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Well, I tried your instructions, John, and that worked. Should not that extra super address be stripped when the link is clicked? I tried some other links from other sites and they didn't have the extra intro-http, relating to the originating site (to the link). Thanks. YiS

Oh, there will be boys that will complain about going to Kings Dominion or Umpteen Flags over Texas. Is AP Hill hot? sure, but you drink and you spray each other with water and you walk alot. The worst thing that happened to me there was dealing with an MP sergeant who insisted that I should not ride my Staff issued bicycle on "his" pavement. It was okay to ride on the grass, but not on "his" pavement. But that was just poor me, staff Chaplain. Oh well. Jamboree is fun, distracting, educational (shudder), much like a Scout summer camp, but so much bigger and more amazing. Ultimate id

Personal courage and tenacity: "The Pistol", the Birth of a Legend" Being the story of Pete Maravich and how he revolutionized basketball. Racism confronted, new technigues vs tradition, cliques vs loyalty. "Drumline" Loyalty, competition, personal success, fitting in and not. Hope you can find'em.

Camp mistakes I've seen, from both sides of the steam table: Watch what comes back, thru the dish window or trash bins. It's messy, but a good measure of what's sucessful and what isn't. If you send out 12 chicken steaks to a table of seven boys and a counselor/staff, and you see eight come back, maybe it's not because folks don't like chicken, maybe it's the chicken... Budget blowers: BIG bowls of catsup/condiments that never get used. They must be thrown out after each meal if not used. Use SMALL bowls or squeeze bottles, and clean them well periodically. Same with puddings, veggi

BALOO and WELOT/OWLS don't (doesn't?) "officially" include much if anything about knife/axe safety because "officially" Cubs (Webelos, too) do not have any business handling axes and knive safety is limited to the Whittlin' Chip in Bear and Webelos literature. I did not mean to imply Cub leaders be given the whole Totin' Chip class, only that the "Woodtools" instructor would be the logical source for Whitlin' Chip instruction. Certainly, Whitlin' Chip training should include safe handling of the Cub's pocket clasp knife along with mom's cooking knives and dad's utility knives, too.

Gee, I'd really like to read about all these Scouts in the News, but I get the "Page Not Found" at my computer at work and at home and at friends house. Comments?

Still no connection. Every click on a "headline" yields "Page Not Found". The 'Redirect' never worked either.

Poor Cub Scout with a dad like that. Poor example for the boys. Parents in conflict about who's in charge. (folks in flowing blue and gold robes come rushing on stage) **clashing music** "NOBODY EXPECTS THE SCOUTER INQUISITION!!" (push old lady into the comfy chair) etc. etc.

If the weight is held constant, and therefore balanced between the wheels that support the car, why would one less wheel necessarily mean less over all friction? The "normal" force is still the same and instead of four wheels each having 1/4 the force/friction, eliminating one wheel would mean each of the remaining wheels would have 1/3 the force/friction. By that reasoning, eliminating TWO wheels might be better still. Anyone try this: Balance the cars weight such that 95% is on the rear axles (two wheels) and the front axles only hold a token 5% (or less!) of the cars weight. Then, as

Lisabob: I will offer two comments. One: Of course we're a Christian organization. We're also a Muslim organization (else why am I commishining two new Muslim units?), a Buddhist organization and a Jewish organization (witness the several purely Jewish Troops I met at the Jamboree and the Rabbi who was our Chief Chaplain), among other organizations we are. Second: Why do we try to reinvent our own particular wheel? Quote her the Founders words. I don't think anyone has said it better. "Reverence to God and reverence for one's neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of Go

So this went from kvetching about the removal of a "God Rock" to reminiscing about Italian food... "Scouter dot com. Wat a grrreat forum, yes?"

"... literally everywhere in the world" Indeed. Go to your local Scout store and purchase the poster of ALL the Scout symbols of every Scout nation. You can then show THAT to good effect, proof of the possibiity of a world brotherhood of Scouts. And we pray for Mohameds hand to heal quickly.

