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|Pattern: Nola Cloche by Hilary Smith Callis Yarn: Supernova in colorway Pewter by Luna Grey Fiber Arts
speaking of drama true to shannon style i have a confession to make. you ready for it? i. made. an. oopsie. a big one at that. i realized right at the end of making my hat that i had actually been following the size instructions for a chunky yarn not my worsted weight. oh my. helloooo...shannon...do you need glasses? more sleep? more coffee? who knows...but i can't believe i missed it. duh. the nola cloche is written for 2 yarn weights and i'm not sure how i got so mixed up but i did. i hate ripping things out though so instead of redoing the whole hat (ouch!) i kept going. i tried that bad boy on and i like it. it's not perfect but it's mine and well, that's the nature of handmade right?
i really enjoyed this pattern and i also really loved working with luna grey fiber arts yarn and have a few more lovely skeins to play with. i can't wait to dig in! both the yarn and the pattern made for a fun project even though i made an oopsies. such is life thought right? remember this big fat oopsie of mine? oh ya....that's a good'er right there. moral of the story - pay better attention to the directions, get more sleep and drink more coffee ;)
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An Egyptian man claiming a jar of hair gel was a bomb tried Thursday to hijack an EgyptAir plane but was overpowered by the crew, airport officials said quoted by the Associated Press.
The AP said in a report Thursday that Flight 233 was on its way from Cairo to the popular southern tourist city of Aswan when Shaaban Ali tried to enter the cockpit, the officials said. When the plane landed in Aswan, Ali was handed over to police.
EgyptAir Chairman Mohammed Fahim Rayan said 19 passengers, including Ali, were aboard the Airbus 321. Earlier in the day, airport officials had said 165 people were on board.
"The hijacker tried to storm the cockpit while carrying a jar of gel, but since the door of the cockpit was locked according to regulations, he was not able to enter. Then, crew members were able to overpower him and handed him over to security men at Aswan Airport," Rayan said in a statement.
Investigators have learned that Ali is a 34-year-old wall painter, according to Transportation Minister Ibrahim el-Dimeiri.
"He doesn't belong to any organizations, doesn't have political affiliations and didn't have any weapon on him" the Middle East News Agency quoted el-Demeiri as saying.
On returning to Cairo, Capt. Bassem Badr el-Din told a news conference that Ali told the head flight attendant that he wanted to go to Afghanistan.
Ali was being questioned in Aswan, 500 miles south of Cairo, officials said.
On Oct. 19, an EgyptAir flight was commandeered between Istanbul, Turkey, and Cairo. Fathallah Khalaf, an Egyptian, apparently poked a pen into the neck of a crew member and forced the plane to fly to Germany, where he was overpowered and detained. None of the 46 passengers on board was harmed – Albawaba.com
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WASHINGTON — Unless there's something big we don't know — really big — Solicitor General Elena Kagan is going to become the 112th justice of the Supreme Court sometime this summer.
Based on conversations with Republican sources in the Senate, there will be no filibuster, and such an effort would almost certainly fail if the GOP tried it. Based on my current count, at least three Republicans, and maybe one or two more, will end up voting for her, and likely all of the Democrats will.
But that doesn't mean there won't be a fight over her nomination.
In fact, there is going to be a nasty one; far nastier than the relatively polite treatment accorded Sonia Sotomayor last year. Here's why:
The political situation in the country is far different — and far more likely to push Senate Republicans into confrontational mode — than it's been in recent history. President Barack Obama is much less popular than he was when Sotomayor was nominated.
In May 2009, his job-approval rating stood at 66 percent in the Gallup Poll. Now, it's barely cresting 50 percent. He never had much GOP support, and now he's now lost most independent backing, which is one reason why Republicans are likely to make major gains in the midterms.
Politics has changed in another, equally important way. The Tea Party and its passions have taken hold of the GOP, which is another way of saying that the Washington-based Republican Party is moving, or being pushed, to the right — dramatically.
The humiliation of Sen. Bob Bennett in Utah — a three-term GOP conservative denied re-nomination by his own local party — is only one example of the current partisan climate.
The farther to the right the GOP moves, the less willingness it will have to vote for any Obama nominee, even one with a hard-to-pin down track record (and reputation for team play) like Kagan.
Tea Party pressure is particularly important in the context of the Kagan nomination when you give it a close eye in the Senate. For example, Bennett's Utah buddy, Sen. Orrin Hatch, is a key member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will conduct televised hearings on the Kagan pick.
