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ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) – So much for being fresh.
Phil Mickelson arrived at Merion Golf Club just hours before his 7:11 a.m. tee time. If he was jet-lagged Thursday, it was hard to tell by the time he finished – he had the first-round lead to himself at the U.S. Open.
Mickelson flew overnight from San Diego after watching his oldest daughter graduate from the eighth grade and, at first, was a little shaky. But after rolling a birdie putt 8 feet past his first hole and putting his tee shot in the rough at his second, he settled himself – no doubt with the aid of a 3 1/2-hour rain delay – and shot a 3-under 67.
It was his lowest opening round in the championship since 1999.
By the time he tapped in a par to finish his round, the sun had replaced clouds, and putters had long replaced squeegees. Drenching storms caused the morning delay, halting play less than two hours after it began. When the golfers returned to the course, one thing was evident: It was tough – except for No. 13.
Nearly a quarter of the first 108 birdies scored were at the 102-yard, par-3 13th, including one by 2011 Masters champion Charl Schwartzel, who used the hole to start a run of three consecutive birdies that included a chip-in at No. 15.
The gimmie hole aside, Merion was as challenging as advertised, despite the onslaught of storms that softened the course during the past week. The slanting greens and heavy rough valued precision over power, and no one's score got below 3 under by mid-afternoon. Ian Poulter had quite the start, with only one par spaced among four birdies and three bogeys through nine holes.
At one point, there were nine players under par – four at 2 under and five at 1 under – and two of them were amateurs. Intriguingly, Cheng-Tsung Pan of Taiwan and Kevin Phelan of Ireland didn't mimic the pros at No. 13: Both parred the hole and picked up a birdie or two elsewhere.
Sergio Garcia birdied No. 13, but that was an aberration in a terrible start for the Spaniard, who has spent the lead-up to the tournament trying to make amends with Tiger Woods. Garcia had a quadruple bogey, double bogey and a bogey in his first five holes, but he later went birdie-eagle at the start of the front nine.
Garcia was greeted with mild applause and a few audible boos when he was introduced at the start of his round. He is playing his first tournament in the U.S. since a recent exchange with Woods hit a low point when Garcia said he would serve fried chicken if Woods came to dinner during the Open. Garcia has since apologized for the remark. He shook hands with Woods on the practice range this week and left a note in Woods' locker. He was also noticeably friendly to the gallery during Wednesday's practice round, stopping several times to sign autographs.
Starting on the 11th hole – one of the unorthodox arrangements in the setup at this course -Mickelson and playing partner Steve Stricker saw the notoriously difficult greens live up to their reputation after just a few minutes of play when each had a birdie putt roll 8 feet past the hole, Mickelson at No. 11 and Stricker at No. 12. Both ended up with bogeys.
Cliff Kresge, a Floridian ranked No. 551 in the world, hit the first tee shot of the tournament at 6:45 a.m. The horn blew at 8:36 a.m., and thunder, lightning and downpours followed, sending everyone scurrying for cover.
Safety was a concern on a course that required fans to take long shuttle rides from remote parking lots. At a fan zone, where a replay of the limited action was on a jumbo screen, a worker used a microphone to implore an overflow crowd to move to the merchandise tent.
"We're not feeling safe having this many people in here,'' he told them. Many folks heeded his message and moved on.
Play resumed shortly after noon, pushing back the tee time for the marquee group of Woods, Rory McIlroy and Adam Scott to 4:44 p.m.
Any major weather disruption to the championship would be a shame, given that the U.S. Open waited 32 years to return to the course where Olin Dutra overcame a serious stomach illness to win in 1934, where Ben Hogan hit the picture-perfect 1-iron approach to No. 18 before winning in a playoff in 1950, where Lee Trevino pulled a rubber snake out of his bag at the first hole of the playoff when he beat Jack Nicklaus for the title in 1971, and where David Graham became the first Australian to win the trophy in 1981.
Thought to be too small to host an Open anymore, Merion had been off the radar for so long that many of the top names in the field – including Woods – had never played it until recently. Organizers had to be creative with the placement of hospitality tents and parking lots on the club's relatively small footprint, and ticket sales were capped at 25,000 a day instead of the usual 40,000 or so for recent championships.
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Academic Programs and Graduate Studies
The Offices of Academic Programs and Graduate Studies provides administrative leadership in developing and implementing academic policies for a broad range of degree programs and support services to better serve faculty, students, and staff.
Areas of responsibility and departments:
Office of Graduate Studies
This office provides information and guidance for prospective and current graduate students about a broad range of academic programs and support services.
The Articulation Officer develops and maintains articulation agreements between CSU East Bay community colleges and other four year universities. Articulation agreements are formal documents agreed upon by institutions that allow students to achieve a degree program by transferring courses to Cal State East Bay from other institutions.
