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== Bear Electives ==
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Once the [[rank]] badge has been earned, Bear Cub Scouts may complete elective requirements to earn
Once the [[rank]] badge has been earned, Bear Cub Scouts may complete elective requirements to earn Arrow Points.
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|Cub Scout Bear Rank
Bear Badge
The Bear Scout program is for boys who have completed second grade (or are age 9). After earning the Bobcat badge, a boy may earn the Bear badge by completing 12 achievements in four different categories: God, Country, Family, and Self.
Bear Cub Scouts can complete Bear Electives and Belt Loops and Pins at any time.
Bear Scout requirements
Rank advancement is awarded when each Scout has done the following:
View the change list (history) of these requirements. The text of these requirements may be locked. In that case, they can only be edited by an administrator.
Please note any errors found in the above requirements on this article's Talk Page.
Progress Toward Ranks
|Progress Toward Ranks
A complete set of Progress Toward Ranks beads
for a boy who has completed both Wolf and Bear ranks.
The Progress Toward Ranks emblem is for Wolf and Bear Cub Scouts. While working toward the Wolf or Bear rank badge, Cubs receive one bead for every three achievements completed: Yellow beads for Wolf, Red beads for Bear.
The emblem is worn suspended from the right pocket flap button.
Bear Electives
Once the rank badge has been earned, Bear Cub Scouts may complete elective requirements to earn Arrow Points.
Arrow Points
|Arrow Points
One gold and four silver arrow points,
signifying 50 completed electives.
Arrow Points are for boys who hold the Wolf and Bear Cub Scout Ranks. Once the rank badge has been earned, Cub Scouts may complete elective requirements to earn Arrow Points. After completing the first ten electives, a gold arrow point is awarded. Each further 10 electives will earn a silver arrow point. They are attached below the left pocket of the blue Cub Scout uniform.
Related achievements, electives, or other awards
The Bear Achievements get you started on a dozen requirements for different Belt Loops and Pins!
- 4c. could be met by completing Cub Scout Communicating Pin requirement #5
- 5c. Explain what a wildlife conservation officer does. - See Wildlife Conservation Pin requirement #7
- 5d. Visit one of the following... - See Wildlife Conservation Pin requirement #1
- 5e. Endangered species - See Wildlife Conservation Belt Loop requirement #3
- 6g. Take part in a den or pack neighborhood clean-up project. - See Wildlife Conservation Pin requirement #9
- 8d. Trace your family...or talk to a grandparent... - See Heritages Belt Loop & Pin requirement #5
- Completing Achievement 11 is the first requirement for earning the Emergency Preparedness Award at the Bear level
- 14a. Know the rules for bike safety...register - See Bicycling Belt Loop requirement #1 & Pin #6
- 14b. Learn to ride a bike... - See Bicycling Belt Loop requirement #3
- 14d. Change a tire on a bicycle... - See Bicycling Pin requirement #3
- 14f. Ride a bike for 1 mile... - See Bicycling Pin requirement #7
- 14g. Plan and take a family bike hike. - See Bicycling Pin requirement #7
- a. Outdoor games - See: Golf, Badminton, Softball, and Volleyball.
- b. Play two organized games with your den. - See: Cub Scout Sports
- c. Select a game that your den has never played... - See: Sports, Marbles, Chess, Language and Culture Pin requirement 3, etc.
- 16a. Stretching & exercises - Physical Fitness
- 17d. Use a computer - See Cub Scout Computers Belt Loop requirement #3 & Pin requirements 1 or 4
- 17e. Write a letter - See Cub Scout Computers Belt Loop requirement #3 & Pin requirement 6
- 18b. Write two letters to relatives or friends. - See Communicating Belt Loop requirement #2
- 18c. Keep a daily record of your activities for 2 weeks. - See Communicating Pin requirement #2
- 18f. Write a story about something you have done with your family. - See Communicating Pin requirement #1
- 21a or f. Build a model from a kit. - Consider making a Pinewood Derby car, Rain Gutter Regatta boat, or Space Derby rocket.
- 23a. Play three team sports - See Badminton, Basketball, Flag Football, Soccer, Softball, Ultimate, Volleyball, etc.
- 23b. Individual Sports - See Archery, BB-Gun Shooting, Bicycling , Bowling, Fishing, Golf, Table Tennis, Tennis, etc.
Also see the Related Requirements for Bear Electives.
Cub Scout Academics and Sports Program
Template:Belt Loop and Pin statement
Other awards available to Bear Scouts
40 Belt Loops & Pins for Tiger, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos Scouts,
In addition to the Cub Scout Ranks and electives, Cub Scouts may earn dozens of additional awards that exapnd upon the basic rank requriements. In addition, Cub Scouts may earn Honor awards to recognize outstanding good deeds.Outdoor Activity Award may be earned by all registered Tiger, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos Scouts. Boys may earn the award in each of the program years as long as the requirements are completed each year.
Conservation Good Turn Award is an opportunity for Scout units to join with conservation or environmental organizations (federal, state, local, or private) to carry out a conservation Good Turn in their home communities. Working together in the local community, the unit and the agency plan the details and establish the date, time and location for carrying out the project. It may be earned by all registered Tiger, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos Scouts.
Donor Awareness Patch is worn on the right pocket of the uniform as a temporary emblem. BSA has reduced their emphasis on this program, but has not discontinued it completely. This award may be earned by all registered Tiger, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos Scouts.
