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Would cBS hire him today? http://www.cbsnews.com/news/andy-rooney-dont-vote/

It is hard enough trying to find the accurate history of BSA WB, much less the UK. Scouting has never given a high priority to history. Too much paperwork. Then there is the creation of myths by ignorance or deliberate error, just to make things harder. Actually, given the real meaning or "working your ticket," (forget the myth) no one has a clue what the words were originally meant to convey.

OR See how BSA has become nimble enough to bar undesirable activities that are still possible. (I have seen beer served after the participants left Weekend 1 of Wood Badge, so there is clearly no essential connection between rules and behavior.) Last study that I can find - 32 Boy Scouting fatalities:

Eight days. 20 hours/day.

A DE with two year's service in my council would be the senior DE in the council. As a District Chairman, I once had three DE's in eleven days. One quit before her first scheduled day on the job.

The "Gilwell Song" originated contemporaneously with the first course. The ticket originated contemporaneously with Wood Badge. The ideas that the goals of the application phase should be measurable is as old at the first version of BSA Wood Badge. A sixteen-page form to fill out is a trivial burden in our bureaucratic age. An issue with Wood Badge is the failure of the "participants" to offer Boy Scouting to Scouts. The Ticket is a modest effort to have them actually apply what is taught. Be happy you are not filling out the many pages of the test on theory that was requir

Ah yes. "moderate" "compromise." I think a moderate decrease in government spending would be a fine compromise. Not a decrease in the rate of increase - a decrease in spending. - every year until we get back to the level at the end of Carter's term. I hate to tell Scouts what the adults are doing for their future with the ever-increasing debt. http://www.usdebtclock.org/

E-Smoking banned http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2014/11/03/e-cigarettes-now-included-bsa-tobacco-policy/

I have written to the host council, Miami Valley, and to Wood Badge staffers ion the area. My source has found the prize the Beavers won for fire-building - a six-foot x 4" replica of a strike anywhere match. This reminded him that there were patrol contests in almost all the Scoutcraft topics.

Where did you get the information that the "original WB" did not use tickets, whatever you mean by "original"?

I have located a gentleman who attended the "experimental" course hosted by the Miami Valley Council (Dayton, Ohio) in 1987. He is a seasoned Scouter and his memory is not super, but he is looking for the papers he has from the course. It was a throwback - all Scoutcraft. My informant recalls that Bill said there would be other such courses, but that does not seem to have happened. Perhaps he was thinking with his heart. A Google search turns up no information at all. It is not mentioned in the official history of Wood Badge. (But, then, the BSA histories of Scouting tend

Bingo ! The customers will tell you if you are supplying a product that they want to buy. Slap-dash sessions only make low attendance lower. Unthinking sloganeering is not a substitute for quality planning.

I recognize that my view is strongly shaped by Scouting experience as a Scout and a Scouter at a time and in a place where the Patrol Method was both understood and understood to be absolutely required --- where peer and organization pressure was brought to bear on any Scouter who did not "get it." In fact, Scoutmasters who failed to "get it" were replaced, one way or another. That was also a time when adult help was more available, so there was less pressure on BSA to tolerate violation of the rules of Boy Scouting. I believe that while knowledge without experience is only information,

No one is "trolling." Google is your friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet) To be an agent of change you need to be able to deal with the reality that not every single person will always agree with you. It is also helpful to consider that they may be right on occasion. It is hard to change things, for good or ill, from the SA position. But there is no reason you cannot present the SM and SPL with the CO, Council, and District calendars with the comment that the information is supplied to help prevent conflicts and allow planning. If there is a problem with fund-

Stosh, you cannot find in a single list/page/chapter of current BSA publications a statement as to what constitutes the Patrol Method. Oh the pieces are all there somewhere, scattered throughout BSA's words - if you know what those pieces mean, And someone like you sees the implications of what you see, even when it is not clearly spelled out. But for the new parent who thinks like parents typically think? Or for the long-serving leader who thinks it's all options that he or she can use or ignore? "what BSA is teaching"? You teach what the learner understands you to be teaching. Y

Stosh, don't we all agree that getting the trainees to actually use what they are taught has always been an issue? (Surely "Driver's Training" does not teach what we all see every day on the roads.) Kids are not born care-givers. Me !!! Now !!! That is how it starts. We all recall with pleasure the leader who took care of his "troops" - was the last whose tent was up, the last to eat, lightened the load of the tiny patrol member. That was once simply called "a god leader." Now we have another label. But if we do not teach the correct behavior - for adults in this instance - we

"mentor" "leader"

​I think I repeat the substance of what many others have said over the years. Scouting, for boys, is a boy-led game. Safety aside, our job as adults is to try our best to give the leaders what they need in order to lead well - techniques , insights, and skills. We also expose them to possibilities that they have not experienced. How well, or how unsuccessfully, we do our job is reflected in how well they lead over time. If the leaders lack the skills, you teach them. You do not take over as leader. "We," Scouting, expect the newly crossed-over Scouts to do what the other

Wilderness Survival ---------------------------------- > Wilderness Survival event.

NE Ohio has about 200 days a year with no sun. Not what I was used to in Cal. 0___0 My brief experience in Seattle was weird. No rain in July. Rain every day but one in August. Rain 27 days in September. I fled back to Ohio before I died of mildew. And those slugs !!!!

Who, other than your honorable self, regards down as the "insulation of choice"? Yes, the "kid factor" is there, but this is a Scouting forum. Polyester is hydrophobic and dries readily. While it is less effective when wet, it does not collapse like down. Down absorbs water and is very difficult to dry. California may present a lesser problem. You may be able to dry the bag in the sun during the day. Here in the midwest, we often do not see the sun at all for a week or more. Seattle? Forget it. If the down bag has insulation value well in excess of what is required, you may stil

By defining success. By training. By controlling who is available/qualified to be a SE.

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