The online university catalog is produced under the auspices of the Academic Programs and Graduate Studies office.
Curriculum and Policies
This office provides general oversight on the procedure to approve new courses or programs being created, modified or discontinued. Documents citing the academic policies governing curricular proposals are outlined in the Curriculum Procedures Manual.
General Education
General Education is the program of courses undergraduates complete as part of the bachelor's degree. These humanities, social science, and sciences courses provide a broad education designed to provide a foundation to the bachelor's degree.
Program for Accelerated College Education – PACE
The Program for Accelerated College Education enables adult working students the opportunity to make accelerated progress towards a bachelor's degree in Liberal Studies, Human Development, Health Sciences, Hospitality and Tourism, or Recreation through a carefully structured course sequence and alternative methods of delivery.
Interdisciplinary Studies Major and Certificate
The purpose of this program is to allow students, with the advice and approval of knowledgeable faculty and administrators, to design their own academic programs tailored to their unique needs and interests.
Student Grade Appeal and Academic Grievance
The Grade Appeal Officer oversees the procedures for students who have filed petitions alleging grading unfairness. The Grade Appeal Officer is a liaison to the Grade Appeal and Academic Grievance Committee, comprised of faculty and student representatives, who make the determination of whether the petition is granted a hearing. A hearing panel renders the final decision.
Testing Office
The Testing Office administers a number of different tests for students and provides evaluation and other services to faculty, staff, and members of the campus community.
University Honors Program
The University Honors Program provides outstanding students the opportunity to be challenged academically by taking special courses and sections for honors credit and participating in an honors seminar.
University Thesis
The Academic Programs and Graduate Studies Student Services Office assists with the style, format, and binding of the University Thesis.
Contact information
Office of Academic Programs and Graduate Studies
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25800 Carlos Bee Boulevard
Student Services and Administration Building, Suite 4500
Hayward, CA 94542
Tel: (510) 885-3716
Fax: (510) 885-4777

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MACAU (AP) — In a nondescript building around the corner from the world's biggest casino, students at the Macau Polytechnic Institute are in class. Huddled at a long table topped with green felt, they pay close attention as their instructor writes a series of diagrams and numbers on a whiteboard.
But this isn't a regular math lesson. The students sitting around the roulette table are getting schooled on how to quickly calculate payoffs for the casino game by glancing at how the chips are placed. Elsewhere in the room, the biggest mock casino in Asia, other students are playing practice hands of blackjack or learning how to run a craps table.
As many as 8,000 vocational students take courses at the institute's Gaming Teaching and Research Center each year, while a small number of students learn casino skills as part of degree courses. The center's popularity attests to Macau's rapid rise from a seedy backwater to the world's biggest gambling market after the government ended a casino monopoly a decade ago.
Foreign operators such as Las Vegas Sands Corp. and Wynn Resorts Ltd. have invested billions to build glitzy resorts, drawing tens of millions of Chinese gamblers annually that have supercharged the economy. The casino industry's surging growth has created tens thousands of well-paying jobs, raised living standards and boosted the city's economy. The casino boom has been largely peaceful, in contrast to the violence that rocked the city in the 1990s when triads, or Chinese criminal gangs, fought for control of the lucrative VIP rooms.
A wave of new casino megaresorts that are expected to open from mid-2015 will only bolster the former Portuguese colony's standing as the world's top gambling market. But they'll also add to the mixed blessing of a transformation that has produced a lopsided economy and society. Property prices have surged and inequality has widened. Some lament the embrace of materialism and the erosion of traditional community values.
"I have thought of another job, but the salaries at other jobs are lower than the casinos. Now I've become used to this lifestyle," said Marcos Wong, a 27-year-old VIP room supervisor at the Grand Lisboa casino earning 20,000 patacas ($2,500) a month, much higher than the average wage in Macau, a special administrative region of China.
"We didn't have a lot of money when I was growing up so of course I had to study more to try to change my destiny. But to change one's destiny, the reality is you need a lot of money," said Wong, one of the degree students taking the roulette class. He works night shifts while taking courses during the day to upgrade his skills in the hopes of being promoted to a managerial position.
Voracious demand for casino workers has driven Macau's unemployment rate to an ultralow 2 percent. The city's young are in high demand thanks to government restrictions on the number of foreign workers. Casino jobs are popular because the pay is two-thirds higher than the city's median monthly income of 11,700 patacas ($1,465) and many positions don't even require a high school diploma.
But there are drawbacks, including the stress of dealing with customers on losing streaks who become unruly or aggressive.
Student Fion Choi said some gamblers will demand that dealers and supervisors smile and remember their names.
"But then when they lose lots of money they'll say: Why are you smiling?" said Choi, a 29-year-old supervisor at Wynn Macau who hopes to land a mid or senior level management job after she graduates.