Emergency Preparedness Award has different requirements for Tiger, Wolf, Bear, Webelos, Boy Scouts, Venturers, and adults tailored for the abilities of each.
Interpreter Strip. Boys and adults may wear this strip if they show their knowledge of a foreign language or the sign language for the hearing impaired. This award may be earned by all registered Tiger, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos Scouts.
National Summertime Award encourage packs to provide a year-round program by continuing to meet during the time periods when school is out of session for several weeks or months. Cub Scouts earn this pin by participating in three summertime pack events (one each in June, July, and August). This award may be earned by all registered Tiger, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos Scouts.
National Den Award recognizes dens that conduct a quality, year-round program. Service projects, field trips, character development, and Cub Scout camping are areas that are emphasized. Dens earn the award as a team, not as individual den members. The recognition is a ribbon for the den flag or den doodle. All Cub Scouts (Tigers through Webelos) may earn this.
STEM/NOVA Awards program is designed to introduce and encourage further study of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) by Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Venturers. A Scout may earn all four Nova awards. The Supernova awards are designed to inspire further study. It is recommended that you complete at least two Nova awards before starting the requirements for the Supernova award. This award may be earned by all registered Wolf, Bear, and Webelos Scouts.
Recruiter Strip is awarded to Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts and is worn below the right pocket on the uniform. This award may be earned by all registered Tiger, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos Scouts.
Religious Emblems, cloth, silver knot on purple, No. 05007, may be worn by youth or adult members who earned the knot as a youth member, above left pocket. Each faith has its own requirements for earning its emblem. A knot device may be used to indicate during which level of Scouting the award was earned. This award may be earned by all registered Tiger, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos Scouts.
Hornaday Unit Award may be earned by a Cub Scout pack, Boy Scout troop, Venturing crew or Sea Scout ship that plans and carries out at least one conservation project. This award may be earned by all registered Tiger, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos Scouts.
World Conservation Award can be earned only once while you are in Cub Scouting (i.e. as either a Wolf, Bear, or Webelos Scout; but not by Tiger Cubs).
BSA Family Award program helps families accomplish worthy goals while building and strengthening relationships among family members. All family members are encouraged to participate and may earn the award.
Cub Scout Shooting Sports awards are for authorized Cub Scouts Shooting Sports-related activities.
Honor AwardsMedal of Merit, cloth, gold and blue on tan, blue to right, No. 05025. The Medal of Merit may be awarded to a youth member or adult leader who has performed some outstanding act of service of a rare or exceptional character that reflects an uncommon degree of concern for the well-being of others.
Honor Medal, cloth, red knot on tan, No. 05010. The Honor Medal may be awarded to a youth member or adult leader who has demonstrated unusual heroism and skill in saving or attempting to save life at considerable risk to self.
James E West Fellowship Award, cloth, green and gold knot on tan, No. 05026, Scout or Scouter. For a donation of $1,000 or more to a council endowment. This award may be presented to a registered Tiger, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos Scout.
Adult awards
Additionally, there are many "square knots" that adults can earn, which are summarized at Scouter leadership awards. Some of the more common include:Scouter's Training Award, cloth, green knot on tan, No. 05008, above left pocket. Cub Scout, Boy Scout, and Venturing leaders may earn the Scouter's Training Award and may wear the Scouter's Training Award knot with an appropriate device.
Cub Scout Den Leader Award, cloth, gold knot on blue, No. 05016. is available to Tiger, Wolf, Bear and Webelos Cub Scout Den Leaders who complete training, tenure, and performance requirements.
Scouter's Key, cloth, green and white knot on tan, green to right, No. 05006, above left pocket. Recognizes certain leaders for completing at least three years of service, training, and quality program objectives. Cubmasters, Scoutmasters, Coaches and Advisors may earn the Scouter's Key Award and may wear the Scouter's Key knot with an appropriate device.
Adult Religious award, cloth, purple knot on silver, No. 05014, may be worn by adult members presented with the recognition, above left pocket. Adults may wear both knots if they satisfy qualifying criteria. Presented for faithful service while an adult leader.
Asian American Spirit of Scouting Service Award Recognizes outstanding services by an adult individual or an organization for demonstrated involvement in the development and implementation of Scouting opportunities for Asian American youth.
¡Scouting ... Vale la pena! Service Award Recognizes outstanding services by an adult individual or an organization for demonstrated involvement in the development and implementation of Scouting opportunities for Hispanic American/Latino youth.
William T. Hornaday awards, cloth, blue, green, and white knot on tan. It recognizes unusual and distinguished service in natural resource conservation and environmental improvement at the regional, national, or international level.
Bear Den Leader Resources
|Cub Scout Leader portal
- Cub Scout Den Leader
- Assistant Cub Scout Den Leader
- Den Chief - a Boy Scout who assists a Cub Scout Den Leader or a Webelos Den Leader.
- Denner - a Cub Scout or Webelos Scout who is elected to be the temporary youth leader of his den or patrol.
