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A nice day trip from San Francisco is a drive out into Wine Country. Napa and Sonoma Valleys are both within a couple hours drive. The roads are dotted with hundreds of wineries, so pick some and stop in for a taste.
The region's "Mediterranean climate" gives it a different look from the rest of the USA. In the summertime, most places are lush and green. In this area the grass dries up and turns yellow in the summer. The only green comes from trees and bushes.
If you can find a brochure called "The Best of the Wine Country", you can show it and get free gifts, discounts, and free tastings at dozens of wineries. We found it at the Tourist Welcome Center in Santa Rosa, just off Route 101. The brochure is published by dayguide.com.
Napa and Sonoma are perfect destinations for a weekend getaway. They are also close enough (about an hour to SF) so that you can just get out of the city for a day... The weather is almost always nice so you'll most probably have a great time in any of these locations. Some good wine definitely helps too! I prefer Sonoma over Napa because it's not so crowded, less touristy and therefore wineries don't even charge for wine tasting. I would suggest buying some groceries at Oakville or Sonoma town and then sitting down at one of the winery's picnic area. Which winery to go to? Just get a map from the visitor's bureau and check out the wineries at random. There are some famous ones that everyone go to, but I can assure you you'll come across some very nice wineries and really good wine if you just check them out at random.
but if you definitely need some names, I would suggest Domaine Chandon in Napa and Chateau St. Jean in Sonoma. Especially Chateau St. Jean has a nice picnic area. If you are curious about wine making, Mondavi winery in Napa has a really good tour.
By the way, start your day early, most of the wineries close by 5 pm...
Wine Country
The two valleys, Napa and Sonoma, lie between 60 and 90
minutes drive north of San Francisco. Both offer the same
rustic beauty of vineyards, wildflowers, and green and
golden hills, but the characters of the valleys are quite
different. Napa Valley, further inland, has 200 or more
wineries, many of them with gorgeous gardens, knock-out
views, interesting architecture and art collections. Of
particular note is Stag's Leap Winery, famous for its
1973 cabernet sauvignon that beat the French in a blind
tasting in Paris. Calistoga, a spa town in northern Napa,
is probably the most attractive option for overnighting.
Sonoma Valley is low key and less commercial, with only
about 30 wineries. Happily, free tastings are still the
norm in Sonoma Valley.
A slender, compact valley rimmed with rolling hills that
rise to rounded peaks, Napa Valley is the heart of
California's wine country." Only an hour's drive from
San Francisco, this verdant valley is dotted with wineries,
award-winning restaurants, elegant resorts, and country
inns. You'll also find world-class shopping, challenging
golf courses, and recreational areas.
Northern California's glorious Wine Country is a feasible
day trip from San Francisco, but an overnight stay will
give you a much better taste of the vineyards and
circumvent any 'who's gonna drive' conversations. Only
about 5% of Californian wine comes from the Wine
Country, but it's the quality stuff; plonk ordinaire is
churned out by the barrel in the Central Valley. The best
time to visit is autumn harvest, when the grapes are on
the vine, or in spring, when the hills are brilliant green.
If you've got the time, and like good wine, drive up to Napa Valley and visit some vineyards. Some of these places only sell their products on-site - you can't buy this stuff anywhere else, not even in restaurants. It's maybe a 2 hour drive north across the Golden Gate Bridge, and so you pretty much need a whole day to do it. If you're only around a few days, I'd stick to SF proper.
You will probably have seen the city with the help of 'Fodor' or other reliable guides. If you have another day then use it to visit the Napa Valley. This can be done best by motor car or alternatively there is a wine train consisting of 1930's pullman cars which can be recommended. Fares are about $70 including lunch. Three wineries are especially recommended for visiting. 1. Opus One, a modern, almost futuristic winery set up by Robert Mondavi and Baronness Rothschild - very exclusive - very expensive. 2. Beringer winery. Good shop in the interesting 'Rheinhaus', also tours. 3. Robert Mondavi Winery for an absolutely first class and fascinating tour with a 'tasting' at the end.
An escorted trip to the wine country either by limo or tour bus is a must . . . the wines are wonderful and the scenery divine. I traveled to Viansa in Sonoma County and Monticello in Napa County.
Get out of town up to the Napa and Sonoma valleys and go wine tasting. Make sure you have a sober driver!
Nappa Valley is due north of San Francisco but the countryside is well worth the trip and the wine is excellent!
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The International Jury has issued their findings and handed down penalties in the hearing involving Oracle Team USA and miniscule amounts of illegal weight that had been added to the kingposts of several of the AC45 catamarans that the team maintained. Two points will be subtracted if and when Oracle wins any races in the 34th America's Cup (AC34; September 7-21), three members of the team have been banned from participating in the 34th America's Cup, and the team was issued a relatively small fine. This situation sadly represents the worst case of cheating in the history of the America's Cup.
Both Oracle boats testing trim and speed against each other. - America's Cup
Importantly, the International Jury found that only a small number of Oracle sailors were involved in this ugly matter and that none of the team's senior management were aware of the illegal weight. 'While we disagree with the unprecedented penalties imposed by the Jury, we have no choice but to make the necessary changes to personnel on our race boat and do our best to use the next four days for the new team to practice and get ready for the start of the 34th America's Cup,' said Oracle Team USA's CEO, Russell Coutts.
While Oracle Team USA was also fined $250,000 U.S. dollars, odds are 100-percent that the team is a lot more focused on the lost points than their pecuniary penalty. Given that AC34 is a best-of-seventeen affair, Oracle Team USA will now have to win eleven races, while Emirates Team New Zealand-the official Challenger-only has to win nine.
This places even more importance on boatspeed and design, as a two-point deficit is a tough proposition, even for a team as well-funded and well-polished as Oracle. It also places a serious emphasis on crew work, as one of the three Oracle team members banned from participating in AC34 is Dirk de Ridder, the wingsail trimmer on Oracle's A-boat. Needless to say, this is a key position and one that involves a lot of communication and trust with skipper Jimmy Spithill.