Excellent question, who is qualified to "teach" and pass on Whitlin' Chip... First, alot of Cub Scout leadership is, after all, self selected. Hopefully, a possible WCh leader might realize their limitations and act (or not) accordingly. Suggestions: In our district, we always try to have a segment of the IOLS be "Woodtools", ie knife, axe and saw use and safety. This by necessity includes requirements for Totin' Chip, which realy does automatically include the Whitlin' Chip material. A Totin' Chip carrying Scout, knowledgable in safe use of knife and axe, must know the Whitlin' Ch

"Scouts Own" "Outdoor Interfaith Service" Diversity awareness... Our district makes sure to have a "Scouts Own" discussion/training in the IOLS training weekend. Alot of good comments and uh-hums during. Single faith units vs diverse faith units vs no faith units (rather not bring it up. Don't want to OFFEND anyone). How to approach a religious service (there's that Scout word "service"*) so as to let it bring everyone in? or no one but a few? or ... But a good, spiritual experience can still be had out in the woods, and many good quotes/readings/prayers/thoughts are

Depends... Coming from a mom who was one of the first women to get a BS in Journalism way back when, (Chicago Trib in the 20's). Growing up, I sat and watched her write for a local paper. ("Daddy, what's a typewriter?" And what's this package? Car Bon Pa Per...") In her 'declining years' she was a 'stringer' for no less then 3 local papers (two of which are still in business). She would pick up on ANY activity/personalnews or item of local interest and the papers would publish it. Awards, service project, athletic endeavor, fun times, school play, church social,she would put it in

What's the exchange rate for Yap Island currency? I seem to remember that the citzens there make their own 'money'.

I no longer can read the articles behind the 'Headlines'. Clicking on a 'headline' reliably yields a "Page Not Available" message, everytime. Comments?

Leader asks during planning for an annual 4H dinner, "would anyone mind if I say a grace before the meal?" No one objects, grace is said, meal is eaten. Membership includes at least five known faith persuasions, including "undecided".

I once attended a Pack meeting for a totally different reason (okay, I was asked to come and talk about camping programs), but when I finished, I found myself WANTING to compliment the boys on being so well uniformed, which mostly they were. But I gave a SHORT talk (with the CM permission) about the use of the uniform as a way to show folks where one had been, what one had accomplished, that once you knew the "code", you could "read" the uniform and know alot about the Scout. I spoke about the pride of being a Scout. Would they wear the uni to school? I didn't chastize anyone for lack of c

Boys throw rocks into the still waters of the lake so they can see how far they can throw and hear the KERPLUNK and see the ripples spread. Not to raise the water level.

It is now getting somewhere we are. Many Religions (there's that word) , Quakers among them, try hard "officially" not to do honor to other religions that they deem to be 'incorrect' or 'wrong'. The honorific pagan names accorded in the past to the days of the week, the names of the months, the names of the planets are excellent examples. To totally remove ALL RELIGIOUS (ie, honoring previously believed in and worshipped gods of various hues), one must fall back on the original old time Quaker tradition of NUMBERING the days of the week and NUMBERING the months of the year,and the

Happy new year As a poor college student turned poor batchelor new home owner, I worked for a while as a bus driver for the local transit service. I would note what was left out on the curb and often come back to "shop". I have collected (all in working order) a clothes dryer, couch, color tv (yeah it was a tube set, but 24"), floor lamp, a plexi half globe 30" in diameter that I later learned was the navigators dome from a Martin Mariner (served as a sky lite on my porch), steamer trunk, book cases, camp trunk (with casters became a tool chest), reel to reel tape deck (wollensak), turn t

I CARRY a square box Primus. Lights first time, everytime. Scouts carry a collection of types, so called pocket rockets, MSR, etc. Troop trailer CARRIES two burner Colemans, all of which used to be white gas fired. We discovered a conversion kit for the liquid fuel stoves at the local Dick's. This kit also saved my two burner J.C.Higgins stove! (God knows how old that stove is. It was my father in laws). The kit consists of a tube and valve/regulator that inserts into the stove where the gas tank tube would insert and a spring to hold it in.. A propane tank (or extension hose) screw

Check the material. Is it the older cotton/wool canvas? or the more modern nylon stuff? Go check with a couple of cleaners before you go with a particular one. You want to ask for new, CLEAN solvent, not the end-of-the-day stuff. Often rust type stains can be spot cleaned with OTC stuff like "oxyclean". Perhaps it's time to think about retiring the ole faithful. Maybe a glass case on the wall of the CO? What about all those ribbons? Many years of ribbons would make a heckuva display. Any signatures around the edges? What's it's history? YiS and Happy Christmas

Gateways have their time and place. Consider ... Building comeraderie, team spirit, Patrol/Troop spirit, pride of belonging, memories, encouraging creativity, pride of accomplishment, sense of space, skill acquired, leadership and working together experience. Hiking the AT, aloooong time ago, my Troop once came up to a shelter site that already had another Troop encamped. We took a less desirable area, but we made it ours, at least temporarily, by instantaneously creating some "streetsigns" a "welcome to" gateway and labeling the cooking area a "restaurant", the SM and SPL tents "city h