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About this Website
For decades the Girl Scout organization, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary, has helped millions of young girls develop skills, build character, and become leaders. However, over the years, the organization has made a seismic shift. The questions and facts on this site expose changes within the Girl Scout organization which are increasingly connecting young girls to radical feminism, the promotion of sexual rights, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) issues, and the abortion rights movement.
While this website will expose disturbing direct connections between the Girl
Scouts and many issues that run counter to the values of many
Girl Scout families, it will also expose many indirect connections between the
Girl Scouts and these issues. The sheer
quantity of the indirect connections (over 100) when taken together, paint an
overall picture that is difficult to dismiss as just simple coincidence. As you patiently read through all the facts
and questions in each section exposing all of these direct and indirect
connections, the picture of what is happening to the Girl Scout organization will become clear.
After a careful examination of all the information on this website, it should be evident that there are serious problems with the Girl Scout organization.
After exploring this website, please:
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WARNING: In order to document a number of inappropriate activities of the Girl Scouts of the USA, a few of the facts and questions contain links that connect to explicit information which may be offensive. Warnings are provided to clearly identify these links so you can avoid clicking on them if you choose.
Background Facts:
Question 1: Why, in official statements of policy, does Girl Scouts headquarters continue to mislead the public by repeatedly insisting they do not partner with or have a relationship with Planned Parenthood without clearly disclosing the relationships many of their councils have had or currently have with this controversial organization?
Click here to watch a video of former Girl Scout CEO, Kathy Cloninger, admit on national TV that GSUSA partners with Planned Parenthood to bring sexual information to girls.
Question 2: Are Girl Scout families aware that a substantial number of Girl Scout councils have admitted on a survey that they partner with Planned Parenthood?
Click here to see a video clip from The O'Reilly Factor regarding this survey.
Click here to listen to a GSUSA spokesperson claim that GSUSA headquarters has never partnered with Planned Parenthood. She then states that although under GSUSA policy Girl Scout councils (which actually implement the programming with girls), are free to partner with Planned Parenthood, she is not aware of any that do.
Question 3: If GSUSA itself has never partnered with Planned Parenthood, why did they allow their logo to be printed on Planned Parenthood's brochure advertising a controversial event "Nobody's Fool: Dating, Love, Sex, and HIV?"
Click here to see this brochure with the Girl Scout logo on it.
Question 4: Are parents of Girl Scouts aware that Planned Parenthood promotes teaching children by the time they are five that "it's normal to touch one's sex organs for pleasure" and among other things that their website promotes masturbation, teaches youth they can have "safer sex" using "sex toys," and that safe sex can include "cybersex" and "phone sex?"
Click here to see Planned Parenthood's instructions for youth on sex toys and "safer sex." (WARNING: This material may be offensive to some readers.)
Click here to see Planned Parenthood promote "cybersex" and "phone sex" to youth in order to lower the risk of contracting a sexually transmitted disease. (WARNING: This material may be offensive to some readers.)
Click here to see a video that exposes Planned Parenthood's "Take Care Down There" series depicting youth exposing themselves to each other and engaging in various controversial sex acts. (The "Take Care Down There" coverage begins at 1 minute 17 seconds. No genitals are shown. WARNING: This material may be offensive to some readers.)
Click here to see a music video for teens from Planned Parenthood's "Take Care Down There" series, the lyrics of which are entirely slang terms for male and female genitals. (WARNING: This material may be offensive to some readers.)
Question 5: Are parents aware that if their Girl Scout council partners with Planned Parenthood their daughters may be exposed to sexually graphic booklets like, "It's Perfectly Normal," which was distributed to 700 Girl Scouts in Texas? This booklet condones masturbation and contains explicit cartoons of couples having sex and a boy putting on a condom.
Click here to see some of the drawings in "It's Perfectly Normal." (WARNING: These may be offensive to some readers.)
Question 6: How can Girl Scouts of the USA justify allowing their Girl Scout councils to partner with Planned Parenthood when such partnerships can result in connecting Girl Scouts to explicit and dangerous sexual advice like that found on and linked to on the Real Life Real Talk website?
Click here to see a Planned Parenthood publication stating that the NYPENN Pathways Girl Scout Council was also partnering with Planned Parenthood on this project in 2010.
Click here to access a video on the Real Life Real Talk website showing how a teenage lesbian comes out of the closet by kissing her girlfriend in front of her heterosexual friends, and then click on "Lipstick."
Click here to see where Girl Scouts browsing on the Real Life Real Talk website can link to Sex, Etc. A Website By Teens for Teens where among other things:
(WARNING: This material is very graphic; however, you can safely click here, then click on "LGBTQ" to see just the list of explicit topics covered without being exposed to the graphic materials.)
Question 7: Why did the GSUSA website direct girls to learn about teen pregnancy by going to www.stayteen.org, which refers pregnant girls to Planned Parenthood?
Click here to see where this stayteen.org webpage refers girls to Planned Parenthood.
Question 9: Why did the Girl Scouts feature Marie Wilson, staunch abortion supporter and defender of Planned Parenthood as a keynote speaker at a national Girl Scout convention?
Click here for Wilson's Huffington Post article defending funding for Planned Parenthood.
Click here to see a letter signed by Wilson criticizing the pro-life position of a New York politician.
Question 10: Why did a Girl Scout council select Pam Smallwood, a woman with a 30-year career with Planned Parenthood in Waco Texas, (10 years as CEO) to honor as a "Woman of Distinction" for girls to emulate?
Question 12: Why did yet another Girl Scout council honor a state representative who voted in favor of Planned Parenthood's abortion issues 100 percent of the time and who has a long history of speaking out in support of LGBT rights?
Click here to see page 25 of the Girl Scouts' Cadette Media workbook that refers girls to Media Matters.
Question 14: Why did the Girl Scouts select as a 2011 convention speaker and thus a role model for girls, Annise Parker, the mayor of Houston, who presided over the opening of the largest Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in the Western Hemisphere, and whose lesbian partner is the treasurer for a Planned Parenthood PAC?
The Girl Scouts and International Planned
Background Facts:
(See the Girl Scouts and Pro-Abortion WAGGGS section of this website to learn disturbing information about the controversial issues WAGGGS promotes and the close financial relationship between WAGGGS and GSUSA.)
Click here to see where Joshua states on GSUSA's blog that he was part of the WAGGGS delegation.
Click here to listen to Joshua state he was in the "Girls Only" workshop and then claim the explicit International Planned Parenthood "pamphlets" were not there. (This conversation between GSUSA headquarters and members of the Missouri Girl Scout Council was taped with permission.)
Question 15: If the Girl Scouts did not distribute the "Healthy, Happy and Hot" booklet at the UN why won't GSUSA denounce the booklet as requested by some of their concerned members and make it clear that "Healthy, Happy and Hot" is something GSUSA would never support?
