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Anonymous insight views of the Philips Sidewalk Studio: "We created 12 CD-i and 2 CD-ROM titles for Philips (some of the CD-i titles were ported to CD-ROM, all were released in multiple languages). Also, we conceived
and executed the rather large project to put movies on CD, first for the
CD-i player (Green Book Standard) and soon after for computers, too
(White Book discs). This was a complex situation that established the
Video CD standard. Let's say this about the project at this time:
If there were, say, 15 things that needed to be done to lead to DVD, we
did 13 of them. What we did not do was enable disc based media to have
enough storage to contain a movie on one disc, while increasing the data
rate (from 1.5 mb to the variable 3-10 mb) so that the movies could look
as good as laserdiscs. That's what DVD did. But Philips, instead of controlling most of the license for DVDs, ended up having 1/15th (or something like that), which
is a shame considering that we had a 3 year lead on the rest of the
"Here's the list in chronological order: Cartoon Jukebox, Sandy's Circus Adventure, Mother Goose Hidden Pictures, Mother Goose Rhymes to Color, Richard Scarry's Best Neighborhood Disc, Richard Scarry's Busiest Neighborhood Disc, Tales from Aesop's Fables, More Tales from Aesop's Fables, the Wacky World of Miniature Golf, The Berenstain Bears On Their Own -- And You On Your Own, Surf City, Crayon Factory, The Babysitter's Club Friendship Kit (CD-ROM only), Story About Me (CD-ROM only). Movie titles: hundreds (I'm not sure how many) all of which used our Edison System to turn them out.
The main other production group at Philips was POV, which finished around 8 titles, although a number of them were ports from CD-ROMs. Beyond that, all the other producers finished between 1-3 discs during the course of things. The Funhouse group you mentioned, finished 3 discs using the animation techniques that Sidewalk invented. BTW, Cartoon Jukebox was the first disc ever to be finished in the CD-i format; although others had started earlier (some as many as 2 years earlier), we were much more organized and got it done relatively quickly.
Philips Media was organized in various ways over its 8 year period. At its most organized, Games and Children's were the main divisions. Children's did more titles in-house, Games almost all out-of-house. That's because the Children's stuff was well managed (mostly by Sidewalk, in my pov) and figured out the production pathway in a superior fashion. The Games was poorly managed (in my view) and therefore went outside, except for POV. POV even was quasi-outside in that it was 45 minutes from headquarters and was successful because, like Sidewalk, it had strong leadership apart from the bureaucrats.
The reason that edutainment was so prominent was because of the very limitations of the CD-i platform vis a vis computers and other game machines. It was very difficult to do realtime 3D kinds of games, whereas bit-mapped titles that children liked took advantage of the platform's strengths. Also, Sidewalk was so productive, organized, efficient, and budget-conscious relatively to other groups that they just let us keep creating. And create we did.
I was approached, as a leading maker of titles, when MPEG 1 came along to make an interactive movie. But I had my suspicions about the value, in terms of genre, of such things, and I knew that we would face many technical difficulties and expenses doing one quickly, so I suggested strongly that we put movies on disc first, and that we develop an authoring system, an interface, that we work with Hollywood labs, etc. There were some good guys who supported our efforts, so we got to do the project and run it, and the rest is history."


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Anna Bowers can throw a football as well as many high school quarterbacks, can run sprints as fast as the wind, shoot a soccer ball with precision and also has dabbled in lacrosse, golf and softball.
As a senior guard for the Lipscomb Lady Bison she has surpassed the 1,000-point mark for her career. She is only the fourth Lipscomb player to reach that plateau in the NCAA Division era joining, Courtney Boynton, Kate Beth Pate Allen and Jenna Bartsokas.
Anna has scored 1,045 points heading into Saturday night's 6:30 p.m. game with Belmont at Allen Arena. She is 33 points away from Allen who sits in third place.
But the truly rare part of the accomplishment is that she joins her father, Ricky, in the 1,000-point club at Lipscomb. Ricky scored 1,151 points from 1980-84 during the NAIA era of the athletic department. There are no available stats in this area, but it would have to be a rare accomplishment.
Neither Anna, nor her father, realized she was close to reaching 1,000 points. Her teammates informed Anna of her accomplishment after the Jan. 19 game at USC Upstate. Anna did not know her father had scored 1,000 points during his career.
"I didn't think about reaching 1,000 points at all," Anna said. "It's nice, but there is no way I could score that much without the four other players on the court with me.
"I think it is really a small portion of the game. It would have been a lot better if we had won that game."
Lipscomb coach Frank Bennett agrees that shooting is just one part of Anna's overall abilities on the court.
"Anna is very self-motivated," Bennett said. "She plays very hard. She puts more into her defense than she does her offense.
"She plays an all-around game. She just likes the competition and being a team player. But she is a very good scorer. She has a great shooting stroke. She has been more selective in the 3-point shots she takes."
Anna's family has never stressed celebrating individual achievement. Ricky thinks that Anna has always been too busy playing a variety of sports to keep up with her stats. At Lipscomb she also competes for the track team in the spring.
"I didn't know she had 1,000 points until I went to the website," Ricky said.
Ricky, the athletic director and football coach at Ensworth High School, has been aware of Anna's athletic prowess since she was a baby.
"We have videos of her when she was very, very young with a basketball in her hands," Ricky said. "She has always enjoyed running, having a ball in her hands and playing.
"Since she was really young she has been able to handle a basketball really well. It was amazing to watch her. I can remember her throwing and catching when she was 2."
Anna grew up playing basketball in the backyard with her younger brothers, Andrew and Richard. Her sister, Mary Rae, rounds out the family.
In high school at Ensworth she would often be in the gym before school shooting and also stayed after practices. Even during soccer season she would find time to work on her shooting.
"It is hard to really teach someone how to shoot a basketball," Anna said. "You really have to work on it if you are changing from one thing to another. Just growing up in an atmosphere that was surrounded by basketball helped me to develop a decent shot from the early stages."
Ricky did not take every opportunity to give his daughter advice.
"When I asked him he would give me advice," Anna said. "When I was little I just wanted to play. I didn't care what my shot looked like then. Thankfully, it was good enough.
"In high school I would ask him more. I struggled with my 3-point shooting throughout high school. He worked with me. He always had something helpful and good to say. I would attribute a lot of what my shot looks like now to him."
She is known for her competitive attitude, something that she picked up from her father and her mother, Deborah.
"He taught me not to give up," Anna said. "He gave me a good concept of how to play smart. There were just little things that you picked up from watching him coach."
Ricky did not expect Anna to play basketball on the Division I level.
"I wasn't sure she would choose basketball," Ricky said. "In track she has uncommon speed. I always thought she was more naturally gifted in track. If there would have been a way to play four seasons of basketball, four seasons of track and four seasons of golf she would have done it. I was always hoping she would play golf."
Despite her success on the court, Anna can't truthfully say that basketball is her favorite sport.
"It was the first sport I started to play because that is what Dad coached first," Anna said. "Whatever I am playing is my favorite sport. The variety of playing different sports is what I think I love the most."
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DETROIT (AP) Alex Rodriguez was dropped from the Yankees' starting lineup again Wednesday, this time with New York facing elimination and his future with the team still to be resolved.
Trailing 3-0 in the AL championship series against Detroit, the Yankees also benched slumping center fielder Curtis Granderson.
Rodriguez, only 3 for 23 in this postseason, was out of the lineup for the third time in New York's nine playoff games. The star third baseman also has been pulled for a pinch hitter three times.
``We will go forward. Alex will go forward,'' Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said before Game 4 was postponed because of a forecast of heavy rain. The game was rescheduled for Thursday.
``That doesn't mean that he's done, that he's finished, that he is not capable. He is still a big threat, but for whatever reason right now we are adjusting to what we are seeing,'' he said.
Whether the Yankees keep him on the bench or put him in another postseason game, ``it doesn't mean by doing so we're not going to have to deal with legitimate questions,'' Cashman said.
``That's all for another day,'' he said. ``All we are concentrating on is the here and now and what is best for us today.''
The 37-year-old slugger with 647 career home runs didn't like his seat in the dugout.
``I'm not happy about it. Obviously, you come to the ballpark feeling you can help the team win. When you see your name is not in the lineup, it's obviously disappointing,'' Rodriguez said Wednesday night. ``You've got to accept being a cheerleader and also make sure that you're ready when you're number's called.''
While Rodriguez was surrounded by a pack of reporters on the field Wednesday, some Tigers looked on in bewilderment as Detroit took batting practice.
``I've played this game for a long time and bottom line is, anytime I'm in any lineup, I think that lineup is better. It has a better chance to win,'' A-Rod said.
