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Beavah has a good point, but so does Scoutnut, CNY Scouter and others. Oldsm son could present himself as the audience might expect. He could present himself as his membership and rank exist. He could present himself in some hybrid combination. And probably only he would know. Perhaps that is the most important consideration. What does HE consider himself to be. Is he a Scout? A Venturer? An adult ASM leader? If I was asked to speak about my time as a Scout, I would certainly not come in my Scout uniform (even if it fit!). I could wear my UC uniform or my ASM uniform or come in a sui

Welcome 914SPL: Gotta remind these folks all the time that electronics and fire don't react well together. This is a virtual Cracker Barrel. Grab some gigabytes of cheesey Ram and come on in. My Troop brought back some sunburn from Seabase year before last. A number of them earned their Triple Crown by attending Northern Tier last summer and Philmont summer before that. So how's the water?

Copschick: Welcome to the electronic cracker barrel. Pull up some ram and sit down. Aside from the "practical" ideas listed above to make your campsite useful and attractive, ask your Scouts what they think might make THEIR campsite stand out from the crowd. At Webelos Weekends (what we call'em 'round here) and camporees, I've seen lashed up gateways, streetsigns ("Cub Corner" and "Web Way"), defined paths (logs and rocks line the path), door bells for tents (tin cans to rattle), and other stuff. KiS MiF YiS

Class Names: (fill in curricula as necessary) " Using the Media: Taking the Bushel off your Scout Candle" " How to plan and hold a Cub Scout Day Camp" (Workshop not to supplant Camp School) " How the Public Library can help your Scout Unit" " Is your Charter Partner really a Silent Partner? " " Den Chief: A key to successful Dens" Round Table workshops??? Have the class (and make sure they know about them) and they will come!

Ho- hum. One starts off with the beliefs that one's parents/raisers impart by instruction, example or lack there of. One then has the freedom to accept that belief or reject it or find an alternative to it, as one is led by one's life and experience. One's actions and life direction is, determined in large part, by one's underlying faith or belief system. Indeed, one's actions indicate the actuality and strength of the belief,expressed in words or not. Hence the term "hypocracy" comes to mind. If someone comes and challenges that belief, I think that is a good thing. If one can not d

Welcome to the colonies, chug. Scout units in the US of A can be sponsored by almost any non-profit entity. I have known units chartered to volunteer fire companies, school ptas (not so much now), private schools, service clubs (Kiwanis, Lions, American Legion), hospitals, and religious groups (churches and synagogues and mosques). All to varying degree of success and loyalty. We have real "hands on" charter partners who want to be in the thick of Scoutings issues and programs (LDS) and "hands off" partners (go forth and Scout, why do I need to do anything?). It depends in large part on the a

Yes,every so often a "sub group" is required by the "main group" to prove themselves. When I became a single parent and took responsibility for my then 4 year old daughter, I found most of the folks I would look to for support (my mother, the preschool, the in-laws, my bosses at work)all had opinions about how I was not the appropriate one to raise a daughter. I was asked to accept a "home visit" from the staff of the preschool. Just routine, I was told. Not really, the other parents told me. I constantly had to reassure my friends and relations that I was up to the task, and later, some

Paraphrase:: "But you don't understand, he has asperger's" "Yes ma'am, I do understand. My brother lives in a group home for emotionally challenged. And do you remember? I went over all the safety rules for the range. I remember you sitting in the back there with the other Den Walkers. I asked the Cubs if they thought I was strict, and all of'em including your son, said yes! And when I asked them if they thought I had reason to be strict, they all said yes. " "But Johan is different..." "I'm sure he is but I'd really like to avoid having to ask YOU to explain to another parent WHY J

Can't be any worse than using the washers spin dry cycle to pump water out of a flooded basement (it was either that or bucket it out the loooong basement stairs). Washer needed replacing anyway, right? It was twenty years old anyway, right? Saved my back, right? Burning smell was gonna happen eventually, right? Avocado green didn't match the rest of the rec room, so it came out good all around right? Rec room had to be redone too, right? uh-huh...

Good a time as any,I guess... (bada dum bum bum bum...) I'm looking over my dead dog, Rover, That I just ran over with the mower! One leg is missing, the other is gone, The third leg is scattered all over the lawn. No need explaining the one leg remaining It's spinning on the car port floor... I'm looking over my dead dog, Rover, He just doesn't move any more! I'm looking over my dead dog, Rover, Who I just ran over with the mower! My dog's not eating, he no longer barks; He hit the propeller and turned into sparks. No need explaining, there's no dog rem

The Rabbi put this question to his students: "How can you tell when night has ended and the day has begun?" One student suggested: "Could it be when you see an animal and you can tell whether it is a sheep or a goat?" "No, that's not it," answered the rabbi. Another student said: "Could it be when you look at a tree in the distance and you can tell whether it is a fig tree or a peach tree?" Again the rabbi answered: "No." After a few more guesses the students said: "Well, please tell us when night has ended?" The rabbi answered: "It is when you look on the f

Just finished watching "Castaway" with Tom Hanks. Talk about camp skills. Part of the problem is the NEED for the skills. Tents come with preattached ropes and tensioner do-hickeys. No need for tautline hitch or double half hitches. Plastic and metal tent pegs and poles included. Axe and hatchet skills? All the poles for the dining tarp are automatic. Lashing, knots? Naw... Cooking comes in a precooked package (Troop leadership encourges Scouts to use "precooked" burgers and sausage etc. to avoid underdone meat problems). Cell phones and GMRS radio. Why know morse code or wig

While announcing upon the ra-dio There are words one must simply omit Like @%!! and &*^%% and !@+(** Why, hell, you can't even say SH- AVING cream, keep yourself clean, shave every day and you'll alwaysbe keen.

