RememberSchiff

On Thursday, Raleigh General Hospital ran a disaster drill with 12 "dummies" delivered by ambulance from Jambo. With 50,000 attendees + staff, the hospital is expecting 110 injuries per day.

Story and video:

http://www.wvnstv.com/story/22581843/raleigh-general-disaster-drill-in-preparation-for-bsjupdate

 

From the video, none of the "dummies" appeared to have their mandatory 4+ pages,bilingual Health Medical form .

I use a ground cloth/pad. Two thoughts:

1. It is likely more tear resistant than a tent floor and if it does tear, cheaper to replace.

2. A dryer tent for packing. Without ground cloth, you might see tents turned on their sides in the morning to dry bottoms before packing. Of course if it rains...

My $0.02,

Incident Information Report

http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/680-016_fillable.pdf

Agreed, but don't forget the lawyers who see a new "list" to lock away. I only offered proof of the form's existence. I would not use it.

 

In the previous forum, I listed the shortcomings of this form and mentioned other outdoor organizations such as NOLS and AMC who do a better job collecting relevant information and making this information publicly available for safer activity planning.

Incident Information Report

http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/680-016_fillable.pdf

"...do I have to accept that even though I know it is not completed ?"

 

Hell no. Do right by the scout, don't short change him.

 

"Your duty is to be satisfied that each Scout who comes to you meets all the requirements for the merit badge you are coaching.

 

http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/BoyScouts/GuideforMeritBadgeCounselors/MBCounselorGuide.aspx

 

My $0.02

While e-mail is easy and self-documenting, it can backfire and escalate the conflict. I think this should be handled in a courteous, personal, and friendly manner with a face-to-face, three-in-a-box - the SM, CC or veteran ASM, and the new ASM. Make it clear, he is not the SPL or ASPL or PL, he's an ASM.

 

My $0.02,

I've been sweating bullets over my scouts rifle shooting at summer camp. Would there be enough ammo?

 

The supply seems to be improving for some; we now seem okay. I came across this article about Camp Cornhusker (Nebraska). The call went out. 24,000 rounds of 22 caliber ammo were needed for their camp program and more than 65,000 rounds were donated! A scout thank-you to donors.

 

Interesting article, though some of the comments are off-the-wall.

http://journalstar.com/news/local/boy-scouts-get-their-bullets/article_bf20e769-1acd-5ff5-b0e8-8d883af9da5a.html

It is more my growing frustration with the lad.......The return on my time spent with him, is next to zero...I just don't see any growth or interest in the position.

 

His failure to consistently provide leadership in the troop.....Unless I call him to make sure he has a program scheduled he won't do it.

Gradauted CMU, new job, no debt - OUTSTANDING. Congrats.

Some updated old news. There's a new aquatics award for summer camp - Stand Up Paddleboarding

"The award is now available and can be ordered from Supply in time to be presented at summer camp. The emblem is No. 618632, and the certificate is No. 618552."

links:

http://www.scouting.org/filestore/Outdoor%20Program/pdf/BSA_SUP_Award.pdf

http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/OutdoorProgram/WhatsNew/StandUpPaddleboard.aspx

 

Be safe, have fun.

Had a long conversation with the Jambo contigent SM, He is also the SM for the local NYLT training. as you can imagine most of the boys in the Jambo Troop had also attended NYLT in his troop. Well much to his dismay, NONE of the NYLT attendees volunteered for Senior positions of leadership in the Jambo troop. His the Jambo ASM is more cynical of NYLT calling it a waste of time and only the privileged scouts can go........

 

I went to the course 30 something years ago.....I found it helpful and had a good time. I was going to try and send a couple of boys summer 2014.

That is not the scouting or leadership that I know. In the patrol method, scouts learn the jobs that need to be done and take turns doing the job themselves or helping their teammates do the job. No one sits on their duff and gets a free ride! Leaders step up to fill the need whether they are good at it or not. Most of us have done and are doing a variety of necessary jobs that we are neither good at nor want to do, but we do our best. My scouts have learned what we know, if no one leads a scout activity, there is no scout activity.

Another $0.02

Had a long conversation with the Jambo contigent SM, He is also the SM for the local NYLT training. as you can imagine most of the boys in the Jambo Troop had also attended NYLT in his troop. Well much to his dismay, NONE of the NYLT attendees volunteered for Senior positions of leadership in the Jambo troop. His the Jambo ASM is more cynical of NYLT calling it a waste of time and only the privileged scouts can go........

 

I went to the course 30 something years ago.....I found it helpful and had a good time. I was going to try and send a couple of boys summer 2014.

"Judging the value of NYLT by who will step up to Jambo leadership and forego the fun is a little short sighted."

 

So much for servant leadership taught at NYLT? I think BD has a valid concern.

 

Another $0.02

Our scouts who attended NYLT in the past do NOT recommend the course. Their concerns were well considered, respectfully stated, and properly forwarded which also proved to be a waste of time.

Course material which the staff blindly followed.

Let the buyer ($300+) beware. Check with others who have recently taken your council course and see if it addresses scout leadership needs. Ask the course director, if you could review the course notes beforehand. In our case, it was a thick binder full out outlines and handouts for hours of classroom of the basics of running meetings, MBA theory, games, songs, and HR techniques, no program and activity planning for a scout-run troop, no outdoor leadership training.