Question 16: Since at this UN conference, GSUSA was partnering with WAGGGS, and WAGGGS partners with at least two other organizations that distribute "Healthy, Happy and Hot," is it not possible that through these connections the "Healthy, Happy and Hot" booklet could have been brought to the Girl Scouts "Girls Only" Workshop?
Question 17: Why do the Girl Scouts continue to work closely with and provide substantial support for WAGGGS if WAGGGS partners with IPPF and the World WYCA, and other organizations that promote the controversial sexual rights found in "Healthy, Happy, and Hot?"
Question 18: Are Girl Scout families aware that GSUSA funds the participation of WAGGGS delegates in UN meetings and caucuses where they work alongside representatives of organizations like International Planned Parenthood Federation and the World YWCA?
IPPF's publication "Exclaim!" lists some of the controversial sexual rights that WAGGGS and their UN partners promote at the United Nations.
Question 19: Since International Planned Parenthood is widely known for publishing highly controversial materials such as "Healthy, Happy and Hot" and "Exclaim!" (publications that tell youth they have a right to experiment with various dangerous sex acts, which are explicitly described), why does GSUSA refuse to ask their councils to cut ties with anything associated with International Planned Parenthood, including Planned Parenthood Federation of America?
Question 20: Knowing all the controversy surrounding International Planned Parenthood, why did Girl Scouts of the USA appoint Ellen S. Fox who also serves on the International Planned Parenthood Investment Committee as a member of the Girl Scout National Board of Directors?
The Girl Scouts and Pro-Abortion WAGGGS
The background facts below describe controversial events that occurred at the same UN conference where the graphic "Healthy, Happy and Hot" brochure was found in the Girl Scout meeting room. For additional information see the International Planned Parenthood section of this website.
Click here to see disturbing information about Joshua Ackley.
Click here to see the two versions of the page on the WAGGGS website: the first with a demand for abortion rights and the second after they scrubbed the reference to abortion.
Click here to see how "comprehensive sexuality education" is used to undermine many of the values parents are trying to teach their daughters.
Question 21: Why did GSUSA co-found, and why do they continue to maintain membership in, the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), when WAGGGS aggressively promotes abortion and comprehensive sexuality education, trains girls to "talk about sex" and partners with pro-abortion organizations like International Planned Parenthood (IPPF) and the World YWCA?
Click here to see where the explicit and controversial "Healthy, Happy and Hot" booklet is prominently displayed on the website of WAGGGS partner, the World YWCA.
Question 22: When asked by their members if GSUSA has a financial relationship with pro-abortion WAGGGS, instead of clearly disclosing the millions they give to WAGGGS, why does GSUSA avoid full disclosure by saying that GSUSA is just one of 145 organizations paying dues to WAGGGS?
Click here to see GSUSA's official Q and A with regard to their financial relationship with WAGGGS with added commentary showing the misleading nature of many of GSUSA's statements. This document can also be found at the end of this section.
Question 23: Why doesn't GSUSA clearly explain that they are pro-abortion WAGGGS largest member contributing millions annually?
Click here to see where GSUSA paid over $1,800,000 in dues to WAGGGS in just 2007 alone.
Question 24: Since GSUSA admits that when a Girl Scouts pays their $12 membership dues, this triggers a payment to WAGGGS from GSUSA, doesn't this mean that by paying their annual dues a Girl Scout is supporting pro-abortion WAGGGS?
Click here to see an analysis done by Girl Scouts Why Not? documenting millions of dollars in "membership quota" fees that GSUSA has paid to pro-abortion WAGGGS.
Question 25: Why doesn't GSUSA clarify when asked about their financial relationship with pro-abortion WAGGGS that in addition to the millions of dollars in membership fees GSUSA pays to WAGGGS, GSUSA also funds WAGGGS through their Juliette Low Fund, raises money for WAGGGS through their annual World Thinking Day program, and supports WAGGGS World Centres where girls are trained to become "global advocates?"
Click here to see supporting documentation.
Question 26: Are Girl Scout families aware that 42 percent of the funds they donate to GSUSA's Juliette Low Fund are used for pro-abortion WAGGGS "capacity building?"
Question 27: Why are the Girl Scouts now denying in official statements that all members of Girl Scouts are also members of WAGGGS?
Click here to see where GSUSA's scouting magazine clearly states that "Girl Scouts of the USA, and every member of it, automatically belongs to the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS)?"
Click here to see page 40 from GSUSA's Your Voice Your World Journey book that states "As a Girl Scout, you're part of a global community—the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS)."
Question 28: Why did GSUSA recently alter the wording on their website where it had stated for years that "all Girl Scouts" wear the trefoil pin and that "The World Trefoil Pin shows that you are part of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS)?"
Click here to see a screen shot of GSUSA's web page that stated until recently that all Girl Scouts are "part of" WAGGGS.
Click here to see where GSUSA recently changed their web page to now say that "Girls wear the World Trefoil Pin" only to show "their connection to the worldwide sisterhood of Girl Scouting and Girl Guiding."
Question 29: Why is GSUSA is now telling Girl Scout parents who are concerned about WAGGGS promotion of abortion, that individual Girl Scouts are not members of WAGGGS, if GSUSA is still a member of WAGGGS and pays dues to WAGGGS based on the number of GSUSA's dues-paying members?
Question 30: Why won't GSUSA answer the emails sent to them by several Girl Scout parents asking them if WAGGGS receives money for the WAGGGS pins that Girl Scouts wear on their uniforms? (The WAGGGS pin comes in the Girl Scout uniform "basic starter kit" and since there are 3.2 million Girl Scouts, this could add up to a significant amount of money).
Question 31: If all members of GSUSA are not considered members of WAGGGS, then why doesn't GSUSA tell WAGGGS to stop saying in their lobbying activities at the UN and elsewhere that WAGGGS represents 10 million girls, which number includes the 3.5 million Girl Scouts of the GSUSA?
Question 32: Are Girl Scout families aware that the Global Action Award promoted on GSUSA's website, enables Girl Scouts to "join in WAGGGS' international movement of 10 million girls who together are sowing the seeds of social change?"
The Girl Scouts and Abortion
Background Facts:
Question 35: Why did the draft Girls Statement the Girl Scout leaders handed to girls to work on at the UN promote abortion by calling upon governments to "ensure that girls have access to information and services regarding reproductive and sexual health?" (Emphasis added.)
Question 36: Are parents aware that GSUSA is a member of the National Collaboration for Youth (NCY) and that NCY's home page connects girls to the pro-abortion Spark Action website? Spark Action promotes pro-abortion activism like the "We Had Abortions" campaign, Medical Students for Choice, and Catholics for a Free Choice.
Question 37: Are parents aware that a link on GSUSA's website sends girls to do research on the website of the pro-abortion Global Fund for Women (GFW), an organization that seeks to protect "women's right to reproductive choice" and works "to decriminalize and expand access to safe abortion?"
