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That largely depends on the reputation, networking, skill and effort of those leading the merger. Again, axiom: "It is easier to say 'no' to a stranger."

It's generally dangerous to generalize based on limited data. One ought to look at the specific group to see if it has a pattern of behavior. One fine young HS athlete wrapped a half dozen twenty-penny nails under tape on his right forearm and clubbed me in the side of the head with this assemblage in an effort to get to our quarterback. What should I conclude about HS football players - or his team - from that incident? No Scout ever did that to me. What should I conclude about Scouts? Limited sample.

​Another Eagle story picked up by Google News.

And people die, Stosh. Still, I think of my Scouting as a long term legacy project.

Tree-planting is very cool. You can go back over the years and see them grow. maybe we could all do it on Arbor Day.

Hanus Earns Eagle March 16, 2015 Cincinnati.com

Yes, they must give access on a nondiscriminatory basis. Neither would I be surprised. Local governments often violate the law, such as by "legalizing" marijuana.

Respectfully, the second does not follow from the first. Individual unit choice may simply be a function of inability to be clear. Traditionally, control of the program - or a perception that it is controlling the program - has been very important to BSA.

Unless there is only one PL present and voting, an impasse can only result if at least one PL is voting with the SPL. With more than one patrol, unless a PL votes with the SPl, there is no impasse. The SPL simply got outvoted. A good opportunity to teach how to solve conflict with mutual respect.

If you are trying to post a link, you need the IMG code.

My old district has a Director and three DE's. It was created about three years ago by merging three districts into one. There is zero intent to divide it. The original plan was to have four DE's, but the difficulty in getting anyone to take the jobs has led to the 1+3 structure. One of the three former districts is where I Scouted for over twenty-five years, and we usually had a Director slot and a DE slot, often with vacancies due to the endless churn of paid personnel quitting or, occasionally, being discharged. During council financial crisis, such as when it was discovered that we had two sets of books and were heavily in debt, the DE slot would disappear for a time.

That depends. Seriously. For Journey to Excellence, a "campout" can be an indoors troop movie overnight. For the official BSA training entitled "The New Troop's First Campout," tents are listed as essential equipment for teaching new Scouters about "camping." For the Camping Merit Badge, we are told: "Camping is one of the best-known methods of the Scouting movement. When he founded the Scouting movement in the early 1900s, Robert Baden-Powell encouraged every Scout to learn the art of living out-of-doors." "Sleep each night under the sky or in a tent you have pitched. If the camp provides a tent that has already been pitched, you need not pitch your own tent." The BSA "Advancement Team," in interpreting the Camping MB requirements, says: "Camp a total of 20 nights.†That means 20 overnights. . . . All 20 nights must be spent under the sky or in a tent, so nights in cabins don’t count." The Boy Scout Handbook lists the following as group equipment for "camping": "Tents, ground cloths and stakes." There is no mention of buildings in the BSHB chapter on "CAMPING."

A good many cots, including the one sold by Walmart that comes with a mattress, are lightly - even defectively - built. There is a model that has steel tubing inside the aluminum legs. We have a 270-pounds dad who has used one for three years this June, and it has held up well. He paid about $60.00 for it after running through several cheaper models. Also, as with most sporting goods, prices vary significantly for the identical item. Do shop around. I use a cot only in Summer Camp and have acquired six 12"-square pieces of 1/2" plywood. They protect the tent floor from the cot legs. Most sleepers appreciate a mattress of some kind with a cot. Another dad bought a cot that was sturdy enough, but the nylon part was such a tight fit that it took two strong adults to assemble the cot - or your could soak the nylon so it would stretch more easily. He finally found a shovel handle that gave him the leverage to get the last cross-piece to snap into place without another adult to help.

I think in some states, you have to have a plug to reduce the magazine capacity for hunting. Not that "shooting sports" are limited to hunting or that hunting is relevant to the Second Amendment.

My poor effort was merely to say that when numbers come up in discussing "issues," the scale, or relative value, is important. Otherwise Disraeli's famous observation about statistics may apply. How many times, for example, do we see retail price or income statistics with no correction for inflation? Thank you for the reference. In doing a google search, the chart came up, as did many others that relate to a dispute about what caused the "Younger Dryas cooling." Esterbrook seems to be on one side. A good deal of passion seems to be involved. See: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/16/younger-dryas-the-rest-of-the-story/ Most of it is beyond my understanding without far more knowledge.

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It's a matter of scale.

Mitch Reis might know. http://www.mitchreis.com/ ************************

Once again, software will not allow posts.

So the exercise of "freedom of speech," a "valued right," must be suppressed as "hate speech." Freedom is hate.

"Pumpkin" is, according to the USDA not just pumpkin. Mostly, you are enjoying Blue Hubbard pie.

When my older council went from eight to 2.1 districts, we tested the efficacy of dumping 95% of the existing leadership. Turns out that it is easier to say "No" to a stranger. The greatly reduced number of volunteer slots (e.g. Scout Roundtable Commissioner) were not totally filed - to this date three years later. In the eastern district, we went over two years with half the T0E empty, including all the leaders for Cub and Scout roundtables and training. After 2.5 years, we finally got a Cub Training Chair, who was immediately told he had to run Scoutmaster Specific - despite no training or experience on the Scout side. Today, still no RT leaders three years in. DCmr gave up. ( At least he was replaced quickly and with a solid guy.) Addressing the issue of payroll, each of the two new real districts were to have five paid people each. The council was never able to fill those positions. In fact, at one point, the east district had zero paid personnel. On the good side, the lead paid staffer was fired, and he was a fright. This exercise was totally planned (If that's the right word.) and pushed through by the council employees. The reason commonly stated was that the existing districts could not fill their leadership positions. The other reason given was that we needed leadership from the business community - leading to almost all top slots being filled with people with little experience in Scouting or with leading volunteers, little knowledge of the program, and almost no contacts with volunteers. There were warnings given by the "steering committee" about where throwing the existing leadership under the bus would likely lead - warnings totally ignored. We soon understood we were window dressing. There are lessons to be drawn. I suggest that one lesson is that Good $couter$ have their place, but not to the exclusion of Good Scouters. Another lesson is that the leadership by consensus that BSA talks about in Wood Badge is actually useful. So, a cautionary tale.

The two drunks who ran into me when I was driving were both in their 30's ​The drunk who totaled my Mom's car and put her in the hospital for two months was 20. Do you suppose that "younger" drivers are disproportionately impaired drivers just as they are disproportionately involved in motor vehicle accidents?

As one goal of Scouting is to produce good,citizens who participate in our governance, having them develop an interest in the political process is a reasonably big deal - in a Scouting context.

Is this the lesson for the Scouts? I have a slightly different insight. In 1975, our City Council declared a "fiscal emergency." They cancelled curb-side trash pickups except for plastic bags (torn open by animals - MESS) , and put a 50% increase in the income tax on the ballot. It passed. The following March, the prior year's books closed. Turns out the city had a significant surplus. No fiscal emergency. That Fall, every incumbent on City Council and the Mayor were voted out. The tax increase was repealed and has not been reinstated last I looked (moved some years ago). The Governor who got the income tax passed in Ohio in 1972 was voted out after one term - along with his party's previous majority in both houses of the Legislature - when they were caught cooking the books to justify the tax. Another "fiscal emergency - close the parks - don't cut the grass - layoffs - etc.) The tax is still there BUT it has never been increased - just reduced four times. The current Governor proposes its elimination. (That taxin' Gov got elected in the first place after the previously invincible Republicans were caught in an influence-peddling scandal.)