- Cub Scout Pack Organization Chart
- Fast Tracks for Bear Cub Scouts: a BSA-produced den meeting plan
|Cub Scout Resources
|New Leader Brochures:
|Applications & Reports:
|Youth Application
|Adult Leader Application
|Advancement Report
|Online Training:
|New Leader
|Youth Protection Training
|Safe Swim Defense
|Safety Afloat
|Safety Guides:
|Guide to Safe Scouting
|Safe Swim Defense
|Safety Afloat
|Climb On Safely
|Permission Slip
|Local Tour Permit
|National Tour Permit
|Medical Exam Forms:
|Annual Health and Medical Record 34605
|Age-Appropriate Guidelines
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FILE: Amy Coney Barrett
A graduate of Notre Dame Law School – where she later became a professor – Barrett was nominated to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals by Mr. Trump last year. The Senate then confirmed her to the bench in a 55-to-43 vote. Democratic Sens. Joe Donnelly, Joe Manchin, and Tim Kaine all voted for her confirmation, as did every Republican senator.
Barrett is a favorite of conservatives who want a right-leaning woman on the Supreme Court, since all the current woman justices are liberals. The youngest of all the top contenders -- 46 years old -- she could conceivably serve on the Supreme Court for perhaps four decades if she is nominated and confirmed. But Barrett's short tenure as a judge could work against her if Mr. Trump decided he wants a more experienced jurist.
Hardiman is a judge on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Originally from Waltham, Mass., Hardiman attended Notre Dame and Georgetown Law School. He worked in private practice in Pittsburgh, then was a hearing office for the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Hardiman, a circuit judge on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, nearly became Mr. Trump's pick to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia in 2017. Mr. Trump ended up picking Neil Gorsuch , but Hardiman was the runner-up.
Hardiman has been on the Court of Appeals since 2007 and was confirmed by a 95-to-0 vote by the Senate. A graduate of Georgetown Law, he worked as a taxi driver in Massachusetts as a teenager, and is seen as an experienced and reliably conservative jurist.
A favorite of some powerful voices within the White House, Kavanaugh is conservative, relatively young, and experienced, having served on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals since 2006. Before that, he worked for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr in the 1990s and helped author the Starr Report, which is famous for cataloguing President Clinton's sexual impropriety. He then worked for George W. Bush's legal team during the 2000 Florida recount.
The Yale-educated Kavanaugh was confirmed to his current position in a contentious 57-to-36 Senate vote after Democrats stalled his nomination for several years. But Kavanaugh's right-leaning politics could imperil his chances at confirmation if moderates decide he's too ideological to replace Kennedy.
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The Florida men's and women's tennis teams will play at home for the first two rounds of the NCAA Championships.
The University of Florida men's and women's tennis teams both were chosen as one of 16 hosts of their respective NCAA First and Second Round Championship matches, the NCAA Committee announced today from Indianapolis.
The event will run from May 10-12 at UF's Linder Stadium at Ring Tennis Complex.
The Florida men's team will host two first round matches on May 10 and a second round contest on May 11, while the women will play their first round matches on May 11 and the second round on May 12. The winning team from each of the regionals advances to Urbana, Ill., for the NCAA Round of 16 and beyond.
The UF women's team, which is the two-time defending NCAA champion, received the No. 1 seed in the 64-team draw. Florida (22-2) faces Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) champion Marist College (11-7) for the first time in program history in its NCAA First Round contest on Saturday, May 12 at 1 p.m. ET. The other NCAA Women's First Round match played in Gainesville features No. 22-ranked Georgia Tech (14-9), which earned an at-large berth after finishing fifth in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), versus No. 37-ranked and Ivy League automatic qualifier Yale (17-3) on Saturday at 10 a.m.
The winning teams from those first-round matches meet in the second round on May 11 at 1 p.m.
"Our players are use to having that bulls-eye on their back," UF coach Roland Thornqvist said. "That's one of the neat things of this year is that almost all of our players have played up a position or two in the lineup from year's past so not only have they had to adjust to playing with the bulls-eye that we feel like we have every time we play, but doing so playing up in the lineup and our players have handled that well."
The Florida men's team, ranked No. 15 with a 15-10 overall record, will host the first two rounds on May 10-11, holding the top seed in the Gainesville regional. The Gators will play Denver (11-11) in the opening round with the winner of the match to face the winner of 18th-ranked California (14-9) and Florida State (18-10).
Florida faces Denver in the first round of the NCAA Tournament after the Pioneers claimed the WAC Championship to claim the conference's automatic bid. Cal earned an at-large bid after finishing tied for second in the Pac-12. Florida State also earned an at-large bid after finished tied for seventh in the ACC.
Women's golf: The fifth-ranked Florida women's golf team will compete in the NCAA Central Regional at the Jimmie Austin OU Golf Course in Norman, Okla., May 9-11.
The Gators, the three-seed in the regional field, will attempt to advance to the NCAA Championships for the 24th time in school history and have their first back-to-back-to-back appearances since the '96 through '98 seasons.
The Central Regional includes seven teams that won their respective conference tournaments and nine teams that are ranked in the top-25 of the GolfWorld/WGCA Coaches' Poll including: No. 3 Duke, No. 4 Oklahoma, No. 5 Florida, No. 10 Washington, No. 12 Arizona State, No. 18 Texas Tech, No. 20 UC Davis and No. 25 Iowa State.
Three regional tournaments will be conducted May 9-11 to determine the championship field. Along with the Central Regional, the East Regional will be played at the Auburn University Club in Auburn, Ala., hosted by Auburn University and the West Regional will be played at the Stanford Golf Course in Stanford, Calif., hosted by Stanford University.
