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Though today, numismatics are fewer in number. Link below has a brief history of the Coin Collecting Merit Badge and an offer from the American Numismatic Association https://coinweek.com/us-coins/young-numismatists-and-the-coin-collecting-merit-badge/

Hempstead, NY honors scouts for their mask making (1000's) during pandemic. Nice to see scouts learning to use power tools - sewing machines . Good video: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/boy-scout-covid-merit-badge/2568906/

Update Aug 13, 2020 The National Capital Area Council announced that CSCI, a consulting, enterprise IT, and financial management firm will sponsor a new, special council shoulder patch honoring retired Air Force Brigadier General Charles McGee. “We are extremely proud to recognize retired Brigadier General Charles McGee for his tremendous accomplishments and contributions to Scouting,” said Scout Executive Craig Poland. “Brigadier General McGee not only meets the criteria for the special edition council shoulder patch – he more than surpasses it. The values embodied in Scouting are reflected in his daily life and work.” The one-of-a-kind patch honoring McGee will be available to nearly 60,000 Scouts, according to the Scouter Digest release. More at sources: https://www.wrbl.com/news/national/boy-scouts-honor-tuskegee-airman-retired-air-force-brig-general-charles-mcgee-with-new-shoulder-patch/ https://weownadventure.com/boy-scouts-honor-tuskegee-airman-with-special-edition-council-shoulder-patch/

...Adrian’s kits are full of materials that are described as anxiety and autism comfort items, and as a part of his eagle badge requirements, Adrian supplied the kit to the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department to use as a tool when they are responding to calls that involve autistic people or people in extreme anxiety. The kit contains headphones, sensory balls, fidget spinners, pipe cleaners, stretchy men and flavored tongue depressors, which are Adrian’s favorite. These kits are now carried by 42 medic units in Fairfax County, and when they are working with an individual with autism or calls involving mental health crises, the kit might be just the thing they need to help induce calm while the rescue workers tend to the task at hand. More details of this great Scout story at sources: https://ffxfirerescue.wordpress.com/2020/08/07/local-scout-creates-anxiety-and-autism-care-kits-for-fcfrd-medic-units/ http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2020/aug/13/emergencies-autistic-people-now-have-adrians-resou/ Outstanding, Scout Salute

REI now plans to sell it’s new 8-acre, Bellevue corporate campus. In response to the corona virus pandemic, their workforce (1000 employees) has moved to multiple “satellite” locations across the Seattle area and that it would “lean into remote working as an engrained, supported and normalized model” that could also allow employees to work outside the region. Employees who would have worked at the campus, which media reports had called the “most outdoorsy HQ ever” and “like summer camp for grown-ups” for its rooftop terraces, courtyard full of native plants and large sliding doors to the outside, had not yet taken occupancy. Like many office-based employees, they began working from home in March and had been expected to move midsummer. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/12/rei-seattle-headquarters-commercial-real-estate/ https://www.geekwire.com/2020/rei-looks-sell-brand-new-seattle-area-hq-pandemic-forces-retailer-rethink-remote-work/

His 2009 dissertation: (free ) . Very interesting read on James West, James Beard (zingers), patrol method, the Interracial Service, BSA early history, immigrants, minorities, urban vs rural, conservation/animal rights vs pioneering/scoutcraft...Good stuff. https://escholarship.org/content/qt6s56c7cg/qt6s56c7cg_noSplash_adb0c60e663dce67efa6513d5571baa4.pdf Subsequent book (2016?): Modern Manhood and the Boy Scouts of America In this illuminating look at gender and Scouting in the United States, Benjamin René Jordan examines how in its founding and early rise, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) integrated traditional Victorian manhood with modern, corporate-industrial values and skills. While showing how the BSA Americanized the original British Scouting program, Jordan finds that the organization’s community-based activities signaled a shift in men’s social norms, away from rugged agricultural individualism or martial primitivism and toward productive employment in offices and factories, stressing scientific cooperation and a pragmatic approach to the responsibilities of citizenship. By examining the BSA’s national reach and influence, Jordan demonstrates surprising ethnic diversity and religious inclusiveness in the organization's founding decades. For example, Scouting officials’ preferred urban Catholic and Jewish working-class immigrants and "modernizable" African Americans and Native Americans over rural whites and other traditional farmers, who were seen as too "backward" to lead an increasingly urban-industrial society. In looking at the revered organization’s past, Jordan finds that Scouting helped to broaden mainstream American manhood by modernizing traditional Victorian values to better suit a changing nation. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469627663/modern-manhood-and-the-boy-scouts-of-america/ https://flexpub.com/preview/modern-manhood-and-the-boy-scouts-of-america