Slideshow: Elena Kagan, Supreme Court justice Hatch loves to play the role of the reasonable guy, willing to cut deals across the aisle. But Bennett had that reputation, too — which is why he just got whacked. Hatch, who is up for reelection again in 2012, may not want to play the go-between role again.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has never filibustered a court pick and prides himself on levelheadedness when it comes to the judiciary, but he is feeling pressure from his right as well.
His handpicked candidate for the GOP Senate nomination in his state, Trey Grayson, is likely to lose to Dr. Rand Paul (son of Ron), who is Sarah Palin's pick and a Tea Party favorite.
Party leaders like Dr. James Dobson of "Focus on the Family" are siding with Paul, and McConnell is scrambling to build ties to Tea Party-types he refused to take seriously a year ago. He may want to seek favor with them by giving Kagan a hard time.
Kagan doesn't have a judicial track record, but there is nothing about her that is likely to inspire tea partiers.
All of her credentials sound fine in the Democratic universe: clerk for Thurgood Marshall; staffer in the Clinton administration; beloved law professor. But it all sounds like a conspiracy to the Tea Party.
Rush Limbaugh and others have already noted that, if Kagan is confirmed, there will be no Protestants on the court, a demographic group that for well over a century represented the entire court. The Tea Party is not coextensive with the evangelical Bible Belt, to be sure, but there is a strong overlap.
A Video: Preparing for another Supreme Court nominee fter the news broke late Sunday, I asked Don Stewart, McConnell's press aide, what he thought would be the course of things. A careful guy working for another careful guy, I expected a vague, respectful response. What I got was saltier. He reminded me that she had been confirmed by a 61-31 vote for Solicitor General last year. "A third of the Senate said just last year that she wasn't qualified to argue in front of the court, much less sit on it," he told me. "So that would be a starting point."
A top staffer for one of the seven Republicans who voted for Kagan in 2009 told me that the earlier vote would mean nothing this time around. "The job is different and the situation has changed," this staffer said, declining to give her name so she could speak freely. "My guy laments the fact that these nominations have become so political, he really does. But that is the world we have been dealing for two decades now."
A few Republicans who voted for Kagan last time could do so again. One likely prospect is Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire. He is retiring, and therefore immune from Tea Party threats. More importantly, he is philosophically opposed to blocking presidential court picks. "He thinks that any president is entitled to a lot of deference," said press aide Laena Fallon.
The "sisters of Maine" — Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins — are also likely to stick with Kagan, whose elevation would mean three women on the court for the first time in history.
It's hard to overstate how well-regarded Kagan is in traditional legal circles, including at the one private law firm she worked at, Williams and Connolly in Washington.
But "traditional legal circles" — where people value the Ivies, scholarships to Oxford, and the upper reaches of law schools and clerkships — are worlds away from the one the Senate Republicans are part of now. They're in the Tea Party.
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In summer 1967, Kenneth MacMillan had hoped to end his first season as ballet director in West Berlin with a new production of The Sleeping Beauty. When this had to be delayed, he substituted a triple bill consisting of Diversions, Solitaire and a new work, Anastasia.
MacMillan had been powerfully struck by the case of Anna Anderson, a psychiatric patient in Berlin in the 1920s, who had had tried to commit suicide by jumping into a canal. She had claimed to her rescuers to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia, daughter of the last Tsar, Nicholas II. Somehow, she told those who would listen, she had escaped the massacre of the Imperial Russian family by the Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg in 1918. For MacMillan, Anna Anderson's story opened a rich seam; compelling material for a ballet on psychosis and memory.
In a programme note MacMillan described his heroine as "the woman believed to be Anastasia" and the doubt thereby left hanging is what gives the ballet its dramatic tension. The setting is a mental hospital, where the dowdy Anna sits on her bed attended by nurses. First she struggles to recall who she is, and, having remembered, she struggles to persuade others of her identity. A chorus of formidable Russian émigré women inspect her, shake their heads and laugh derisively. She is shown old film of pre-Revolution Anna and suddenly, seeing a child's face, she is animated. The memories that are evoked are not in sequential time, but are kaleidoscopically episodic; children at play; a sinister monk who might be Rasputin; a flurry of soldiers and an execution; flight, huddled on a wheelbarrow; life with a man who fathers her child; another shooting; another flight. But by the close, Anna knows she is Anastasia and a hospital bed becomes in her mind a stately carriage, on which Anna stands high. As the stage resolves, Anna on her bed makes a royal progress in what seems triumphant self-realisation.