``I don't care if it's an All-Star Game. I feel I can bring that type of impact and I'm also at any point ready to break through. I thought my at-bats in some of those games got a little bit better. The last two, I hit two rockets. Anytime I'm in the box the game can change and everyone knows that,'' he said.
The firestorm may not end any time soon. He has $114 million and five years remaining on his contract - and a no-trade clause.
``You know, the one thing about this game, as we've all appreciated over time, is that you're going to have some good times and you're going to have some tough times,'' Cashman said. ``But when you're going through the tough times, it doesn't have to be the end-all and be-all. Opportunities will exist to continue to get back off that mat and get back in the ring and battle.''
Yankees president Randy Levine and Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria joked last spring about sending A-Rod to Miami. The conversation took place when the Yankees played a pair of exhibitions to open the Marlins' new ballpark.
``Alex is Mr. Miami,'' Loria told him.
``Take him. Tell me what you're willing to do,'' Levine said before the pair laughed.
Said Levine Wednesday: ``It's funny. You can't even joke with somebody anymore.''
Cashman flatly denied that the team has had trade discussions concerning Rodriguez.
He said manager Joe Girardi has the final say on the lineup, but a move like benching Rodriguez is discussed higher in the organization as well.
``The relationship I have with the manager is strong, and we always - that's the way I want it to be,'' Cashman said. ``We always go through what the lineup should be and how it should look we think. He asks my opinion. He asks his coaches' opinion, and that's the way it's been.''
Granderson joined A-Rod on the bench after another hitless night Tuesday dropped him to 3 for 29 in the postseason. Granderson hit 43 homers with 106 RBIs this season.
``These are also the guys that got us the best record in the American League and put up the highest run total in our league, or one of the highest run totals in our league, so they're also the reason for a lot of good that's taken place,'' Cashman said.
``But in the short-term right now it's been bad. Is that a true snapshot of what their contributions are and who they are as players? It's not. But it's certainly something we're dealing with and living with right now, and we're doing everything we possibly can to make the adjustment and get it going,'' he said.
Nick Swisher, who was benched in Game 3, returned to the lineup in right field. Eric Chavez started at third base in place of Rodriguez. Brett Gardner started in Granderson's normal spot. Shortstop Derek Jeter is out for the season because of a broken ankle.
``It's not that I want to sit Alex Rodriguez,'' Girardi said. ``But the struggles have continued, like for some other players as well, and I've sat some other players as well.''
Rodriguez has looked particularly overmatched against right-handers, going 0 for 18 with 12 strikeouts in the postseason. Detroit's entire playoff rotation is right-handed, including Game 4 starter Max Scherzer.
In Game 3, Girardi let Raul Ibanez hit against left-hander Phil Coke in the ninth inning, and Ibanez struck out to end the game. The switch-hitting Swisher - not Rodriguez - was in the on-deck circle preparing to pinch-hit.
``I was ready to hit, and I was just waiting for my number to be called,'' Rodriguez said.
A New York Post report, citing an unidentified witness, said A-Rod flirted with two attractive female fans near the New York dugout after he was pinch-hit for late in Game 1 against Detroit.
``I addressed that yesterday and I said it was laughable,'' Rodriguez said Wednesday. ``I do think that some of the criticism out there is very fair, and I can live with that, but some of the other stuff is unfair.''
Donald Trump offered his two cents Wednesday, calling Rodriguez ``selfish'' on Twitter but saying Girardi should play his normal starters.
``They got you there,'' Trump tweeted.
Rodriguez said he's still supportive of Girardi, and he didn't want to speculate of what this postseason could mean for his future in New York.
``One thing I never do is I never quit, and I just keep competing until the end,'' Rodriguez said.
With the Yankees trying to stave off the end of their season, Girardi and Cashman apparently felt they were better off without A-Rod in the starting lineup.
``We're not afraid to make calls. We're hoping we're going to make the right ones,'' Cashman said. ``But, hey, you are in a position to make decisions, and you have to make tough ones. I don't think we are afraid to make tough ones. We'd rather be in a position where you can run it all out there and it is nice and easy and it's going to work at all times, but that's not the nature of the beast of baseball.''
AP Sports Writer Ronald Blum contributed to this report.


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Remember that particularly clueless right-wing acquaintance of yours? The one who believes that anybody in America can become rich, because he thinks about poverty in a completely unscientific, anecdotal way, which allows him to treat the exceptional case as typical? The one who can't seem to understand the simplest structural arguments about the nature of social inequality?
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Inside iPhone OS 4.0: Multitasking vs Mac OS X, Android
Costly Multitasking with Services
In order to actually do things in the background, Android apps must supply a "service" component, which spins off tasks that can continue even when the associated app is suspended. An Android service uses a client/server model to perform background tasks such as music playback or polling a server for new messages.
It's often these background services that are most likely to eat up battery life on Android phones, because they can open network connections to a remote server and keep those connections open. This forces the 3G or WiFi radio to remain constantly active, which is one of the fastest ways to drain the battery on a mobile device.
An Android service can also activate GPS to obtain regular location updates. This can be even more expensive in terms of battery life, as GPS exercises both the mobile network and the GPS antenna (as mobile signals are used to assist in the task of GPS tracking). Services can also eat up available RAM and consume CPU, but battery life is usually the primary problem.
Multitasking in iPhone 4.0 vs. Android
Apple was certainly aware of how Google had designed Android's multitasking model, and there's no evidence that Google patented the concept of services in its publicly documented, open source operating system. So the fact that Apple didn't clone Google's entire model for multitasking indicates that Steve Jobs wasn't just blowing hot air when he said Apple had studied the problem and devised its own approach to multitasking that it believed to be better.
At the same time, some aspects of Apple's new multitasking APIs are very similar in approach to Android's. According to an overview of the differences in Android and iPhone 4.0 by David Quintana, the "apparent multitasking" of iPhone 4.0, which Apple calls "Fast App Switching," is nearly identical to Android's app suspending concept described above.
When you switch from one app to another in iPhone 4.0, the previous app is held in memory but all activity is frozen. As noted earlier, this isn't really multitasking in the sense of desktop OS multitasking, but rather just an illusion that multiple apps are all running, when they're really not. They're just ready to run again as soon as you switch back: hence the name Fast App Switching.
Before Apple announced this mechanism, many iPhone programmers had expressed the idea that the system didn't really need "multitasking" as much as a "saved state" concept that would allow users to rapidly switch between apps. That's exactly what Fast App Switching does.
Just as with Android, iPhone 4.0 can reclaim memory by saving and then terminating apps that are frozen in the background, so when the user returns, the app can be reopened to the same place it was when the user quit. However, unlike Android, iPhone 4.0 presents a simple way to expressly quit a running app without needing a process management utility like TasKiller.
Because hitting the Home button no longer exits the app, Apple has now made a touch and hold shortcut that presents a red minus badge on running apps that can be used to quit them and remove them from the task tray of running apps, just like the Home button used to do. There's no manual management of apps and systems processes that could result in unanticipated problems for users.
Incidentally, this type of "apparent multitasking" is also what Microsoft plans to use in Windows Phone 7 at the end of the year. And once again for emphasis: this aspect of multitasking isn't really about running multiple apps at once as occurs in a desktop environment, it's about leaving them in memory so you can quickly switch between them.
More Efficient Multitasking in iPhone 4.0
Going beyond the apparent multitasking of Windows Phone 7, iPhone 4.0 will also support a specific set of tasks in third party apps that users will actually want to continue in the background after they leave an app. This is conceptually similar to Android's services, but is implemented in a new way. As Quintana writes, on iPhone 4.0 "background processing is however vastly different than Android."
A primary difference, Quintana notes, is that there is no concept of services in iPhone 4.0. Apps don't provide a background client/server component. Instead, Apple developed a set of rules that apps must follow in order to continue doing tasks after the user switches away from the app.
The idea of apps continuing to work after the user switches away is not new to the iPhone; it's only new to third party apps. Apple's Phone app already does this, as the company has long touted in its ads. With a call in progress, the user can hit the Home button and browse the web or look up a contact or check email while the Phone app remains on the call.
The same thing happens with the iPod app, which can continue to play music. SMS and Mail continue to get messages in the background and so on. However, this would quickly become a problem for users if all of the scores of apps they installed were all consuming resources without restriction as they checked for messages and streamed updates and continued other operations in the background.
In order to balance users' desires to do multiple things at once against users' expectations that their phone would work responsively for a reasonably long period of time, Apple defined a number of background tasks that third parties can implement, and set up rules that ensure these tasks are performed as efficiently as possible.
