dresses, you'll need to ensure that the material is light in weight, allowing kids to move freely. The costume shouldn't limit the movement; in fact, kids should feel comfortable inside. It's imperative to ensure that the masks are clear enough for vision and shouldn't restrict breathing.
All these things have to be checked, so that there is enough space for mouth, nose, and eyes holes. Hence, when creating animal eyes, keep the two holes wide open, so that kids can see through everything, while even air flows properly into the mask. If you're creating dresses to be worn at evening or night parties, it is advisable to use reflective or light colours, so that pedestrians and drivers can easily spot them.
Creating the Main Body
Lightweight materials, like cardboard and breathable cotton are imperative to body; for larger dresses, like horse or panda, it is better to sew your own fabric, so that shades match accurately. If you're making smaller dresses, you can make use of daily costumes, like sweatshirts and jogging suit, which have same or very similar colours of the mammal and keep holes wherever necessary, so that you get enough space to breathe inside. It is better to start with legging, track pants in colours suitable to your animal of choice, such as pink for flamingo, green for gecko, and grey for elephants. Whatever the material or dress you choose, do not forget to keep space for widest range of movement, so that you don't bump into obstacles or trip or slip as you walk.
Feathers and Trails
You can make it using a piece of fabric or dying a rope of the colour of the animal. You can also make use of tube sock or long stock, filling it with other piece of clothing to get a proper shape.
Creating animal costume is all about having fun, allowing your kids to have great time with friends and family, so go ahead and make use of these ideas.


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The Story of Stuff: The Bigger Picture
The Story of Stuff
10 Little and Big Things You Can Do
The Story of Stuff: Another Way
YES! resources for a deeper understanding about consumption, our materials-based economy, and alternative ways of living.
Here are YES! articles to support teaching with The Story of Stuff. Use these stories to get your students thinking and talking about the golden arrow of consumption, our identity as consumers, the purpose of an economy, what makes us happy, globalization, and what a just and sustainable world could look like.
The Overspent American
Have your students consider what author Juliet Schor and simplicity leaders have to say about how we can get free of the mind-numbing cycle of overwork and overconsumption.
By Sarah van Gelder. YES! Magazine #6 Summer 1998
The Good Life: Consumerism is so '90s
In growing numbers, Americans are rediscovering that the real meaning of the good life doesn't come from things they can buy but from things they can feel. Ask your students what they believe is the good life and whether consumerism is outdated.
By Holly Dressel. YES! Magazine #37 Spring 2006
Here is another engaging resource for your students—a short overview of John de Graaf's book and film titled Affluenza offering the symptoms, the causes, and (gratefully) the cure to overconsumption.
By John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas Naylor. YES! Magazine #20 Winter 2002
Just So Much And No More
Here is a compelling article that will empower your students to think about how we can choose to live—by economic or Earth terms.
By Donella Meadows. YES! Magazine #18 Summer 2001
Economics of Life in Balance
Students can read and role-play this article as they consider another perspective on the purpose of an economy and what truly brings happiness.
By Regina Gregory. YES! Magazine #40 Winter 2007
The Secret to Happiness
Annie Leonard in The Story of Stuff says: "In the U.S. we have more stuff than ever before, but polls show that our national happiness is actually declining." Encourage your students to consider what David Myers has to say about happiness and ask them whether money really makes us happy. Is the old American dream of individually achieved affluence the answer? This article will help them think through what a new American dream might mean.
By David Myers. YES! Magazine #30 Summer 2004
A Civic Economy
Writer and policy analyst Jonathan Rowe will help your students think about an economy as a social system and human interaction as a valuable social product that economists rarely consider.
YES! Magazine #6 Summer 1998
Real Wealth: Redefining Abundance in an Era of Limits
Use this article from our 1st edition of YES! to get your students thinking and talking about how we could make a paradigm shift from Adam Smith's context of scarcity to one based on generosity and sufficiency.
YES! Magazine #Beta1 1996-7
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
For high school and university students: this article introduces David Korten's ideas about the Great Turning and Earth Community: "Earth Community, by contrast, organizes by partnership, unleashes the human potential for creative co-operation, and shares resources and surpluses for the good of all." YES! Magazine #38 Summer 2006
For additional resources about David and his work see: www.yesmagazine.org/greatturning
|Facing the Future offers innovative curriculum for teaching about global issues and sustainability. Find out more about their free lesson plans for grades 5-12 to complement your teaching on The Story of Stuff.