MacMillan broke new ground when he made Anastasia. The movement is strongly expressionist and for one critic, the ballet recalled Martha Graham's dance dramas. Another innovation was the use of silent film, which was projected on two curving screens, to animate the action on stage below. MacMillan's choice of score was apposite. Martinu's sixth symphony was itself an act of recollection, written several years after the composer had had a serious head injury; in writing it Martinu was seeking to summon up - and makes sense of - a confused past. In addition, MacMillan used electronic music created in a studio at the Technical University of Berlin to set the opening scene. The projected film of the Tsar's family came from a documentary From Tsar to Stalin. Because MacMillan was spending so heavily on the delayed production of The Sleeping Beauty, there was almost no money for designs. This meant that the designer Barry Kay had to improvise and use costumes from the Deutsche Oper wardrobe. The only luxury was stage rehearsal time, vital for Anastasia because of the production's reliance on lighting and projected film.
In the event, the ballet was successful with audiences and warmly praised both in the Berlin papers and by those critics who had travelled from London. For John Percival of The Times, whose review appeared the morning after the premiere, Anastasia was "unusual, daring and tremendously stirring" and on a bolder scale than anything MacMillan had previously attempted. "To hold the ballet together", he wrote, "demands a powerful effort from its protagonist, which Lynn Seymour makes magnificently. To add to her difficulties, she has to begin one duet holding her baby, and end another on a revolving stage, but nothing daunts her for a moment."
The Guardian's critic, Craig Dodd, also praised Seymour's performance, both as dancer and actress, noting thatAnastasia was "effectively MacMillan's first attempt at a piece of 'total theatre'". Dodd also singled out Barry Kay's designs. "He has marshalled all the effects into an exciting stage picture, a final masterstroke being a line of tailors' dummies wearing the clothes of the Tsarist family, mute echoes of Anastasia's past."
In 1971, when MacMillan had returned to London as director of The Royal Ballet, the one-act Anastasia he had made in Berlin became the third act of a full-length ballet. It was not until 1994 that DNA evidence proved that Anna Anderson could not have been a member of the Russian Imperial family. Even if she wasn't who she claimed, MacMillan thought her story compelling. As he told Clement Crisp in 1971, "I found in her story a theme that has sometimes appeared in my work before; the Outsider figure. Anastasia seems to me to be a supreme example of this."
First performance: Deutsche Oper, Berlin, 25 June 1967
Company: Ballet of the Deutsche Oper
Cast: Lynn Seymour, Rudolf Holz, Vergie Derman, Gerhard Bohner
Music: Bohuslav Martinu, Symphony No. 6 (Fantaisies symphoniques); electronic score, Fritz Winckel and Rudiger Rufer
Design: Barry Kay
Benesh notation score: Monica Parker (1968), Working score, one act version


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text: 24 September 2012, Rome – FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva today stressed the important role of forestry in sustainable development when he opened a five-day meeting of FAO's Committee on Forestry (COFO).He noted that the nexus between forestry and sustainable development was one of the cross-cutting issues considered at the Rio+20 Conference in June. The 2012 Edition of FAO's flagship publication the State of the World's Forests is accordingly devoted to the role of forests in sustainable development, Graziano da Silva said. Forests, which cover at least 31 percent of the planet, play a fundamental role in global and national economies, and in FAO's mandate to reduce hunger, malnutrition and extreme poverty, he said."The success of FAO's work in improving lives will depend very much on how we balance the use and preservation of natural resources," he stressed. "This includes forests, which play an important role in environmental factors like carbon sequestration, soil and water quality preservation and conserving biodiversity."Subsistence and survival cooperationSome 350 million of the world's poorest people , including 60 million indigenous people, depend on forests for their daily subsistence and long-term survival. But in many countries "deforestation, forest degradation and inadequate agricultural practices are contributing to significant losses of soil each year", he noted. "Preserving our soil is necessary to sustain life on the planet and yet the slow process of desertification has not captured as much attention as it merits, " he said.Sustainable agriculture and forestry can reverse soil degradation and help to combat desertification. "We need to make sure that soil protection and the fight against desertification are placed high on the international agenda," he declared."We will need to work together with governments, civil society and the private sector to maximize the role that forests and wooded land will play in food security in the future," he added. "It will take a collective effort, including of all our partners within and beyond the UN system, to manage the world's forests in a sustainable way."In his statement, the Director-General also mentioned the possibility of ensuring a more regular monitoring of forest cover, an idea that was also discussed with ministers present at the opening ceremony.Afforestation in BangladeshAs one of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries, Bangladesh has launched a national plan to protect the country from the adverse effects of climate change and ensure its continued economic development, said Environment and Forests Minister Mohammed Hassan Mahmoud, the keynote speaker at the meeting. The plan is to create 20 percent forest cover in the country by 2021 through afforestation in general and coastal afforestation in particular, he added. Brazil's Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira said a well-developed forest-based economy must be a priority in Brazil, which has the world's largest tropical forest covering over 60 percent of its territory. Efforts to combat deforestation in the country are starting to yield good results and activities on the ground have helped to reduce deforestation in the legally-defined Brazilian Amazon area by almost 77 percent between 2004 and 2011, she said."Public-private partnerships are at the core of a new policy for managing of Brazilian public forests representing more than 300 million hectares," she noted. At the Rio+20 Conference, the international community had agreed that the challenges of development should be addressed through the paradigm of sustainability in its economic, social and environmental, aspects, she added. Alongside the Ministers of Brazil, Bangladesh and South Africa, other delegates present on the podium at COFO's inaugural session included Sven Alkalaj, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).World Forestry Congress AgreementGraziano da Silva and Pieter Willem Mulder, South African Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Water, later signed a Cooperation Agreement allowing FAO and South Africa to begin preparations for the 14th World Forestry Congress to be held in September 2015 in Durban."By 2015 we expect that the Congress will present an opportunity for the global forestry community to raise awareness and analysis of key issues that will face the sector then. We will be pleased if the outcome will include new ways to address technical, scientific and policy actions within the forestry sector, " Mulder said.