Question 38: Are parents aware that another link on that same GSUSA web page sends girls to do research on the website of the pro-abortion organization Amnesty International and that Timothy Higdon, Chief of External Affairs for GSUSA at one time was one of the highest paid executives at Amnesty International?
Click here to see an article announcing the official position of the Catholic Church which withdrew from Amnesty International because of its position on abortion.
Ms. Germain, President Emerita of the pro-abortion International Women's Health Coalition, and co-author of "Expanding Access to Safe Abortion: Strategies for Action" is one of the world's most prominent abortion rights activists.
Question 40: Why does the Girl Scouts' Journey handbook Mission: Sisterhood promote as a role model for Girl Scouts the feminist icon and abortion activist, Gloria Steinem, who co-founded Ms. Magazine, a publication that became famous after launching its "We Had Abortions" campaign?
Question 41: Why did the Girl Scouts present the Juliette Gordon Low Award to abortion activist Kavita Ramdas, former CEO and President of the pro-abortion Global Fund for Women and feature her as their keynote speaker at a convention?
Question 42: Why do Girl Scouts promote in their Journey book, Your Voice, Your World: The Power of Advocacy, as one of the "Voices for Good" Hillary Clinton for her controversial 1993 health care bill? Clinton's 1993 health care plan would have expanded government funding for abortion.
Question 43: Do Girl Scout parents know that the GSUSA Journey book, Your Voice, Your World: The Power of Advocacy promotes feminist icon and abortion rights leader Betty Friedan, founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and NARAL Pro-Choice America, as a role model for Girls?
Girl Scouts and Sexuality
Many of the questions in other sections on this site already provide ample evidence that the Girl Scouts of the USA is connecting girls in multiple ways to explicit information on sexuality. This section provides a few additional examples as well as documentation on how GSUSA is violating its own policies on sexuality.
Question 44: In light of GSUSA's agreement with the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry "not to take a stand on or advocate for or against any issue regarding a girl's health and sexuality, especially outside the confines of Girl Scouts," why did then Girl Scout CEO, Kathy Cloninger, in a 2007 interview with the Harvard Business School, make the following statement?
"I feel like we cannot be the nation's expert on girl issues without dealing with how issues of sexuality affect the girls of this nation. We believe parents are part of the discussion, but girl scouting needs to be part of education and discussion as well."
Question 45: Are parents aware that the Girl Scout Research Institute determined that regarding dating and sex, "family confidantes are often unwilling or unable to discuss such issues," and that GSUSA encourages Girl Scout leaders to create an atmosphere for girls to discuss such things?
Question 46: Are parents aware that Girl Scout leaders are also encouraged "to bring in professionals" from their communities so girls can "talk openly with someone from the local health center" to get "accurate" facts and information on "serious" issues?
Click here to see where leaders are encouraged to bring in professionals to address sensitive issues.
Click here to see a clip from The O'Reilly Factor illustrating the inappropriate and graphic materials that Girl Scouts have been exposed to when Girl Scout councils have brought in "professionals" from a Planned Parenthood "local health center" to discuss sexual issues with their girls.
Question 47: Is it really the role of the Girl Scouts to facilitate discussions on controversial sexual issues away from girls' families?
Question 48: How can the Girl Scouts possibly ensure that when troop leaders hold "discussions about human sexuality" that "In all instances, the topic is discussed from an informative rather than advocacy point of view?" Click here to see where GSUSA makes this claim.
Question 49: Since Girl Scouts states they have no position on issues relating to sexuality why does GSUSA maintain membership in the National Collaboration for Youth an organization that among other things promotes comprehensive sexuality education, opposes abstinence-only education, and that seeks to ensure contraception for children "regardless of their age?"
Question 50: Are parents aware that GSUSA's World Thinking Day activity pack for girls ages 6-18 explores the topics of "sexual and reproductive rights?"
Question 51: Why did a badge requirement for the Girl Scouts' Our Rights, Our Responsibilities Patch send young girls to peruse tolerance.org where they could play an interactive game role playing having sex with or without a condom? (The link to this game was removed.)
The Girl Scouts, Sexuality and the World Association of Girl Guides
Background Facts:
Question 52: Since WAGGGS "promotes peer education" and encourages girls to talk about sex do Girl Scouts who attend trainings at WAGGGS World Centres learn to talk about sex from WAGGGS' peer educators? (GSUSA funds Girl Scout travel to WAGGGS trainings.)
Question 53: Since both WAGGGS and International Planned Parenthood (IPPF) promote "peer to peer" sexuality education and since WAGGGS has a "close partnership" with IPPF and has worked with IPPF on sexuality education projects, are Girl Scouts exposed to IPPF's peer education programs or any similar programs at WAGGGS trainings?
Click here to see an example of an IPPF's peer education program which trains girls and boys ages 11-19 to deliver injectables and other contraceptives to youth in their communities.
Question 54: Why did an option for a badge requirement require Girl Scouts to study the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), a UN treaty that among other things, denies parents the right to limit their child's access to explicit materials?
The Convention on the Rights of the Child is so controversial that the U.S. Senate has refused to ratify it despite intense international pressure. Click here to read more about the controversial provisions in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Note: GSUSA recently removed this badge from its program after receiving a number of complaints.Question 55: Are parents aware that as part of the requirements for an AIDS badge that Girl Scouts can earn through WAGGGS, Girl Scouts are encouraged to promote condoms among other things? Some of the controversial activities Girl Scouts are encouraged to engage in to earn their AIDS badge include:
Question 56: How is it that the Girl Scout organization has strayed so far from their original Congressional Charter which calls for the promotion of "purity?"
See also the Pro-Abortion WAGGGS section regarding the GSUSA-supported WAGGGS delegation to the UN that demanded governments provide "comprehensive sexuality education" for girls.
Girl Scouts and the Media
Question 57: Why did Girl Scouts of the USA hire as their media relations spokesperson, who signs press releases for their campaign to portray women and girls positively in the media, an individual who has been featured singing in a music video that portrays a woman being strangled, featured in another video supposedly masturbating in a pile of newspapers while the camera cuts back and forth between him and a provocatively dressed woman, and whose band sings songs like "Sick Days Are for Sex?" Click here to see documentation for this question.
Question 59: If GSUSA's policy is "not to take a stand on or advocate for or against any issue regarding a girl's health and sexuality, especially outside the confines of Girl Scouts," then why is GSUSA promoting the Healthy Media for Youth Act (H.R. 2513/S 1354), which deals with both health and sexuality?
Click here to see GSUSA's action alert on this issue and to read commentary pointing out the problems with the bill.
Question 60: Why does the Healthy Media for Youth Act (H.R. 2513/S 1354), which GSUSA is aggressively lobbying for call for millions of dollars of federal funding for "youth empowerment" groups and allow these groups to use this funding to promote "social change?"
