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It's still a great project. At 16 it was gear to grow food. At 22 it was that plus teaching people how to grow food. Clearly not a typical scout.

As we all are. Election doesn't make you an OA member, completing the ordeal does. As said before the term election isn't very accurate.

I like the nomination process because it worked in my troop. Scouts knew the other scouts better than the adults in my troop. It was never a popularity contest in my troop. Every time I disagreed with the scout vote and started asking questions I was corrected. The biggest problem was that the scouts had long memories. If you were a butt it would take a few years to change that perception.

Welcome to the forum, @DocDeVivo . Any uniform is acceptable, no matter how old.

I've always thought before that having a wider age range in scouts helped promote the magic of older scouts working with young. To me that magic was what scouting was about. And yet I can see how splitting that age group could help the scouts see the transition from younger scout to older. I had a lot of conversations with scouts along the lines of you're no longer the young scouts, it's time to start helping out. Something about the UK group system could also help that as well. The BSA also struggles with the transition between age ranges because they're separate units. If the same lead

Lamb is vegetarian?

I think I might hijack this thread again. The topic of trailers is a type of hot button issue for me. It's not the trailer so much as the mindset it creates. I'm fine with a trailer to make it easier for more scouts to get in fewer cars. What I dislike is the attitude of "we have a trailer, just bring all the gear we could possibly need." I'd talk about Thrifty and it just never resonated with anyone. What people want vs what they need. When I did a lot of backpacking I got really good at knowing the difference. I forced the troop to dump the huge patrol boxes that did take four adults to

I can only tell you what my troop does. Decades ago we wrote a document explaining the process of selecting a new SM or CC. We've followed that ever since. If that doesn't exist take this as a learning experience. Since there seems to be only one person willing to take the job, as seems to be typical anymore, most of this is moot. However, if the new guy is not acceptable to enough people then the committee should have a discussion about how to go forward. This all said, the behind the scenes talking to people to figure who is interested is the unofficial part that's going to happen.

My observation: Nobody enjoys cleaning. So everyone should help. The scout in charge doesn't actually clean anything. Instead, he or she is responsible for finding tasks and delegating them, making sure they get done. Next observation: a patrol that understands teamwork has no problem with cleaning or anything else. A patrol that has poor teamwork won't be helped by a duty roster or even a fairly good PL. It takes a rare leader that can create good teamwork from bad.

We need a watermaster as we have to bring our own water. Either way, it's typically hard to cook without water. To me, the whole point of the duty roster is to get the scouts out of the idea of "we just do it all together". It's a tool for the PL to learn how to delegate - grubmaster, cleanup, eventmaster ... Maybe it would help to sit down with the plc and have them make one with some adult questioning.

But if we had one then we couldn't place bets on the next time you'd remind us we didn't have it.

Depends on each individual. Some will, some won't. I'm not sure how this is really different than asking about any alumni. They should and will likely do what best motivates them. Again, depends on each individual. Depends on how whole they are. My father, who left Germany in 1939 when he was 12, never became whole. He never forgave German society for what it did to him. He wasn't too keen with Christian society either. Individual Germans and Christians he would like but as a whole, he was always guarded. Trauma can run deep. But there were many holocaust survivors that did fin

This thread has been locked until tomorrow morning. I asked nicely for people to get back on topic. As court is not in session, there's nothing to talk about so this shouldn't be a problem. If this makes no sense to you then please read my previous post.

Has the judge ever discussed anything about CSA in other youth activities? Or how society has changed, anyone is picking on the BSA, the media or how the bsa is safe enough? I haven't seen it. She has no interest in "the files" so those posts that mention them likely don't belong here. The judge is interested in the bankruptcy case. This includes the claimants, debtors and those getting swept into this like the insurance companies, the COs and the councils. That's it. This may seem too restrictive to some of you but please think about how many posts are in this thread. This is part 9

I tried and got a 404 error.

We created another thread for this sub topic. This thread is limited to what we think the judge is interested in and I doubt where other CSA occurs is on her radar. In the past I've tried to keep these threads separate. I gave up on that.

During covid I started watching a YouTube series that gets deep into the science of human biology. It's called medcram and the original intent is to help med students learn. It's very geeky but well explained. Anyway, I learned yet another reason why we should spend time outside: near infrared sunlight (the stuff that warms us up) helps create melatonin within our cells during the day, which in turn is used to clean out mitochondria from oxidative stress (caused by creating energy for cells) thus helping our immune system deal with such things as covid. One cool part is that near in

And when you go to the website the kits are $20 each. I also wonder how those kits are going to get to Ukraine. My guess is it would be better to just write a check to someone that has everything already set up to, say, buy first aid supplies in Poland and just drive them to the border. But to answer your question, this is certainly a duck.

Welcome to the forum, @GeoJeff83

Welcome to the forum.

What are gross receipts? It's in the indirect expenses category. Here's my guess. The fundraiser is to offset some other expenses like the cost of upkeep on the pool, shotguns, whatever. Those other expenses are the gross receipts. The amount of money made to offset those expenses was $128k in contributions - $60k in direct expenses = $68k. No longer inept but not very cost effective. I mean, if half of my donations went to the cost of raising the money I'd not be thrilled. I also wonder how much salary was in the gross receipts.

Four years in a row of losing money while fundraising means either the council is inept or they're writing off other expenses against it so they don't have to pay as much taxes, or some such accounting games. It's likely legit and opaque unless you dig into the details.

That's great. That should help a bunch of troops. Most of my scouts found HA trips the highlight of scouts and the more the variety the better.

It seems like the only lesson to the scout is just tell you what you want to hear.

I never said no but there was pressure to say no when our troop got too big.