Get the full report inside, and be sure to stay current with the website as more details about this bizarre incident emerge.
The Force - 2013 Red Bull Youth America's Cup
On a much more positive note, the Red Bull Youth America's Cup (RBYAC) is delivering tight racing and plenty of big grins on San Francisco Bay. After three days of racing, 'New Zealand Sailing Team with ETNZ' tops the leaderboard, followed by 'Full Metal Jacket Racing' and 'American Youth Sailing Force,' with a single day of racing remaining.
According to reports, the Americans likely would have faired better, but unfortunately David Liebenberg, the team's tactician, missed his hiking strap on a maneuver and went swimming. 'That was kind of a setback,' said team skipper Mike Menninger. 'It's hard to sail these boats with five guys. Our maneuvers weren't as crisp and our boatspeed took a dip.' More inside, and be sure to stay tuned to the website for the latest RBYAC news, as it unfurls.
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National Yacht Club, Co. Dublin, Ireland; Tuesday 3rd September 2013: Spain's Alicia Cebrien on the final day of qualifier races at the Laser European World Championships at the National Yacht Club.
Also inside, get the scoop from the ongoing Laser European and World Championships, the also-ongoing Star Worlds, and the upcoming Oakcliff International 2013, which is the final event in the GRAND SLAM Grade 2 Match Race Series.
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SEVIER COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) -- Sevier County investigators are still working to figure out what started a fire at a cabin last week.
Firefighters were called to the home on Spence Mountain last Wednesday about 1pm. Firefighters say someone driving by saw the cabin on fire and the home was a total loss, but no one was hurt during the fire.
Sevier County Fire Spokesperson, Paul Lambert, said the cause of the fire is under investigation. He says the fire was kept from spreading into the woods and to a nearby home. Lamber said so far the county's arson investigator hasn't figured out how the fire started.
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Many people believe that polio and leprosy have either been eradicated or are no longer a threat to the world's population. But in many parts of the world, particularly Sub Saharan Africa, these and other communicable diseases remain.
The reasons these diseases persist are varied and complex. Poor nutrition and inadequate housing, as well as weak, underfunded healthcare systems with inadequate staffing and supplies top the list. It is no wonder that although Sub Saharan Africa has 11 percent of the world's population, it carries 25 percent of the disease burden.
Providing health care is the main charge of many Aid for Africa member organizations, and polio and leprosy are part of their portfolios.
Kenya was pronounced polio-free in 2011, but two years later 14 cases of polio were reported in the refugee camps in the north. Because Nairobi receives large numbers of refugees and other transients moving through East Africa, it is now considered a risk area for the disease. To support government efforts to prevent further polio cases, community health workers trained through Carolina for Kibera's Community Wellness Program, have joined efforts to vaccinate the most vulnerable to the disease—children under the age of five living in areas of risk. Even though a lack of trust and misinformation about polio and vaccinations makes achieving high vaccination rates difficult, these health works exceeded their goals by 32 percent and immunized more than 14,500 children. These and other community-based efforts work.
For leprosy, there is no vaccine. The disease can only be treated and contained through multidrug therapy. American Leprosy Missions has been treating leprosy in Sub Saharan Africa and around the world for more than 100 years. It also works to help leprosy sufferers care for the disease and become productive members of their communities.
During the last 12 years, American Leprosy Missions has successfully supported the development of a leprosy vaccine. The vaccine will undergo clinical trials in human volunteers by 2015. If all goes well, a viable vaccine could help eradicate this debilitating disease which now affects some 4 million people worldwide.
Eradicating diseases like polio and leprosy requires efforts at all levels, from the laboratory to community health workers. Aid for Africa members contribute significantly to the pattern of progress, which gives us all hope.
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Sometimes vaccines work a lot better than herbal medicine.
Nina L states: "Because even sickness is part of life ... and can be sometimes life changing. My children had ALL the children illnesses like measles etc.
We gave them herbs, Homeopathy, lots of water, warmth, care ... and it was just fine."
Tell that one to those who were stuck in Iron lungs. I suspect that most of them would have rather had a vaccine and no polio had vaccines been available at that time in history.
Don't blame Islam because of the Muslims. ISLAM doesn't prohibit polio drops Muslims do!!! #proudtobeamuslim
It is curable!!! #eliminatepolio
NINA - "Vaccinations are weakening the immune system"...Where did you get your medical degree? You obviously have as much concept of the immune system as a gopher does of astrophysics..
Because idiots with no medical knowledge are living in the dark ages re vaccines & health care. Can't wait for a pandemic to kill the morons. Hahahahaha.
Barbara S vaccines do not cause Autism at all.
First, polio and all other diseases are NOT "Biblical" in origin. Just because they may have existed in those Times does not mean they are "Biblical." They are just diseases... and we have the vaccines to eradicate them. But vaccines are now being deemed as "bad" for children because a few of every ten thousand kids suffer ill-affects from them. I am one of those children. I nearly died from my childhood vaccines. My reaction was SO severe, our family doctor never tried to vaccinate me with anything every again. I never had polio, I never had scarlet fever or whooping cough or mumps. But I did have the measles, both kinds, and I had chicken pox. The only thing that nearly killed me was pneumonia, and to this day my present physician will not vaccinate me for the pneumonia or shingles vaccine because of the bad reactions shown in my childhood records. It's sad for me to say I believe that a few out of every ten thousand is a bad risk to take - especially when your child becomes one of the kids who reacts badly, gets autism, or dies from complications. What we NEED to do is focus on is what's different about US, so we can be diagnosed as risks BEFORE we take the vaccines.
Let's hope that the leprosy vaccine is both, successful, & affordable.
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Great video. Thanks.
ALSO I wonder how much of our food is adulterated GMO's (or even just what's acknowledgedd GMO's?)
