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Why would that be? Really. Are the adults not "on the outing" if they are 200 yards away by canoe? When canoeing, do they have to stay closer than that? Says who?

And so there is a debate about how to evaluate BP. This article gives a summary of the waring sides - plus the author's conclusion: https://weberstudies.weber.edu/archive/archive%20B%20Vol.%2011-16.1/Vol.%2014.2/14.2Voeltz.htm You seem to reject Jeal's conclusions that BP fought before the war to keep Scouting demilitarized. That BP said the "patriotic" things when the war was on seems hardly a surprise. Who was saying otherwise? There is not doubt that he used the term "peace scouts" in Scouting for Boys. The troop in which I scouted as a boy began as California Peace Scout Troop 43 in 1908. In the last installment of Scouting for Boys, B-P Said: "“Two or three prominent authorities have written deprecating my attempt to 'foster among the boys of Britain a bloodthirsty and warlike spirit'. I can only fear that either these gentlemen have not read the handbooks very carefully or that I have expressed myself very badly. The whole intention of the Boy Scouts training is for the peaceful citizenship. Even if I had advocated training the lads in a military way (which I have not done) I am impertinent enough to see no harm in it. I have not noticed that ex-soldiers are more inclined than other people to commit murders; all that I see in them, as a rule, is that they have been taught self-discipline, to sacrifice for themselves, if need be, for others, to obey orders, to be sober, clean, and active to make the best of things as they find them to be loyal to themselves and their officers. All of which appear to me to be valuable assets in character for a citizen, whatever may be his grade or trade.â€

Group yells are not out of style. OO-RAH ! Roll Tide ! O H! I O!!

Whatever BP meant by "Peace Scouts," he created a world movement. Did Scouting "join up" when war came? Of course - all over the world. ( I had a relative who joined the friends - a Quaker - who volunteered as a stretcher bearer in WWI.) That doesn't mean Scouting was designed as a tool to grind out soldiers to control empire as certain revisionist hyperventilation would have it.

"No council, committee, district, unit, or individual has the authority to add to, or subtract from, advancement requirements. There are limited exceptions relating only to youth members with special needs. For details see section 10, 'Advancement for Members With Special Needs.'" Guide to Advancement at p. 2. Everyone else "implements and facilitates" according to B.S.A. Id. at p. 10. 10, including the unit Advancement Coordinator, who is trained that it is important that everyone understands that a Scout completes the requirements as written. The Council Advancement Committee, directly and by delegated authority to District Advancement Committees, support BSA's program and no one else's program. Id. at p. 12. To that end, district, council, and national committees, as the case may require, act on appeals that BSA requirements and practices have not been followed. Id. at 13. No one from the CO or unit has a say in the membership or has a vote in the committee. Their role is to supply information to the appeal committees. Id. at p. 61. There is no provision in BSA's rules for a rank to be taken back or suspended. To do so would be adding to the requirements and is absolutely prohibited. All that follows the completed Board of Review is recognition. Id. at p. 23. The the date of the completed Board of Review is the advancement date. Id. at p. 55. There is no other provided by BSA. For a unit, person, or Council to set a different date for any reason is absolutely prohibited as an addition to the rules of BSA. See id. at p. 2. I think you describe BSA's behavior in some cases, not what the legal agreements say in which the CO agrees to follow the program as set out by BSA. and not what BSA says regarding its rules. Man is imperfect clay.

The rule in some councils, unfortunately, is "Performance Metrics uber alles." I was proud of our just-retired SE when, on his taking over, my older council took a 30% membership hit on paper, eliminating the fictional units and their members set up by the previous SE. No pussy-footing. Just back to honest numbers.

I have been told I have a hole in my head - never a crease.

