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Camp Joy- Okaw Valley Council, IL Decent camp with dining-hall eating. The lake is not the greatest, but the Waterfront Director two years ago was great! COPE and the climing tower was a bunch of fun. Camp Sunnen- Trail West Council, IL --camp in southern Missouri Nice camp on a 1000 acre lake. The waterfront offers multiple merit badges including canoeing, swimming, lifesaving, motorboating as well as BSA Lifeguard. Decent climbing tower, but no COPE course. Has a golf course very close to property as well as a YMCA camp right across the lake. Patrol cooking done in campsites break

I'm gonna be hanging out for quite awhile tonite. Tonite is our prom and post-prom, but I have elected to not go to prom, but I am going to the post-prom which starts at 1AM. So I'll be in here until about 12:30 or so. Please stop by.

Sounds like you want out and may force your wants onto your son. What ever happen to allowing him to have some input? There are many reasons to join the troop. Somebody mentioned friends. I would consider several people from this site a friend of mine. I have met a few other people because they knew somebody from this site. All due to the interest in Scouts. I don't know of many chess tournaments or soccer tournaments where there are 40,000+ in the area at once for 10 days there to have fun. Or 75,000 in the arena at once from all over the world! You can backpack, but what ab

If you talk to Eamonn, he can fill you in on what I'm told is a nice place in Western PA. The staff at this location are great instructors for rappelling and such. They offer climbing, caving, and rappelling activities as well as a few other things at their location. If you can't get ahold of Eamonn, send me a PM. I can hook you up with the man in charge:)

There's three of us hanging out now. Still plenty of time to chat

EagleScout71 and I are in right now. AK-Eagle has come by, he may be back. The fire is lit, but we can't sit too close b/c it's hot here!

I'm hanging out already b/c I've got nothing else to do. Come on in! I'll be around most of the night. Just "whisper" me if I don't repsond within a minute or so...

Hey guys, it's been awhile since we've posted about a chat session. We're in nearly every night and I'm already in for tonite. Spring Break started today for me and I have the day off tomorrow so I may be in pretty late again. Come on by! http://groups.msn.com/boyscouts/chatroom.msnw

The fireworks didn't impress me that much. Seeing the President was cool! The actual show was lame. But the President was cool!

1) 2005 National Scout Jamboree Served on the Youth Staff at the Rappelling Tower as a part of the Action Center D! I was able to meet at least one SCOUTER member as well as at least one MERITBADGE.NET member (Eamonn and WagionVigil). I was about 15 feet away from BOBWHITE I believe, but was not able to speak to him. I got to see President Bush from about 75 yards. The biggest thing I got out of this was the feeling of satifaction and such a rewarding feeling when a Scout (or Scouter) was able to overcome his (or her) fear to descend the fall trusting the equipment, themself, and I to aid

Later than I expected to reply, but here's where I'm at right now. Feel free to give any advice you got. Thesis statement Leaders come in many forms, but all leaders must possess certain qualities. Understanding the Situation -listening -request/demand -Feedback -prepared Responsibility -delegation (good idea whoever thought of it;)) -able to explain decisions -goals -control Basically what I did was to combine some of your ideas with what I had on paper and then group them even more as best as I could. Thanks for the help so far; feel free to pitch

From the sounds of it, you guys therefore do not have the economic means to start a new troop. Maybe you should think about joining another troop who possibly has an established uniform closet. I can't imagine the program if you can't afford the basic uniform items. How, then, are you going to be able to afford camping equipment, or even each individual trip? Sounds like some rethinking needs to take place before another new troop is started and set up for possible failure.

Alright, so I'm not an adult but I'm going to chime in here as well: I have served as numerous positions in the troop over the last several years. Den Chief- was a lot of fun; quite a bit of responsibility for me at the time Patrol Leader- I don't remember much about being a patrol leader and I think part of the reason for that is that at that point, we weren't truly Boy-led so I didn't do much. Quartermaster- this was a lot of work and I tried so hard to stay organized. It didn't work out too well and we are still trying to keep organized. We need a system of doing gear in

Hey guys, I'm gonna hang out in the chat room and we are always welcoming new people to stop by and hang out for awhile; 5 minutes or a couple hours-- it doesn't matter. http://groups.msn.com/boyscouts/chatroom.msnw You have to have an MSN username, but that is easy enough to set up. It is currently 8:30 PM on Saturday night March 11.