Our scouts who attended NYLT in the past do NOT recommend the course. Their concerns were well considered, respectfully stated, and properly forwarded which also proved to be a waste of time.

Quickly Googling "Kim Kuska" . He apparently is a acknowledged contributor in some research papers and field guides, is a field trip leader for Audubon Society, quite the birder, helped rescue a beached baby killer whale in May 1979, "noted" observer of Santa Cruz Bird Club and apparently several others, former biology teacher, involved in scouts for 50 years, ...of course "noted" is a relative term.

National, before releasing Sustainability Merit Badge next month at Jambo, strongly consider reinstating environmentalist Kim Kuska as a scouter!

 

from Gannett

 

Since the 1970s, the Eagle Scout and adult Scout leader-turned-whistle-blower (Kim Kuska) has worked to protect the plant from extinction at Camp Pico Blanco, a Boy Scout camp nestled in the mountains along the Little Sur River south of Monterey, Calif. The camp is home to nearly 50 percent of all known specimens of Dudley’s lousewort, a flowering fern-like plant found in only three places in the world.

 

But over the past four decades, Scout officials and camp staff have threatened its existence repeatedly by harvesting old-growth trees it needs to survive, crushing some of the few remaining plants and introducing potentially competitive species. Under state law, it is illegal to harm a plant that is classified as rare.

The camp also cut down several trees in the old-growth forest in 2011 without a permit, a Scout official acknowledged.

 

At each turn, Kuska was there to document the misdeeds.

 

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is investigating the 2011 incident as a result of questions from the Center for Investigative Reporting.

While the Boy Scouts have drawn national attention for their intolerance toward gays, the organization also has compiled a poor record on environmental protection. In 2009, Hearst Newspapers reported that the Scouts clear-cut tens of thousands of acres of forestland across the country and operated a dam at Camp Pico Blanco that killed at least 30 federally protected steelhead trout. The camp installed a fish ladder as part of a no-fault settlement...

 

more info and photos at these links

http://www.mydesert.com/article/2013...-s-destruction

 

http://forcechange.com/66842/reinsta...nto-boy-scouts

 

My $0.02

we had a few boys who refused to part with their neckerchief

So they do not want to "obey the Law of the Pack"? Was this tradition clearly explained and understood from the beginning? Time for a conference with scout and his family where they are charged $7 so the pack tradition can continue or where their scout can be dismissed.

 

If this problem becomes pervasive, drop the loaner tradition.

 

My $0.02,

"Wow it posted, sonuvagun." - RememberSchiff

As of yesterday, My Profile returned. I exist. I am bona fide.

Earn the extra money or do without.

Your title, like HuffPost's, is false. The law has not been passed by the second chamber of California's legislature, nor has it been signed by its governor. Both might be likely, but until then, no, California Boy Scouts have not lost their tax exempt status.

Thanks, both stand corrected...for now.

So should we

1. Take our chances it will not be signed into law, but if it does hire lawyers to overturn it.

2. Bestow Eagle rank to those gay Calif, scouts recently denied as a show of goodwill and hopefully killing the bill.

 

Bigger forces come into play when new revenue sources (churches, colleges, scouts) are identified

 

Another $0.01 for the IRS line dancing classes..

I attempted to post that 4 days ago (5/31) and it now magically appears on 6/4, sort of like snail-mailing a letter to IT and having them post it??

 

This bill certainly has problems, but politically it may become law if only briefly as National did not address those recent, high profile California scouts whose Eagle application was denied.

 

My $0.02 which may take 4 days to deliver.

 

P.S. Wow this posting is listed and reachable in the Issues and Politics! Good news.

click on Forums, then Today's Posts

 

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Yes, I mistyped. My post (which disappeared and did not post) was hopefully more accurate in stating what the next step would be and if passed which youth groups would be affected and which would not from the bill. Will it pass into law? Maybe, maybe not.

 

Another annoyance, I still cannot list recent posts to forums: Open and Discussion , Issues & Politics.

 

Been 3 months.

click on Forums, then Today's Posts

 

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Tried to create a new post about California Boy Scouts having their non-profit tax status revoke but failed with error:

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The California Senate in a 27-9 vote revoked the tax-exempt status of all California youth groups that discriminate (youth member or adult leaders) on the basis of sexual orientation. This effects Boy Scouts (councils, maybe some charter organizations?) and another youth group Capitol Resource Institute.

 

"The law would have no effect on the tax-exempt status of churches, many of which discriminate against gays and lesbians."

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/30/boy-scouts-nonprofit-status_n_3362079.html

click on Forums, then Today's Posts

 

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I tried to post 4 times, succeeded once. Had a Memorial Day message and photo to post and the error I received was something about an "Empty Response". I see recent posts but can't get to them, no matter if I use filter, topic, and user profile. Running Win 7 Pro and Firefox 21.0 and this is the only online forum that I have posting and search problems.

 

Well let us see if this posts.

After successfully posted on 5/27, a few minutes later I add a comment that "sonuvagun it posted". That comment to this post seems to have disappeared. My profile as another forum member noted is still missing as is his post which followed this post. Is there a data loss at page breaks?