Question 62: In light of MTV's explicit portrayal of women and girls as sex symbols and considering GSUSA's campaign to portray girls positively in the media, why did the Girl Scouts invite MTV's Senior Vice President, Karen Maloney, to serve on the Girl Scouts' Board of Directors? (See page 3 of this document.)
Click here to see an episode on adultswim.com that shows a young college girl accepting employment at a strip bar to pay her tuition and her mom condoning her subsequent prostitution. The Parents Television Council gave Adult Swim an "F" for excessive sex, violence, profanity, and drug use.
The Girl Scouts and Radical Feminism
Background Facts:
Question 67: Are parents aware that one of the badge requirements on the Girl Scouts official website sends girls to do research on the website of the radical feminist Global Fund for Women (GFW), an organization that funds controversial groups like "A Lesbian Feminist Tornado," "Women Sex Workers of Argentina," and other radical groups?
Below is a list of just a few of the many radical feminist organizations that received grants from the Global Fund for Women in 2009-2010:
Question 68: Did radical feminist icon Betty Friedan use her position on the Girl Scouts' governing board to influence the Girl Scouts' decision in 1977 to endorse the controversial Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
Question 69: During the 12 years Ms. Friedan served on the GSUSA national board, did her radical feminist views influence the direction of the Girl Scouts in other ways?
Question 70: Are parents aware that Girl Scouts is a political organization in the sense that GSUSA supports among other feminist-leaning legislative issues, Title IX, which mandates gender equity in school-funded sports, and backs affirmative action, i.e., quotas in recruiting, hiring and promotions?
Click here to see an article summarizing the radical keynote speech that Ms. Sadik gave at the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts event upon receiving her award where she stated that with regard to the policies of the UN agency she led, the "traditional moral boundaries which some people would draw around sexual behavior ... need to be redrawn."
Question 73: Why does the Girl Scout Journey book "GIRLtopia" refer young girls to a controversial radical feminist novel written by Sheri S. Tepper, who was the Director of Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood for 24 years?
Question 74: Why does GSUSA belong to organizations that promote radical feminist ideologies? (NCY, WAGGGS, and NCRW)
Question 76: Of the more than 50 women listed as role models for girls in the Girl Scout Journey books, why are there only three conservative women of faith? (Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman and Mother Teresa)
Question 77: Why are most of the women role models the Girl Scouts list in their Journey books either radical feminists, lesbians, communists, or Marxists? (Click here to see a list of some of the women the Girl Scout Journey books honor.)
Question 78: Why do the Girl Scouts consistently invite a disproportionate number of prominent radical feminists to address girls at their conventions?
Girl Scouts and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Position Statement
We recognize the basic human rights of all people, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals. All citizens, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, have the right to housing, employment, and to be free from violence and harassment.
While we condemn violence or harassment of anyone, we do not accept that individuals should be given special rights based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
We believe it is inappropriate to promote LGBT issues to children.
Background Facts:
Question 79: Are parents aware that "Regarding sexual orientation, Girl Scouts of the USA holds fast to a commitment to embrace diversity," and their nondiscrimination policy regarding sexual orientation must be "honored by every person working in the Girl Scout movement?"
Question 80: Why did a Girl Scout-funded study published by the Girl Scout Research Institute devote an entire section to the examination of girls' attitudes toward relationships with homosexual and lesbian peers?
Question 81: Are parents aware that a link on GSUSA's website sends girls to do research on the website of the Global Fund for Women (GFW), which can expose girls to GFW's aggressive promotion of highly controversial LGBT rights?Click here to see the kind of LGBT initiatives the Global Fund for Women supports, for example, projects "to change the cultural and political debate on sexual orientation and gender identity challenging both conservative elements of society and mainstream women's movements."
Question 82: Do parents of Girl Scouts know that GSUSA's membership in the National Collaboration for Youth (NCY) connects girls to NCY's Spark Action project, which posts numerous articles in support of LGBT rights?
Click here to see where NCY's home page says they are "among the forces behind SparkAction.org."
Click here and here to see where this NCY project promotes same-sex marriage.
(While serving as CEO of GSUSA Kathy Cloninger also served and continues to serve as Chair of NCY.)
Question 83: Are Girl Scout parents aware that GSUSA is also a member of the National Council for Research on Women (NCRW) and that NCRW promotes same-sex marriage among other things? (Former GSUSA CEO, Kathy Cloninger, serves on the board of NCRW.)
Question 85: Are parents aware that at the GSUSA 2011 Convention their girls learned about "Moving Beyond Diversity to Inclusion," an event that addressed diversity beyond the traditional "gender and ethnicity model" to prepare for a "new world order of globalization?"
Girl Scouts' Connections with Prominent
Question 87: Does Lynn Cothren, GSUSA's openly homosexual Director of Administration and prominent homosexual rights advocate, speaker, and former board member of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force influence Girl Scout positions on LGBT issues?
Question 88: GSUSA Chief of External Affairs, Timothy Higdon, is a prominent LGBT activist, was one of the highest paid employees at Amnesty International and has been a leader in the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Do his activist views influence Girl Scout programming and hiring?
Question 89: Did the Girl Scouts know when they hired their male spokesperson, Joshua Ackley (aka Joshua Starr) that he is a founder of the "Dead Betties" a now defunct, popular homopunk band that created music videos depicting masturbation, prostitution, and violence against women and who has an album featuring a song called "Sick Days are for Sex?" (Click here for more information about Joshua Ackley. WARNING: This material will be offensive to some readers.) Mr. Ackley represented GSUSA in the "Girls Only" UN workshop where the Girl Scouts denied the "Healthy, Happy, and Hot" brochure had been found.
Question 90: Why did GSUSA appoint to their board Debra Nakatomi, a professional who provides training in advancing LGBT rights?
Question 91: Does Debra Nakatomi's passion for promoting feminist and LGBT causes influence her work as GSUSA International Commissioner to WAGGGS or did it influence her choice when helping GSUSA to hire known LGBT activist Deborah Taft?
Question 92: Did GSUSA hire LGBT activist and lesbian, Deborah Taft who chaired a fundraiser for an organization that seeks to advance transgender rights, same-sex marriage, and the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) because of her history of promoting LGBT rights?
Question 93: Why did the Girl Scouts select as a 2011 convention speaker and thus a role model for girls, Annise Parker, a woman who is famous for becoming Houston's first openly lesbian mayor, and whose partner works for Planned Parenthood?
Question 94: Are the Girl Scouts nominating Lisa Quiroz to join their board because of her financial support for the Empire State Pride Agenda, Inc., a New York LGBT organization that was one of the largest donors to Governor Cuomo who pushed the same-sex marriage bill through the New York legislature? (Lisa also works for Time Warner which supports same-sex marriage.)
Question 95: Is GSUSA deliberately creating a corporate culture of people who are passionate about advancing LGBT rights?
Question 96: Why do the GSUSA biographies of their chief officers and board members omit their history of activism in LGBT causes?
Question 97: Does GSUSA have anyone in their leadership who is prominent in promoting marriage between a man and a woman?