A total of 378 participants have been selected for regional competition. Of these players, 126 will advance to the championships finals. Eight teams and two individuals from each regional will advance to the NCAA Championships in Athens, Ga. The championship finals will be held May 21-24 at the University of Georgia Golf Course.
Men's golf: Seniors Tyler McCumber and T.J. Vogel both earned All-SEC honors for the second consecutive year. McCumber was a first-team all-conference selection, while Vogel made the second team.
McCumber was the Gators' top player statically through the regular season and 2013 SEC Championship. He leads the team in birdies (81), eagles (4), rounds at or under par (12), scoring differential (2.52), stroke average (72.4), top-five finishes (2), and tournaments at or under par (2). McCumber is coming one of his best performances of the season, tying for third place at the 2013 SEC Championship. It marks the second year in-a-row he has placed third at the conference championship.
In his second season at Florida, Vogel has continued to be one of the top players in the conference. He leads the team in percentage of rounds of counted (92) and is tied for the team-lead in top-10 finishes (4). In the fall, Vogel placed in the top-10 of every tournament the team played in. In addition, Vogel was one of six amateurs to participate in the 2013 Masters Tournament by virtue of winning the 2012 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship.
The team will return to action May 16 at the NCAA Regionals.
Track and field: Florida's Cory McGee and Jeremy Postin have been honored as the SEC Women's Runner of the Week and SEC Men's Field Athlete of the Week, respectively.
McGee ran a new personal-best time in the women's 1,500 meters, finishing second among collegians at the Payton Jordan Invitational with a time of 4:10.55. The junior currently ranks second in the nation in the 1,500, accomplishing the feat against a stacked field that included five other athletes who rank among the top-11 nationally in the event. McGee leads the SEC in the 1,500 meters and is now second all-time in Florida program history in the event.
Postin threw a season-best 68.68m/22-54 to win the Arkansas Invitational men's hammer throw competition. Postin, the reigning SEC Champion in the event, leads the SEC and ranks fourth in the nation this season in the men's hammer. The senior is one of only six athletes nationally to eclipse 220 feet nationally and one of only four to throw better than 68 meters in the event.
The Gators have had 12 SEC weekly honors this season and this is McGee's second weekly honor of 2013. She also earned honors for her performance at the Crimson Tide Indoor Opener to begin the 2013 indoor season.
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This week is Tongan Language Week – Uike Kātoanga'i 'o e Lea Faka-Tonga. This is the third blog post where the Pacific Cultures team highlight collection items that relate to Tongan language and culture.
In Tongan Language week it is difficult to look past the contributions of Tonga's Queen Sälote (1900–65) to the preservation and creative use of the Tongan language. Queen Sälote was a celebrated writer of poetry and song. She composed over one hundred songs, lullabies, laments and dances.[i]
Queen Sälote has a connection with New Zealand that began in 1909 when she was sent to school in Auckland where she stayed until she was 14. She visited New Zealand regularly throughout her life. In 1952, the Tongan government bought an Auckland residence, 'Atalanga. This became Queen Sälote's home away from home and later included a hostel for Tongans studying in Auckland. Her visits were mostly private, but she was acknowledged by both government officials and Mäori dignitaries.
When Queen Sälote died in 1965, she was deeply mourned. She was a loved and respected monarch.Queen Sälote's children and grandchildren continue to maintain close links with New Zealand, especially with the Mäori monarchy, the Kïngitanga.
Te Papa has several treasured items and images associated with Queen Sälote in the Pacific Cultures Collections. They include a kie (fine mat) once owned by Queen Sälote, photographs featuring her by renowned photographer Brian Brake, and a ngatu launima some 23 metres long that was placed beneath her coffin when her body was flown back to Tonga from New Zealand in 1965.
In remembrance of Queen Sälote, we present a selection of images and artefacts below that you can click on to enlarge. We also offer a link to the blog site of Tongan/Samoan poet Maryanne Pale of the South Auckland Poets Collective. She has her own tribute to Queen Sälote and her poetry writing thats worth sharing.
Maryanne Pale, South Auckland Poets Collective Link: http://maryannepale.com/2012/03/22/celebrating-world-poetry-day-in-remembrance-of-queen-salote-mafileo-pilolevu-tupou-iii/
[i] Wood-Ellen, E. (ed). Songs and Poems of Queen Salote. Vava'u Press, Tonga (2004).


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Tony-winning actress stars in family-based play 'Somewhere'
Playing matriarch Inez Candelaria in the Hartford Stage production of "Somewhere" is much more than a job for Tony-winning actress Priscilla Lopez.
The play was written by the star's nephew, Matthew Lopez, and it's set in Manhattan in the late 1950s, during the shooting of "West Side Story."
Lopez and her brother were child extras on the Oscar-winning film, which turned out to be the first step in a career path that would lead the performer to the original cast of "A Chorus Line" and then on to a series of hit plays and musicals including, "In the Heights."
"I'm just so happy for him," Lopez said of her prize-winning playwright nephew in a recent phone interview. "He used a lot of our family history and the play is such a positive project, a step forward for presenting Latinos in a different light."
Lopez said that while working on "Somewhere" she recently received a script for a possible new project that exemplified the negative elements she has spent her career trying to transcend.
"I thought to myself, you know what, I think I'll stick to the positive side of things. There's enough of the darker side. If other people want to do it, that's up to them," Lopez said of not auditioning for the role in question.
"Somewhere" deals with the major changes on the West Side of Manhattan that coincided with the filming of the Oscar-winning Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim musical "West Side Story."