System-Wide Notifications as a Prerequisite for Efficient Multitasking
The first step down this path was delivered last year: Push Notifications. Rather than having apps sit in the background or spawning background services to poll remote servers for updates, Apple created a system wide service to efficiently listen for updates on behalf of the user's apps, and then present the user with notifications that the user then can act on (when convenient) by launching or switching to the app that has received the notification.
This is something other platforms don't really have in place. Even RIM's Blackberry, which is hailed for its push messaging savvy, has only recently opened up a public push messaging facility for third party apps. The result of this is that most Blackberry apps have already been designed to inefficiently poll their server for updates because unregulated multitasking was already there to allow them to do it "the wrong way." Users pay with shorter battery life.
Android apps similarly cause problems for users' battery life because they're each polling in the background rather than allowing a unified system thread to watch for updates while the individual apps all remain asleep. Apple's Push Notification feature therefore thoughtfully solved a complex problem before multitasking for third party apps was even attempted on the platform.
With iPhone 4.0, there's a second type of system level notification being added: Local Notifications. This mechanism allows apps to set reminders on a schedule that the system handles for them. Rather than being events that are pushed from an external server, they're set up by an app while it's awake, and then held and delivered on time by the system while the app sleeps.
An example might be an app that sets a reminder of a live webcast; the app doesn't need to remain in the background counting down to the notification; the system accepts the reminder and delivers it to the user at the set time on behalf of the app while the app itself goes to sleep.
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Sloppy seconds? Seriously? The NHL's collective feathers are ruffled over this?
That being said, reactions from Marty Turco, Mike Modano, Brad Richards and Mike Ribeiro do show that this Sean Avery experiment isn't exactly going well. We're only in December and the team is already clearly tired of hearing about Avery (and his gorgeous, cleft-chinned ex-gfs).
Obviously, Avery needs father figures and/or players who obviously wear the pants so he'll tow the line. In Detroit, he was just some annoying gnat of an undrafted free agent in a locker room full of larger than life personalities. After that, he's been in big markets where hockey isn't exactly the main event (LA, New York and Dallas) so he could cultivate his bad boy image without the necessary "But he's actually not all that productive" backlash.
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In the 15 years following the original organization of the Boy Scouts of America in 1910, the growth of the movement was slowed only by the need for qualified leaders. There was no program developed to hold the interests of the older Scouts in their troops. Many youths attaining Scouting's highest honor lost interest and dropped from active participation.
On the night of April 19, 1925, ten Eagle Scouts met in the office of Scout Executive Raymond O. Hanson of the San Francisco Council. That meeting was for the purpose of organizing an association which would hold the interests of Eagle Scouts, uphold the dignity of the Eagle Award, and provide a base for continuing leadership in the Scouting movement. That night it was decided to organize an association of Eagle Scouts devoted to service. Thus, the KNIGHTS OF DUNAMIS was launched.
The name for the new association was selected carefully to reflect its dedication to service. The word "Dunamis" (pronounced DOO'-NA-MIS) is derived from the Greek word meaning "Power" or "Spirit" and denotes the increased power which is an Eagles, by virtue of his membership, to use for the good of the Scouting movement and his community.
Dunamis was formed to promote Eagle Scouting. The founders felt that young men seeking a meaningful purpose in life fulfilled many of the same requirements as the Knights of Old. Thus, knighthood and the greatest knight of all, Sir Galahad, became the foundation of Dunamis. The Knight's Code, which stressed honor to his country, the preparation to defend it from any enemy, and the commitment of service to his fellow man, was the obligation of a knight.
The Knights of Dunamis emblem consisted of an Eagle perched on a sword which rested on the shield of Dunamis. The eagle was symbolic of every member's achievement of the Eagle Scout rank. The sword was a replica of the sword of Sir Galahad, from which, legend said, Galahad derived his power leadership. The triangular shield of Dunamis signified the three parts of the Scout Oath - duty to God and country, duty to others, and duty to self.
Based upon this foundation, the early achievements of the Knights of Dunamis in San Francisco were impressive, with a high percentage of the members continuing their interests in the Scouting program.
The success of this service program did not go unnoticed in other councils. Within a year a second group was organized in the adjoining San Mateo County Council, and shortly thereafter a third was formed in the Atlantic City Council.
On December 14, 1929, delegates from six chapters met in San Francisco to organize a national board. This national organization supplemented the local chapters by providing supplies and holding national conferences to facilitate the exchange of views.
In 1971 there were 37 chapters of the Knights of Dunamis. The strongest chapters were located in San Francisco and Washington, DC. The older members saw great "mystery" in the name and ritual of K.D., and the strength of leadership was in the hands of the few who were caught up in the ceremonies and degrees of knighthood. Youth members found some conflict between their obligation to their own Scout unit and the time spent in K.D. ritual and activities. There was a need to keep in contact with Eagle Scouts and to develop a manpower resource of Eagle Scouts for Scouting. To accomplish this, the support of the National Council was needed.
At its annual meeting at Fort Collins, Colo., in August 1970, the National Chapter of the Knights of Dunamis, Inc., empowered its officers to take action to dissolve the corporation and consummate a merger with the Boy Scouts of America.
Robert Ballou, who grew up in K.D., was selected as national secretary when the BSA agreed to subsidize the K.D. for 18 months. In 1971 James J. Harris was assigned as national secretary.
In May 1971, a meeting was held in Atlanta to discuss the future of the Eagle program and a steering committee was formed. This committee was composed of two national Executive Board members, J. Kimball Whitney and Donald H. Flanders, the president of K.D. Dr. Lester Steig and the first vice-president Dr. James Cochran, Ebert May, James Harris, J. H. Biggers, Ken Wells, and three K. D. youth members. Using the research study presented by the Research and Development Division under the direction of Wells, plans were formulated for the organization of the National Eagle Scout Association.
A National Eagle Scout Association committee was formed in August 1971, with Whitney and Flanders representing the National BSA Board, James Cochran as national adviser, John Russell and Robert Salisbury as associate national advisers. It was at this time that Dr. Steig officially stepped down as national president of the Knights of Dunamis and became a member of the NESA committee.
The National Eagle Scout Association was launched with the first NESA committee meeting held in conjunction with the National Council meeting in Los Angeles on May 19, 1972.
Flanders of Fort Smith, Ark., served as NESA's first national chairman. In 1973, NESA launched a vigorous membership drive at the National Order of the Arrow Conference and the national jamborees.
The NESA Scoutmaster Award was introduced in 1973. This award recognizes noteworthy promotion of, and leadership to, the Scouting advancement program in general and exemplary development of Eagles in particular.
In August 1974, the first NESA National Conference was held in Fort Collins, Colo. The theme of the conference was NESA - Growing Upward, Outward, and Inward. Those attending the conference were read a letter from President Gerald Ford, the first Eagle Scout to become President. In 1975 NESA created the Distinguished Service Award for outstanding leadership and service to our organization. The award has been presented to a select few members at each national conference.
In 1974, Thomas F. Gilbane became the NESA chairman. He gave strong leadership to the national committee until May 1976 when Dr. Max S. Norris of Indianapolis was appointed chairman. Dr. Norris remained in office for 5 years.
NESA kicked off the Bicentennial Eagle Scout Roundup program in 1975. NESA also sent a service corps to the world jamboree in Norway.
In the summer of 1976, NESA held its second National Conference in Washington, DC, and helped the nation celebrate its 200th birthday. At the 1977 National Scout Jamboree, NESA sponsored a Life to Eagle meeting to encourage Scouts to complete their trail to Scouting's highest achievement.
The third national conference was held in 1978 at Opryland in Nashville, Tenn. 1978 also saw NESA institute its life membership. The first NESA life member was Zenon C. R. Hansen.
At the 1981 National Scout Jamboree, the National Eagle Scout Association again held a Life to Eagle meeting to encourage the Scouts. NESA also held a membership meeting at the jamboree where Richard W. Kiefer to Baltimore was introduced as the new national chairman, and all NESA members enjoyed a time of fellowship and ice cream eating. NESA also staffed a display on the midway at the jamboree.
In 1982, the National Eagle Scout Association celebrated its 10th birthday with a national conference held with the National Council meeting in Atlanta, Ga.
The purpose of NESA has remained the same: to identify Eagle Scouts and to provide a manpower resource for local councils. The primary objective of local chapters is to guide Eagle Scouts, of all ages into service within the local council. NESA has grown to a membership of 83,946 with 274 local chapters. All BSA councils have membership enrolled in the National Eagle Scout Association.
NESA is young men searching for dynamic and challenging leadership roles. NESA is older Eagle Scouts who desire using their efforts and influence toward forming the kind of young men America needs for leadership. The objective of NESA is "to serve - to serve Eagle Scouts and through them, the entire movement of Scouting."