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CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 24, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Simbionix USA Corporation, the world's leading provider of medical education and simulation training products for medical professionals and the healthcare industry, is launching two new hands-on training systems- the Lap Nepherctomy simulation module and the VirtaMed TURPSim. Both solutions will be revealed for the first time at the AUA annual meeting in San Francisco next week.
The Lap Nephrectomy simulation system is a unique replication of one of the most advanced laparoscopic procedures. While studies show that the laparoscopic nephrectomy procedure offers improved quality of life at lower costs, it is at the same time considered to be a challenging surgery with a steep learning curve. The solution provided by Simbionix will enable urologists to practice the procedure in a virtual clinical environment without risks to patients or recurring training costs. It is expected that the potential for unlimited access to training may reduce intra-operational complications associated with this procedure.
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The internet is full of fabulous fun facts about everything from current events to the history basket weaving. Because of this, as we research for our daily content on food trucks, food carts and street food, we stumble upon some items of knowledge that we just did not know. We have decided that when these fun facts pop up, that we would share them with you, our readers, in our section titled "Did You Know?"
For today's Did You Know food fun facts we will look at Vichyssoise.
The Facts: Vichyssoise (vee-shee-SWAHZ) is a cold soup made of puréed leeks, onions, potatoes, cream, and chicken stock that was invented in America in 1917 and named after the French town of Vichy—long before Vichy would become the seat of France's Nazi collaborationist government.
- Louis Diat was the chef at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in New York City for most of the first half of the 20th century. In 1950, he recounted to The New Yorker magazine the potato and leek soup of his childhood, and how he would cool it off during the summer by pouring in cold milk, which resulted in a delicious summer soup. He decided to make something similar for the patrons of the Ritz.
- French chef Jules Gouffé published a similar recipe with potatoes, leeks, chicken stock and cream, in Royal Cookery, in 1869, but did not serve it cold.
- November 18th is National Vichyssoise Day.
- Chef Anthony Bourdain lists vichyssoise as the catalyst of his lifelong passion for food, telling of a transatlantic voyage on the Queen Mary at the age of 9, when he first discovered this "delightfully cool, tasty liquid."
- In the 1992 movie Batman Returns, Bruce Wayne is surprised at its temperature, saying "It's cold!" to which his butler, Alfred responds that "It's supposed to be cold."
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St. Michael's volunteers cook up festival delights
From the hand-rolled goodness of the grape leaves to the flaky layers of the sweet baklava, the volunteers at St. Michael's Antiochian Orthodox Church have been working for weeks to prepare all the food that will be available at their annual fest.
"We have been cooking and cooking," event co-chairwoman Valerie Flizanes said of the preparation for the one-day event scheduled for Sept. 7. "We have pretty much been cooking non-stop now."
Flizanes co-chairs the event with Sara Armanious and the pair are joined by dozens of volunteers to bring the event to the public every year.
The event attracts people from all over who are looking for homemade Mediterranean cuisine — with a little American flavor added for those who may want it.
"We started out years ago with just a dinner that we would have twice a year," volunteer Joanne Hasnaver said. "We decided to have something a little bigger so we did a few dishes. We added a few things over the years, like the chicken, because not everyone likes lamb. So we came up with a few things to have something for everyone."
The festival attracts hundreds of hungry patrons.
"They are lined way out the door before we even open and we always sell out," Hasnaver said. "We never dreamed it would get this big."
The menu will include grilled lamb shishkabobs, grilled chicken, St. Michael's Rice, lubee (a lamb stew with green beans), grape leaves, spanakopita (spinach pie), pastitsio (baked pasta), salad, pita bread, baklava, nut rolls, apricot and poppy seed rolls, Simboosic, Syrian bread and gyros.
The volunteers also make larger quantities of certain items that are frozen and ready to be sold and taken home for later enjoyment.
"It's really hard to say what are the favorites because people seem to like everything, " Flizanes said.
Working on certain dishes on different days, the volunteers pride themselves on all of their food being prepared from scratch.
"Everything that we make, everything, is homemade," Flizanes said. "We made 12,500 grape leaves and we rolled each one."
The volunteers come together for weeks in advance and spend days in preparation, sharing their time cooking.
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Items can be purchased for takeout or visitors can sit down and enjoy a meal in the large social hall.
"We fill up our freezers getting ready for this," Flizanes said, adding that no matter how much they make, they sell out. "We don't have any more room to make anymore food."
The Rev. John Nosal, the church pastor, said festival visitors go out of their way to find him to rave about the food.
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One of the main functions of the Scoutmaster is to train the Junior Leaders, in particular, the Senior Patrol Leader. I take this responsibility serious and am in a constant mode of looking for opportunities to train the Scouts to be better leaders.
Most of the training is informal and as we find ourselves in opportune times where a lesson has presented itself. What I have found is that, first, our Scouts really don't know what they don't know, and second, they don't look for opportunities to learn and train others.
Now that is a pretty lofty statement, let me explain what I mean.. here is the training opportunity.
Teen age boys typically look for the easy way out. They find the path of least resistance, which in turn puts them in challenging leadership roles. They typically want to just get along and resist confrontation when it comes to being a leader.
Whether it is because the Scout lacks confidence or leadership skills they find themselves in situations that often times leave them feeling unsuccessful. This is where a good tool box full of good leadership tools comes in.
I had a discussion the other night with a Patrol leader. He feels like no one really wants to listen to him. So, asking a few leading questions we took a look at his leadership style and gave him tools to make it better.
First, the leader needs to understand who he is leading and why he is leading. Is it a specific task that needs to be accomplished or just general leadership within the confines of a Patrol? The leader needs to look for opportunities to be "the man". Here is what I mean by that… Leaders are not Bosses.. but leaders are the "go to" guys that people want to follow. The leader become "the Man" when he can display in his leadership the 4 "C"s.
Courage, Candor, Competence, and Compassion.
Courage. It takes Courage to be a leader, especially a leader of Scouts. You will not always make popular decisions and you may be put in situations that pit you one against another. The Leader with Courage will always do what is right and the right thing for the good of his Patrol, or Troop.