... The BSA national organization said the victims committee was focusing on “a single transaction by a single local council,” and that all local councils have agreed to share information with the committee regarding past and future transactions involving their assets. ( ugh...walked right into that trap) ... As part of the bankruptcy, the Boy Scouts obtained a consent order for a preliminary injunction halting lawsuits against the organization’s 261 local councils as “related parties.” The local councils, which run day-to-day operations for local troops, are not listed as debtors in the bankruptcy and are considered by the Boy Scouts to be legally separate entities. Attorneys for abuse victims have nevertheless made clear that they will try to go after campsites and other properties owned by the local councils to contribute to the victims fund. In return for protection against litigation under the injunction, participating local councils must adhere to certain conditions of the consent order. Those conditions include providing 30 days notice to BSA of any action regarding the marketing, sale or transfer or real estate, and of any sale or transfer of personal property valued at more than $25,000 outside the ordinary course of business. Attorneys for the victims committee say that on June 12, three days after the injunction was extended to Nov. 16, Brown and Middle Tennessee Council president John Bright Cage executed an agreement establishing the trust. On June 30, Brown signed quitclaim deeds for each of the five properties, which the council is now leasing from the trust. The council did not disclose the transfers until July 6, the deadline for opting into the consent order. Under the consent order, the council was required to disclose any sales, transfers or encumbrances of real property since July 2014. A hearing on the motion is scheduled for Sept. 9. More at source: https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/08/11/us/ap-us-boy-scouts-bankruptcy.html

Counsel for The Waite and Genevieve Phillips Foundation (Philmont) has arrived, requesting service of papers and reservation of rights. https://casedocs.omniagentsolutions.com/cmsvol2/pub_47373/839320_1093.pdf

Certainly not helping retention or recruitment.

Moderator note, let's keep on topic Summit Summer Camp experience - activities, cold showers , costs, gear, medical checks, camp setup, check-in, safety,... Thanks P.S. oh and food. @John-in-KC @MattR

http://npshistory.com/books/boy-scouts-katahdin.pdf I should like to hope that my book might make some boy beg his father to take him on a camping trip to Maine (without any gun but with a good camera!), and that it might make his father consent to go, where he will find just as much beauty and fun and strenuous, healthy excitement as his boy will, even if he can't climb Katahdin quite so fast, and wisely keeps out of the Chimney altogether. The Katahdin Chimney is no place for a father who isn't in condition. Scouts, keep your dads out of it unless they can chin themselves at least six times!

To add to confusion "Under the Internal Revenue Code, all section 501(c)(3) organizations are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office. Contributions to political campaign funds or public statements of position (verbal or written) made on behalf of the organization in favor of or in opposition to any candidate for public office clearly violate the prohibition against political campaign activity. Violating this prohibition may result in denial or revocation of tax-exempt status and the imposition of certain excise taxes." https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organizations/the-restriction-of-political-campaign-intervention-by-section-501c3-tax-exempt-organizations#:~:text=Under the Internal Revenue Code,candidate for elective public office. I wonder if may result ever does?

8/7/2020: Motion of Official Committee of Tort Claimants Enforcing Automatic Stay ...Against Middle Tennessee Council Arising From Transfers of Estate Property 5. On July 1, 2020, the Middle Tennessee Council transferred substantially all of its real and personal property to an irrevocable asset protection trust (the “Transfer”) for no consideration. At the time of the Transfer, the BSA had reversionary property interests in the assets pursuant to the BSA’s and Middle Tennessee Council’s organizational charters and bylaws. The Transfer, made with the knowledge of BSA’s bankruptcy, violated the automatic stay and is void ab initio. Despite having a self-admitted interest in the transferred properties, BSA has not taken any action to enforce the automatic stay and restore the estate’s property rights notwithstanding the Tort Claimants’ Committee demands. Therefore, The Tort Claimants’ Committee seeks an order of the Court voiding the Transfer as a violation of the automatic stay. ... 47. There can be no dispute that the Middle Tennessee Council knew of the BSA’s bankruptcy case; indeed, it accepted the protection of this Court prior to effectuating the Transfer. The Middle Tennessee Council’s internal communications expressly state that the Transfer was planned in anticipation of BSA’s bankruptcy case. Moreover, the Middle Tennessee Council was one among hundreds of other Local Councils that enjoyed the benefits of the Preliminary Injunction in BSA’s bankruptcy case. Finally, and as noted above, a member of the Middle Tennessee Council’s executive board published an opinion in a local newspaper on March 3, 2020, concerning the effects of BSA’s chapter 11 case on the Middle Tennessee Council. 48. The Court should void the Transfer of the Assets as a violation of the automatic stay. The BSA is in a precarious position with respect to its ability to successful reorganize. Without access to the Middle Tennessee Council’s assets, which are property of BSA’s bankruptcy estate, it will only make it more difficult for BSA to propose a plan that fairly compensates the victims of childhood sexual abuse claims. More details (179 pages) at source: https://casedocs.omniagentsolutions.com/cmsvol2/pub_47373/838822_1084.pdf

A Scout is Courteous...we can agree to disagree and respectfully discuss those differences...again and again and maybe learn. In the past when I have expressed my opinions about the wearing a neckerchief, I have stated my reasons even specs while respecting those with different and obviously wrong ( joke) opinions. Maybe ball caps are the future? Bolos? My $0.02,

