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  1. Look in your personal management merit badge pamphlet and you should find a whole chapter dedicated to "managing debt," which also contains the answer you are looking for.
  2. Great words of wisdom, uncleguinea.
  3. ohhh dear.....i have a feeling this thread is eventually going to be closed....
  4. In a way, America does have its own "Islamic extremist" groups. Have you or do you know of anyone who has looked at those Americans who do not support the war in Iraq as lesser Americans than anyone else; "unpatriotic?" Think about it...
  5. Hate is a powerful thing, and the world can sometimes be a very evil place because of such hate. I never really understood it myself, how one can hate a group of people so much to sacrifice his/her own life to end the lives of others. Maybe this is a twisted and distorted "religion" these people follow, and they're so under the impression that them killing another human being pleases their god. Maybe their government is responsible for spreading bad ideas about other people. Maybe these peoples' hate for another type of people (mentionably the Israeli-Paletinian conflict) is a product of years
  6. Try to contact the lodge advisor for the lodge servicing your current local council. So long as you are registered with one council (the Atlanta area council of which you speak), you should have no problem registering with that lodge too, if you still have a membership card from Madakawanda Lodge or some proof of membership in the OA. If you do not know who the lodge advisor is, contact the Scout Executive of your Atlanta area council, and he should give you a few useful contacts.
  7. Well said John! My congratulations go out to MTDScouter and his son, this really brightened up my day.
  8. I said that a MAXIMUM of 40 people would attend a meeting, that's including the 15-20 adults who come just to socialize over coffee. Other than the 5-10 really active arrowmen who attend (most of them already have a position on the lodge executive committee), there's usually only about 5 or 6 uninvolved youth members who show up to the meetings. Sometimes there have been meetings when very few showed up and we were forced to call off the meeting. Now, if we'd planned on having only 3 meetings in the year, then cancelling one meeting would mean that we'd only have 2 meetings, when often very fe
  9. Thanks. I'll be sure to put that outline to good use. This raises another question: how many chapter meetings per year on average does your chapter have? The lodge executive committee has hypothesized that one of the main reasons why our chapter programs do not work as well as we'd like them to is because of the small number of meetings the chapters have per year. We had about 3 chapter meetings within the last year, and this year we plan to have 6, which I personally think is not enough. The chapter programs really do not get a chance to develop when they only have 3 meetings in a year w
  10. "The chapter plans and staffs our district's Spring Camporee Program.We work with the troops to organise games,Campfire etc. We start planning right after we finish when we are going over the comments from participants.WE do not exclude non-members from staff. We use our Fall programs as a training ground for the youth who will be running Camporee. It's a big deal we had around 900 participants last Spring." Thanks wojauwe, you've just appeased my motif for starting this post...I was thinking about proposing that my chapter plan and run a district camporee. The district camporees are a
  11. Great post OGE. This is truly what scouting is all about. ... Well said, Bob.
  12. I'd like to ask everyone how good is your lodge's involvement in your council programs...district/council camporees, summer camp, etc. Does the lodge plan and run (on its own, with little help from the council or district) its own events involving the council, such as camporees and other events, or is its level of involvement simply a matter of assisting the council in its endeavors? How well is the lodge's presence known at the council's summer camp? I'm just looking for ideas to better improve my council-lodge relations...
  13. Get your hands on a Blue Book guide to OA insignia. Otherwise, go to www.oaimages.com for a plethora of information regarding this topic.
  14. Sounds fun Mike! I'll definitely suggest some of those ideas. That's a very inspiring story Eamonn, and I hope our scoutmaster will eventually realize that himself (we've tried to explain that to him time and time again, but he's so set on making this troop out to be the best that he doesn't want to lose). As for Bob White, WELL SAID. The troop should be for the scouts, not the adults, and if the adults are set on winning, then so be it but the troop doesn't have to cater to their likings.
  15. I think Dave brings up an interesting point in his speech that he delivered at the National Order of the Arrow Conferece about a month ago... http://www.oashows.org/videopop.cfm?id=10
  16. Maybe it is that simple. Maybe familiarity does breed contempt. But let's not be that pessimistic... (this post may be a bit confusing, but bear with me) Seeing a friend or longtime acquaintance in a scout uniform does not produce the same FEELING of respect as seeing someone you do not know in a scout uniform. The experiences which we've shared with our longtime scouter friends have most definitely produced a solemn respect for each other. This respect has become regular as we see them on a more regular basis. Perhaps the feelings of respect for those we do know are not the same fe
  17. This camporee is of high prestige; it's an invitational camporee with much history and tradition in our area. Some scout skills which aren't quite elaborated upon in the scout handbook are utilized at this event (things dealing with height and distance measurement and nature and such), and our troop always needs touching up on most of those topics. Probably the most effective way to prepare for this would be to practice the camporee scenerios on weekend troop camping trips. I'm all for that, and the PLC agrees, but we would still need to do something constructive at the meetings.
  18. I'm not affiliated with the troop aside from knowing a couple people who are in the troop, and they've made this grievance a couple times.
  19. My troop is currently making the transition into a boy-lead unit. Every year there is a camporee for which our troop spends at least 3 months preparing (touching up on scout skills such as first aid, firebuilding, preparing a complete day-pack, knots and lashings, etc.). Over the years, we've been quite successful in the camporee itself, and this success seems to make all the preparing worth it. Lately, however, many of our scouts have been complaining that our 3 grueling months of preparing for such an event tears our troop apart. During these three months the scoutmaster and assistant scoutm
  20. WOW. This is a great thread. I've been reading in on this and there has been so much I've realized and learned just from this thread; it's just incredible what a little debate and discussion can do. This is like a hardcore scouting philosophy class or something... Keep it comin!
  21. Permission slips...for transportation to and from the project? ...for the coverage of insurance if the kid gets hurt while helping out with an eagle project? Maybe, though it is not necessarily needed. Perhaps if the eagle project was something with some sort of inherant danger involved (something involving ladders and/or operation of power tools or dangerous chemicals), or something lasting more than a total of 6 hours at a time, then maybe a permission slip would be needed. But still, I think it would be up to the scoutmaster or the "eagle candidate" who is in charge of planning and carryin
  22. Let's keep this thread going! QUICK! Name the 4 'hurry' cases!
  23. 9muckraker7

    NOAC video

    There was some sort of video made by the NOAC committee that was available for order/purchase while at NOAC (I think it costed $15). I neglected to purchase the video when I had the chance. Does anyone know how I could acquire one, or was it only available for purchase at NOAC??
  24. This is probably besides the point, but I'll mention it anyway.. Troop X probably pays closer attention to the rules and policies of the organization running the activities (I doubt that the troop went on a whitewater rafting trip just as a troop; they probably booked a trip some miles down the river with a rafting organization separate from scouting [i.e.: Whitewater Challengers]), which often has lower age restrictions. All too often, the G2SS is ignored until some sort of legal conflict comes up. Troops who never had any such conflicts probably never bother to consult the G2SS on matte
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