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President Obama, defending his health-care reform law for the second day in a row against the prospect it will be struck down by the Supreme Court, said Tuesday he had "enormous confidence" the law was constitutional.
"We're not spending a whole lot of time planning for contingencies," he told a gathering at the Associated Press Annual Meeting.
Although his tone was less combative than in comments made in the White House Rose Garden on Monday, the president nonetheless told the assembled news executives that it would be an extraordinary exertion of judicial power for the high court to invalidate the measure.
"We have not seen a court overturn a law that was passed by Congress on an economic issue, like health care, that I think most people would clearly consider commerce," Obama said. "A law like that has not been overturned at least since [the pre-New Deal 1930s]," the president said.
On Monday, Obama issued what appeared to be a warning to the high court that if it overturned the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act it would be engaging in the same kind of judicial activism that is frequently denounced by conservative commentators.
The president's remarks sparked criticism that it is, in fact, the court's job to enforce constitutional boundaries and ensure that the executive, legislative, and judicial branches do not exceed their assigned powers or usurp powers reserved to others.
"The point I was trying to make is that the Supreme Court is the final say on our Constitution and our laws, and all of us have to respect it," he said. "But it is precisely because of that extraordinary power that the court has traditionally exercised significant restraint and deference to our duly-elected legislature, our Congress."
He added: "So the burden is on those who would overturn a law like this."
Obama appears to be refining a message that could become a central campaign theme should the high court strike down part or all of the law.
The legal challenge to the reform law centers on the measure's so-called individual mandate — a government requirement that all Americans purchase an approved level of health insurance or pay a penalty.
At least five members of the Supreme Court expressed significant skepticism or concern about the prospect of ordering citizens to engage in a commercial transaction. Several justices said that if the government could order Americans to buy a product with the intent of regulating the purchase of that product there was nothing the federal government couldn't regulate under its Commerce Clause powers.
Such a concept of federal power runs counter to the system of enumerated and limited national power established by the Founding Fathers, these justices said.
At the Supreme Court, the Obama administration argued that the justices should defer to the collective judgment of Congress to decide what could and could not be regulated under the Constitution's Commerce Clause.
While it is true that the court has not invalidated such a major act of Congress since the 1930s, it is also true that Congress had never before advanced such an expansive concept of federal power.
Obama stressed that there was more to the constitutional showdown than just legal precedents and conflicting jurisprudential doctrines. "There is a human element to this that everyone has to remember," he said. "It's not an abstract exercise."
"I get letters every day from people who are affected by the health-care law right now even though it's not fully implemented," he said. "Young people who are 24, 25, who say, 'You know what, I just got diagnosed with a tumor. First of all, I would have not gone to get a checkup if I hadn't had health insurance. Second of all, I wouldn't have been able to afford to get it treated had I not been on my parents' plan. Thank you and thank Congress for getting this done.' "
Most of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act don't begin until 2014. But one measure now in force allows parents to keep their unmarried, adult children on their health-care plan until age 26.
The portion of the plan that is under attack is that part that requires young, healthy individuals to purchase insurance they might not otherwise buy. The Affordable Care Act bars insurance companies from refusing coverage based on a preexisting medical condition. It also bars insurance companies from charging higher rates to those with costly medical conditions.