Candor. Tell it like it is. Tell the Truth and never shy away from the truth. If a member of the Patrol is acting in the wrong way or not doing a skill correctly, don't be afraid to hurt their feelings, tell the truth. We as leaders need to worry less about feeling and focus more on actions. Actions or the way we act and do things are far more important than feelings. A leader that demonstrates candor is respected and shows his good character.
Competence. No one wants to follow a leader that does not know what the heck they are doing. Following a lost leader gets the whole group lost. To build competence the leader must keep learning and testing themselves. Sharpening skills and looking inward at their decision-making. Constantly working to fill the tool box.
And Compassion. We lead people and manage equipment. Being that leader that cares about those that they lead grows confidence in the follower. When we genuinely care about making those around us better, they see it and start to build a better relationship within the team. When we care about teaching them and showing them the right way to do anything, we make them better. When we care enough to model expected behavior, those that we lead will follow and show that behavior back to us.
Taking the four "C"s and putting them to use will make the leader better and keep him focused.
The four "C"s also give the leader a simple set of standards so he can focus on what is important in his Patrol. My Patrol leader did not think that his patrol listened to him. So I asked the simple questions; What are you saying and How are you saying it? Do you come at your Patrol competent and compassionate? We discussed a missed opportunity that he had over the weekend camp out. A simple task of cooking a meal could have been a million dollar lesson to his patrol in skill and fun. That patrol was cooking venison steaks. The missed opportunity was how they cooked them. A little bit of prior planning on the Patrol leaders part could have made him "The Man".
Cooking steaks over an open fire would have made a bigger bang within the patrol, rather, they cooked on a frying pan and used up lots of cooking utensils and time. The Patrol leader missed the opportunity to get his younger Scouts involved in the process and about 10 minutes into the ordeal of cooking, he lost them.
It was a great opportunity that was lost because he took the path of least resistance.
"The Good Idea Fairy"
I have listened in on many Patrol meetings. Most Patrol meetings end in frustration when members of the Patrol do not feel that they are being listened to. Sometimes the Patrol Leader needs to let the Good Idea Fairy be heard. Jotting down an idea or two and seeing how they can be worked into the plan for the next event. Maybe cooking over the open fire came up, but was dismissed by the leader. When the leader lets those ideas happen they get buy in from those that they lead.
Always look for that Teaching Opportunity. They are always there and we as Scoutmasters need to be on top of it. Allow the situation to run its course and then sit down with the Patrol Leader or other leaders and ask those leading questions that get them thinking beyond the path of least resistance.
Scouts are looking for that challenge and they want to be challenges. They just don't know what they don't know and you know… sometimes they are afraid that we are going to say no to them or shut down their great ideas. Go with it. We need to use those four "C"s also.
If it is not unsafe, unethical, or not outside of the Scouting program.. say Yes and let them find that learning opportunity. You will be the man when you keep learning and growing in your leadership also.
Almost everything we do in Scouting will come with a teaching opportunity. Find it and share it.
Have a Great Scouting Day!
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Leadership – Teaching Opportunity
One of the main functions of the Scoutmaster is to train the Junior Leaders, in particular, the Senior Patrol Leader. I take this responsibility serious and am in a constant mode of looking for opportunities to train the Scouts to be better leaders.
Teriyaki Chicken
Back in 2009, I posted this recipe and a video on my YouTube channel. Well since I have been consolidating the channel and working hard on Blog content, I stumbled on this recipe and the video on an old hard drive. I retooled the video and thought this was a great meal for anyone on the trail.
So you might say that I am re-purposing recycling the post, but trust me this is a recipe that you will enjoy. So try this one. You will love it.
Have a Great Scouting Day!
Using Evernote ™ for Scouting
One of my goals for this year and in particular in working on the blog is to use tools to be more successful. There is nothing worse than a goal that is not attainable because of lack of want to or know how and sometimes tools can assist in making a goal more attainable.
A new years resolution to go to the gym only works while the motivation to work out is there. Going to the gym and not working out because you don' t know how only discourages you and you don't go back.
I am one of "those people" that needs constant motivation to stay on track. I do that by motivating myself and finding tools and resources that keep me focused and on task.
For example. I am working on doing more to lift some of the burden of household chores from my wife. She does and has done a fantastic job over the past 22 years and I know this is an area that I can do better at. So I have picked up the responsibility to doing the grocery shopping. I hate grocery shopping, but it is a task that I can do so I had to find motivation (other than just being more helpful). So I dove into the task to find tools that would make grocery shopping more interesting for me and make me want to do it. Enter an app for my phone. I downloaded the Out of Milk app and started using it. We make the grocery list on the computer and sync it with my phone. Bingo.. we have a winner. I am actually finding grocery shopping fun, walking up and down the isles scanning products and adding them to the shopping cart.
Apps and software have made much of what we do these days more tolerable. They have also made managing tasks, lists, notes, and resources more accessible. A few years back I started using an app called Evernote ™. It was a cool way to take notes and have them available across different platforms. My computer, phone, tablet etc. Then I started using for Scouting.
Some of the cool things about Evernote ™ that I really like are the note taking and sharing of information I gather. With Evernote ™ I can clip and save things right from the internet. I can save PDF files for retrieval later and I can record voice notes.
Evernote ™ has all of this in one nice bundle. I have many notebooks within Evernote ™. This is nice to I stay organized and have everything right at the tip of my fingers.
Our Troop uses Troopmaster ™ to manage the Troop's administrative functions. But Troopmaster ™ does not have a corresponding app for my phone or a mobile way of accessing information from Troopmaster ™. So I save the reports and most frequently used items from Troopmaster ™ as PDF files and drop them into Evernote ™. I can't tell you many times we have been at a Scout property and they need a roster with phone numbers, ages, etc. I just open up Evernote ™ and there it is. I can even print the roster from Evernote ™ if they have wireless printing available. I had to do this last summer at summer camp.