Question 98: Since GSUSA's policy doesn't permit "the advocacy or promotion of a personal lifestyle or sexual preference," why does their Journey book "Your Voice, Your World: The Power of Advocacy" promote as one of the "Voices for Good," Martina Navratilova who was honored not just for being the world's top female tennis player, but also for being "an activist for gay rights" and setting "a milestone for gay rights with her openness and her sexual orientation."
Question 99: Is it just a coincidence that the Girl Scout Journey book "Your Voice, Your World: The Power of Advocacy" also list as "Voices for Good" a number of women who are either lesbians or who are advocates for lesbian rights? Click here to see the list.
Question 100: When establishing GSUSA's new policy that instructs Girl Scout councils to allow boys who are presented by their families as girls to become Girl Scouts, did GSUSA consider the impact this may have on Girl Scouts who may be uncomfortable being required to pretend that a boy is a girl?
Question 101: How will Girl Scout troops handle the concerns that girls and parents may have regarding Girl Scout sleep-overs and campouts that may now include boys who identify as girls but that still have their male body parts?
Question 102: Is GSUSA unaware that many health professionals believe that affirming a child as the opposite gender (which their new policy requiring that boys be accepted as "Girl" Scouts will do) can prevent children from getting needed treatment for a recognized psychological disorder called "Gender Identity Disorder?"
Question 103: Why would the Girl Scout's "Global Explorer" scholarship application ask a Girl mScout if they are male, female, or transgender?
Click here to see the application.
Girl Scouts and the Catholic Church
The following facts were taken mostly from this document.
Background Facts:
The Catholic Church has had a longstanding relationship with the Girl Scouts of the USA beginning as early as 1914.
In 1982 the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry (NFCYM) was incorporated as a ministry organization, which included GSUSA as a collaborating member. The NFCYM assumed all responsibility for Catholic religious recognition programs serving Girl Scout and Camp Fire units.
In 2005 and 2010 when controversies arose surrounding the Girl Scouts relationship with Planned Parenthood and the pro-abortion World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), NFCYM stated that it was their "practice as an organization to investigate such matters by going directly to and contacting GSUSA."
When NFCYM questioned GSUSA regarding their relationship with WAGGGS and Planned Parenthood they were satisfied with GSUSA's response denying "any formal relationship with Planned Parenthood" and their statement that GSUSA respects the "primacy of parents in all matters concerning human sexuality." (GSUSA also said they did not distribute the controversial "Healthy, Happy, and Hot" brochure. See the International Planned Parenthood section of this website for more information.)
NFCYM then reiterated their 2005 Plan of Cooperation with GSUSA wherein it states: "GSUSA policy is not to take a stand on or advocate for or against any issue regarding a girl's health and sexuality, especially outside the confines of Girl Scout programs... when a council or troop offers programs that address many of these issues, they are offered with the fully informed consent of the parents ..."
The above statement is quite misleading because although GSUSA headquarters may not take a stand or advocate for or against issues relating to health and sexuality, they allow their councils and troops to do so and although their headquarters may not partner with Planned Parenthood a number of their Girl Scout councils and troops do.
A growing number of Catholic families are concerned that because of NFCYM's entrenched relationship with the Girl Scouts, they either cannot or will not recognize the multiple ways in which the Girl Scout organization is increasingly undermining Catholic values regarding life and sexuality.
Question 104: In response to a survey on a Catholic website, why did 57 percent of respondents indicate that they were concerned enough about Girl Scout issues that they would not allow their daughters to participate in Girl Scouts and they would boycott GSUSA cookie sales?
Question 106: Why did a Catholic Bishop write a letter warning parents about the Girl Scouts association with "pro-choice, pro-contraception and reproductive freedom groups?"
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Miles has been home for almost a full month! Where has the time gone? We're starting to go out more and more which means that more and more people are coming up to us and asking LOTS of questions and giving their 2 cents worth about our transracial family.
I recognize that a lot of people are just curious about how we came to look the way we look. So I'll answer their "is he adopted" question by saying, "Yes- we are an adoptive family." Sometimes they are very genuinely interested in how it all came about and, if you know me at all, I can launch right into a conversation about the injustice and beauty of the Congo right in the middle of Wal-Mart just as easily as John Wall can slam a ball. I love to talk about it and try to use it as a way to raise awareness to people who really do seem to care about our story.
But I can also recognize that lots of people aren't curious- they are just downright rude and nosey! And I brush these people off because they aren't worth my time. But my goodness! Sometimes I get a really good laugh at some of the really dumb things people have said to me!
First of all, I'll just say that in our situation a whole lot more African American people will make comments out loud to us than white people. White people will just stare at us with this "Wonder how that happened" look on their faces. White people seem to be really scared to talk about race or say that our son is "black". People... he is black! (and quite cute I might add!) If you've got a minute,one of my favorite bloggers, Corey, just wrote a great post on race issues Anyway- here are just a few of my favorite idiotic things we've heard:
One woman (men never talk to me in public for some reason) walked up to me and said, "Honey, your husband must be REALLY black for you to have a baby that looks like that!"
Then there is the dreaded question phrased ever so indelicately..."Is he adopted or is he yours?" I always answer this with "Both" and walk away. Or they'll see me out with all the kids and they'll ask about Miles and then ask if the "other 2" are mine. I always say, "All three of them are mine and I love them all very much." I guess I don't get how there is a gap in people's brains that makes an adopted child any less "yours".
And then people do the downright gross and ask (right in front of Miles who will understand to be hurt by this later in life) "How much did he cost?" Dude- don't even get me started on the profanity that nearly escapes me when I get asked this question. It has only happened twice. The first time it took me really off guard and I stuttered out some incoherent piece about how legal fees are expensive, etc. But the second time I got smart and answered with a big ol' nunya- as is "Nunya business!"
And of course we have heard the " well, now what if Sadie wants to marry a black man" debacle. It sucks that we are still in this anti- interracial place in America. Really. Why in the world does this matter? I don't care what color (or gender, for that matter) the person she decides to marry is as long as they treat her like a princess. I place way more weight on the issue that the person love her, respect her and value her than if they are white. Or "yellow" as Sadie would say :-)
And here's my very favorite one I've heard so far. A customer at Chick-Fil-A came up to me and we launched into a discussion about transracial adoption. She was probably in her fifties and was so proud to tell me, "You know, when I was in high school I had a black friend!" I was thinking- Ummm... do you mean to tell me that you haven't had a meaningful encounter with a black person in 30 years??? You may as well have told me that the person at Kroger who bagged your groceries once was black! Since I didn't think it would be a good idea to say what I was thinking, I was stumped. I said a sarcastic little, "Good for you!" and just left it at that.
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Joined: 05 Aug 2007
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Posted: Sun 12 Jul 2009, 20:39
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Caneri wrote:
Maybe try this...I may be way off course here but posting anyway
Thanks Eric....I'll wade through that thread...but it appears to me that it's about the Acer netbook, where I have a notebook.