The mandate is designed to help pay for those expensive reforms by forcing young, relatively healthy individuals to maintain a full line of medical insurance — even if they don't want it or need it. Their forced participation is necessary to fund the reforms Congress and the president promised.
The president did not discuss this aspect of the Affordable Care Act. Instead, in his comments, he focused on a group of individuals who are uninsured but nonetheless obtain medical treatment at hospitals despite their lack of insurance and their lack of any ability to pay their own way. Such costs are passed by insurance companies to policy holders, increasing the average family premium by $1,000 a year, administration officials say.


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Heritage - Following your pottery experience we take you to Fiji's first and only National Park, the Sigatoka Sand Dunes National Park. The park was established in 1989 to protect a unique oceanic landscape of natural and cultural importance. It remains one of Fiji's most iconic treasures and its educational and recreational value continues to attract thousands of visitors a year. The walk through the park includes stunning panoramic views, a beach walk and a native forest walk where you meet up with "tree-huggers".
Tradition - The Dunes Walk works up quite an appetite; following a delicious deli lunch we take on another cultural journey in the park where you will discover the age old traditional art form of tapa printing with natural earth pigments. You will work alongside local artisans using the very same technique and tools that have been used for centuries to create your very own piece of Fijian art.
Made from the inner bark of specially cultivated paper mulberry trees, 'Tapa' or 'Masi' is an integral part of Fijian culture. Masi making is a very lengthy process of soaking and beating the bark to form a richly textured cloth. The bark cloth is then either smoked, dyed or printed with the use of natural pigments. Fijian tapa, is very diverse with a variety of print applications including stenciling, rubbing and free hand painting.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – The Golden Eagles will hit the road for their post-season endeavors; it has been announced that Tennessee Tech will take on the Broncos of Western Michigan in the first round of the College Insider's Tournament (CIT)
Tech will take on WMU in Kalamazoo on Wednesday at 6 p.m. in what will be the program's fifth post-season appearance in school history. A win will advance TTU into the second round, which will be played on March 18 and 19.
A full list of participating teams is listed below.
"This invitation is a wonderful opportunity for us to play in the post-season," said Tech Head Coach Mike Sutton. "Six teams that earned conference championships this year played in the CIT last year, so we're excited to make an appearance in the tournament.
"Our team definitely earned its way into this tournament with our 20-win season, and we're ready to continue with that dedication and carry it into the post-season," Sutton finished.
Tech's last post-season appearance came in the 2001-02 season, when they played in four National Invitation Tournament (NIT) games after earning the Ohio Valley Conference title during their regular season. The program saw one other NIT big in 1985, and twice participated in the NCAA tournament, in 1958 and 1963.
The CIT was founded in 2009 by CollegeInsider.com and is geared toward mid-major colleges and universities that did not received bids to the NCAA or NIT tournaments.
For more information on the CIT, please visit CollegeInsider.com.
All times EST
March 14-16
Buffalo (18-13) @ Quinnipiac (22-9) 7:00 pm
Ohio (18-15) @ Marshall (22-11) 7:00 pm
Furman (22-10) @ East Tennessee State (22-11) 7:00 pm
Jacksonville (19-11) @ East Carolina (18-15) 8:00 pm
Rider (23-10) @ Northern Iowa (19-13) 8:00 pm
North Dakota (19-14) @ Air Force (15-15) 9:00 pm
Northern Arizona (19-12) @ Santa Clara (19-14) 10:00 pm
Portland (20-11) @ Hawaii (18-12) 12:00 am (midnight)
Tennessee Tech (20-12) @ Western Michigan (20-12) 7:00 pm
Iona (22-11) @ Valparaiso (23-11) 8:00 pm
Oral Roberts (19-15) @ SMU (17-14) 8:00 pm
Idaho (18-13) @ San Francisco (17-14) 10:00 pm
March 18-19
March 21-22
March 25
March 30
Note: 12 teams will advance. 4 will receive a bye into the quarterfinals. Seeding, which will be based on RPI, strength of schedule, conference ranking and geographical location, will determine the byes.


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{{quote-source|A Scout learns by doing. As he learns, he grows in ability to do his part as a member of the patrol and the troop. As he develops knowledge and skill, he is asked to teach others; and in this way he begins to develop leadership.|[[Four Steps|Advancement Policies]] p. 24}}
{{quote-source|A Scout learns by doing. As he learns, he grows in ability to do his part as a member of the patrol and the troop. As he develops knowledge and skill, he is asked to teach others; and in this way he begins to develop leadership.|[[Four Steps|Advancement Policies]] p. 24}}
By holding an Advancement Campout after the new [[Webelos]] have [[Bridging|crossed over]], new Scouts are prepared for other campouts and [[summer camp]]. Troops may work together to pool their resources. Some [[local council]]s and districts host Advancement [[Camporees]] because it is so important to membership retention and summer camp attendance. Summer
By holding an Advancement Campout after the new [[Webelos]] have [[Bridging|crossed over]], new Scouts are prepared for other campouts and [[summer camp]]. Troops may work together to pool their resources. Some [[local council]]s and districts host Advancement [[Camporees]] because it is so important to membership retention and summer camp attendance. Summer also offer Scout Skills programs.
