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"Nearly First Class" ?

Scouts Canada Scouts U.S.A. And Cambridge, you deal with a MUCH smaller bureaucracy.

In Finland the official Boy Scout knife is either a puukko ("partiopuukko") or a shortish knife with a cross guard ("Partio Veitsi"). I finally got around to finding out out what "partio" means in Finnish. It means patrol.

The SM's signature "should" be there before the work begins, but need not be if the MCB OK's the work done (G2A) Since 2015, the SM can refuse to submit a MB on an Advancement Report if he determines the MB could not, in fact, have been earned. (G2A) E.g.: Personal Management signed off by Area Director at Camp Frontier after candidate started from zero and put in five hours over five days. The material to understand the Patrol Method is still extant and can be found (if one recognizes it), but has not been gathered by BSA in a coherent list, chapter, article, or discussion in decades. In BOY Scouting: 1. The patrol, not the troop, is the primary setting in which a boy experiences Boy Scouting. The necessary corollary is that the Scout is to spend most of his Scouting time in a Patrol context, doing patrol stuff: patrol meetings, patrol hikes, patrol Scoutcraft instruction. 2. A patrol is a small, largely self-selected team of friends who, under the leadership of a Scout they elect, experience a Scouting program they collectively plan. 3. The troop is . . the youth-led “league†- a boys' league - in which patrol teams play the “game†of Boy Scouting beyond the patrol level, as planned by the PLC under the chairmanship of the elected SPL. 4. Adults play the critical roles of: a. Safety officers b. Teachers of leadership c. Coaches and mentors d. Resources e. Examples of Values

We have had three Venturers (< 18) as staff for Scoutmaster training this Summer at Camp. Look! Youth being leaders, Dictionary "'Scouter' an adult leader in the Boy Scouts of America." BSA "SCOUTER. A registered adult member of the Boy Scouts of America who serves in a volunteer or professional capacity.†BSA, The Language of Scouting (2017) http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/Media/LOS/All.aspx#def-head-s I like BSA's definition better.

To deal with whale attacks?

Girls in. Scouts of America. Impact on Congressional Charter?

And donors prefer their name on a climbing tower or cabin vs. a toilet.

And you are. Thank you.

When I looked minutes ago, two of the three sheath knives are no longer listed. The Gaupe was still listed. Now, the three are still there when I check Camping/Knives Hopefully, this will now work: http://www.scoutstuff.org/bsa/camping/knives-accessories.html Ed: works for me: GT; Harding; Gaupe

Try this for the "Gaupe" (Lynx) http://www.scoutstuff.org/bsa/camping/knives-accessories/knives/knife-helle-gaupe.html#.WVwA1ITyvX4 There were two other models of Helle sheath knives, but they are gone now. The third is mostly cut off at the bottom left of the inserted picture. The folding Helle is also gone. For some reason, the ability to edit goes away quickly, so I cannot remove the non-functioning link. Sorry.

AND BSA is selling sheath knives again. http://www.scoutstuff.org/bsa/camping/knives-accessories.html

And NOW! BSA is selling sheath knives again after a gap of twenty-five years. http://www.scoutstuff.org/bsa/camping/knives-accessories.html

Sorry if this has already been said, but the signature on the Blue card is not a prerequisite to the Scout working on the MB. "Even though Scouts may benefit from reviewing requirements with a counselor before pursuing them, a boy may begin working on a merit badge at any time after he is registered. It is the counselor’s decision whether to accept work or activities completed prior to the issuing of the signed blue card. Common sense should prevail, however. For example, nights already camped as a Boy Scout, or coins or stamps already collected, would count toward their respective badges." Boy Scouts of America, Guide to Advancement at p. 43 (2017)[emphasis added\ http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/33088.pdf

"Yes, that would be interesting to learn as well. Here is what I know through research, the old Wood Badge course (one example) was designed to teach experienced scouters new methods for teaching scouts." Which "old" course was that? Pre-1972 or 1972-2000?

Can these plants cause permanent blindness or tissue death of all layers of skin - as in down to muscle tissue?

Better yet, learn what Giant Hogweed looks like. http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/39809.html https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Herkulesstaude_fg01.jpg/220px-Herkulesstaude_fg01.jpg&imgrefurl=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_mantegazzianum&h=331&w=220&tbnid=LzwxpSXHdTlPZM:&tbnh=186&tbnw=123&usg=__uOCZmI4xThKXVw7eiq0TGaHb58c=&vet=10ahUKEwjUmquKr9rUAhXCWj4KHctCD_sQ_B0IigEwCw..i&docid=ZvxUSxpmN2UetM&itg=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUmquKr9rUAhXCWj4KHctCD_sQ_B0IigEwCw&ei=fGRQWdTsFsK1-QHLhb3YDw This map is wrong. The monster is seventy miles into eastern Ohio. https://www.eddmaps.org/distribution/usstate.cfm?sub=4536

Council Shoulder Patch - usually.

Considering the quality of some of the pamphlets, it would seem BSA writes them for 499 reasons.

Current learning is: 1. Alcohol w/in 20-30 mins 2. Strong detergent w/in 30-45 mins 3. Wash contaminated clothing separately 4. Longer-term: Apply cool compresses to the skin. Topical treatments to relieve itching, including calamine lotion, oatmeal baths, or aluminum acetate Of course,this may change, as it has in the past several times.

One can link to and/or quote all the definitive language from Congress and the IRS that you wish (I did.). Unread or simply dismissed out-of-hand, it does not overcome preconceptions. It's like "The Boy Scouts prohibit sheath knives." Belief overcomes reality much of the time, and a sincere error is often more damaging than an outright lie due to the obvious sincerity of the believer.

And I cited the IRS ruling letter above.

"Can you highlight for me the part of 501©(1) that says "nonprofit"? I can't find it. " I referred to 501©(3) A "non-profit" or "not-for-profit" is what most call a "charitable" organization. If on some logic, you believe BSA, and perhaps all 501©(3) organizations, to be a for-profit organization for some meaning of "profit" alien to the tax laws, by all means be happy in your belief. Google is a search engine. It does not supply substance. The IRS does. https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organizations/exemption-requirements-section-501-c-3-organizations

I think I made my opinion on the issue of wearing the boy's Eagle patch clear. Having said that, "Obedient" needs work. The Victorian language no longer stands the test of history, if it ever did. In Scouting we hold up Dr. Martin Luther King as an example of living a values-centered life, yet he won the Nobel Prize for Peace for leading a campaign of civil disobedience against odious racial laws. Germany had such laws, if more extreme, in the 1930s and until the end of WW II. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed by the German government for participating in a conspiracy to overthrow the government and is regarded as a martyr for the Christian faith. Until their conduct was upheld by the courts, followers of certain religions were penalized in the U.S.A. for refusing to swear allegiance to the United States, an act their faith teaches is contrary to the word of God. I give the benefit of the doubt in all cases to the rules - probably because of how I was brought up, including Scouting. But I conclude that not all obedience is ethical. There are standards higher than those set by politicians, many set out in other points of the Law. The issue here does not seem to merit the hostility one way or the other. Wear a boy's rank patch or not. I won't call you names as other points of the Law are implicated. I will do my best to work with you to bring Scouting to youth. But I wish you would set a different example. This is not evil you are resisting. It's just a rule about uniforms.

The Boy Scouts of America is a 501©(1) federally-chartered non-profit corporation. You can see a recent letter from the IRS confirming this status here: http://usscouts.org/usscouts/aboutbsa/nonprofit.asp Really easy to find by Googling Boy Scouts of America nonprofit.