It looks to me that when 4.1.2 was produced, it didn't have drivers that were in 4.1.1 that worked with the Acer notebook....and all versions after 4.1.1 had the same issue, until 4.2.1 retro.
Hopefully I'll find something that will play with the Acer 5100....as I am not facile enough to roll my own from the 4.2.1-retro version.
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Posted: Thu 16 Jul 2009, 02:45
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Hi. I'm looking for large puplets (>500 MB or at least 200 MB with bundled software & codecs) based on the latest release of Puppy (puppy 4 2 1 k2 6 25 16 seamonkey or at least above 4). Is there a way to filter the puplet lists with these parameters or do I have to keep trying them one by one? Basically I'm looking for something approximating TEENPup with a newer kernel, etc for a certain PC which has no network connection (hence I need large bundles of pre-configured stuff). So far I've tried LighthousePup (recommended on the first page of this thread) which I sort of liked and flexxxpup1.7funnynight, (from linuxtracker.org) which I didn't like at all. I'm thinking about MiPup or Fire Hydrant 3.01b next. To tell the truth, I'm getting a little disoriented already.
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Posted: Thu 23 Jul 2009, 11:26
Post subject: Re: WHICH Puppy derivatives?
scsijon wrote:
Could someone with some knowledge please put a "sticky" at the top of the first page listing all the derivatives and what's so special (or why they were created)?
There are now a few of them and I (and i suspect quite a few others) have no idea what they are about.
thanks to the hardworking creators, but......
I am just an end user with so little knowledge but a piece of advice for anyone that have an old pc or a laptop (to me old is more than 10 years )
Stick to using 2.14 ,2.15 or 2.16.
I learned my lesson the hard way.If It Isn't Broke, Don't Fix It!
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Posted: Tue 01 Sep 2009, 01:21
Post subject: Dev-Pup
Although i have not read through all the pages on this topic i get the gist and will tell you a little bit about my new puplet.
Dev-Pup, 1.0 has just been released.
Dev-Pup covers some what 6f a void i have come across in the way of software and development even compiling puplets.
lets brake it down into just a simple what you want phrase:
Do you or do you want to or even ever wished to be able to use Puppy Linux to develop software, make programs for windows or linux, model characters for a game or animated movie, what about even making an entire game completely on the go without the massive hassle of finding and setting up every single thing needed!
Well alas here it is Dev-Pup, geared specifically to be an entire Project and Software development suite. Packed with programs well known and liked and not to mention free and working, Dev-Pup has every thing you need to make almost anything you need on the go!
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Thank you all for your time,
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Posted: Sat 05 Dec 2009, 03:59
Post subject: for nac
Subject description: large puplet
Hi nac
have you tried this one, yet?
Have fun.
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Posted: Sat 02 Jan 2010, 13:02
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Subject description: Puppy as Virtual Machine host ?
I am looking for a small footprint OS that is little more than a host for virtual machines.
Why? I run a server for lan, a server in the DMZ for web access and an occasional anonymous (TOR) desktop. I'm now running all three on my everyday desktop but I'd like to dump them on an "old", spare pc (AMD64-3500, 4GB) and free up my games machine. I figure I can run them all using a small footprint host and get better performance that my current setup. Am I correct?
My VMs use VMWare but I can convert them to just about any of the others.
What would you recommend? (Bear in mind that I am one step above a noop as far as Linux goes.)
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Posted: Sat 02 Jan 2010, 17:00
Post subject: Re: NO NEED TO SHOUT!
I'll stop there 'cause I'm a hands-on kinda guy who, if I'm at all curious about a particular derivative of Puppy, simply downloads the .iso, burns a 50 cent bootable CD and boots it up and plays with it to see what's there. But perhaps that's too much like work for you?
You could drop the developer of the variant a polite note in the relevant thread asking them to post a list of the apps they've included/added or excluded/subtracted from the base Puppy distro that virtually all are based on.
If that fails I suggest you send them a kvetching note like the one you've posted above condemning their failure to spoon-feed you and DEMANDING AN IMMEDIATE FULL REFUND OF EVERY PENNY YOU PAID THEM FOR PUPPY!
DUDE! Here is a polite note
Too much work? No friend, it's just that I am burdened with dialup. It takes a long time to down/burn/look during which I can't use my computer for much else.
Puppy is the greatest thing since inside plumbing.
I'll never complain about anything (almost) except the great inequity that exists in internet service around the world. Probably North Korea has worse than what I have to use, maybe. I betcha that little people's republic prick
with the strange hair has broadband. I'll bet $1000 usd that he does. Yeah I know it's bad in OZ too but here I am just a few miles east of San Diego, Ca. and I can't get decent telephone service. Hell, why am I complaining? I could have a party line as in years past.
I would ask though that you remember this and perhaps consider how lucky you are (and it is luck) that you are not limited to 2.2 kbs downloading with connections that drop just before the file is complete.
So there.
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Posted: Sat 02 Jan 2010, 18:12
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Trailer Trash,
You're not alone, I'm on dialup too. It's one of the main reasons I use Puppy, because Puppy's one of the very few Linux distros which still puts any effort into supporting dialup. It's even better than Vector (which also still does through chestnut-dialer) in that respect IMO.
Gigabyte M68MT-52P motherboard, AMD Athlon II X4 630, 5.8 GB of DDR3 RAM and a 250 GB Hitachi hard drive running Bunsen 9.4, Debian 10.1 and Puppy Precise 5.7.1 Csipesz.
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Posted: Tue 05 Jan 2010, 00:06
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@Colonel Panic......
Yeah,..I'm on that dialup thingy myself. (And I also use Vector). When I get really wound,...I use the Debian Lenny DVDs to create a complete workable distro for my main (P4) desktop. But since I have about 4 other (PIII) computers,...Puppy is just about a necessity. I wish I could just download some of these derivatives,...but it would take forever! Usually I'm stuck with just getting the main release CD. (I have 'em all since 3.01).
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Posted: Tue 05 Jan 2010, 15:37
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@Colonel Panic......
Yeah,..I'm on that dialup thingy myself. (And I also use Vector). When I get really wound,...I use the Debian Lenny DVDs to create a complete workable distro for my main (P4) desktop. But since I have about 4 other (PIII) computers,...Puppy is just about a necessity. I wish I could just download some of these derivatives,...but it would take forever!
Usually I'm stuck with just getting the main release CD. (I have 'em all since 3.01).
Hi. I've never tried Debian or Slackware. I've got lazy I suppose (or impatient) and don't want a system that's going to take as long to configure as Debian or Slackware does (and what is their dialup support like?).
I find the best Pups for my machine are those from version 4.20 upwards (and their derivatives). I've had problems with XOrg and sometimes also with dialup with the earlier ones (which is a bit sad, because there have been some I've liked such as IcePup and Teenpup).