The Advancement Campout can also help a troop meet their [[First Class-First Year]] goal:
The Advancement Campout can also help a troop meet their [[First Class-First Year]] goal:
Revision as of 12:54, April 13, 2009At the Advancement Campout, older Scouts gain proficiency by teaching Scout Skills to newer Scouts: Tenderfoot, Second Class, and First Class. Scouts use the Patrol Method, plan their meals & duty rosters, and demonstrate each skill individually. Scout's use their handbooks for the pages noted for each skill.
|— Advancement Policies p. 24
By holding an Advancement Campout after the new Webelos have crossed over, new Scouts are prepared for other campouts and summer camp. Troops may work together to pool their resources. Some local councils and districts host Advancement Camporees because it is so important to membership retention and summer camp attendance. Summer Camps and Merit Badge Days may also offer Scout Skills programs.
The Advancement Campout can also help a troop meet their First Class-First Year goal:
|— Boy Scout Handbook, p. 14
| The editable Advancement Campout Plan Word DOC file lets you
The PDF Version Advancement Campout Plan is also available.
Troop Meeting - Advancement Campout Planning Meeting
Summary: Scouts plan meals, duty rosters, and campout program. Each Scout must be able to individually demonstrate each skill.
Tenderfoot #1. Present yourself to your leader, properly dressed, before going on an overnight camping trip. Show the camping gear you will use. Show the right way to pack and carry it. (pp. 224-30)
- 6.b. Prepare a personal first aid kit to take with you on a hike. (pp. 289)
- 9. Explain the importance of the buddy system as it relates to your personal safety on outings and in your neighborhood. Describe what a bully is and how you should respond to one. (p. 57)
First Class #4. a. Help plan a patrol menu for one campout that includes at least one breakfast, one lunch, and one dinner and that requires cooking at least two meals. Tell how the menu includes the foods from the food pyramid and meets nutritional needs. (pp. 257-80)
- 4b Using the menu planned in requirement 4a, make a list showing the cost and food amounts needed to feed three or more boys and secure the ingredients. (p. 260)
- 4c Tell which pans, utensils, and other gear will be needed to cook and serve these meals. (p. 260)
- 4d Explain the procedures to follow in the safe handling and storage of fresh meats, dairy products, eggs, vegetables, and other perishable food products. Tell how to properly dispose of camp garbage, cans, plastic containers, and other rubbish. (pp. 257-80)
Sample Advancement Campout Schedule
This schedule is based on the Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills #33640.
Friday Evening
6:00 PM Set up: Set up camp and ax yard. Post Duty Roster. Eat before you arrive. (pp. 232-39)
Second Class #2.b. On one of these campouts, select your patrol site and sleep in a tent that you pitched. (pp. 77-85)
6:30 PM Totin' Chip, fire building & fire building competition.