The city condemned many blocks that housed middle income Latinos to make way for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Some scenes in "West Side Story" were shot on those blocks that were about to be razed.
The Matthew Lopez play looks at the complex situation of the Candelaria family, which has dreams of show business careers for the children, but worries about surviving the destruction of their neighborhood.
"That period has always fascinated Matthew," Lopez said of her nephew's play, that has had successful runs at the Old Globe in San Diego and TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, Calif. Lopez also did a workshop of the play in Hartford last year after spending the 2012-13 season at Hartford Stage as an Aetna New Voices Fellow.
"He wrote it for me, which is great, and I've given him a lot of information. (In one interview) he said, `I owe her so much ... minus royalties,' " Lopez said, laughing.
The actress believes "Somewhere" has gotten stronger with each new production. "People are coming away from it very satisfied," she said. "Yes, I did it initially because of Matthew, but if I didn't think it was good, I would have moved on."
"Somewhere" reminds audiences of the power of then-New York City planner Robert Moses, who leveled more than one vital neighborhood in so-called "urban redevelopment" projects during his reign in the 1950s and '60s.
"He was going to build another highway (downtown), but the people in the Village were more savvy. They knew how to fight," Lopez said of the Greenwich Village community organizers who successfully fought a Moses plan to cut through SoHo with another crosstown highway.
The actress became a role model for Latino performers through her work as Morales in "A Chorus Line," one of the first Puerto Rican characters to appear in a Broadway show. (Like most of the actors in the original production, Lopez contributed her own stories to the creation of the show in a series of workshops at the Public Theater.)
"People looking at me did not slot me," she said of being cast in a wide variety of roles early in her career. "But then when they saw my name. ... An agent told me, `You have to change your name.' That was at a time when everyone changed their names. I went through the phone book, looking and looking.
"I came up with Tracy Cartwright. But then I thought ... I can't do this to my family. They saved so much so that I could (sing and dance and act) -- like the Candelarias in the play. I couldn't do it. I couldn't deny them."
As the years passed, Lopez was too busy working in "A Chorus Line" and other shows (such as her Tony-winning work in "A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine") to see that she had become a role model.
A few decades later, when Lopez worked on "In the Heights," the actress got a sense of what she had accomplished when fellow cast member Mandy Gonzalez told her, "When I saw the `z' at the end of your name, I knew I could do it, too."
Somewhere" is running through May 4 at Hartford Stage. Visit www.hartfordstage.org.
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Michael McMillian first appeared as Reverend Steve Newlin in Season Two of HBO's hit series, True Blood. The character has been through a multitude of changes from that initial appearance as a right-wing, anti-vampire nut-job, but none as drastic as the one that fans witnessed in the ninth episode of Season Five which aired this past Sunday. We talked to Michael about his exit from the show, his time writing the True Blood comic book for IDW Publishing, and his future gig acting opposite a sex robot.
Nerdist: Let's dive right into True Blood. You recently wrapped a multiple season arc as Reverend Steve Newlin. Talk to us a bit about your feelings on how the character was handled. Were you satisfied with your final appearance?
Michael McMillian: Yeah, I mean, overall, I was really happy with what they did with the character. When I signed on in Season 2, I really didn't expect to be around much longer after that season finale. Even though the character lives on in the books, the show was already taking a bit of a different direction. So I figured I was going to get killed off at the end of Season 2. And of course, after playing him for that full season, the thing I wanted more than anything in the world was for Steve to be turned into a vampire. I just thought that would be a really fun thing to explore, and it had nice parallels to many of the right-wing, christian, anti-homosexual leaders who turn out to be closeted gay men.
N: Becoming a vampire was something you always wanted to play, so you must've been thrilled when you were told how Steve would make his return to the show.
MM: Yeah, if only because I think one of the mysteries of Steve Newlin in that first season is where all that hate really comes from. A lot of it comes from the revenge agenda he had because vampires killed his father, but usually when there's that much deep-seated hate inside someone there's something that one hates about themselves. I think Steve's always been attracted to power, and nobody has more power than vampires. Vampires are free from all the religious constraints he was brought up with, and when you couple that with him struggling with his sexuality, then, really, vampirism in his case was the ultimate freedom. I think that's why when he was turned. I really thought to myself, "Well, if Season 2 Steve was the Ego, then Season 5 Steve – the vampire Steve – should be the Id. That should be the release of everything he's been suppressing."
N: Interesting, because one of the things we've noticed about your performance is a subtle flamboyance to your portrayal of Vampire Steve. Was it intentional?
MM: Well, most of it came from him actually coming out as a homosexual.
N: Did both those revelations give you more license to play him a littler broader?
MM: I think so. That's not to say I was trying to play him stereotypically gay, but there has always been an air of flamboyance to Steve, even going back to the way he dresses when we meet him in Season 2. Once he became a vampire, he's a baby-vamp, so he's less in control of his impulses. I think he got more comfortable with himself, especially after his relationship with Russell Edgington in Season 5. I think he took a hint from Russell that with that sort of flair and confidence comes a kind of power.
N: Did you feel like all loose ends and any lingering questions you had about the character were wrapped up by your last episode? Was there anything left unexplored that you would have liked to spent more time with?