Stimmt das. "Speak truth to power". Pack has part of the meaning. The term must include the idea of telling those 'in power' or who have, in some sense, authority over you the truth as you know it, REGARDLESS of what the authority might want or expect to hear. It means saying to those who can harm you what you know they MUST hear, regardless of the consequences to you. The concept has a religious basis and the origin of the phrase can be traced to early Jewish writing and the Q'ran. Although there is no record that he actually said the phrase, George Fox is often quoted that he was "mov

I like to go out jogging, I must keep physically fit. But last night when I donned my Addidas, I found they were covered with SH AVING cream, Keep yourself clean, shave everyday and you'll always be keen...

Wannabees? Naw, no way. Lessee now... We now have Tiger Cub, Bobcat, Wolf, Bear, "Webelos" (whatever that is). Usta have Lion, then Webelos (that's a singular noun!). Never really liked the Tiger Cub moniker, when the rest of the ordering is smaller to bigger, fiercer animals. Breaks the trend, don't you think. If we look over seas for inspiration, I really don't know what our Brit friends do. I have heard that the UK have Scouts now, not Boy Scout and Girl Guide anymore, only age distinction. So what to name a kindergarten Scout? Some small, possibly fierce an

From "Matching Mountains with the Boy Scout Uniform" by Edward F. Reimer *1929* E.P. Dutton pg.93.... " The Boy Scout staff has a score of practical uses. When Sir Robert Baden-Powell designed his bronze 'Scout with Staff' he gave the staff the loftiest and most prominent place in the statue.' The next page pictures no fewer than 20 uses: Patrol flag pole, lashed together taller flag pole, uprights & ridgepoles, tripod clothes rack, tripod pritilatter (wash station?), tripod seat rack, bridge construction & brace, aid in jumping (pole vault over stream), blanket

Recent movie: "Hoot" (new line cinema) Bunch of kids work to save a colony of rare owls against a less than honest developer. Not so recent: Shown some years ago, shown on Hallmark: "Lone Star Kid" (Feature Films for Families) Young boy takes on complacency and becomes the first 11 year old mayor in the country (based on true story). Streets get paved! C in Community, not nation or world.

Close by (?25 miles?) is what in the old days would've been called an 'amusement park". On it's several acres are some of the usual whirly-gig rides in a permanent carny area, a merry-go-round, an indoor area of video games (the "violent" games are labeled as such)and psuedo gambling games (Cyclone, push the coin over the edge, aim a coin at the hole, etc. ), two laser tag rooms, skeeball, basketball throws, an electric shooting gallery, an outdoor paintball tented yard (they supply throw away overalls and fullface goggles), a kiddy roller coaster, a more "adult" rollercoaster, a pond boat bum

Seriously, now for your next LNT seminar, don't forget the "international best seller with over 1 million copies in print" How to **** in The Woods (2nd revised ed.) by Kathleen Myer 108 pgs. c.1989,1994 Ten Speed Press see also Deut. 23:12-13 Yep, auto censor. (This message has been edited by SSScout)

FDP? Chocolate Reddy Whip? Cheezewhiz? Alotta cocoa mix mixed thick? Mud? The real thing (shudder)? And how old were these alledged Scouts?

PLEASE make the distinction ::: Label and call it the "Tomahawk" throw, NOT axe or hatchet. Make sure folks know it ain't an "axe yard". Ditto all the guidance above. We have had Tomahawk throw range at camporees many times. But be careful where you site it, both for overthrows and side areas. You will have folks that will want to watch, and they must be kept at a distance, both for their own safety and for their distractive quality. AND... don't make the mistake that happened one year: The targets were sited up against a hillside, which seemed like a good idea (back stop, etc.

I have seen the following in parades with CSs: A model B17 with a 8 foot wingspan, on its landing gear (handsome model!) pulled by the Cubs , waving American flags. Led by a Banner announcing "Pack XYZ salutes our Vets". Cub Pack dressed in card board railroad cars tied in a train behind a wagon built up to be a steam engine. Adults pulled the wagon/engine.(old timers parade). Cub pack riding on antique fire engine. Volunteer fire company was CO. Cub Pack pulling along each other in the "Cub Cars" they made. 2x4 frames, lawn mower wheels, rope, you know the type I mean. Ea

With God On Our Side Oh my name it is nothin' My age it means less The country I come from Is called the Midwest I's taught and brought up there The laws to abide And that land that I live in Has God on its side. Oh the history books tell it They tell it so well The cavalries charged The Indians fell The cavalries charged The Indians died Oh the country was young With God on its side. Oh the Spanish-American War had its day And the Civil War too Was soon laid away And the names of the heroes I's made to memorize With guns in their hands

Been away at Camporee this weekend. Den Chief is a helper for any DL. The Adult Partner is to be there with their TC, but the TC DL can still make use of a good DC. What a good example for BOTH the Tc and their APs! Have the nascent DC take the online training ( www.olc.scouting.org ), AND the DL also should do it so they have some idea what the DC can do for them. Make sure the DC takes the in person training when it is offered (and encourage the District Training Committee to offer it) . Any Scout with the right attitude and spirit can be a good DC, from Scout to Eagle. Remind them t