Herms, those are both good points and I find that both of those ideas are sometimes difficult to put into words and describe all that well. I'll try explaining my train of thought.. -requesting rather than demanding. I feel that in many cases you are going to get more respect from a person if you were to request, ask, or politely tell them to do it rather than to order said individual around constantly. I have experienced this in Scouts as well as a few other situations. Of course, there are also a few instances in which demanding is required. I feel though that there are few and are n

I do understand where you're coming from.. this thread is intended more as research than anything else. My information tells me I'm supposed to use personal interviews and examples, etc. I'm conducting an interview;) as best as doable online. Also, I wanted to make sure I had all the qualities of a leader so I could choose the ones that are Most Important rather than the ones I think of. Whatever:)

Thanks guys... not exactly what I was looking for;) but still advice is a good thing. Yeah Lisabob, I just looked at a research paper I had written about the Boy Scouts last semester and it only covered 3 items, but spanned nearly 1500 words! 200 words is going to be hard to get everything in there, yet not go over the 300. So, let me rephrase this: What do you guys think are the most important qualities? I have my list and I'll share tomorrow when I get it narrowed down enough. Let me know what you think please.

Hey guys, need a little assistance here. As many of you know, I am approaching scholarship and college admissions times. I'm working on my first scholarship essay. This is thru a program called the National Council for Youth Leaders. I was given 4 topics and I have to choose one and write a 2-3 hundred word essay on it. My chosen topic is this: "What qualities of leadership do you think are most important?" Here is some brainstorming I've done and some of my ideas so far. Any help would be great:) -setting goals -listening -requesting rather than demanding -leading by exam

Thank you for your service John. I am going to, however, respectfully disagree with you. The Woodland BDU, I feel is a not an item I would consider that, by wearing, would discredit or disrespect a Veteran. You have the experience as the Veteran and I do not therefore I am going to respect your opinion although I will disagree. I would, however, agree with your idea if one were to were a camouflage uniform item with rank, unit, or other type of identification on it. That, I feel, would be disrespectful. The Woodland BDU I feel is more of a commercial item than, say the MARPAT or ACU,

Within a year we won't have these problems of "imitating the military" because the Air Force is the only Branch that will still be wearing the Woodland BDU's which seem to be the most popular ones by other people including myself. Long, I think the netting probably serves to keep them from noticing movement. Like your eyes blinking or that kind of thing. Bow hunting (never done it personally, but do know a little bit about) I believe you have to get quite a bit closer than you do with a rifle or shotgun therefore they could notice little movements like that.

My most expensive pair of boots I've gotten were $35. So far, I have mainly bought work boots and they have worked just fine. I am at a point now where I could spend a little more on boots, but these work just fine. (Remember a Scout is thrifty). So far, the most expensive item I have bought was my backpack and it wasn't exactly too exspensive either at $100. Like was suggested, a membership to REI is a great idea. I like mine. Most of my higher-priced camping gear and climbing gear comes from and will continue to come from REI.

Here's a couple ways I fix this problem: A) If I type in scouter.com/forums/search.asp?action=today and it brings me to the search page... I click on the link "Today's Active Topics" and it normally works. B) Sometimes it will give me an "HTTP Internal Error" and say it can't be displayed. If that happens, I hit "refresh" up top in my browser and it normally works.

"It ain't rain; it's liquid sunshine!"

i believe that law was passed because it was considered racist because the entire purpose was to prevent African Americans from voting. This, in turn, continued to make them seem like second-class citizens with fewer rights than the Caucasions. I feel you should have to pass some sort of test. Even if it is a short one and very simple it will still prevent some from voting. Hey, maybe they should have to explain shortly why they vote for who. Anything but "He's Republican or He's Democrat" would qualify.

Alright, I'm gonna try giving the teenager's point of view: 1) If your kid knows anything about computers, the only way you will be able to babysit them is to have a program that tracks what they do. Doing that secretly doesn't seem to give them much trust. Example: it is extremely simple to clear the History of IE. Two clicks and it's done. 2) I see nothing wrong with parents looking at websites I visit. 3) I think if they are a teenager, having a computer in their room should not be a big deal. If you would have asked me two years ago, I wouldn't have said I'd have a computer