Things have changed since "Dirty Harry." Currently the "champ" is the .500 Smith and Wesson Magnum. Standard is "only" 2600 ft. lbs of muzzle energy ($1.50- $2.590 per boom) , but some (sane?) have souped it up to over 3000 ft. lbs of muzzle energy and nearly 2000fps -- significantly greater than the standard .30-06 ball (2429 ft. lbs.). Then we have the .480 Ruger and .475 Linebaugh, both of which exceed the .454 Casull by a wide margin. Then the poor 'lil .44 Magnum (1649 ft. lbs. +p+). All manner of videos of shooters being hit in the face with their handgun on discharge. Seems to be a silly game that has exceeded all practical limits. Meanwhile, on the streets of Chicago. the "Modified One-Hand Head-Tip Gangsta Grip":

Fill out a form. Pass the background check,. Pay a $200.00 fee, and you too can own an actual assault rifle - fully automatic, like the FAL that uses a round as powerful as the 30-06, the Browning .30 cal. Machine Gun, or the M-2 cal. .50 Heavy Machine Gun. I can't imagine the cost - like burning $100s as fast as you can.

We had a Scout to whom you could hand any bugle and he could immediately play any tune you could whistle. At summer camp handed him a British military bugle. Whistled "Alarm." http://www.royalengineers.ca/26_Alarm%20(for%20Troops%20to%20turn%20out%20under%20Arms).mp3 He played it. Found Last Post on line and had him listen to it. http://www.royalengineers.ca/40_Last%20Post%20(Tattoo).mp3 He played it. Took him to the camp Program Director. By Tues AM he was playing all the calls at camp flag ceremonies. We were so vary sad when he left for college. We had been spoiled by five years of his talent.

If the first and last pieces are beveled, it should be wheelchair accessible.

It would be more accurate to say that every time we have a publicized shooting, the left asks for more laws controlling access to firearms. The "flavor of the week" in that regard is the semi-automatic rifle, used in a statistically minority number of shootings, incorrectly called an "assault rifle." Not that assault rifles - magazine-fed fully automatic rifles - are not in civilian hands in trivial numbers (Automatic weapons are considered machineguns subject to the provisions of the National Firearms Act.). Two or three legally-owned fully automatic weapons have been used in homicides since 1934 so far as I can find. Further, the last time I can document one being used intentionally in a crime in the U.S. (as opposed to Sweden or Syria) was the incident in North Hollywood where the two armed bank robbers with full body armor and actual AK-47s took on the police. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout A Columbus, Ohio policeman illegally used a fully-automatic .30 carbine to kill an unresisting burglary suspect in the late 1960's and received no punishment beyond a brief suspension from duty.

Not that this is news, but new rope is stronger than used rope. The local FD gives us rope annually that's fine for non-life-at-stake applications, but too old/used for their standards.

Inflating balloon as symbolic of the increasing population in the backcountry. Have pin secretly handy. http://www.scouting.org/Home/BoyScouts/TeachingLeaveNoTrace.aspx https://lnt.org/blog/5-tips-and-tricks-teaching-kids https://lnt.org/teach/tools-and-activities-educators

Personally, I don't think it would be my place to encourage or discourage. Not my life. But making a decision without knowing where it is probably going to lead ? If the facts are deemed "discouraging," so be it. At least, as you say, "eyes wide open." In 1998, law school graduates who had passed the Ohio Bar Exam (perfectly normal in appearance and demeanor), some from in the top 10% of their classes at perfectly respectable law schools (some in the national top 50) were asking to come to work at AT&T Legal for no pay - so they could add experience to their resumes. Supply vs. demand. That suggested to me that one needed to go to a really top school and graduate Coif, unless daddy was a senior partner in, or major client of, a firm that was hiring. ED: the new law graduate employment rate has dropped very year since.

I recall the philosophy, political science, art appreciation, theater studies etc. majors at university. They were so focused on how much they loved the subject matter that they never considered making a living, and Academic Advisers were strictly prohibited from discussing "occupational outcomes" with students. (This is not a trade school. Students come here because they love learning." [Why Professor Stoltz et al might lose their places if students thought about such things.]) So I think about such things. I know what happened to some of them. They followed their loves into decades of poverty. Some became chronically bitter. Ennobling poverty is a great theory. The one I know who is best off became a great woodworker at age 40 - with ten years of college, a Phd, and large debts.