We are well into the second decade of service. More chapters, more members, and more service to Scouting. NESA was in attendance at the 1985 National Scout Jamboree. NESA will be launching a new and vigorous membership campaign, and will be on the trail to promote better programs for NESA chapters through a quality national training program.
As we join with Scouting to celebrate its diamond jubilee year; remember, you are NESA's strength, and NESA is Scouting's gain.


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Dear Patient Friends: Yes, this is short, long overdue, has nothing to do with baking, and is politically charged, to boot. I'm starting, slowly but surely, to flex my writing muscles while I continue to freelance and wait for my bar results. This essay is cross-posted to Facebook, where I meant to only write a sentence or two about it, only to see a floodgate of contemplation burst open, so to speak. A friend of mine *cough'mousecough* insists, vociferously, that Facebook and Twitter have ruined social discourse by moving it off blogs and onto privacy-eating Web 2.0 sites. Normally I just remind him that he used to make the same complaint about blogs ruining social discourse by moving it off of chat rooms, and then I make fun of him a little more. This time, though, he's right. There's no reason that Facebook should get the exclusive fruit of my labors on this issue.
Confidential to Momerina: Yes, "My Adrienne Rich Problem" is a riff on John Thorne's "My Paula Wolfert Problem." Nice catch, Mom.
I am aware that in posting this, I will be angering and/or breaking the hearts of a lot of people who I really love, and for that, I'm sad. Keeping silent on this issue, though, makes me sadder (and is wrong, to boot).
Adrienne Rich died last week. When I was in high school, I devoured her poetry and essays on feminism and social justice. Because I was a poetry geek, I would yammer on about "Reliquary" and "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" to anyone who would listen. With that in mind, a few people have asked me why I haven't commented on Adrienne Rich's death, or contributed to memorial events to her.
Here's why: Even as she was a brilliant poet, a fierce activist, and a coalition builder (who was not shy about telling white feminists that they needed to step up their game on advocating for women of color), Adrienne Rich had "read through...in all its stages, and provided resources, creative criticism and constant encouragement" to Janice Raymond's The Transsexual Empire, the most hateful, damaging screed against trans women ever written. I am not engaging in hyperbole when I say this. It is impossible to overstate the damage this book has done to the world in which trans women live. And Janice Raymond not only thanks Adrienne Rich for her help with the book, but also reproduces a conversation with her in the text of the book.
Rich's defenders have pointed out that Janice Raymond is not a credible source, and that it's possible that Raymond overstated Rich's contribution to the work, or that Rich's attitudes towards trans women became more enlightened in her later years. It's certainly possible. On the other hand, in the 33 years between the publication of The Transsexual Empire and Rich's death, she has never repudiated the work, or stated that Raymond had misrepresented her point of view.
The bottom line: I cannot, in good conscience, call myself either a feminist or a trans ally if I'm willing to look the other way when Adrienne Rich contributes to a toxic body of work, no matter how much I love her poems. It does, indeed, matter.
Postscript: In addition to the You're Welcome essay linked above, these essays are also excellent and worth reading:
My complicated mourning: RIP, Adrienne Rich
Another Complicated Mourning of Adrienne Rich
Postpostscript: Over on Facebook, a friend asked me what I'd hoped to accomplish by writing this piece, as it won't affect the role that The Transsexual Empire plays in society, and would only serve to discredit Adrienne Rich's body of work for some people. Here is my reply to her question:
Well...hmmm. I'm not entirely sure that it needs to accomplish anything to be worth discussing. (Upon typing, that reads as kind of snarky, but I promise, [name redacted], I'm not being snarky, and I *am* both reading and answering in good faith.) Are we "accomplishing" anything when we point out that an asshat writer on Two and a Half Men made gross comments about women in an interview? Probably not. Is it worth discussing? Absolutely.
I have no illusions that my little post here will affect anything vis a vis the availability of The Transsexual Empire. That ship sailed 30 years ago. But I don't know if it will continue to have its power and resonance within the establishment, simply because trans civil rights activists are pushing back like hell on it. I'm more concerned with its power and resonance among feminists. Not all feminists are transphobic (or transmisogynist), but the ones who *are* transphobic are, in my opinion, an embarrassment to the sisterhood. The hate rhetoric they spout about trans people, particularly trans women, is almost indistinguishable from the hate rhetoric of the right wing. Right-wing 'phobes may call them perverts, while radical feminist 'phobes call them men trying to appropriate "real" women's space, but the net result is still the same: a refusal to recognize trans women as women.
So what does all this have to do with Adrienne Rich? She may not have created the idea that trans women are not real women, but she certainly facilitated it. And that's shocking to me, because Adrienne Rich was a vigorous critic of white feminists who refused or neglected to address issues affecting women of color. She recognized that black women needed more than an "inclusive" environment where white women were nice enough to invite them but not necessarily to let their voices be heard. So to hear that a coalition builder like Adrienne Rich not only didn't include trans women in the coalition, but also provided constructive feedback to a woman who described trans women as monsters and sleeper agents in a plan to replace "natural" women with "artificially-constructed women"...well, it's a shock. Kind of like it was a shock when I learned that Dostoevsky, who wrote the most beautiful prose in the world on how to live with grace and humility and love, had a little bit of an intense-hatred-of-the-Jews problem.
Ultimately, I guess I'm just pondering that old question about how we think of people who make beautiful art, yet think or do ugly things. We hear this question over and over again—how do we think of Ezra Pound? Of Leni Riefenstahl? Of Roman Polanski? It's not an easy question to answer, but I know how I don't want to answer it: Adrienne Rich did so much good for so many people that it's mere hair-splitting to call her out on an issue that only affects a certain group of people. That certain group of people comprises my friends and sisters, and they matter.


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The Kobe-less Lakers debuted once more on Friday.
This was no sulking party at Staples Center.
Friday's game against Minnesota wasn't about winning and losing, it was about fun. It was about the way the Lakers played for the first time without Bryant, and they did so with energy and enthusiasm. They didn't stoop to their laundry list of injuries.
If you expected slumped shoulders and the holiday blues over Bryant's fractured left knee and the six weeks he'll be sidelined, you underestimated young players who have a naïve outlook they can keep the Lakers in the playoff hunt until he's back.
It's admirable to be sure, even if it won't work, and it's more exciting to watch. The Lakers – who downed Minnesota 104-91 – are outside a playoff spot already. Whether Friday's fun, energy and ball-movement is sustainable over the next six weeks is another story.
Pau Gasol nearly had a triple-double with 21 points, 13 rebounds and eight assists. And he had some un-Gasol-like celebration antics, courtesy of help from Nick Young. Gasol's 3-pointer late in the game, which gave the Lakers a 95-89 lead, set off an unusual frenzy for Gasol.
"Definitely, (Friday) was a little more fun. Nick has that quality and that gift,'' Gasol said. "I was happy he rubbed off on me.''
Even coach Mike D'Antoni, especially in his hilarious attempt to be swaggy about Young, who had a team-best 25 points from off the bench and his usual assortment of guns-in-the-holster and other celebratory moves.
"He rubs off on me. He makes me happy,'' D'Antoni said. "There's no doubt. He's done it a few times when we have shootaround. He's swaggy out there. He feels it. He starts swagging or something. It's not a silly energy. It's a good, positive fun (energy). It's 10 o'clock on the East Coast and 7 o'clock in L.A. But Swaggy is out there doing his thing.''
Bryant wasn't at the game, but the Lakers showed that just because Bryant is on the shelf – again – they're not giving up. Not only did they look like they were having fun, they were having fun while playing. Bryant boosted their mentality with a positive message on Twitter mere hours after he learned he was sidelined with his #BrokenNotBeaten inspirational message.
Those six games Bryant was on the court, other Lakers seemed content for him to work his Mamba magic, but that slowed down the offense and took the fun out of transition play.
"That's a big part of it, we try to caution them not to sit and watch him because it's easy,'' D'Antoni said.
The Lakers said they weren't going to fold, and they didn't. On the contrary. At least for one game.
"I don't think anybody is too bummed," said guard Jordan Farmar, who is among the injured. "We're just bummed for Kobe because he worked his butt off to get in this position, and we were looking on building together on the team. It's part of the game. He's tough and we'll work through it while he's out."
Bryant made sure to send good vibes out into the Twittersphere.
The Lakers did, too. They played holiday messages and songs on the JumboTron. Bryant's absence was no reason to put the holidays on the backburner.
Bryant missed his first game since Thursday's shocking revelation that he had a fractured left knee.
Folks still sold out Staples Center at 18,997 to watch the latest version of the Lakers, and the newly-signed point guard Kendall Marshall. He never got off the bench. The Lakers were just fine.