Scoutmaster conferences are easily tracked and noted using Evernotes voice memo feature. It is nice to talk with a Scout and then capture some of my thoughts right after we are finished without sitting a writing it all down. Then once I get home I can transcribe the voice memo into a note for future reference.
Project planning is another great use for Evernote ™. In 2012 I used Evernote ™ to plan and track our Philmont trek. Everything from setting reminders to making checklists to ultimately making notes along the journey. Adding pictures to remind me of tasks, people, places, and things we needed to do.
As most everything we get now electronically from the BSA comes in PDF format, dropping our reservations and other correspondence from Philmont was easy to save and retrieve.
I am still learning of new features and ways to use Evernote ™, but so far it is a great tool to make my Scouting life and my personal life more organized. It is a way that I stay focused and on task and therefore more productive.
Some of the other ways in which I use Evernote ™:
Building Packing list for Backpacking. It is a nice way to make checklists and track weight and gear.
Lists for places I want to go. Using the clip it feature on the web I can save maps, brochures, and information about places I want to go, in particular backpacking.
Saving ideas for future planning with the Patrol Leaders Council.
Recipes for Dutch oven or backpacking meals.
Using Evernote ™ Hello I save business card and meeting information. That is really a neat feature and a fast and easy way to build and maintain contact lists.
That's just a few. I follow the Evernote Blog also. It is amazing all of the different ideas shared there for use cases, tips, and what's happening with Evernote ™.
Finding a good way to stay motivated and on task is important. It is critical if you are like me and have many irons in the fire and want to stay focused. But like everything else if you don't commit to using the tools then you as good as that new years resolution to go to the gym.
I hope that helps you find a tool that will help you manage your irons in whatever fire you place them.
Let me know what you use.
Have a Great Scouting Day!
My Cook Kit
The other day some discussion on Google + about cook kits got a few us talking. I thought it was time to show what I am currently using. I know that I tinker a lot with gear, but this cook kit seems to be the go to kit and really the only thing that changes out is the Imusa mug and Snow peak 700. They are interchangeable in my cook kit.
I am curious about your cook kit, let me know in the comments section.
Have a Great Scouting Day!
Mountain Hardwear Bandito Gloves
I recently talked about my gloves and layering system for keeping my hands warm.
Here is a closer look and review at the Mountain Hardwear Bandito finger-less gloves that I wear.
The Stats:
The body of the gloves are made of Deflection ™ Soft shell which is 100% Polyester.
The mitt portion of the glove is made from windblock and stretch materials pulls over fingers for added warmth.
The Palm is Synthetic leather, although it feels like fleece, very comfortable.
Weight: 3.6 oz or 103 g
They are windproof and breathable.
These gloves are Unisex and it is important to try of for accurate fit and sizing.
The Bandito glove is marked as a "Climbing glove", but I find them great for backpacking, especially while hiking and doing camp chores.
The Mountain Hardwear Bandito glove retails for $45.
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Have a Great Scouting Day!
We have a Winner!
I am back from an awesome weekend out with the Cascade Hangers for our annual winter Hammock Hang. I'll have a video up on that soon. It was a great weekend of fun and hanging (no pun intended) with some really neat people. Most of my friends would label this a "non Scouting event" and it certainly was a camp out that was not under the banner of Scouting, but the skills, the attitude, and the fun was all the same. I have said it before, I am a Scouter all the time, so just because I am not camping with Scouts, does not mean that I forget about leave no trace or allow my gear to become a yard sale. I am still helpful and friendly and all of that food stuff. In fact, the knowledge of myself being a part of Scouting and the people knowing that I am in Scouting lent itself to a lot of questions on certain skills and techniques. Most of the people were impressed at how much we camp and what we do. Always telling the story of Scouting.
There were lessons learned and I will share them with you in an upcoming post.. but right now…
But first, I want to thank all of the new subscribers/followers for jumping on this adventure. I appreciate you. I would like to thank everyone for leaving comments. It is nice to see how the Scoutmaster minute blog is helping you.
So.. here is your winner…
Sorry about the video.. filmed on my phone…
CONGRATULATIONS Gene ORourke!!!.. Thanks for stumbling in on the blog. I hope you enjoy the stove. Send us a note (Email to firstname.lastname@example.com) showing us how you are using the stove!
Thanks again to everyone that helped make this give away a big success, especially Warren at Blood River Stoves for the contribution.
Have a Great Scouting Day!
Heading out for the Weekend
Tonight I will get getting up on the mountain for my first "Winter" camp of the year. I have the pulk loaded and everything is double checked… except it looks like old man winter has taken a nap.
I checked the weather service yesterday.. this weekends low is going to be in the 40's with highs in the 50's. Not much swing there, but we are going out none the less.
So to be prepared, I am going to throw the pack in the truck and when I get to the snow park, if there is no snow, I can always load up the pack to hike in.
Being flexible in your planning is pretty important in winter camping, you have to plan for multiple contingencies. This is where "Be Prepared" really is important. I really don't know what to expect tonight when I get out of the truck, so I need to go prepared for everything.
The basics of course are standard, but do I overdress? What boots I am going to wear? How about a jacket? Which one and how heavy? These are the questions that I thought about (and more) last night as I packed. I want to be prepared for whatever the mountain is going to give me so I can have the best time this weekend.
Just some things to think about.
Ok.. the giveaway is over. I will announce the luck winner on Sunday when I get home. Thank you all for following/subscribing and leaving comments. It was fun to see them all come in.
Building this online community is important to me and one of the ways in which we do that is by sharing and commenting here on the blog.
Well, thanks again.. I'm off for the weekend.. I'll blog at ya on Sunday!
Have a Great Scouting Day!
Gloves play a major role in your warmth system when cold weather camping. Your gloves and your boots are key to keeping you warm. Think about it. Your hands and your feet are the farthest body parts from the core and when they get cold you are cold all over. They are also the most at risk for cold weather injury.
When shopping for gloves, don't skimp. Gloves are not where you want to cut cost, spend a bit extra and get good gloves that will last and you will have a much better cold weather camping experience.
