NeverAnEagle

qwazse: The Crew taught Leave-no-Trace, covered information on backpacking, went over camp selection, produced model campsites, ran the challenge course, and lead the ethical discussions in each patrol. Each Patrol was assigned a Venturing Youth to act as our troop guide for the second weekend; first weekend our den leader was an adult. We we told this was to show the difference between boy led and youth led organizations. SR540Beaver: we never crossed over to a crew. We went from Pack to Troop. The course never covered Venturing, if we had questions we could ask the crew members in our "free time." The SM made a point of saying the she never took the "wood-badge pledge" so she didn't feel obligated to follow the syllabus. She said our council puts on a better program that what-ever national is prescribing.

I don't see why you would be surprised. I'm not Christian, but have a least half a dozen bibles at home, maybe a whole dozen. "Concerned" family members send them as gifts, people trying to convert me send them as gifts, and its just plain easier to politely accept them from the Giddeons (sp?) on the corner at their twice yearly hand out than to have to stop and engage in a theological discussion, especially when neither of us are going to change our positions. ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've never been able to reconcile "a scout is thrifty" with the annual popcorn sale!

I don't see why you would be surprised. I'm not Christian, but have a least half a dozen bibles at home, maybe a whole dozen. "Concerned" family members send them as gifts, people trying to convert me send them as gifts, and its just plain easier to politely accept them from the Giddeons (sp?) on the corner at their twice yearly hand out than to have to stop and engage in a theological discussion, especially when neither of us are going to change our positions. Not a chance, you can't give away a Gideon Bible, unless of course, you are a Gideon. LOL

This made the news recently and no one is talking about it. I caught the tale end of the segment on the news while on vacation and searched for more information online in order to get a better picture of the whole story. http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021715907_boyscoutlawsuitxml.html While I was searching I came across this from my own council; nobody in my council is talking about it, and even the news seems to be keeping it hush-hush. In fact, many claim that this never happened, even though you can read about online. http://www.kxly.com/news/spokane-news/lawsuit-filed-against-lds-church-boy-scouts-over-molestation-claims/-/101214/20716022/-/n8q1voz/-/index.html This comes on the heals of a 2007/2008 lawsuit where 5 other boys were molested at one of our councils camps. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2026&dat=20080430&id=ndsyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RPAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6775,143215 Then in 2008, two women were raped on the same property, but that was hushed up because they were over 18, so there wasn't the sensational media appeal that comes with a case involving minors. All this makes me wonder if people who hold paid BSA positions shouldn't be required to undergo psychological evaluations and testing before being offered a job. I have a government position that requires me to meet people in there homes, often times in a one-on-one situation; I under-went a huge amount of psychological testing and evaluations before they would turn me loose in public. It would be interesting to know how many council executives would be able to make ethical decisions when faced with unpleasant situations, such as those listed above.

"Before you go to the trouble of starting a new unit have a couple of outings....been there done that....our problem has been that the young ladies like the idea not the actual experience." What an incredibly ludicrous comment. The girls around here all hunt and fish; they've been camping with their families for years, just like their brothers. They know what an outdoor experience entails; to imply that they have a romantic notion of camping w/o actual experience is just plain silly.

If the rank is Velcro there is nothing to stop angry fellow scouts from ripping the rank off and demoting the wearer.

The easiest way to keep track of them is to complete them. Once complete your council will have a record, but you should keep all random scout "paperwork" in a shoebox because councils have a tendency to loose things.

At my Wood-badge course there were ventures there as young as 14; had one in my patrol. I got the impression that our council was requiring it. Many were part of Wood-badge staff and ran several of the "challenges," etc.

I don't see why you would be surprised. I'm not Christian, but have a least half a dozen bibles at home, maybe a whole dozen. "Concerned" family members send them as gifts, people trying to convert me send them as gifts, and its just plain easier to politely accept them from the Giddeons (sp?) on the corner at their twice yearly hand out than to have to stop and engage in a theological discussion, especially when neither of us are going to change our positions.

I opened an account with Scouter.com and used it for a couple of months. Unfortunately, I work for the Government and in order to keep classified information, well classified, I have 3 logons and 6 passwords that must be different and changed every 60 days for security purposes. To "simplify" my life, on 'password-changing-day' all personal passwords are changed to one of the 6 I have to use for work. The problem is that I can't remember which one I changed it too. I tried the password re-set several times but never get the email scouter.com says I should get to make the necessary password re-set request. I tried the contact administrator functions as well, also with no luck. As a result I have had to set up this, hopefully temporary account in order to ask for help. So guys, what is the next step in the password re-set request I need to take in order to start using my original account again?