The Lakers have been there and done that with and without Bryant. Bryant had returned for just six games since he came back from the ruptured left Achilles Tendon when he injured the knee on the same leg in Tuesday's game.
The Lakers were used to playing without Bryant. And Steve Nash, and then Steve Blake and then Farmar. Just when the became accustomed to Bryant back in their lineup, he was out again. They needed precious little time to get used to a lineup without him.
Bryant wasn't at Staples Center on Friday, so we'll have to wait to gauge his innermost thoughts.
Coach Mike D'Antoni said he hadn't talked to Bryant since learning of his fractured knee. Xavier Henry, the latest Laker to play starting point guard, had talked to Bryant.
"I talked to him yesterday when I first heard the news and I saw him in there,'' Henry said after the team's morning shootaround. "I told him I was praying for him and that I hoped he got better fast. He seemed fine. He didn't seem anything out of the normal."
Anyone wearing purple and gold was wearing a brave face, even though it surely masks disappointment.
Henry missed his first shot Friday, an outside shot from the corner, but then made two of his next three shots. He drove the lane and scored as well, establishing himself as a threat to drive and pass. He scored 11 points on 4 of 7 shots in the first quarter.
Young, having entered the game in the first quarter, scored on a layup and on the next possession, Henry used a steal to jumpstart a Young no-look assist to Kaman inside.
One day after the debilitating Bryant news, and there was much to cheer about.


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IN THE MIND OF cartoonist Daniel Clowes, the modern egoist is a balding, middle-aged schlub named Wilson.
Lonely and self-loathing, Wilson, the subject and title of Clowes' latest graphic novel, hangs around the coffee shops on Oakland's Grand Avenue, verbally sucker punching strangers with whom he instigates one-sided conversations. He is rude, neurotic and opinionated.
Yet you can't help but like the guy because he is also honest, funny and desperate to better his circumstances.
"Wilson" (Drawn and Quarterly, $21.95) is the latest in a cartooning career built around antagonistic protagonists who operate on a somewhat higher level of consciousness — and pay the price. Among such memorable Clowes characters are "David Boring," the passionless, self-alienating antihero, and Enid Coleslaw, the angst-ridden, morbid teen in "Ghost World," the seminal graphic novel that became a cult film and earned Clowes an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay.
"I find malcontents to be amusing," Clowes says on a recent morning in his Oakland backyard. He lives on a tree-lined block with his wife, Erika, 6-year-old son, Charles, and emotionally needy beagle, Ella. "I have a lot of friends who are cranky complainers, and I guess I have a high tolerance for that."
Given the cartoonist's predilection for dark characters, you'd expect him to be the biggest grouch of all. Sorry to disappoint. The picture of poise and Midwestern manners (he was born and raised in Chicago), Clowes, 49, is beyond nice. Tall and slender with light blue eyes, he is warm and inquisitive, and he remembers the names of fans who wrote him 20 years ago. He keeps their letters in a box above his desk.
Clowes, an illustrator for the "New Yorker," is traditional in other ways, too. At a time when print is down and young cartoonists are turning to the Web, Clowes still draws everything by hand — "I'll never type in a url to look at comics," he says — and he was so shaken when Cody's Books closed in Berkeley that he relates it to how a Catholic would feel if the only church in town shut its doors.
"That (book store) was the focal point of my life," Clowes says. Like many of his characters, Clowes spends his time in local spots. He wrote and drew "Mister Wonderful," the New York Times comic strip, at Posh Bagel on Piedmont Avenue. Most of "Wilson" came to life at Jennie's Cafe on Grand Avenue.
After his father's death, Wilson realizes how alone he is in the world. So he forces a reunion between himself, his ex-wife and the teenage daughter he never knew he had. The three don't exactly hit it off, but you can't help but root for Wilson. Here is a cynical loner who counts his dog as his only friend. Yet he desperately wants to find human connection. Even if he has to manufacture it.
"Wilson has a noble struggle," Clowes says. "He is trying to get something bigger out of his life. He's expecting other people to live up to his vision of how things should be, and they don't."
Clowes and Wilson share more than a zip code. It was in a suburban Chicago hospital that Clowes came up with Wilson two years ago. His father was dying of lung cancer, and, like Wilson, Clowes was by his dad's side. To pass the time, Clowes doodled dozens of comic strips — mostly stick figures and dialogue balloons — until Wilson popped into his head.
"By the end of the week, I felt like I knew this character," says Clowes, who calls Wilson an exaggerated version of himself. "You're always looking for a character who can take you on an adventure rather than forcing them to go somewhere. He was like a real guy. I feel like I've seen him walk by while sitting at the cafes on Grand Avenue. He might be an ex hipster. Maybe he dropped out of Cal."
The graphic novel is arranged in single-page strips with punch lines (usually delivered by Wilson at someone else's expense). Clowes drew Wilson in multiple styles that play off each other: Sometimes he's a realistic man with back hair and a beer gut. Other times he's squat and cartoonish with dots for eyes.
"I wanted each strip to have its own presence and integrity and subtle, tonal shifts," he explains. "They are like one-page jokes, but the punch line is almost tragic. Sometimes it's not a punch line. It's almost the opposite of one."
Clowes attended the Pratt Institute in New York and graduated in 1984. He began his career as an underground cartoonist with the detective comic book "Lloyd Llewellyn." In 1989, he created his seminal series "Eightball," which cemented his role as a leader in the comics world. He is the only cartoonist to have won the Eisner, Ignatz and Harvey awards, top honors in the world of comics, as well as the Oscar nomination.
Clowes moved from Brooklyn to Berkeley in 1992, settling in Oakland in 2000. He found a new fan base in 2001 when he and director Terry Zwigoff adapted "Ghost World" into a movie starring Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson. In 2006, Clowes and Zwigoff collaborated on "Art School Confidential," also based on a Clowes comic and starring John Malkovich and Jim Broadbent. His next project, "Megolomania," is an animated teen film directed by Michel Gondry. Actors Seth Rogen and Steve Buscemi will supply the voices.
Even though Clowes is hardly the Hollywood type, he enjoys collaborative screenwriting as a break from his own solitary work. Not that Clowes minds working alone. But the best advice he ever got about cartooning came from artist and illustrator Robert Crumb, who told him to take an occasional hiatus from cartooning.
"He told me that (in cartooning) you hit 50 and realize you're talking to yourself and you're nuts," Clowes says. "So he said to find something else and get away from cartooning for a while. That way when you come back to it you can really appreciate it."
Oakland cartoonist Daniel Clowes will discuss and sign copies of his new graphic novel "Wilson" at 7 p.m. June 3 at Diesel, 5433 College Ave., Oakland. For more information, call 510-653-9965 or visit www.dieselbookstore.com.


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In an interview with DJ Vlad, rapper Noriega aka N.O.R.E. confirms what everyone knows: hip-hop is teeming with How You Doin'/gay stars. But he went one step further, he says some of these stars are openly gay and he has worked with them. Plus, giving specific clues, he
We transcribed that interview:
"The gay community is here. It's not secretive. When you're in the industry and the minute you make a certain amount of money you can not avoid it and the craziest thing in the world is you get used to it. They don't bother you. Most gay men don't like straight guys. It's the truth. If a gay man bothers you that's because they know something about you, son. I have recorded with people who are not openly gay, but people who are closeted gay. I've got songs. Google it. I'm positive I've worked with a gay rapper. Yeah. Positive. Yeah. Pretty sure. It is what it is. They don't offend me. I just don't live in LeFrak City, Queens. I've traveled to LA. I've been to Miami. I see what goes on. That's their world. I'm sure that my sexuality just messing with bitches does not make them mad. They say that's cool, we don't want him anyway."
Vlad asked if there are openly gay rappers?
"Yeah, there is and you wont get me to say the name....It's not a big secret. Everybody gonna say I knew that. It doesn't matter and guess what? People are still gonna go to this guy's party. People are still gonna buy this guy's sneakers. They're gonna buy his belts. They're gonna buy his purses... It's not a secret. They're here. There's a sect who stay in the meeting and pull out Vaseline and they put their pinky finger in the Vaseline and they put the Vaseline over their lips straight up giving you signs saying 'this is who i am.' If there's a sect who are openly gay and and they love what they do, trust me the people who they sign they want them to be like them."
While we don't know who he's talking about specifically, we can play the guessing game. From his clues we think he's talking about Puffy aka Diddy, Kanye, and Ne-Yo. And if these are the folks he's talking about, he's right: No one will be entirely surprised. The rumors, for instance, about Puffy have been legendary. Kanye, too. And as for Ne-Yo, well, where do we begin? Wendy has said at least 50% of rappers are gay and these rappers have been outed by someone in the past: Chingy, Luda, T.I., Usher, Soulja Boy and Bow Wow. It is what it is.