I use a layering system with my gloves. This gives me options in the cold without exposure. I start with a "Base layer" glove. The Mountain Hardwear Stimulu. It retails for $40. When not wearing them I wear a Fingerless mitten called the Mountain Hardwear Bandito. They retail for $45. My outer layer is a combination mitten. The Outdoor research Meteor. They retail for $70.
I added the retail prices here so you can see the value that I place on good gloves. I could spend more, but I have been using this system for some time and know that it works to keep me warm in extreme cold temperatures. Using the gloves in a layering system gives me a lot of options and works well to regulate my comfort.
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Sharpen your Ax
Abraham Lincoln is a man often quoted, but not always in the context of Scouting. I stumbled on a great quote that speaks directly to Scouts and Scouters.
"If you give me 6 hours to cut down a tree, I will take 4 hours sharpening my ax."
Whats he saying here.. basically.. Be Prepared. He is telling us that preparation is the key to success. When we prepare for a task we can accomplish it with success. Putting the time in to plan, train, and practice will make you better at the skill.
We are getting into the winter camping months. The more we prepare, the more fun we will have. The more we train, the safer we will be. And the more we practice our skills the better experience we will have in our adventures.
We should always be looking at ways to keep our ax sharp. We should always be thinking about that next tree and sharpen the ax to make the work easier and more effective.
I am always looking at ways to make my camping experiences better. Toying with my gear, testing new stuff, learning and refining techniques to make my adventures fun and safe.
Are you sharpening your ax?
I was looking through an old external hard drive today and found this video. Shot about 3 years ago when I was a "Tent Camper". Thought I would share it here. It is a good example of Sunday routine. Remember that we model expected behavior. No yard sale here.
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Scouting… Cool?
First off.. if you are a Scout or Scouter read this post with caution. You may not agree with some of what I am going to say. Know that I love the Boy Scouts of America. I am always trying to tell our story in the best light of Scouting. I think it is the greatest youth program around. But in the discussion of membership it is fair that we take a look at ourselves and ask the question, Why is it Not cool to be a Scout? Please, if you disagree, read to the end and then leave a comment.
One of the most common things that I hear as a Scoutmaster during conferences is that sometimes our youth don't feel that it is cool to be a Scout. Peer pressure at School and in their neighborhoods, comments made, and the fact that in most cases the uniform causes a boy to shy away from the program and certainly not invite his friends to join something that is not cool.
So why is that?
In my opinion one of the reasons is that we and the National Council do a terrible job at telling Scouting's story. In our focus to deliver the "Main thing" we have lost sight on what Scouting has traditionally been about.
When I was a Scout, and I cringe at starting a sentence that way, but none the less, when I was a Scout I joined the Boy Scouts because it looked cool. I was drawn to the adventure. I was longing for to be in a group that Norman Rockwell painted climbing to the Tooth of Time or heading out for a weekend of canoeing. I watched as older boys embraced leadership and taught me skills in the outdoors. Older guys that played on the high school football team that we all looked up to but were not afraid to lead a song or skit at camp. Members of the Order of the Arrow that dressed like plains Indians and stood in canoes with torches blazing, landing on the shore and presenting dramatic ceremonies that left me wanting to be a part of their group.
While I am a believer that we need to take Scouting where the Scouts are… I am also a believer that we can take the Scout on an adventure that will challenge him and leave him wanting more. Instead, the Scouting story is that of catering to the lowest common denominator. We dumb things down because of parents that are over protective and do not understand Scouting.
We take away from the challenge and make it "Accessible". I want every boy to have the opportunity to be a Scout, but I want every boy to accept the challenges that lead to self-reliance, life long skills, good character, and being fit. There is plenty in Scouting for all, but we have made it so restrictive that leaders no longer feel that they can seek and provide adventures in their units.
Bad press is the only press. That's the story we get. It does not impact our youth that much, but it keeps Mom and Dad from bringing their son to us. When all we see is bad press, we judge the program based on it. Suddenly all Scout leaders are fat bone heads that push over billion year old rock formations. We are all looking to abuse youth. We are all.. well you get the point.
But what of good press. National does nothing. No ads on TV. Yes, I know that costs money, but what does the BSA waste each year fighting in the courts? How much does the BSA waste in preaching to the choir? They target the membership campaigns to those who are already in Scouting and fail to tell our story to those that need to hear it.
We have been systematically removed from the Schools, the Churches are bailing, and parents see this as an organization that can't keep it's poop in a group. It's all bad press and yet we do nothing to turn the tide of the bad publicity.
We tend to circle our wagons and rally the troops from within the organization, but that's it.
I watched a great video the other day on YouTube. Rex Tillerson, the former BSA President talking at the National Meetings of the BSA about the new changes that are taking effect. Of course I am talking about the new Non discrimination policy. What Rex had to say was fantastic, but you know, I bet only Scouters saw it. Why was it not on TV? Why did the BSA not contact the major media outlets and networks and have that 10 minute video or parts of it in the main stream media? 10,358 views on Youtube.. and I bet they are all Scout people. A google search produced hits on the video all associated with Scouting websites, blogs, and of course the National office.
Scouting is for nerds. Just ask your Scouts. That's what they will tell you their classmates think. I recently sat with one of my Scouts at his Eagle Board of Review. One of the board members asked him if he thought Scouting was not cool. He answered that he thought it was cool, but it was not cool to those guys at his high School. The discussion kept going, "Why do you think that?" the Board member asked. "Because of what they think we do in Scouts" the Eagle candidate answered. "What do they think we do?" "Well, for the most part they think we go camping, but it's mostly about crafts and artsy stuff."
Crafts and artsy stuff. Yep, that is what we have become.
As a Cub Scout I remember doing craftsy stuff. Soap box derby races, pinewood derby and rockets led the list of cool things that we did as a den. The craftsy stuff when we got to Boy Scouts was Monkey bridges that actually crossed water. Signal towers that you could actually climb. Earning the Paul Bunyan Ax man award and actually chopping down trees.