Vector's good on the whole but I've had problems with the latest version (6.0); the ppp dialer sometimes locks up on me when I try and turn it off and I then have to switch the machine off and start again (and usually do a certain amount of e2fscking).
I reported the problem to the Vector forum and was given a workaround ("killall chestnut-dialer") which did the trick, but I don't see any indication that the problem will be fixed or even that they know what it is. If that changes I'll be happy to retract my statement.
Vector 5.9 SOHO's pretty good although because it's based on KDE I find it a bit of a stretch to run it in 256 MB of RAM. I use a lighter window manager like Fluxbox instead of KDE and it runs OK. I got it for next to nothing as part of a joblot of CD-Rs with Linux distros on them but you normally have to pay about $20 for it
As for getting Puppy CDs, I had an informal arrangement with the local community centre last year that when the place was quiet I could use one of their machines (they've got a computer suite) to download a Puppy ISO and burn a CD of it; it usually took between half to three-quarters of an hour. The centre's been busier lately so I've not been able to do that.
There aren't any new ones I'm really itching to try at the moment anyway, 4.20 "Deeper Thought" does what I need at the moment and seems very stable.
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Posted: Tue 05 Jan 2010, 16:43
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@Colonel Panic .....
I have the exact same problem with Vector (Chestnut-dialer freezing on shut-sown). Very irritating. And as far as dialup in Debian,...it aien't easy. Lots of stuff to configure. And I guess I'm getting pretty "lazy" in my "old age",...'cause I'm getting to where I don't like having to do all that configuring junk!!! And what's
is that plain vanilla Debian uses more memory than does Linux Mint. My Conky was showing about 30% ram usage as compared to Linux Mint's 10% ram usage (Puppy uses so LITTLE memory, it's almost hysterical)...
Seems like now I just like the quick and easy way Puppy does things. Why go to all that bother sitting up systems that use oodles of ram and don't work so well with dialup???? Life is too short for that stuff,.............
(ps,..I also like and am using 4.2.0).
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Posted: Wed 06 Jan 2010, 05:17
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Thanks for your post. Funny how I have to find out on a Puppy forum that someone else has the same problem as I do in Vector!
I tried Mint but found it hard going in my system; it seemed to use a lot of memory, it probably needs 512 MB. Looked good though.
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Posted: Mon 11 Jan 2010, 15:48
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PM sent instead
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Posted: Sun 24 Jan 2010, 07:20
Post subject: Re: NO NEED TO SHOUT!
TrailerTrash wrote:
I would ask though that you remember this and perhaps consider how lucky you are (and it is luck) that you are not limited to 2.2 kbs downloading with connections that drop just before the file is complete.
I share your sentiments, and mild irritation with those who forget what a trial it can be for dial-up users to co-exist with those on broadband.
You do know that the command line utility WGET laughs at dropped connections? It can resume the download right where it left off, automatically.
WGET also allows you to throttle back its speed, so that you can do other things over the connection. Obviously, if you restrict it to 25% available d/l speed, then it will take 4 times as long to get the file
--limit-rate=RATE limit download rate to RATE.
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scsijon Posted: Wed 17 Oct 2007
ok, as the one who started this (and clearly ruffled a few feathers)
1- a new user who sees the title"puppy derivatives" I thought would find as FIRST document some form of index saying what is out there in the puppy community including what was so special about each that they needed to be created. This would let them see if one of the derivitives, rather than the base , is really what they want to download. It wasn't there!
2- as a puppy user who had a thought of a derivitive to suit a specific purpose, it would be nice to look first to see if there was already a derivitive version out there that would either do as is or with a few additions. Called "not reinventing the wheel"!
3- as a "left field thinker" you would want to try a different derivitive for a puppy version to see if an "idea" was worthwhile continuing in puppy, or if you had to change versions to get what you wanted. Where would you start but looking at what was already out there.
and I had looked elsewhere in the puppy forums, but having got lost between the various sites and looped between messages.... I decided to submit this post instead.
all I wanted was something that helped people looking at puppy to easily see if one of it's many faces would suit them or not rather than spend hours searching or giving up at an early stage from frustration.
I agree with the posts of Scsijon at the very beginning of this thread!
There is so much information on this forum that for (new) users it can be confusing to understand what the different Puplets are about, and what makes them so particular.
I found unfortunately
not very up to date,
but I was happy to find the more up to date:
maybe it can be useful to add in this schedule some info like language(s)and 'release date' and if there is still an active development (I mean, Grafpup and Edupup for example seem not to be active any more)
I hope this can be of help for some new users!
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The Linge IUP is 80% owned by Barisan Gold and is solely operated by the Company. The IUP contains the Abong gold deposit which at a 0.4g/t gold cut-off, has an estimated an NI 43-101 compliant inferred resource of 8.5 million tonnes of 1.49g/t gold and 10.7 g/t silver, containing 405,000 ounces of gold and 2.9 million ounces of silver. The IUP also contains the Bahu, Middle Ise-Ise and Lower Ise-Ise gold-copper porphyry prospects. Linge continues to work with local government authorities seeking forestry borrow-use permits, which would allow Linge to resume drilling at Abong and other gold-copper porphyries.
The Takengon IUP is 75% owned by Barisan Gold and is solely operated by the Company. The IUP contains the Collins epithermal gold prospect as well as the Semelit, West Semelit and Tanga gold-copper porphyry prospects.
Barisan Gold also wishes to advise that it has just begun exploratory drilling at the Collins epithermal gold prospect, located within the Takengon IUP. The previous owner of the project had conducted mapping and sampling at Collins over the past few years, the results of which were positive and identified narrow high-grade gold veins at surface. Recent mapping by Barisan Gold has confirmed and has re-defined at least two sub-parallel quartz vein zones which contain high grade gold besides a low grade 1.6-3.2 meter wide main quartz vein. The Collins prospect is located in Areal Penggunaan Lain ("APL"), which means an area that is not classified as forest pursuant to a decree of the Ministry of Forestry. The initial program consists of 2,000 meters of drilling to test the continuity of the veins with grade at depth. The initial drilling program is expected to cost less than $300,000 and will count towards the work commitment under the Takengon IUP documentation. Barisan Gold strives to conduct economically sensible drilling that targets high probability targets while conserving the Company's financial resources.
Dibiansyah Hamid, MAIG, the designated QP within the meaning of NI 43-101, has reviewed and approved the content of this release.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, visit the Company's website at www.barisangold.com.
About Barisan Gold Corporation
Barisan Gold (TSX VENTURE:BG) is a Canadian-based minerals exploration company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "BG". The Company is engaged in the exploration, acquisition and development of mineral properties in Indonesia. Barisan Gold currently owns and operates three gold and gold-copper properties in Indonesia's Aceh Province on the northern tip of Sumatra Island, namely the Barisan gold-copper porphyry belt, the Abong epithermal gold project and the Takengon gold-copper porphyry prospect. Barisan Gold currently has 40,706,186 shares outstanding.