As a public service, we actually Googled some of the songs and people he's collaboed with.
N.O.R.E., released in 1998
"Banned From TV" featuring Big Pun, Nature,Cam'ron, Jadakiss, Styles P
"It's Not A Game" featuring Maze and Musolini
"The Assignment" featuring Busta Rhymes and Spliff Star
"Body in the Trunk" featuring Nas
Melvin Flynt - Da Hustler, released in 1999
"Cocaine Business (Hysteria)" featuring Kelis Produced by The Neptunes
"Blood Money, Pt. 3" featuring Mike B.
"The Way We Live" featuring Chico DeBarge
"40 Island" featuring Kool G Rap and Musolini
"Hold Me Down" featuring Final Chapter & Troy Outlaw
"Play That S***" featuring Juvenile, Lil Wayne, Musalini, Maze & Goldfingaz
God's Favorite, released in 2002
"Hit Me Slime" featuring Nas, Ice T, Mike Kyser, and Nelly
"Mr. CEO" featuring Musaliny-N-Maze, Gold and Troy Outlaw
"Live My Life" featuring Ja Rule Produced by Irv Gotti
"Full Mode" Produced by The Neptunes
"Love Ya Moms" featuring Capone, Musaliny-N-Maze, Gold and Complexions
"Nahmeanuheard" [Remix] featuring Capone, Cam'ron, Fat Joe and Cassidy Produced by Swizz Beatz
"Holla Back Slime" featuring Busta Rhymes and Jadakiss
Noreality, released in 2007
"That Club Shit" featuring Three 6 Mafia
"Throw 'Em Under The Bus" featuring Jadakiss, Kurupt
"Green Light" featuring Capone, Final Chapter
"Pop A Pill" featuring Deacon
"I'ma Get You" featuring Kanye West, GLC


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Are you a pastel lady who loves anything but light-colored
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Reminiscent of nostalgic fair ground moments, the pink and baby blue colored flap bags will remind you of that favorite cotton candy stand of yours whenever you go to the carnival. Evoke wistful memories of young love with these trendy Chanel flap bags that give you the same functionality and style. Though minimalist in style, Chanel flap bags are nevertheless one of the favorite fashion staples among the rich and famous worldwide. Celebrities who owns a Chanel flap bag includes: Jennifer Lopez, Brooke Shields, Jennifer Garner, Eva Longoria, Nicki Minaj and Miley Cyrus to name a few.
One that will certainly never go out of style, the flap bag is a luxurious hand bag that one must own since it might live forever. Find your modern-day love story by owning a Chanel flap bag in either pink or baby blue.
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SAINT LAURENT CLASSIC MONOGRAM QUILTED BABY SHOULDER BAG WITH GUNMETAL CHAINCategories:Other Brands
Size: 4.5" x 6.5" x 1.5" inches (H x W x D)
Price: $1,550 USD or €1,150 EUR
Sleek and luxe are just two of the adjectives to describe the Saint Laurent Classic Monogram Quilted Baby Shoulder Bag with Gunmetal Chain. It has a flawless design that's sure to have you coming back for more! Quilted to perfection, this baby has a soft, rich calf leather exterior that's meant to earn you bragging rights. A perfect companion during day-to-night outfit transitions, this bag is as versatile as it could get!
With magnetic fastening, the bag keeps all of your personal effects intact. It even has internal slot pockets, which gives you more space to organize. What else are you looking for? This is officially the bag to beat!
Size: 4.5" x 6.5" x 1.5" inches (H x W x D)
Price: $1,550 USD or €1,150 EUR
Size: 4.5" x 6.5" x 1.5" inches (H x W x D)
Price: $1,550 USD or €1,150 EUR
Size: 4.5" x 6.5" x 1.5" inches (H x W x D)
Price: $1,550 USD or €1,150 EUR
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Saint Laurent Baby Classic Sac De JourCategories:Other Brands
How small is small when it comes to Saint Laurent's Classic Sac De Jour? From the regular SDJ that's good for work to the Nano that measures a wee 22 cm across (there are 4 sizes in all, by the way), the size I'm adoring the most that's small but not too small (yes, there is such a thing when it comes to bags, no?) is the one that's appropriately named Baby.
One up from the Nano and coming in at almost 26 cm across, the Baby Classic Sac De Jour is in my opinion the one you'll have to get if you're looking for a good city-sized bag, one that's big enough for the day's essentials, but not too big until it becomes a convenient dumping ground for things you don't need in the first place, which I have witnessed for myself when I poked around in some women friends' bags, from three mini umbrellas (really, who needs 3 umbrellas?) to 7 lip balms gathered at the bottom of the bag.
Wear it by the sling or just use it via its top handles, the Baby Classic SDJ is priced atSGD3190. Yes, I know, it's not cheap right? Then again, what luxury bag is nowadays, so you might as well spend your hard-earned money on something you really love, yes?
It's available in grained or smooth leather variations, although I'm always partial to anything grained since in my books it would mean it would hold up to accidental nicks and scratches better. However, that would be your choice at the end of the day, as would be the colour you pick, be it Lipstick Fuchsia, Royal Blue and Yellow.
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Mice cookies, makes 36 cookies
This could be a kitchen project for parent and child together: One forms the mouse bodies, the other adds ears, eyes and tail.
When buying sliced almonds, look for ones that have not been blanched – that still have edges of brown almond skin. Those will make the best-looking mouse ears. Adapted from "The Daily Cookie," by Anna Ginsburg (Andrews McMeel, 2012).
11 tablespoons (5 1/2 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature
2/3 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 large egg yolk
2 cups flour
Heavy whipping cream, as needed
Sliced almonds, preferably unblanched (see headnote)
Chow mein noodles (preferably La Choy Rice Noodles) or pieces of fiber cereal
Chocolate mini-chips or currants
Position a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
Beat the butter and sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, or with a hand-held electric mixer, at medium speed. Once the mixture is light and fluffy, after 3 to 4 minutes, beat in the salt and vanilla extract. Reduce the speed to low and beat in the egg yolk. Add the flour 1/2 cup at a time, stirring by hand or using the lowest speed of the mixer, until fully combined. The dough should be slightly dry, but not so dry that it falls apart. If your dough is too dry to easily mold, add the cream 1 tablespoon at a time until the dough is malleable.
Scoop up tablespoonfuls of dough and shape them into little ovals with a pointy end. Arrange them about 2 inches apart on the prepared baking sheets. Insert the almond slices for ears and a chow mein noodle or piece of cereal for a tail. Use chocolate mini-chips or currants to make the eyes.
Bake one sheet at a time for 15 to 20 minutes or until the mice are slightly browned. Transfer the mice to a wire rack to cool completely.
Fabio Trabocchi's Almond Cookies, makes sixty 2-inch cookies
This is chef Fabio Trabocchi's take on polvorones, a Spanish cookie that's a favorite of his wife, Maria.
MAKE AHEAD: The dough needs to be wrapped and refrigerated for at least 1 hour and up to 1 week. Adapted from Trabocchi, chef-owner of Fiola in Washington.
16 tablespoons unsalted butter (2 sticks), at room temperature
1 cup sugar
2 cups almond flour, such as Bob's Red Mill brand
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tablespoon finely grated lime or lemon zest
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
Pinch salt
60 whole blanched almonds (see NOTE)
Combine the butter, sugar, the flours, lime or lemon zest, cinnamon, almond extract and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat at moderately low speed until smooth, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer the dough to a work surface and divide it into thirds. Form each piece into a log; wrap the logs separately in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour, until slightly firm.
When ready to bake, position racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven and preheat to 300 degrees. Line 2 rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper.
Cut two of the logs crosswise into 20 pieces each and roll each piece into a ball. Transfer the balls to the prepared baking sheets, spacing them 2 inches apart. Use your fingers to flatten them slightly, then press an almond into the top of each cookie. Bake for 10 minutes on the upper and lower racks, then rotate the baking sheets top to bottom and front to back. Bake for 10 minutes, then rotate the pans again. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes or until the cookies are barely golden; watch closely so they don't get dark. Let them cool on the baking sheets for 10 minutes, then slide the parchment onto cooling racks. Repeat to cook the third log of dough. Let the cookies cool completely before serving or storing. They can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4 days.
NOTE: If you can't find blanched (skinned) almonds in the store, blanch them yourself. Place whole almonds in a large heatproof bowl. Cover them with boiling water and let them soak for 60 seconds. Drain the almonds in a colander or strainer, rinse them under cold water, drain briefly and transfer them to several layers of paper towels to dry. When the almonds are cool enough to handle, squeeze them to slip off their skins. Dry them completely before using or storing.
