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I never said "attractive". Being female was enough. Oddly, when they hired a 350 pound male paramedic, health lodge visits dropped dramatically ;-)

Educate. Every tick goes to the health lodge to be removed and logged in. A PhD Entomologist I work with said that the tick must be attached for 48 hrs in order to transmit disease (but I wouldn't bet on it), so daily showers and tick checks while at camp and timely removal is imperative. Another problem is that the young deer tick (the only species which transmits the Lyme spirochete) is almost invisible to the naked eye (about the size of a spider mite) and is often mistaken for a speck of sand or dirt. Of course, if you have a young female paramedic at the health lodge, the guys will go

Troop Committee Chair, District Committee and OA Associate Chapter Advisor. Since I was with the troop first, that is my "primary" registration, not that it seems to matter to anyone.

Just saw dramatic video on the TODAY show. Scout Craig Hicks notices friend choking on school bus and springs into action successfully performing the Heimlich Maneuver. "I learned it in the Boy Scouts". That's why we're here.

Where is your Troop's "OA Representative"? This is a relatively new leadership position, and if your troop doesn't have one, they obviously need one, and he should be mentoring new members and getting them active. The purpose is to promote OA at the unit level. OA is also a "boy led" organization. Have your son go to the National OA web site http://www.oa-bsa.org/ and click on the "Jumpstart" box at the bottom. This is a new initiative for just the purpose you are describing...to get new members engaged early. Also, the OA chapter meetings are held once a month and should be on you

So a Pack now has 8 Grand in their treasury. I have to ask, "Why?" That's an awful lot of badges and PW derby cars.

I agree with you, Matua. But, on the other hand, if 30 people cancelled from our District Dinner, the event would be cancelled. No event can sustain that kind of unplanned loss the day before. I think the fair thing to do would be to pay whatever cost the district has incurred and would be lost, whether that's the full ticket cost or not. The money has to come from somewhere.

I don't have a problem with the ARC Lifeguard Certification. The ARC and BSA have just entered into a reciprocity agreement, and we are taking steps to have our BSA Lifeguard Counsellors dual certified as ARC Water Safety Instructors. Then, when people qualify as BSA Lifeguards, they will also be certified as ARC, provided they meet the age requirement. As far as I know, the Camp Aquatics Director must be BSA Aquatics Instructor certified via Camp School. At our camp, the AD and the Waterfront Director are not the same person, since we have a pool and a "Waterfront".

Ditto on the stars. I vote to remove them. Being an over-achiever, I find them distracting and frustrating. ;-)>

B-P also wore his military honors (ribbons).

When I took on the job of District Training Chairman, I was handed a box full of stuff ("Training Kit"). It was not in there. Our professional staff advisor to the Training Committee said that it was part of the old CS Basic Training, had been discontinued, and now it's coming back in a revised form, per a phone call he had with someone at National. That's all I know.

I go out of town for the weekend, and I'm back down to 2.5 stars. Sheesh. Was it something I said?

It was announced at our Training Committee meeting last night that the Cub Leader Specific Self-Study program is being resurrected and a revised version will be out this summer. As it was explained, it is designed to be used under the mentorship of the Pack Trainer. Anyone have more details?

I have to smile, because we are encouraging him (her?) by snatching the bait and running with it. Just ignore him and sooner or later he will go away looking for another forum to argue with. His posts are nonsense, and I suspect, the ramblings of someone who is in need of serious pharmaceutical therapy. Take a look at some of his threads and you will see 20-30 responses to something that everyone agrees is obtuse, off-topic and generally worthless to this forum. Squelch if you want, but I think censorship is repugnant. Personally, it scares me that people like that are walking around unhe

Adult selection is based on their ability to perform the necessary functions to help the Order fulfill its purpose, and is not for recognition. Selected adult Scouters must be an asset to the Order because of demonstrated abilities, and provide a positive role model for the youth members of the lodge. This is the first time I have read this carefully. So should there not be a distinction between adults who were ELECTED as youths (i.e., "honor society"), and those SELECTED as adults because we need adult supervision and transportation to OA events? I think the critieria should be the same.

Will be 3020 this September. I was born in the hospital where OGE used to work and my parents were from where he lives.

That's what Scouting is all about...helping people before they even know they need it! I was about to complain to my cable internet provider.

"and to fetch his evidence from the life of the animals, pointing out that male does not touch male in this way" Every Biologist knows this is false.

This thread was spun from another thread.Also from Mike Walton's site: "Some local Councils have also informed their volunteers INCORRECTLY that "the BSA is no longer issuing out medals and plaques and the only thing they are giving out is the square knot and the certificate". This is UNTRUE, says the BSA's Council Support Division's Director. If your Council has stated something like this, the BSA's Council Support Division would like to know; they have estimated that there is ONE Scouters' Training Award medal in storage for EVERY REGISTERED VOLUNTEER SCOUTER and there are similar stock

http://www.mninter.net/~blkeagle/recogn.htm Sounds like maybe you were wearing the wrong knot anyway. The "Merit Medal" has a blue/gold knot on khaki. The "Heroism Award" (previously "Certificate of Heroism") is red on white. The "Honor Medal" is red on khaki. There's no mention of a "Certificate of Merit" at Mike Walton's website above.

This star thing is giving me a complex. How come Wheeler gets the same amount of stars as some of us veterans, if no one thinks his posts are valuable? And how can one go from 2 1/2 stars to 5 overnight, like some seem to do? Do I need to double my FOS donation, or what?

Volunteers are a precious commodity everywhere, but many Councils are doing just that. You get trained by the time recharter time rolls around or you're out of the program. Period.

If you want to read the official Supreme Court decision, instead of 50 different interpretations of it, see http://laws.findlaw.com/us/000/99-699.html By the way, although it was a "majority" decision, it was 5-4, so be sure to read the dissenting opinions as well. To see the other side of the fence, see www.scoutingforall.com Perhaps you will get some more ideas there.

A good reference is "The American Boy's Handybook" by Dan Beard. It was recently reprinted and used ones are available on eBay or Half.com.

Congratulations to General KoreaScouter for reaching 5 star rank already! I can only dream .... As a Safety and Health Professional, we believe there are no such thing as "accidents". There are only "unsafe acts" or "unsafe conditions". There is also no such thing as "safe". There are only varying degrees of "unsafe". As Scouters, our duty is to ensure planning is in place to anticipate, identify and take steps to minimize risk. The military calls this "Operational Risk Management" (ORM). It is a well known fact that more soldiers, sailors and airmen fall victim to what we call "D