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|portable (needs FFI)
|Safe Haskell
Callbacks are functions that are called whenever certain events happen. For example, you may use a callback to know when a player bumps into an enemy. Or when a bullet hits its target. Or how strong was a collision.
- data Begin
- data PreSolve
- data PostSolve
- data Separate
- data PostStep t
- class NotSeparate t
- class NotPostStep t
- data Callback t a
- shapes :: Callback t (Shape, Shape)
- isFirstContact :: Callback t Bool
- normal :: NotSeparate t => Callback t Vector
- points :: NotSeparate t => Callback t [Position]
- totalImpulse :: NotSeparate t => Callback (PostStep t) Vector
- totalImpulseWithFriction :: NotSeparate t => Callback (PostStep t) Vector
- currentSpaceAdd :: Entity a => a -> Callback (PostStep t) ()
- currentSpaceRemove :: Entity a => a -> Callback (PostStep t) ()
- postStep :: (Entity a, NotPostStep t) => a -> Callback (PostStep t) () -> Callback t ()
- unsafePostStep :: Entity a => Space -> a -> IO () -> IO ()
- data CollisionHandler = Handler {
- setDefaultCollisionHandler :: Space -> CollisionHandler -> IO ()
- addCollisionHandler :: Space -> CollisionType -> CollisionType -> CollisionHandler -> IO ()
- removeCollisionHandler :: Space -> CollisionType -> CollisionType -> IO ()
Collision handlers
Collision handlers (
CollisionHandler) are tuples of 4
callback functions. Each function is called when a
different kind of collision events happens. Most of the
time they are triggered inside a
step function call, however they can
also be called when a shape is removed.
Collision events always happen between two shapes, say
b. Possible events are:
- Shapes
bstarted touching for the first time on this step (that is, they were not touching on the last step). May return
Falseto ignore the collision entirely or
Trueto process it normally. If the collision is ignored, then you will not receive
PostSolveevents, however you will receive a
Separateevent when they stop overlapping.
- Shapes
bare touching during this step. May return
Falseto ignore the collision for this step or
Trueto process it normally. You may also use this step to give custom friction or elasticity values.
- Shapes
bare touching and their collision response has been processed. You can retrive the collision force (e.g. to calculate sound volumes or damage amounts).
- Shapes
bstopped touching (or overlapping, if the collision was ignored on
Begin) for the first time on this step (that is, on the last step they were touching or overlapping).
You may have many different kinds of collision handlers.
Each collision handler is associated with two
CollisionTypes. Whenever shapes
a and
b collide, if
there was a callback associated with
a's and
collision types, then it is called. Otherwise the default
callback is called. The default callback is also
The callbacks themselves may execute arbitrary operations with a simple exception: callbacks cannot add or remove entities from the space. To that end, there exist another kind of callback:
- Called on the end of the
stepfunction. This is the only callback where you may remove entities from the space, using
Post-step callbacks are not collision handlers, because they
aren't called for each collision. Instead, inside a
collision handler you may use
postStep to add a post-step
callback that will be called when the
step ends. Each
post-step callback is associated with an entity, and there
can be only one post-step callback per entity.
Callback types
Phantom type used in
Begin collision events.
Phantom type used in
PreSolve collision events.
Phantom type used in
PostSolve collision events.
Phantom type used in
Separate collision events.
Phantom type used in
PostStep callbacks.
The phantom type
t inside this
PostStep phantom type is
the collision event that originated this
PostStep callback.
For example, if you add a
PostStep from a
Begin handler,
then it will have type
PostStep Begin. It is used by the
PostStep's instance of
|NotSeparate t => NotSeparate (PostStep t)
class NotSeparate t Source
Class of collision events other than
Separate. That is,
collision events where the shapes are touching or overlapping.
class NotPostStep t Source
Class of callbacks called from collision events. That is,
everything other than
Callback monad
Monad where callbacks are run. Within this monad you have
access to functions describing the collision. You can also
run any IO actions using
liftIO from
transformers package.
However, remember not to call
spaceAdd or
outside a
PostStep callback -- use
postStep instead, for example:
postStep entity (currentSpaceRemove entity)
The phantom type
t describes the type of callback, which can be
- When the collision first occurs.
- Before the collision is processed.
- After the collision is processed.
- When the collision ends.
- After the
This phantom type is used to disallow invalid operations. For
example, you can't calculate the normal of a collision if you
are in a
Separate event, as there is no collision inside
this event. And you can't add a new post-step callback inside
a post-step callback.