But that's all gone now. In the name of Safety? Really? No, in the name of insurance fear. I am not advocating getting Scouts hurt, but we didn't then so what's changed. We moved away from adventure and got wrapped up in the lowest impact don't let Tommy Tenderfoot get dirty family camp.
Look at our merit badge program. Last summer at camp we had more Scouts earn the finger printing merit badge than the canoeing merit badge. It is what we have become.
We as parents have forgotten that our boys need to be boys. We as parents have forgotten that getting dirty is part of childhood. Playing in the woods and coming home when the street lights come on is part of the adventure of being a boy.
We are so afraid that every boy is a victim. Every boy is fragile and a broken bone is the end of the world. I once broke two bones in my arm when I was 10. What was I doing? Trying to fly. Not smart, but you know what, I am no worse for ware.
I watched a Patrol mate burn his eye brows off blowing on a camp fire. A great laugh and no harm done. I can remember coming home from camp outs and my mom not letting me in the house till I first took all my clothing off and hosed down in the backyard. I learned, I grew, and I am a better person for it.
I never earned Basketry or the Art merit badge, and if it were around in 1980 I would not have earned the game design merit badge. I did earn Backpacking, hiking, first aid, wilderness survival and those badges. Heck I joined Scouts for fun and adventure.. not more School work.
The Boy Scouts of America has a rich tradition and yes it has undergone many changes since 1910, but our story is the same. Our Story is still about Character building and Citizenship. Our Story is still about challenge and finding our limits and growing from experience. Our Story is still about great outdoor programs. Our Story is still about adventure and life long learning. Our Story is cool. But we don't tell our story the way we want it heard. We don't take the opportunity not to be just another YMCA or after school program, but to be the Boy Scouts of America full of the cool stuff that boys want and need.
We tell the story of numbers and membership, but forget that not everyone wants to be or should be a Scout. We tell the story of abuse and scandal without telling the story of the million great things going on every week at meetings and on monthly camp outs.
We get excited when we have a mediocre district event and wonder why our Scouts are not better recruiters. We miss out on telling our story in the media when things are going good. We miss the boat on getting ahead of bad press and showing the Boy Scouts for what we really are. We are cool, we are making a difference, we are what we say we are. But, for a group that prides itself of spinning a great campfire yarn, we don't do a great job of telling our story.
Some thoughts. We clean up and get ourselves right. When we have guests come to our house, we straighten up, vacuum, and maybe even light a candle to make the place smell good.
Scouting needs to do that. We need to get our leaders to wear their uniform right and agree to deliver the promise of Scouting using the methods. Leaders need to be trained.
We need to get our Scouts in full uniforms out in the community doing something other than selling popcorn or marching in a parade. We need to show Scouts doing service and other cool stuff that really makes a difference.
We need to budget for local advertising. We need to get in the media in a positive light every opportunity we can.
We need to sell adventure… Not just another chess club. (I have nothing against chess, but we are talking adventure here) Boys want and need adventure.
We need to get with current outdoor practices and try new methods of camping. It is fun for the boys and increases the challenge for the whole unit.
We need to develop better relationships with the Forest service and Park Rangers. They are a great resource for Scouting.
Do you want Scouting to be cool? Then you need to act cool. You need to be cool. You need to look cool. Hey, we are cool… right?
I am tired of the BSA getting beat up for nonsense. I see so much potential in how we can move ahead to tell our story so we can change the perception of Scouting. And then, our numbers will go up, boys will stay longer, and we will be cool, not just to us, but to everyone.
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VERO BEACH - One great thing about having a dog is how they can create a fun factor in our lives. Dogs are always ready to go for a walk, a ride in the car or a nap on the sofa. Having dogs enriches our lives. Many of my friends plan special activities to include their dogs.
Bark in the Park is an example of one kind of canine event. It is the one day a year dogs are welcome in Vero's Riverside Park. The event starts with a parade and features many dog and community related organizations. I had the pleasure of providing the agility fun zone this year. So many dogs and dog owners had a chance to try out my favorite dog sport and have a great time at the event.
Agility is one of my favorite dog activities. I like to compete, but I like to hang out with my friends too. Agility trials and training are a great way to make friends and increase your social circle. Agility is a sport you and your dog can do together. This fosters a great relationship, the best reason to have a dog.
One activity I really enjoy is walking. Walking is much more enjoyable with a dog! My dogs and I are out a minimum of twice a day for at least a half hour. Florida is beautiful. Our walks give me a chance to enjoy the beauty of our county and bond with my dogs.
One of my friends came up with the idea of 52 walks. Every week she posts a meeting place on Facebook. Friends and dogs gather to walk together. I love this idea! I haven't had a chance to join her, but I'm looking forward to the opportunity.
There are dozens of dog sports waiting for your interest. Some require athletic ability, but many do not. There are events for friendly, social dogs. There are events for dogs who don't care for the company of others. There are an assortment of nose games gaining popularity. Lure coursing gives dogs a chance to try out their skills of pursuit. The list really seems endless.
One thing all these activities have in common is you and your dog are having fun together. Rather than relying on daycares and dog parks where your dog has the most fun without you, try to find an activity to help make you a team.
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David F. Bollwage, of John Street, was arrested on Thursday following an investigation of the complaints by Pawtucket Police detectives. He was arraigned in District Court on Friday on five felony counts of threats to public officials.
Bollwage is accused of making threatening calls and/or leaving phone messages on Wednesday night to City Councilors Lorenzo Tetreault, Albert Vitali, Mark Wildenhain, Christopher O'Neill and James Chadwick.
