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Agree with simplify. LCs and COs are pushed out of the court room and settlement. National insurance policies are given to the settlement trust. The trust can either settle with the insurance companies or sue them in District Court. BSA HA bases including Arrow are added to the pot and the Philmont mortgage is determined to be unsecured (Arrow is secured). Done.

Thought I'd share a moment from my troop here in the UK that made me smile yesterday and really made me appreciate the patrol system. Bit of background, it was only last week that we were allowed to meet face to face again since November, and even in November we'd only been back a few weeks. Not much real scouting been happening! Naturally we lost a few kids along the way including 3 of our APLs. Alas! Anyway that meant that one of the first things to do was appoint new APLs and the PLC went ahead and chose them (we tend to do that collectively here rather than each PL appoint their

So glad we could do our mulch fundraiser this year, although my back might have a different opinion. (Not me in the forklift).

No, only three of the parties to the mediation (BSA, Century, Hartford) were served. Frankly, if they even TRIED to demand production from the mediators it would be (almost) instantly quashed by the court. The whole idea of private mediation is you cannot force the other sides, and ESPECIALLY the mediators, to reveal those proceedings outside some extraordinary showing (e.g. during mediation, one party indicated they were actively engaged in current criminal conduct). But if you were not part of that mediation, you can ask on what basis the conclusion was reached. So, here, the claim

As we both said several times, they almost literally invited this. Several ways and several times. Maybe this pulls the wagon out of the ditch, at long last.

There is a profound difference in being able to view the ORIGINAL versus a book picture or even a projected image. Each brush stroke was dealt by a human hand. It was put there by the desire to capture ... what? Something even a photograph can't capture. My dad attended an art school early on, thinking he might be a professional artist. Then the great depression interferred. His friendship with the schools director Henry Hensche, continued and when I went off to summer camp , he and mom visited with Mr. Hensche, I am the beneficiary of that visit, years later, Hensche's portra

I would not tell the judge anything, seeing as how she hasn't asked me for my opinion. I would, however, invite her to join me at my imaginary bar on my imaginary island for an imaginary mojito with all my imaginary friends and band because, well, nobody honestly cares one wit for my opinion so I may as well make this game productive. Scouting is a game with a purpose? Besides, that would be more fun than arguing the minutiae of the BSA charter.

Probably worth at least $0.02.

Only slightly off topic, please be aware that if you "Like" Abused in Scouting on Facebook, Facebook will proceed to inform all of your friends that you like the group/page. I found out the hard way when my Mother in law told my wife that she saw I liked AIS and asked her about my abuse-awesome for a person who considers this the most private matter in life. I would have to assume my other friends and associates saw it as well. So, I unliked it and filed a complaint with FB, which clearly loves to violate privacy.

That is currently being debated. In short: 1) EVERY victim will have the right to vote. There is 0% chance that this can or will be taken away from you personally or any victim. 2) SOME victims may (I say may here) waive the right and turn it over to their attorney. So, AIS or the Coalition, for example, may be able to say "We have XX,XXX clients who have turned their votes over to us. And we vote Yes/No." Now, it is possible the court will rule no, lawyers cannot proxy vote/vote on behalf of their clients. 84,000 ballots go to 84,000 people and that is that. 67% of votes T

The SCOUTER.com virtual campfire has been lighting our community now for more than 25 years. It's hard for me to imagine that so much time has passed, and the thousands of Scouts and Scouters around the world that have learned and shared together. These are obviously incredibly trying times for Scouting and enormous transition for the organization. But I have always believed that the very best of Scouting was at the grassroots, found in the mentoring relationship of a leader and young Scout, honed on cold winter campouts and sharpened by the lessons of leadership and service. And these fo

Again, that is simply not true. Where on earth are you getting this idea? 1) As I've said before and I'll say again, the end result of this is that there will STILL BE a (much smaller) District of Columbia. The charter isn't going away David. Get that through your head. 2) Let's play out your delusion that suddenly the District of Columbia will cease to exist. The charter specifies District of Columbia, however there is a understanding in law that the successor entity remains as valid. The District of Douglass AS SUCCESSOR STATE TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA would be the place of incor