Second Class 2.c. On one campout, demonstrate proper care, sharpening, and use of the knife, saw, and ax, and describe when they should be used. (pp. 77-85)
- 2.d. Use the tools listed in requirement 2c to prepare tinder, kindling, and fuel for a cooking fire. (pp. 248-55)
- 2.e. Discuss when it is appropriate to use a cooking fire and a lightweight stove. Discuss the safety procedures for using both. (pp. 248-55)
8:00 PM Campfire & cracker barrel
Tenderfoot #3. On the campout, assist in preparing and cooking one of your patrol's meals. Tell why it is important for each patrol member to share in meal preparation and cleanup, and explain the importance of eating together. (pp. 265-81)
10:30 PM Taps
Saturday Morning
7:00 AM Reveille & Flags
Tenderfoot #6. Demonstrate how to display, raise, lower, and fold the American flag. (pp. 42-44)
Second Class #3. Participate in a flag ceremony for your school, religious institution, chartered organization, community, or troop activity. (p. 87)
7:30 AM Breakfast
Second Class #2.f. Demonstrate how to light a fire and a lightweight stove. (pp. 249-55)
- 2.g. On one campout, plan and cook over an open fire one hot breakfast or lunch for yourself, selecting foods from the food pyramid. Explain the importance of good nutrition. Tell how to transport, store, and prepare the foods you selected. (pp. 257-68)
First Class #4. e. On one campout, serve as your patrol's cook. Supervise your assistant(s) in using a stove or building a cooking fire. Prepare the breakfast, lunch, and dinner planned in requirement 4a. Lead your patrol in saying grace at the meals and supervise cleanup. (pp. 248-81)
8:30 AM First Aid
Tenderfoot #12.a. Demonstrate how to care for someone who is choking. (pp. 296-7)
- 12.b.. Show first aid for the following: Simple cuts and scrapes, Blisters on the hand and foot, Minor (thermal/heat) burns or scalds (superficial, or first degree), Bites and stings of insects and ticks, Venomous snakebite, Nosebleed, Frostbite and sunburn. (pp. 304-24)
Second Class #6.a. Show what to do for "hurry" cases of stopped breathing, serious bleeding, and internal poisoning. (pp. 293-302)
- 6.c. Demonstrate first aid for the following: Object in the eye, Bite of a suspected rabid animal, Puncture wounds, from a splinter, nail, and fishhook, Serious burns (second degree), Heat exhaustion, Shock, Heatstroke, dehydration, hypothermia, and hyperventilation. (pp. 304-24)
First Class #8. b. Demonstrate bandages for a sprained ankle and for injuries on the head, the upper arm, and the collarbone. (pp. 309-17)
- 8. c. Show how to transport by yourself, and with one other person, a person:
- from a smoke-filled room
- with a sprained ankle, for at least 25 yards. (pp. 326-7)
- 8. d. Tell the five most common signs of a heart attack. Explain the steps (procedures) in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). (p. 298)
Saturday Nature Hike
10:00 AM Introduction to: Hiking & Orienteering
Tenderfoot #5. Explain the rules of safe hiking, both on the highway and cross-country, during the day and at night. Explain what to do if you are lost. (pp. 38-41)
Second Class #1.a. Demonstrate how a compass works and how to orient a map. Explain what map symbols mean. (pp. 67-72)
First Class #1. Demonstrate how to find directions during the day and at night without using a compass. (pp. 114-117)
10:00 AM Hike: 2 ½ miles out with your lunch in a day pack (book backpacks work great.)
Second Class #1.b. Using a compass and a map together, take a 5-mile hike (or 10 miles by bike) approved by your adult leader and your parent or guardian. (pp. 72-74)
11:00 PM Nature: Plant & animal identification and Leave No Trace
Tenderfoot #11. Identify local poisonous plants; tell how to treat for exposure to them. (p. 59)
Second Class #5. Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds of wild animals (birds, mammals, reptiles, fish, mollusks) found in your community. (pp. 89-92)
First Class #6. Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds of native plants found in your community. (pp. 131-136)
12:00 PM Lunch: Eat the picnic lunch you have packed in
12:30 PM Hike back to camp: continuing to find evidence of wild animals & native plants
Saturday Afternoon
1:30 PM Knots and Knot Tying Competition.
Scout 6. Square knot
Tenderfoot 4a. [Demonstrate how to whip and fuse the ends of a rope. (p. 34)
- 4.b.. Demonstrate you know how to tie the following knots and tell what their uses are: two half hitches and the taut-line hitch. (pp. 36-7)
First Class 8. a. Demonstrate tying the bowline knot and describe several ways it can be used. (pp. 148-9)
3:00 PM Pioneering
First Class #7. a. Discuss when you should and should not use lashings.
- 7. b. Demonstrate tying the timber hitch and clove hitch and their use in square, shear, and diagonal lashings by joining two or more poles or staves together.
- 7. c. Use lashing to make a useful camp gadget.
4:30 PM Games
Saturday Evening
5:00 PM Flags/Prepare dinner
6:00 PM Dinner
7:00 PM First Aid Competition to review Tenderfoot, Second Class, and First Class skills
8:00 PM Campfire: games, Scout Skits, etc.
10:30 PM Taps
Sunday Morning
7:00 AM Reveille & Flags
7:30 AM Breakfast (simple) & Pack up
8:30 AM Scout's Own Worship Service- Interfaith, share best moments
9:00 AM Service Project: Police area, prepare firewood, & conservation projects
Second Class #4. Participate in an approved (minimum of one hour) service project. (p. 80)
10:00 AM Depart
Troop Meetings - Scout Skills
An Advancement Campout does not teach all of the basic Scout Skills nor can it. Troops also include Scout Skills as a part of troop meetings. Topics reinforce Knots, Orienteering, First Aid, Camping skills, and more. Each topic can include games or competition. In addition, setting aside troop meetings for a Swimming event or Fitness Event can be fun for older Scouts and a great opportunity for younger Scouts.