MM: I think there was definitely room for more stuff. The thing that I thought was really fitting about his end was that it was in a scene where everyone was behaving very much in character. So there was no way Erik was gonna let Steve go after what he did to Nora and after outing Pam as his progeny. There was plenty more material to explore between he and Sarah, a ton of different ways for that to go… Sometimes I think in TV, not just True Blood, there's a lot of "why would that guy let him get away with that?" You know what I mean?
N: Yes. Sometimes they'll sacrifice character for the sake of keeping a storyline running.
MM: Erik already had let Steve live once, when he probably should have killed him in Season 2. I think the writers just hit a point where they're like, "there's no way that Erik would let this guy live." And so when it came to the loose ends it's kind of like… oh, well, that's life. I know that fans have been upset that we never learned who Steve's maker was, and I don't know that they'll ever get to it on the show now, but I can tell you it was a subject I was off limits in addressing the topic in both the comics and the upcoming book (IDW's True Blood comics and Steve Newlin's Field Guide to Vampires). I get the sense that part of the mission this season was to condense the universe of this show, because I think we're closer to the end point of the series than the beginning. I also liked that he basically died in a prison of his own design. There's a fun irony there.
N: You mentioned the book, Steve Newlin's Field Guide to Vampires. Is it a tie-in novel or another graphic novel?
MM: No. I co-wrote it with Gianna Sobol, and it's not a novel, it's a journal written by Steve Newlin. It's a collection of found objects from within the True Blood universe all culled from the research he was doing from the time the Fellowship Of the Sun was invaded by vampires at the end of season 2 and when he was turned sometime between season 3 and 4. It's designed to be an artifact from the world of the show. It's pretty cool, because it acts as an encyclopedia of the show told via Newlin's own observations, but then Pam and Erik have gotten their hands on the journal and so they've written things throughout also. Going through and making notes and corrections in their handwriting. It all ties into the show, it's all in continuity.
N: But still they would not let you reveal who turned him into a vamp. If you had to venture a guess, with no insider knowledge, who do you think turned Steve?
MM: There is no backstory to support this at all, but Kristin Bauer and I would joke about how much fun it would be if Pam had turned Steve. Just because we wanted to work together more. At another point, Deborah Ann Woll and I talked about Jessica being a fun maker for Steve because they have a whole religious connection. Would've been great if Russell had turned him, but we know that's not the case. My feeling, and this is pure speculation on my part, is that it's probably a vampire we haven't met yet.
N: That would make sense.
MM: At one point it was a character already established on the show. They wrote it into an early draft of a script. Then in the next rewrite is was dropped out. They never went back to it, so I don't know if they changed their minds or what. I'm not allowed to comment on who that might have been, so… maybe they're still planning on using it at some point.
N: Maybe you'll get called back in for a flashback to that reveal.
MM: That would be fun for sure. The maker/baby vamp relationship was the one thing I never got to really explore, so that would be cool.
N: It's not like you haven't had plenty of time in this world though, because for a while you were also writing IDW's True Blood comics. How did you get that gig?
MM: We were shooting season 2 of the show and I was working on Lucid (creator-owned, Archaia published) and one of the writers of the series, Alexander Woo, had tipped me off that they were developing a comic with IDW and I really wanted to get in on that. The first series was already up and running, but then the second series, Tainted Love, my neighbor and fellow comic-scribe Marc Andreyko came to me and said, "I know IDW and you know True Blood; why don't we team up and pitch a storyline together?"
N: That's fantastic. Pays to have cool neighbors.
MM: Ha ha. It worked out. I wasn't working on the show at that point. I was still in touch with people socially over there but not in contract. So we went to IDW and pitched the story and by the time they got to HBO and Alan Ball they liked the ideas and we got hired. Then the ongoing started and IDW contacted me and said HBO was interested in bringing me back to co-write the book with Ann Nocenti. She and I did the first six or seven issues together and then she left. I inherited the book as the solo writer all the way up to the fourteenth issue when it was promptly cancelled. (laughs)
N: It was a great run though, plus writing a licensed property must have its share of negative aspects. What was the most challenging part about the process?
MM: You're playing by somebody else's rules and a lot of ideas get shot down, but it's also very liberating to get to try my hand at playing the other parts on the show. Writing in Erik's voice or as Pam has its own kind of thrill. It was fun for me, because I had a direct link to the show; I could talk to them and know what was coming down the line story-wise. They were super helpful and worked with me to make sure the comic and TV show felt like they were the same.
N: With the ongoing series cancelled, are you looking to get back into working on some creator owned titles? Perhaps back to Archaia's Lucid to continue to play in that world?
MM: For sure. It was optioned to Warner Bros, so we'll see what happens with that, but as for the comic, I've love to do more Lucid. I have a bunch of ideas. I've been chomping at the bit to get there, but it depends on Archaia's publishing schedule, so the ball's in their court for now. In the meantime I've got a couple new projects I've been meeting with publishers about. Especially after my time on the True Blood comic, I'm anxious to take what I learned from that experience and dive back into the creator-owned world for a while.
N: But when will you appear on our TVs again? That's the real question.
MM: Ha ha. Well I have another few episodes of the other show I'm a recurring character on, Hot In Cleveland. I'm also in a movie that's due out in the fall called The Banshee Chapter, which is directed by a talented filmmaker I went to college with (we shot a short film together) and produced by Before The Door Pictures, who did the movie Margin Call and the upcoming movie All Is Lost. I play a character dabbling with a highly experimental and dangerous hallucinogenic drug who then disappears. Katia Winter (Dexter) plays the lead in the film, who is an investigative reporter trying to find out what happened to her friend, me, and uncovers something much darker and terrifying than she could have ever imagined. We shot it in 2011 and I'm really excited it's coming out. It was such a small movie, but we shot it in 3D and it looks amazing. I'm amazed by what they were able to do as an independent film.