Sour Cherry Chocolate Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies, makes about 36 cookies or 18 sandwich cookies
These bright, chewy, chocolaty, fruity cookies are terrific singly and equally good with the cherry filling. You can make them as small as a couple of inches or as large as 6 inches in diameter.
MAKE AHEAD: The dough needs to be refrigerated for at least 1 hour before baking. From Kate Jansen, pastry chef at Willow restaurant in Arlington, Va.
For the cookies:
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
16 tablespoons (2 sticks) unsalted butter, soft but cool
1/4 cup vegetable shortening
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3 tablespoons Lyle's Golden Syrup or honey
1 large egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped dried sour cherries
For the filling
6 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
1/4 cup Smucker's Orchard Finest Michigan Red Tart Cherry Preserves
For the cookies: Stir together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and rolled oats in a large bowl.
Beat together the butter, shortening, sugars and the golden syrup or honey in the bowl of a stand mixer or hand-held electric mixer on medium speed until smooth and combined, about 2 minutes. Add the egg and vanilla extract, and beat until very light and fluffy, about 1 minute. Reduce the speed to low and add the flour mixture, beating until incorporated. Use a flexible spatula to fold in the chocolate chips and cherries. Cover the dough with a piece of plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, at least 1 hour.
When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease two baking sheets with nonstick cooking oil spray.
Scoop out 1-inch balls of dough and transfer them to the prepared baking sheets, spacing them about 3 inches apart. Press down on the top of each ball to flatten it slightly. Bake for 12 to 14 minutes or until evenly browned. (The cooking time will vary if you make the dough balls larger or smaller.) Transfer the cookies to wire racks to cool completely before assembling the sandwiches.
For the filling: Place the cream cheese in a bowl and use a spoon or flexible spatula to stir and soften it further. Add the preserves and stir to incorporate. Invert half of the cookies so the flat side is facing up, and spoon a small mound of filling onto each cookie. Top each with one of the remaining cookies, flat side down.
Turkish Delight Florentines, makes about 15 cookies
This is a fusion of a popular European cookie and a favorite Middle Eastern candy. You want it to look striking; buy sliced almonds that have been blanched so they have no brown skin remaining.
You can make the cookies free-form, into rough circles, or you can use a (sharp and sturdy) cookie/pastry cutter to cut them into perfect rounds. Adapted from "Malouf: New Middle Eastern Food," by Greg and Lucy Malouf (Hardie Grant, 2012).
3 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons unsalted butter
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup superfine sugar
Scant 4 1/2 cups blanched, sliced almonds
2 ounces flour (1/3 cup plus 5 teaspoons)
4 to 8 pieces rosewater Turkish delight, finely chopped
7 ounces excellent-quality semisweet chocolate, chopped (1 1/2 cups)
Preheat the oven to 320 degrees. Grease 2 baking sheets with nonstick cooking oil spray and line them with parchment paper.
Bring the butter, cream and sugar to a boil in a small, heavy saucepan over medium heat, stirring frequently. Remove from the heat and allow to cool slightly, then stir in the almonds and flour.
Drop teaspoonfuls of the mixture onto the baking sheets, leaving plenty of room between each one for spreading. Use a wet fingertip to flatten the cookies slightly. Bake for 16 to 18 minutes, until the nuts are deep golden in color. If desired, remove the baking sheets from the oven after 8 to 10 minutes, when the nuts are a light golden brown, and use a cookie-pastry cutter to cut the cookies into neat circles before returning them to the oven to finish baking.
Remove the cookies from the oven and, while they are still warm, scatter them with the pieces of Turkish delight. Once the cookies are cool and firm, transfer them to a wire rack.
Melt the chocolate in a small pan set over a saucepan of barely bubbling water, stirring frequently. Use a pastry brush to apply a thick coat of chocolate to the flat sides of the cookies. If desired, use a fork to create the traditional wavy pattern in the soft chocolate. Leave the cookies chocolate side up to let them harden completely before storing in an airtight container.
Santa's Whiskers, makes about sixty 2 3/4-inch cookies
This is a favorite cookie for children. The coconut is meant to suggest Santa Claus' fluffy beard.
Buy good-quality candied (glace) cherries, which are dry-packed, and not maraschino cherries, which are packed in liquid. Some versions of this recipe call for a combination of red and green ones.
The recipe doubles easily.
MAKE AHEAD: The dough needs to chill for 2 hours before baking. From Susan Lacz of Ridgewell's Catering.
8 ounces red candied cherries (see headnote)
16 tablespoons (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
2 cups sugar
2 tablespoons low-fat milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups flour
4 ounces chopped pecans
4 ounces sweetened flaked coconut
Place the cherries in a colander, rinse them quickly and allow them to drain well.
Beat the butter and sugar together in the bowl of a stand mixer or hand-held electric mixer on high speed until light and fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes. Add the milk and vanilla extract, and beat to combine.
Use paper towels to gently pat the cherries dry if they are still wet. Use a knife or a food processor to coarsely chop the cherries. Use a flexible spatula to fold them into the butter-sugar mixture, then to fold in the flour and pecans.
Divide the dough in half. Roll each half into a log about 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Spread the coconut on a piece of wax paper and roll each log in the coconut to coat. Wrap the logs in plastic wrap and chill for 2 hours; or wrap tightly and freeze for later use.
When ready to bake, position racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven and preheat to 375 degrees. Have 2 baking sheets at hand.
Cut the logs crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick slices, rotating the logs as you cut to help them retain their round shape. Transfer the slices to the baking sheets, spacing them 1 inch apart, and bake for 10 to 14 minutes or until the edges are a light golden brown. Cool the cookies on the baking sheet for 2 minutes, the transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely. Repeat to bake all of the cookies.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Whirligigs, makes 23 to 34 cookies
A rich peanut butter cookie dough is slathered liberally with dark chocolate, then the whole thing is rolled into a log and chilled. When sliced, the chocolate creates an interesting pattern. Don't obsess if yours doesn't form a perfect pinwheel; the chocolate is brittle when sliced, but you can reshape the cookies along the way.
MAKE AHEAD: The dough needs to chill for at least 3 hours and up to 24 hours. The logs of assembled, unbaked cookies must be chilled for at least 3 hours and up to 24 hours. Adapted from "Baked Elements," by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2012).
For the dough:
2 1/4 cups flour, plus more for dusting
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, cool but not cold, cut into chunks
1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
1/3 cup granulated sugar
3 tablespoons vegetable oil, preferably canola
3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1 large egg, plus 1 large egg yolk
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
For the chocolate filling:
12 ounces good-quality dark chocolate (60 to 72 percent cacao), coarsely chopped
1/2 teaspoon light corn syrup
For the dough: Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl.
Combine the butter, sugars, oil and peanut butter in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat on medium-high speed until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl and add the egg, egg yolk and vanilla extract, beating until incorporated.
Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl and add half of the flour mixture. Beat just until incorporated; do not overmix. Add the remaining flour mixture and beat just until incorporated.
Transfer the dough to a cool, lightly floured work surface and shape into a disk. Wrap the disk in parchment paper, then in plastic wrap, and refrigerate until firm, about 3 hours and up to 24 hours.
Dust a rolling pin lightly with flour. Line a work surface with a piece of parchment paper about 14 inches long and dust with a sprinkling of flour. Divide the disk of chilled dough in half and return one half to the refrigerator. Roll out the remaining half on the parchment into a rectangle about 9 1/2 inches long by 7 1/2 inches wide and just less than 1/2 inch thick. (If the dough is too thin, it will be extremely difficult to roll.) Transfer the dough, still on the parchment, to the refrigerator to firm up. Repeat the rolling process for the remaining half of the disk and refrigerate.
For the chocolate filling: While the dough is chilling, combine the chocolate and corn syrup in a heatproof bowl set over a saucepan of barely bubbling water, stirring until the chocolate has melted. Whisk until smooth, then allow to cool for a few minutes.
To assemble, remove 1 sheet of dough from the refrigerator. Pour half of the chocolate onto the middle of the dough rectangle and use a pastry brush or the back of a spoon to spread it nearly to the edge of the two short sides of the dough. Leave a 1/2-inch strip bare of chocolate on one of the long sides. Double up the chocolate on the opposite long side; this will be the center of the cookie.
Using the parchment paper to help you, slowly roll the dough into a log, starting from the long side of the rectangle that has double chocolate. (The paper should not be inside the log but used as a tool to help create the log.) Once the dough is rolled, keep it wrapped in the paper, then wrap tightly in plastic and refrigerate. Repeat with the second sheet of dough.