"He's also considering professional Scouting or wildlife management as a career, so I think he wants to be as much of a volunteer as possible befor[e] he has to 'step back'." He had better talk to lots of people who are AND HAVE BEEN council employees. Newbies spend years primarily working with adults, not Scouts, and much of that time is spent trying to raise money to meet payroll. Pay is pitiful. Hours are long, and many hours are at night and on weekends. Attrition is stunning. My older council has been unable to fill the positions on its table of organization because new DEs quite faster than they can be hired and trained - even though the number of positions has been reduced by 40% in four years. We have 50% vacancies now in our "traditional districts." This is not a new situation - only a worse situation. Twenty years ago, my district went through three DEs in ten days, I never even met the one in the middle as she was assigned on Friday and quit on Sunday before the District Meeting at which she was to meet us. The average tenure 1987-1993 was 31 weeks: the "golden years."

The Scouts could raise "gasoline money." Camp is for Scouts, not adults. You only need two. The others are welcome to stay home during the week. Did anyone on the Committee take training. I know it's "only" BSA policy for 87 years that the Committee agreed to follow, but the Committee in deciding whether they can support the program plan that is to be made by the PLC are counseled to remember that Boy Scouting program is to be boy-planned and adult-supported.

The sites are misleading. FALSE: "Ohio: Anything goes, just don't be a child playing with a toy gun [indistinguishable from a real gun] in a park [that has been the scene of several previous gang shootings]." State laws are only part of the issue. The largest number of criminal laws regarding knives are local - not state of federal. In Cleveland, Ohio, the ordinance send you to jail for a minimum of six months if you possess a knife with a blade of 2.5" in a public place. "Knife" is not defined, so that rules out Micky D's plastic knives with their 3.25" blades. Are they enforced? Selectively. Carrying any "weapon" concealed is a felony in Ohio, and whether a knife is a "Weapon" is a matter of the intent of the carrier and whether the knife was made or modified to be a weapon. Selectively. Knives in government buildings The federal building across the street from where I worked for 25 years, the City Hall, and most high schools have a cafeterias that often provide knives. So much for no knives in a government building. But try to carry a pocket knife into most government buildings and you will have problems. Irrational, unless sandpaper is also barred. New York City - the Big Rotten Apple In NYC, possessing any knife lock-blade knife that can eventually be opened by grasping the blade and shaking - even if the effort fails 9/10 of the time, is a serious crime because NYC, and only NYC, regards any such knife as a "gravity knife" under New York state law. Tens of thousands have been arrested, convicted, and jailed or imprisoned - for up to six years - for carrying common, everyday locking knives in NYC, including tradesmen who require them for their work (NOTE: possess). A slip joint will probably stay closed due to its spring, but most locking knives have weak springs and can be opened by shaking against the weight of the handle, especially by practiced NYC policemen looking to pad their arrest numbers. A bill to correct this miscarriage of justice passed the NY legislature easily (61-0 in the Senate and 99-12 in the Assembly) but was vetoed by Cuomo a few weeks ago, with the Mayor of NYC's strong approval.

Venturers staff Wood Badge.

The proper adult role includes being a resource. That is contrasted to making the decision or doing the job. That does not relieve the Scouts of the responsibility for deciding on their own call/cheer/yell. You could suggest googling Coyote howl OR call and let them go from there. https://coyoteyipps.com/category/coyote-behavior/coyote-howling/ http://www.inquiry.net/outdoor/campfire/helps/yells.htm

Over Romano ?!

Perhaps it is better to rate people on behavior, regardless of motivation.

Darn right! No silicon-based bugs for our bug juice. All carbon-based life forms. We use a form of stainless steel coffee press to insure freshness: "Squeezed at your table."

Once upon a time, we were told that 50% of Webelos were not crossing over to Scouts. We were told that the primary reason was that Webelos-aged boys were intimidated by the older Scouts - High School kids ! The troop made sure each Webelos den in our two feeder packs had carefully-selected Den Chiefs. Emphasis on Friendly and Cheerful. Thereafter, we got so close to 100% crossing over for twenty-five years as to not be an issue for us. I have been repeatedly told by SMs that they have no Scouts available to be Den Chiefs. But I have also been repeatedly told there is no time for actual Boy Scouting (Scouts spending time primarily in a patrol context), so . . . .