N: Well, that was shot a while ago, is there anything else we should keep an eye out for?
MM: I have a webseries I co-star in, directed by Rob McKittrick (Waiting), called Jon Davis Gets A Sex Robot. My wife, played by Riki Lindhome, promises me that if they ever make realistic sexbots, I can have one. Then we jump-cut to the future, and he does get one, played by Nikki SooHoo. So I get one, but then feel kinda guilty about doing anything to it, so it sort of just becomes our roommate. It's pretty great. It starts August 19th on the YOMYOMF YouTube channel.
N: Before we wrap up, do you have any final thoughts on the character of Reverend Newlin or the overall experience?
MM: Yeah, I want to say thanks to the fans. As corny as it sounds, I think this show has some of the best fans out there. Many people have reached out to me since that episode aired to tell me how much they enjoyed the character and my performance. They're all very kind and sad to see him go. When you have a job that you enjoy doing as much as I liked True Blood, it is always extra sweet when you finally are killed off and the fans are moved to comment. It means people still cared about the character after all this time, which is so great. That said, he lives on in print! So I hope you pre-order the book and you can follow me on Twitter @McMillzz, and hopefully my fans will follow me onto whatever I do next.


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Two weeks ago, Cahill's senior strategist and campaign manager both left his campaign. Then, the Independent candidate for governor lost his running mate Friday when Paul Loscocco dropped out of the race and endorsed GOP gubernatorial nominee Charlie Baker.
"Tim cannot win," Loscocco said during a Friday morning press conference. "And I am no longer comfortable that I can look people in the eye when I'm out campaigning across the state and not disagree with the notion that a vote for Tim Cahill is a vote for Deval Patrick."
Rather than being seen as a viable candidate in his own right, Cahill is considered by many pundits as a spoiler. Polls show that Cahill attracts some would-be Patrick voters, but the bulk of his supporters lean Republican. Still, on Friday, Cahill vowed to soldier on:
"I'm not a quitter. I've never quit on anything I've done. I won't give in. And if the people of Massachusetts see that in me as a candidate, they'll know exactly what they'll have in a Governor." Baker says that he's long considered this a two-man race, and on Saturday, he indicated that recent events were proving him right:
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Cahill's own troubles started when the Republican Governor's Association launched a multi-million dollar ad blitz against him. Before the ads, Cahill was polling around 30%. Afterward, his numbers dropped to the 10% range.
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Suffolk, ss. Division of Administrative Law Appeals
George Shattuck,
v. Docket No. CR-06-465
Teachers' Retirement System,
Appearance for Petitioner:
Matthew D. Jones, Esq.
Mass. Teachers Association
20 Ashburton Place
Boston, MA 02108
Appearance for Respondent:
Aaron Morrison, Esq.
Teachers' Retirement System
One Charles Park
Cambridge, MA 02142
Administrative Magistrate:
Maria A. Imparato, Esq.
The remuneration received by the Petitioner for teaching an extra class was not salary and therefore not regular compensation for purposes of computing his retirement allowance where he was paid for each hour that he taught, but was not paid for the hours he did not teach when he was out sick.
George Shattuck filed a timely appeal under G. L. c. 32, s. 16 (4) of the July 12, 2006 decision of the Teachers' Retirement System (Board) that per-diem payments he received for teaching an extra class during the 2005-2006 school year were not deemed to be regular compensation for the purpose of computing his retirement allowance. (Exs. 1, 2.)
I held a hearing on July 11, 2008 at the office of the Division of Administrative Law Appeals, 98 North Washington Street, Boston, MA. I admitted documents into evidence. (Exs. 1 - 11.) I marked the Petitioner's pre-hearing memorandum "A" for identification, and the Respondent's pre-hearing memorandum "B" for identification. The Petitioner testified. There is one tape cassette of the hearing. The parties stipulated to facts in "A" and "B."
By letter of August 2, 2008, the parties requested that the decision be held in abeyance for 30 days while the parties determined whether a second witness would be needed, and the Mass. Teachers Association was deciding whether to grieve a certain contract provision in the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). I allowed the Motion and ordered a Joint Status Report be filed on September 5, 2008.
By letter of September 10, 2008, the parties indicated that the union decided to arbitrate the pending grievance concerning the docking of sick time from compensation for teaching an extra class, and surmised that the arbitrator's award would clarify the CBA. I ordered the parties to file the next status report on November 12, 2008.
By report of November 11, 2008, the parties reported that selection of an arbitrator was pending. I ordered the parties to file the next status report on January 12, 2009.
By report of January 12, 2009, the parties indicated that scheduling of the arbitration hearing was pending. I ordered the parties to file the next status report on March 20, 2009.
By report of March 18, 2009, the parties indicated that the arbitration hearing was scheduled for June 25, 2009. I ordered the parties to file the next status report on June 30, 2009.
By report of June 29, 2009, the parties reported that post-hearing briefs were due August 7, 2009, with the arbitrator's award due 35 days after receipt of the briefs. I ordered the parties to file the next status report on September 18, 2009.