Troop Meeting - Swimming
An annual swimming event could be held at any time. It is a chance to have fun, play games, and work on swimming skills.
Goals: Scouts First Class and above teach First Aid skills to the newer Scouts. Each Scout must be able to individually demonstrate each skill.
Second Class #7.a. Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe swim.
- 7.b. Demonstrate your ability to jump feetfirst into water over your head in depth, level off and swim 25 feet on the surface, stop, turn sharply, resume swimming, then return to your starting place.
- 7.c. Demonstrate water rescue methods by reaching with your arm or leg, by reaching with a suitable object, and by throwing lines and objects. Explain why swimming rescues should not be attempted when a reaching or throwing rescue is possible, and explain why and how a rescue swimmer should avoid contact with the victim.
First Class #9. a. Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe trip afloat.
- 9. b. Successfully complete the BSA swimmer test.
- 9. c. With a helper and a practice victim, show a line rescue both as tender and rescuer. (The practice victim should be approximately 30 feet from shore in deep water.)
Troop Meeting - Personal Fitness
New Scouts can record their times for the Tenderfoot personal fitness requirements. Older Scouts can start Personal Fitness Merit Badge or play basketball or other games with the troop.
Tenderfoot #10.a. Record your best in the following tests:
- Push-ups
- Pull-ups
- Sit-ups
- Standing long jump
- 1/4 mile walk/run
- 10.a. Show improvement in the activities listed in requirement 10a after practicing for 30 days.
Requirement resources
- See Scout Skills
Related Awards
- See Scout Skills
|Scouts BSA portal
|Varsity Scout portal
- First Class-First Year
- Advancement Campout Plan (DOC) - Just fill in the Scouts in Charge for each event and make tweaks as needed.
- Advancement Campout Plan (PDF) - fill in by hand


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Can Knowledge Arrest Corruption and Poverty in Africa? (Perspective)
- by Pokuaa Busumru-Banson in Johannesburg
(HN, April 4, 2011) - So I sit in my constitutional law class and we are engaged in deep philosophical debates about the importance of constitutional supremacy vs. parliamentary supremacy and democracy.
Further we read about the importance of seperation of power and how "power arrests power." We mull and chew on the importance of voting and majority vs. minority rights. The more I attend this class the more emotion rises up in me about the current state of Africa.
In as much as the effective implementation of democracy rests on the assumption that the majority of the population is educated, I'm realising more and more that knowledge in an African sense is power - but not necessarily one that will eradicate corruption or poverty.
I'm sure if there had to be a competition for the best written constitution, Africa would collect all the prizes. The intellectual quotient of the African is quite high and I'm almost certain that we would find a large number of genius people in our midst (whether the test is also structured in a way that incorporates all cultures is a debate for another day; maybe we should develop our own tests).
Take Zimbabwe. If we were to look at the concept of powers in a mechanical way Zimbabwe definitely has a good system. On paper, there is rule of law, and in theory, one can litigate against the state and win.
So what is the problem? I'm of the view that a different approach to corruption is needed. Zimbabwe had one of the highest literacy rates in Africa and the world. At some stage it was easier to get admission into the Ivy League colleges than institutions of higher learning in Zimbabwe because the standards were so high.
The African education system produced the best professors and doctors. But, sadly, even with all of this, we still find ourselves lagging behind in almost of things - except corruption and poverty.
In Japan and South Korea not even the president is above the law. One can leave a camera on a park bench in Singapore and come back and find it. Yes there is no such thing as a perfect system but what am I trying to get at? Culture.
I can speak for my own country (Ghana) and maybe parts of South Africa because it's what I know. I speak to people who fear undergoing drivers licence tests because they don't have extra money even for a can of coke. It's ridiculous. It's now no longer the amount of money you give but the system is so used to corruption that anything small suffices.
Or on the contrary, in Africa one can no longer give a gift as an act of appreciation for the person's effort (which is African culture to begin with) without it being received as a bribe. The culture needs to be taught at schools from a young age and practiced at grass roots level.
Education can teach us that corruption is wrong but if culture says it's ok then guess what? Corruption it is.
We as Africans should no longer accept the status quo as life, and merely say 'awww well that's life, that's the real world.'
Statistics and norms can be challenged and changed. We just have to be willing to change and fight the system.
HUMNEWS youth contributor, Pokuaa Busumru-Banson, was chosen to speak on a panel by The Elders at the Fortune Summit in Cape Town. A national of Ghana, she is currently studying law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.


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