Well done SpaceX, NASA, and astronauts Robert Bahnken and Douglas Hurley. Scout Salute and thanks for good news, smart news. (NASA photo)

Most who were downsized/rightsized, some multiple times in last 40+ years, in groups small and large (1,000's, 10,000's ), during difficult times and circumstances were good people who did not deserve it. For those who did deserve it, well this is a scout forum. From my experiences, suck it up and move on - budget and negotiate, maintain medical insurance, network, be open to new ventures (even temporary), stay positive...It is hard and lousy but the alternatives are worse. My $0.02,

IMHO, infection rate is not about age, race, or income, rather exposure, susceptibility, and protective measures. "Relatively large cohorts sleeping in the same cabin and engaging in regular singing and cheering likely contributed to transmission (9). Use of cloth masks, which has been shown to reduce the risk for infection (10), was not universal. An ongoing investigation will further characterize specific exposures associated with infection, illness course, and any secondary transmission to household members. Physical distancing and consistent and correct use of cloth masks should be emphasized as important strategies for mitigating transmission in congregate settings." My $0.01

Brian, just curious, will your college or its home state require you to produce a recent negative covid-19 test and/or quarantine for 14 days on campus?

Easier implemented in some activities... (BSA Troop 565 Roound Rock, TX) Seabase 2020

7/30/2020 : Related or coincidence, the BSA gave notice to the Bankruptcy Court that they are retaining and compensating Baker & Hostetler LLP to serve as legal counsel with regard to data privacy issues. https://casedocs.omniagentsolutions.com/cmsvol2/pub_47373/836594_1056.pdf BakerHostetler National Privacy and Data Protection Team "...the elite team of attorneys is consistently selected by general counsel worldwide to address their most critical issues. Providing a full range of practical, strategic advice across a myriad of industries in key cities with global reach, the team’s comprehensive experience includes working on nearly 25 percent of all data breaches reported in the last year." https://www.bakerlaw.com/press/bakerhostetlers-national-privacy-and-data-protection-team-named-a-practice-group-of-the-year

7/30/2020: Michigan Crossroads Council letter outlining rules to comply with Gov. Whitmer Executive Order 2020-160. https://nbc25news.com/news/local/boy-scouts-of-america-outline-social-distancing-practices-in-michigan Dear Scouting Families and Leaders, One of our main priorities is the health and safety of our Scouts, leaders and Scouting families. Thank you for the tremendous response to the Restarting Scouting plan, and for your personal leadership in helping make Scouting available through various means – whether Scouting in your unit and your family is done through in-person, at-home, and/or virtual activities, you are making a difference and you are appreciated. Yesterday, Governor Whitmer signed Executive Order 2020-160 which states that the following restrictions take effect July 31, 2020. Furthermore, the order and restrictions below apply to all in-person Scouting related activities, meetings and events. Rules on gatherings, events, and large venues. (Page 5) A social gathering or organized event among persons not part of the same household is permitted, but only to the extent that: 1.The gathering or event is designed to ensure that persons not part of the same household maintain six feet of distance from one another; 2.If it is indoors, the gathering or event does not exceed 10 people; and 3.If it is outdoors, the gathering or event does not exceed 100 people. The above restrictions do not apply to Regions 6 and 8. (Traverse City area and the UP) Units participating in in-person Scouting meetings, activities, and events are required to follow the guidelines and restrictions noted above and to follow all Restarting Scouting guidelines issued by the Michigan Crossroads Council for the protection of our Scouting community. To include but not limited to the following guidelines: - Youth and adult waivers for all participants - Part A & B Medical Form (Annual Health and Medical Record) - Supplemental Medical Permission Form (as defined) - Unit Activity Checklist - Practice social distancing protocols - Use of masks and/or shields - Frequent hand washing and use of hand sanitizer - Cleaning and sanitizing general public areas

7/29/2020: The Coalition of Abused Scouts for Justice submitted verified statement to Bankruptcy court: (in part): 1. On or around July 18, 2020, the members of the Coalition, by and through their counsel, formed the Coalition and retained Brown Rudnick LLP and Blank Rome LLP (together, the “Coalition Counsel”) to represent them in connection with the Coalition’s claims and interests in respect of the Debtors and the Bankruptcy Cases. The Coalition is comprised of more than 10,000 sexual abuse victims (collectively, the “Coalition Members”). Each Coalition Member, a party-in-interest, holds claims against the Debtors that may include, but are not necessarily limited to, unsecured claims and administrative claims. https://casedocs.omniagentsolutions.com/cmsvol2/pub_47373/836358_1053.pdf

Victimized organizations* should press Blackbaud to provide third party identity and credit monitoring. * Which organization will lead? My money (again $0.02) is on Boys & Girls Club of Delaware

Hopefully the mailer did not have seeds in it.

Presumably $350K (as all internet posts are true ) paid in equivalent Bitcoin.