According to the police report, Bollwage admitted to making the calls, saying heŌĆÖd been drinking and had felt angry after receiving a flier in the mail from the Pawtucket Firefighters Local 1261. The flier, sent out in a mass mailing to the community, details the recent actions taken by the city administration to cut costs, including the removal of Engine Company 4 from service and not filling firefighter vacancies. It urges residents to contact city officials in order to ŌĆ£restore your safety.ŌĆØ
Bollwage reportedly told police that after reading the flier, he decided to call all of the councilors listed. He explained that because he was a union carpenter, the flier had made him mad. He said he had spoken to two councilors and left messages for the others. He said he wasn't sure what he had said but believes he had threatened several of them with ŌĆ£pine boxesŌĆØ made by the carpenters' union and ŌĆ£unexpected house fires.ŌĆØ He ended his statement by saying he had no intentions of following through with any of the threats he had made.
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Barack Obama is bored. You can see it in his demeanor and in his face, the way anticipation becomes melancholy. Most of all you can hear it in his voice when he steps up to make the speech that once sent audiences into frenzy. He's mailing it in (with postage due).
Being a messiah, a rock star, the Pied Piper of Hamelin, is of course hard work. Maybe we should cut the guy a break. You can't be Mick Jagger or Kanye West every day.
The president went to Illinois this week to make a speech about the economy and jobs that the White House hyped as something to remind everyone of William Jennings Bryan ("Cross of Gold") or at least Winston Churchill ("we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills"). What everyone got was a speech to put Michelle to sleep. The president himself seemed to be dozing between the words 10 minutes into the speech.
The bad news is that this was the first in what the White House calls "a new series" of speeches, and a few of the president's favorite acolytes of the press and tube were called in to get a preview of what was coming once the president and his teleprompter arrived at Knox College. He may imagine he needs new speechwriters, but the speechwriters need new material.
Some of the speech the college kids got sounded almost like a valedictory. He doesn't talk about George W. as much as he once did; invoking Herbert Hoover wouldn't work, either, nor would invocations of the Panic of '93 (that president, Grover Cleveland, was a Democrat). The Panic of '73 would be a possibility, but recruiting a scapegoat from two centuries back, even a Republican, would be a stretch, even with Mr. Obama's gifts.
So he settled for a little fiction, beginning with the ritual and familiar attack on "the 1 percent," who before he arrived were devouring all the gravy amidst "a housing bubble, credit cards and a churning financial sector." That was the not-so-subtle George W. reference. "Now, today, five years after the start of the Great Recession, America has fought its way back. Together we saved the auto industry, took on a broken health care system. We invested in new American technologies to reverse our addiction to foreign oil. We doubled wind and solar power."
This was a campaign speech that was gathering dust on a shelf in the White House basement, brought out for a president with nothing to say. He could have explained why his administration has not helped in the reversing of the addiction to foreign oil, or won't approve the Keystone pipeline that would make much of the oil from the Middle East unnecessary.
His remarks consumed an hour and six minutes, longer than all his State of the Union speeches save one; it only seemed longer than all the previous State of the Union speeches put together. There was more comment about length than about content. Long speeches, like long sermons, are always the sign that the bloviator doesn't have much to say but doesn't know how to turn his mouth off, and is determined to say it anyway. The sound of his voice is still sweet in his own ears.
There was the usual pie in the sky, but the whipped cream seemed to be going sour. He would "rebuild run-down neighborhoods" (like the neighborhoods he once promised to rebuild in Detroit), he would put every 4-year-old in a kindergarten (or whatever we're calling kindergarten this year), and he would offer "a vital support system for working parents," which smells like a promise to find a government baby sitter for every child, cost be darned.
Hard to believe, but Mr. Obama's second term has hardly begun. He reminded us that he's down to the last 1,200 days of his presidency. That no doubt seems a bittersweet number to him, but merely bitter for the rest of us.
In his boredom, he has divided the races in a remarkable way. A poll from The Wall Street Journal-NBC News finds that only 52 percent of white Americans think race relations are good, against 38 percent of blacks, down from 79 percent and 63 percent, respectively. The president's irresponsible exploitation of the George Zimmerman murder trial has driven those numbers down.
Playing with race in America is always irresponsible, even for a president. It's like smoking in a fireworks factory. That could be exciting, but boredom is better.
• Wesley Pruden is editor emeritus of The Washington Times.


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Crop circles have appeared in a wheat field near Grand Coulee dam.
Mysterious crop circles have appeared in an Eastern Washington wheat field — not far from the nation's largest hydropower producer — but area farmers preparing for the summer's harvest find the distraction more amusing than alarming.
"You can't do anything other than laugh about it," said Cindy Geib, who owns the field along with her husband, Greg. "You just kind of roll with the theory it's aliens and you're special because aliens chose your spot."
Friends called the Geibs on July 24 when the pattern of flattened wheat was spotted off Highway 174, about five miles north of the town of Wilbur in Lincoln County. The field is about 10 miles south of the Grand Coulee dam, which the Bureau of Reclamation says is the largest hydropower producer in the United States.
The circles resemble a four-leaf clover and remind Cindy Geib of Mickey Mouse ears. The design knocked down about an acre of their wheat. Some of it could be salvaged by combines when the harvest starts in a week or two, she said, but some will be lost.
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"Of course, we don't have alien insurance," she said.
Crop circles have been a worldwide phenomenon for decades, and this is not the first one in Lincoln County. Similar circular patterns were left in crops in the Wilbur area in 2010 and in 2008 or 2009, Geib said.
Lynne Brougher, public-affairs officer for the Grand Coulee dam, hadn't heard about the latest crop circles but said the previous one was no cause for alarm.
"It seemed to be highly unusual," Brougher said. "As I recall from a couple of years ago, there was no good explanation of how they got there."
Still, she added, "it wasn't a concern."
The latest crop circle was first reported Tuesday by Spokane station KHQ-TV. There were no signs that anyone walked into the field.
"We're trying to figure out how they got out there without breaking any of the wheat. It's hard to walk through the crunchy wheat and not knock it down," Geib said. "At the same time, it's hard to think it's aliens. It's a bizarre thing to wrap your brain around."
Geib's daughter-in-law, Kelly Geib, of Wilbur, says the crop circle has given the family something to ponder and chuckle about.
"The kids all like to say the aliens have come, and we're happy to indulge them," she said.


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