Caution Regarding Forward Looking Statements
Certain statements in this News Release, which are not historical in nature, constitute "forward looking statements" within the meaning of that phrase under applicable Canadian securities law. These statements reflect management's current assumptions and expectations regarding future work programs (such as those planned for the Collins epithermal gold prospect), results, performance or events as of the date hereof and by their nature are subject to certain underlying assumptions, known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other factors which may cause actual results, performance or events to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward looking statements.
Those risks include the interpretation of drill results and the estimation of mineral resources and reserves; the geology, grade and continuity of mineral deposits; the possibility that future exploration, development or mining results will not be consistent with our expectations; commodity and currency price fluctuation; failure to obtain adequate financing; regulatory, permitting and licensing risks; and general market and mining exploration risks.
Forward-looking statements should not be construed as investment advice. Readers should perform a detailed, independent investigation and analysis of the Company and are encouraged to seek independent professional advice before making any investment decision. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on any forward looking statement. Except as required by applicable securities laws, the Company disclaims any obligation to update or revise any forward looking statements to reflect events or changes in circumstances that occur after the date hereof.
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It's the end of the world as we know it – and I feel fine.
Well, as fine as can be with a babalas more excrutiating than listening to a three-day speech by Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) president Gatsha Buthelezi, who was re-elected to the position for the 624th time this week.
The IFP elective conference was held over the same time as the ANC's conference – apparently a media intern, an online journalist and a piece of steak turned up to report on it.
Still trying to figure out if this 'Mayan' tribe that is predicting the end of the world is a figment of the imagination of the Flatulent Forces of Change tsotsis, who are incapable of even breaking wind for change. Is the internet still counter-revolutionary now that Comrade Thabo Mbeki has been emasculated?
The Flatulent Forces of Change has been going on about how u-JZ's re-election as president has signaled the end of the world, the end of democracy in the ANC, the end of the progressive values of the movement, blah, blah, blah … If only it was the end of their pseudo-intellectual whining.
It is definitely the end of the world as the Flatulent Forces of Change know it. Dropped in on a bunch of them being addressed by some ANC Youth Leaguers just before the voting for the crushing 100-percenter election victory and they were already talking about "transforming the minds of the voting cattle being a victory".
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Must admit, the 100-percenters have been partying up a storm – as if it was the end of the world. Dropped in on probably the most jiving carwash in the country, Mahungra, after the elections were sorted.
Eish, if I didn't have six wives at home already bleeding me dry, this is where I'd hold my personal reed dance. The honies gyrate their hips like a plate of pap used to on the dirt road to Nxamalala before u-JZ fixed it.
Must have been a 1 000 people there, jiving to grooving house music, cooler-boxes in tow while chomping on chops and steaks around mammoth sports utility vehicles. The place isn't just a bedroom beef carving site though – apparently in bad weather they clean about 80 to 90 cars a day, while shifting over 200 cars a day in good weather.
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Some say its going to be a few weeks before he's recalled (Total Recall isn't just a film, it's a post-ANC conference phenomenon, m'chana), others say the Com' should be allowed to complete his term as deputy-president of the country before shoving off to head the political education school that will be built as soon as Comrade billionaire Patrice Motsepe gives us two platinum mines.
Not convinced that Motlanthe should be heading the political school, though. Give him 10 years, and we may just have the sort of cadre that would vote for him.


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Margrette Newhouse
Margrette A. Newhouse
John & Elizabeth Myers Endowed Chair in Management
Degrees and Post Graduate Research Study
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M.B.A., Business Administration, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
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Principles of Marketing, Marketing Research, Strategic Marketing, Leadership
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|HSLDA News
|September 9, 2003
Breakthrough for Homeschoolers Enlisting in the Military
Good news for homeschoolers who want to enlist in the Navy, Marines, Army, or Airforce! As of an August 15th directive from the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, homeschool graduates will continue to be eligible for Tier I status in all four branches of the military for another year.
Extension of Homeschool - Tier 1 Status (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
For many years prior to 1998, homeschoolers who wished to enlist in the military were designated in the same category as high school drop-outs and were relegated to Tier II status. Many of the best military career options are closed to those who enlist under this status. The military simply did not recognize their homeschool diplomas as being valid.
Because only a few openings were available under Tier II status, almost all homeschool graduates were denied enlistment regardless of their high scores on the military aptitude test.
In order to end this discrimination, the Home School Legal Defense Association worked with Congress and the Department of Defense to pass an amendment to the Defense Reauthorization Act. This amendment created a five-year pilot program that automatically conferred Tier I status on homeschool graduates so they would receieve equal treatment with all high school graduates.
Over the last five years, many homeschoolers have successfully entered the military and have served well, including hundreds of homeschool graduates who served in the recent conflict in Iraq. A partial listing of homeschoolers serving in Iraq can be found at "Homeschooled Troops in Iraq."
Unfortunately, with the pilot program expiring September 30, 2003, many homeschool recruits have recently faced renewed difficulty in enlisting, as military recruiters assumed the program was ending.
Anticipating this need, Home School Legal Defense Association Senior Counsel, Chris Klicka, worked behind the scenes with the White House and the Military Recruiting Command to ensure the continuance of Tier I status for homeschoolers in the military. This pressure convinced the Department of Defense to extend the pilot program for another year while the Center for Naval Analysis conducts a study of the success of homeschoolers in the military.
Thus, homeschoolers will continue to be eligible for Tier I status through September 30, 2004. This will keep the doors wide open for homeschoolers who seek to serve their country.
Meanwhile, HSLDA will continue to work with the Department of Defense and we expect homeschoolers to be given Tier I status permanently, either by the military or by Congress.
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April 4, 2014, 5:29 am
Cartoons of the day: Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that overall limits on donations to political campaigns are unconstitutional, saying such limits infringe on the free-speech rights of donors. Editorial cartoonist Joe Heller suggests the tide of campaign cash will continue to rise, while Mike Luckovich equates the decision with giving money the right to vote.
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Sorry to be so quiet around here lately. Summer in Chapel Hill may be quiet, but activity at Wilson Library intensifies as the temperature goes up. We've got exciting news about the SFC 25 year anniversary coming up so stay tuned to Field Trip South over the next few days. You're going to love it.
But for this afternoon, to ease back into blogging this week I thought we could start slow with call no. 78-11107 by the remarkable Ida Cox accompanied by the one and only Lovie Austin. "Death Letter Blues" and "Kentucky Man Blues" are but two of 78 sides Cox recorded for Paramount between 1923 and 1929. Enjoy these segments, presented with no noise reduction or post-processing. Love the sound.78_11107_Ida_Cox_Death_Letter_Blues 78_11107_Ida_Cox_Kentucky_Man_Blues


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A winner was selected from 84 designs submitted by 34 freelance designers.
Logo design that will convey a sense of security, caring, quality care tailored to the individual's total health care needs
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