By letter of September 10, 2009, the parties reported that the arbitrator's award was due on October 5, 2009.
By letter of September 30, 2009, the parties enclosed a copy of the arbitrator's award. I marked the arbitrator's award Exhibit 12.
By letter of October 8, 2009, I informed the parties that if I did not hear from them in ten days, I would issue a decision. I did not hear from the parties.
I marked the foregoing correspondence collectively as "C" for identification.
1. George Shattuck, d.o.b. 6/10/1949, taught in the Worcester School System from 1972 until he retired for superannuation on June 30, 2006. ("A," "B")
2. At the time of his retirement, Mr. Shattuck was an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher at South High School. ("B")
3. Under the CBA between the Worcester School Committee and the Educational Association of Worcester in effect from September 1, 2005 to August 31, 2006, Mr. Shattuck was not required to teach more than five periods a day, with one preparation period, under Article XXVII, paragraph 13. (Ex. 3.)
4. Under Attachment "C" of the CBA, a teacher could volunteer to teach an extra period each day. "In exchange for assuming these teaching duties, the teacher shall be paid an amount equal to one-fifth (1/5) of his/her per diem pay for each period assumed." (Ex. 3, p. 120, Attachment "C.")
5. In January 2006, Mr. Shattuck agreed to the school administration's request that he teach an extra ESL class. Mr. Shattuck taught the extra ESL class from January 23, 2006 to the end of the school year. (Exs. 5, 7.)
6. Mr. Shattuck was paid 1/5 of his per diem pay for each period that he taught. He was not paid for three days that he was out sick: January 31, February 14 and February 15, 2006. (Exs. 4, 7.)
7. The Education Association of Worcester, Inc. grieved the failure of the school to pay 1/5 of per diem pay for sick days taken by teachers who taught an extra class under Attachment "C" of the CBA. (Ex. 8)
8. The arbitrator held, "That the School Committee did not violate Attachment C to the Collective Bargaining Agreement when it did not pay George Shattuck 1/5th of his per diem rate of pay for those days when he was out sick and did not teach an extra period (i.e. sixth period), and the grievance is denied." (Ex. 12.)
The decision of the Teachers' Retirement System is affirmed. The remuneration paid to George Shattuck for teaching an additional class from January 23, 2006 to the end of the school year in accordance with Attachment "C" of the CBA is not "salary" and therefore does not constitute "regular compensation" to be included in the calculation of his retirement allowance.
G. L. c. 32, s. 1 defines regular compensation as "salary, wages or other compensation in whatever form, lawfully determined for the individual service of the employee by the employing authority, not including bonus, overtime, severance pay … early retirement incentives, or any other payments made as a result of giving notice of retirement. … In the case of a teacher employed in a public day school who is a member of the teachers' retirement system, salary payable under the terms of an annual contract for additional services in such a school … shall be regarded as regular compensation rather than as bonus or overtime and shall be included in the salary on which deductions are to paid to the annuity savings fund of the teachers' retirement system." (emphasis supplied)
Under the Board's regulation, 807 CMR 6.02, regular compensation includes salary payable under the terms of an annual contract for additional services, if four specific criteria are met.
This raises the question of whether the remuneration paid to the Petitioner under the terms of Attachment "C" of the CBA constitutes salary, as that term is used in
G. L. c. 32, s.1 and 807 CMR 6.02. I conclude that it does not.
In Hallett v. CRAB, 431 Mass. 66, 725 N.E.2d 222 (2000), the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) determined that hourly payments to a teacher for teaching driver education before and after normal school hours did not constitute salary, and could not therefore, constitute regular compensation.
The SJC noted that G. L. c. 32, s. 1 "starts with three terms: 'salary, wages or other compensation in whatever form.' However, when the Legislature addressed teachers, it provided that only 'salary' for additional services is part of regular compensation." Id., 431 Mass. at 69,
The Court noted a distinction between the words "salary" and "wages," citing the case of Coco v. School Comm. of Boylston, 392 Mass. 221, 466 N.E.2d 118 (1984), where the meaning of the word "salary" in G. L. c. 71, s. 43 was at issue. "[T]here is considerable authority from other jurisdictions, and some guidance from Massachusetts precedent, for interpreting the term 'salary' to refer to a fixed annual or periodic amount of pay depending upon the period of employment rather than upon the number of days or hours worked within that period." Hallett, 431 Mass. at 68-69.
The Court opined that the "statutory intent is clearly to exempt irregular payments of compensation from the retirement base" because G. L. c. 32, s. 1 excludes bonus, overtime and severance pay from the definition of regular compensation. "Hourly compensation paid on an irregular basis is more akin to overtime payments than to annual salary." The Court held that the Legislature did not intend "to include periodic hourly payments as part of regular compensation for teachers for the purpose of determining retirement benefits." Id. at 70.
In the instant case, the Petitioner received pay of 1/5 of his per diem pay "for each period assumed." He was not paid for the periods he did not teach when he was out sick.
Based on the holding in Hallett, I conclude that the Petitioner was paid periodic hourly payments for his work, depending not "upon the period of employment" (from January 23, 2006 to the end of the school year), but upon the days or hours worked within that period." Those payments do not constitute salary, and they therefore cannot constitute regular compensation.
The decision of the Board to exclude from regular compensation the remuneration the Petitioner received for teaching an extra class in accordance with Attachment "C" of the CBA is affirmed.
Maria A. Imparato
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