Chill the logs for at least 3 hours and up to 24 hours, until they feel very solid; if they do not feel solid, they probably need to be refrigerated for a few hours longer.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
Unwrap one of the logs and place it on a cutting surface. Dip a knife in very hot water and cut the log into individual cookies, 1/2- to 3/4-inch thick. Transfer them to the prepared baking sheets, spacing them about 1 1/2 inches apart. If the cookies become disfigured in the cutting process, you can use your fingers to reshape them; if the chocolate breaks or spills out, you can gently push it back into place. Repeat to slice all of the cookies.
Bake one sheet at a time for 11 to 13 minutes on the middle rack, rotating the baking sheet front to back halfway through the baking time. Do not overbake; remove the cookies from the oven the second they start to brown.
Place the baking sheets on wire racks to cool for 5 minutes, then use a spatula to transfer the cookies to the racks to cool completely. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days.


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SRAM has evaluated this and claims the results are inconclusive. So much for experimental data: what's a model show?
I spent several posts looking at a drivetrain model. I ended up with the following:
Ploss = (K / L) P (1 / Nf + 1 / Nr) + C T0 K (1 + Nf/Nr + Nf [ 1 / Ndt + 1 / Ndb ] ) + Kd C Nf [ 1 / Ndt + 1 / Ndb ] / 2
where I define:
Ploss = power lost to drivetrain,
Nf = chainring teeth,
Nr = cog teeth,
Ndb = bottom pulley teeth,
Ndt = top pulley teeth, and
C = cadence.
I used the constants:
A key parameter is Kd. I previously derived:
Kd = 94 mJ/rev for Shimano Dura-Ace
Kd = 2.4 mJ/rev for CeramicSpeed pulleys
or using data measured by Mark Kelly:
Kd = 37 mJ/rev (standard bearings)
Kd = 6.4 mJ/rev (high quality steel bearings)
I assume everyone uses the best ceramic bearings before even considering going to a Berner modification. So I'll use Kd = 2.4 mJ/rev.
The savings are calculated from the loss equation:
ΔP = C ( T0 K + Kd / 2) Nf ( 1 / 11 ‒ 1 / 15 ),
where if I assume C = 1.5 rev/second (90 rev/min), I get 0.48 watts for the 39-tooth ring and 0.66 watts for the 53 tooth ring. Bigger ring at the same cadence means the chain is moving through the pulleys faster. Note this calculation is for swapping one pulley, so going from 11-11 to 11-15 or 15-11, for example. Swapping both pulleys will yield a proportionally larger improvement.
Are these savings worth it? I assumed 300 W steady power, so the savings is around 0.2% of total power with this model. Of course, all of the savings are lost if the Berner pulley doesn't spin as well as your 11T pulley, or if you don't keep your drivetrain meticulously clean you'll squander any savings from this hefty investment.
But it does appear the benefit is real, if small.
Of course if the pulleys are clogged with dirt, things may be different. In the limit of an infinitely-mucked-up chain (T0 very large), the 15-toother saves 10% of lost power in a 53/23. So maybe it's the option of choice for cyclocross, mountain biking, or other races in the mud.


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Sony ships 'world's fastest' DVD±R burner
Claims 18x burn speed
The first fruit of Sony's optical drive partnership with NEC have arrived in Europe: a drive the company claims is the world's fastest DVD±R writer, capable of burning single-layer discs at up to 18x speed.
Sony admitted the availability of media certified for use at 18x was "limited", but it claimed the drive - dubbed the AWG170A - would write 16x discs at the higher speed. It also said the drive will write DVD-RAM discs as 12x. DVD±R DL discs are written at up to 8x, it added, the same speed the drive writes DVD+RWs. DVD-RW discs are written at 6x. CD-R/RW discs are burned at 48x.
Sony touted the AWG170A's compact, fanless self-cooling design, along with mechanisms to compensate for unbalanced discs - all that spinning would do anyone's head in, we say - and to minimise vibration during the read/write process, another cause of coasters.
The drive is available in with a choice of four different bezel colours.
The drive is made by Sony NEC Optiarc, formed in April when the two companies combined their optical drive businesses. Sony owns 55 per cent of the JV; NEC owns the remainder. ®
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I do want to share a few things...a few details...and i guess the best way is through photos.
Aj's Birthday was December 15th. I wanted a small intimate gathering with immediate family and friends...and that is what we did. The planning process was easy, since i knew i wanted something to show off his FIRST YEAR of life....and since i had taken a photo of him every month on his Month-Birthday....i knew i wanted to incorporate all the pictures. I googled and came up with the theme "One year in a flash".
I purchased the cards on ETSY from a seller MamaMoonlights! She was awesome. She even custom designed the card to match my theme exactly. Here is the finished product.
I was pretty happy with the results! I printed them at Walmart.com and only spent 8.00!!! Between the invite and the printing i only spent $24, which was pretty good---considering it is a custom design.Walmart did an OK job with printing, but the real work was the actual invite...so i was ok with the print job. We didn't get it on photopaper, but on cardstock, which i recommend. Gives it a finished look. I would recommend going this route if you want something done to look pretty close to professional. It was a fast turn around too! I got the invites in the mail within 5 days...so it was pretty painless.
I wanted to keep things simple and plain, since it was going to be held at my Father's house. I didn't want to go over board with decorating, since it wasn't my home, and it turned out pretty fantastic.
I did however hire a photographer (i found on craigslist) to photograph the event...and honestly, it was the best money i've ever spent. She captured the party perfectly and I am so happy that i hired her!!
Here are some shots of the day/night:
Anywhos! What has everyone else been up to? I've been keeping up with my reading, just not updating. Please post a comment to let me know you are all still there (all 22 of you!).
Soon i'm going to be posting about my new hobby, photography! I will show you how i took Aj's valentines day photos for under $1! :)


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It's a rare and joyous thing to find a presidential poll this far out from election day that qualifies as newsworthy, but I think this one does for two reasons. One: It's proof of how far the Bridgegate scandal has penetrated the national consciousness. It's one thing to find Jersey voters souring on Christie, it's another thing to find it happening in a state that every president has won for more than 50 years.
Two: There's no obvious reason to think Christie's numbers will rebound dramatically before the 2016 campaign begins. He broke from the rest of the Republican pack because he responded well, and in a conspicuously nonpartisan way, to an emergency that couldn't be blamed on one party or the other. That earned him a reservoir of goodwill from independents and Democrats. If Quinnipiac's numbers are right, that reservoir is now depleted. What's going to replenish it by next year? Another big fight with the unions? C'mon.
He's at 49-36 now in Ohio against Hillary, just about where everyone else in the field is. He doesn't even pull the best numbers among independents against her. Paul Ryan and Rand Paul each do better.
Secretary Clinton tops Gov. Christie 49 – 36 percent in an early look at the 2016 presidential race in this critical swing state. This compares to results of a November 27 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University showing Clinton at 42 percent, with Christie at 41 percent…
"The George Washington Bridge is not in Ohio, but voters there seem very aware of its traffic problems – and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's traffic problems," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "When Quinnipiac University asked Ohioans in November about Gov. Christie vs. Secretary Hillary Clinton in a 2016 White House race, the two were in a dead heat and voters thought he would make a good president. Today, she enjoys a comfortable double-digit lead and voters say Christie would not be a good president."
The killer:
He was at 44/32 on that question in late November. Now his numbers are nearly identical to Rand Paul's (32/47) and Jeb Bush's (33/48), and they're a bit worse than the better-known Paul Ryan's (36/44). He does worse than both Ryan and Paul among independents here, too. The only thing that distinguishes him from the rest of the field at the moment is that Democrats are still a bit more likely to say he'd make a good president than they are for other Republican. But even there, the gap's no longer huge: Whereas 18 percent of Dems say so for Christie, 12 percent say so for Bush. And most other GOP candidates do better than Christie with Republicans.
What happens over the next 15 months to change any of this? He was supposed to be running on electability and persona. Increasingly it looks like he'll be running on just persona. Exit question: Is this a coincidence, or by design?
not uttered once at Christie's town hall today: the word "bridge"
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While the original Mini Cooper is an iconic car in automotive history, the British manufactured automobiles weren't available for decades in the U.S. until their re-debut into the market in 2000. While the old mini was a fun, beloved car, it wasn't particularly practical for the American market. They were too small, underpowered, and expensive for widespread appeal to American consumers. The modern day Mini, however, is a different animal altogether. While it retains many of the same styling cues an attributes that people liked about the first Mini, the modern day variant is more spacious, more powerful, and more affordable. As a subsidiary of BMW, they are also quality built, reliable cars. A great car with an interesting past, the Mini is an excellent automobile for those looking for something a little more unique.
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