Callback functions
Functions that may be called within a callback. We divide them in groups according to the kinds of callbacks allowed to use them.
These functions can be used in any kind of callback.
isFirstContact :: Callback t BoolSource
True iff this is the first step that the shapes touched.
Only when colliding
These functions make sense only if the shapes
a and
b are colliding, i.e., outside a
Separate event.
normal :: NotSeparate t => Callback t VectorSource
The normal vector of the collision.
points :: NotSeparate t => Callback t [Position]Source
Points where the collision occured.
Only in
These functions can be used only in
events. Use the
postStep function to add a
PostStep callback.
totalImpulse :: NotSeparate t => Callback (PostStep t) VectorSource
The total impulse that was applied to resolve the collision. Returns incorrect results if elastic iterations are being used.
totalImpulseWithFriction :: NotSeparate t => Callback (PostStep t) VectorSource
The total impulse with friction that was applied to resolve the collision. Returns incorrect results if elastic iterations are being used.
currentSpaceAdd :: Entity a => a -> Callback (PostStep t) ()Source
currentSpaceRemove :: Entity a => a -> Callback (PostStep t) ()Source
Adding post-step callbacks
postStep :: (Entity a, NotPostStep t) => a -> Callback (PostStep t) () -> Callback t ()Source
postStep e cb registers a callback
cb for the
phase on a given entity
PostStep callbacks are called
once when the
step call finishes (and only on the current
time step). This is the only kind of callbacks that may call
currentSpaceAdd and
Each entity may have at most one callback registered on it.
If a second callback
cb2 gets registered on the same entity
e, then callback
cb will not be called, only
This is not a bug, but a feature. This allows you to say, for
postStep shape (currentSpaceRemove shape) every
shape collides. Even if
shape collided many times in
a single time step, only the last callback would be called and
shape would be removed just once.
Note that this function registers a callback from within
another callback, as this is the motivation of using
PostStep callbacks.
unsafePostStep :: Entity a => Space -> a -> IO () -> IO ()Source
Adding collision handlers
data CollisionHandler Source
A 4-tuple of callbacks, one for each kind of collision event.
beginHandler and
preSolveHandler should return a
True if the collision should be processed or
if the collision should be ignored. If
beginHandler returns
False, the collision will be completely ignored. If
preSolveHandler returns
False, then the collision will be
ignored only for this time step.
You may also use
Nothing to use the default handlers. The
default is to process all collisions. That is,
Nothing Nothing Nothing Nothing is the same as
Handler {beginHandler = Just (return True) ,preSolveHandler = Just (return True) ,postSolveHandler = Just (return ()) ,separateHandler = Just (return ())}
however using
Nothing is more efficient (the Chipmunk
library won't need to call a Haskell function).
Note that assigning
Nothing does not mean that the default
set with
setDefaultCollisionHandler will be called. That
default is called only if there isn't a registered handler for
the given collision types.
setDefaultCollisionHandler :: Space -> CollisionHandler -> IO ()Source
Defines a new default collision handler. This handler is
used whenever two shapes
a and
b collide such that no
other collision pair function was defined to
a's and
collision types. The default is
Handler Nothing Nothing
Nothing Nothing.
addCollisionHandler :: Space -> CollisionType -> CollisionType -> CollisionHandler -> IO ()Source
addCollisionHandler sp (cta,ctb) handler defines
as the handler to be used whenever a collision occurs between
a shape of collision type
cta and another of collision type
ctb (and vice versa). Any other callback already registered
to handle
(cta,ctb) will be removed.
Note that you should not add handlers to both combinations
(cta,ctb) and
(ctb,cta). Doing so results in undefined
behaviour. A good rule of thumb is to always use
cta <=
ctb, although this is not necessary.
removeCollisionHandler :: Space -> CollisionType -> CollisionType -> IO ()Source
removeCollisionHandler sp (cta,ctb) removes the handler
that was registered to handle
(cta,ctb), if any (see
addCollisionHandler). Any collisions that would be handled
by the removed handler will be handled by the default one (see
Note that you should always use the same order that was
passed to
addCollisionHandler. In other words, after
addCollisionHandler sp (cta,ctb) handler you should use
removeCollisionHandler sp (cta,ctb), and never
removeCollisionHandler sp (ctb,cta) (note the swapped
Although pointless, it is harmless to remove a callback that was not added.