Then there's the surreal experience of watching high rollers winning and losing huge amounts of money.
Wong says gamblers, who are almost always mainland Chinese, will bet up to a million patacas ($130,000) on a single hand of baccarat and blow cigarette smoke into his face if they lose.
"We see more and more of these customers," said Wong. "I don't understand how they get their money. They come from a different society where this kind of thinking is normal."
Casino jobs pay 30 percent to 40 percent more than those at other companies, said Choi. That's adding to the strain on small businesses, which struggle to survive because they can't compete with the higher wages.
University graduates, meanwhile, can't find jobs that pay as much as the starting salaries offered by casinos, said Larry So, a political commentator, who worries about the impact all the newfound wealth is having on the city's young.
"The young people nowadays, one of their favorite jobs is to go into a casino, or the government," said So, lamenting the changes that the casino industry has wrought on Macau.
"In the past casino workers were secluded, a small part of the population. In Chinese culture we did not look up to these kind of people." Now they've become such a big and wealthy group, they are the ones that set the values, So said.
The number of people working in gambling and related industries has doubled over the past seven years to nearly 90,000, or about a quarter of the workforce. About 23,000 are dealers.
So said that because of casino workers' influence on society, Macau people are more materialistic and care more for fast cash than careers. It's also caused a rise in problem gambling, "because the dealers they think they know how to gamble, and they start to gamble and of course they lose," So said.
Macau's casino boom has also had other side effects. It has reshaped the landscape of the 28-square-kilometer (11-square-mile) city. Flashy, oversized resorts built in the Cotai district, including Sands Corp.'s Venetian Macao, the world's biggest casino, have added a brash and jarring contrast to the city's European-style architecture. Created by filling in the sea between Coloane and Taipa islands, Cotai will be the site of the next wave of expansion by Sands and Macau's five other licensed casino operators.
Public discontent is rising over a sharply widening wealth gap and surging property prices. The government, which earns more than 70 percent of its tax revenue from casinos, has tried to pacify the public by giving annual cash handouts to each resident. Chief Executive Fernando Chui, the city's leader, last week said the amount would rise to 8,000 patacas next year.
Chui also announced plans to provide more housing for residents and offer interest free loans to young entrepreneurs.
But some are skeptical such measures will make any difference.
"Macau is a complete illusion of prosperity because what we are building is only casinos, rooms and some shops with famous brands," said lawmaker Jose Coutinho.
Coutinho said he worried that Macau's university graduates would find it increasingly hard to find jobs not related to the gambling sector and that workers would be vulnerable in a downturn.
"If they are in middle age and they lose their jobs, it's very difficult for them to find another job in Macau," he said. "You need to be very careful on this in the future."
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Police Log
The Police Log is a digest of reports filed by the Warwick Police.
Det. Thomas DiGregorio reported he was doing a patrol shift around 3:15 a.m. on Sept. 17 when he came upon an SUV idling in the roadway on Sea View Drive near Suburban Parkway. He said there was a man behind the wheel with his eyes closed who did not respond to knocking on the window. DiGregorio said he was able to reach in, turn off the vehicle, and remove the keys and a cell phone from the man's hand without any reaction at all. He said he had to shout and violently shake the man's body to get his attention. DiGregorio said he didn't smell of alcohol but was definitely disoriented and knew he was in Warwick but not where in Warwick. He said he claimed he had no identification and gave him personal information that was changing from moment to moment and told him he did not recall his Social Security number except that it ended in 0778.
He said other officer arrived on the scene and he traced the plates on the vehicle to its owner on Oniska Street. He said the driver changed his story about why he had the car a couple of times as well. He said all of the stories were voided when they spoke with the man's aunt, who told police she let him use the vehicle and her debit card to put gas in it. DiGregorio said he gave her back the keys to the SUV, her debit card and $35 the driver took from an ATM. He said the driver admitted later that he had taken two Xanax earlier and that must have made him fall asleep. DiGregorio said he did find out who the driver was, Thomas J. Tucker, 32, of 32 Oniska St., Warwick, and that there were warrants out for him, including a Warwick arrest warrant for eluding and obstructing police from the day before and failure to appear for a sentencing hearing for an East Greenwich robbery charge and a warrant for failure to appear for sentencing for a breaking and entering charge in Richmond. He was taken to headquarters and held for the next session of District Court.
Officer Jacob Elderkin reported he was dispatched to the Sears store at Rhode Island Mall on Sept. 18 for a shoplifting suspect in custody. Loss prevention told Elderkin an electronics associate called loss prevention earlier for a suspected fraud. The associated said a man came to checkout with a very expensive laptop and surround sound speaker system and attempted to buy it with a credit card while using a New York driver's license that looked faked and lacked the required hologram. He said he saw the man pacing nervously as they checked the credit card and saw him take a USB thumb drive and conceal it in his waistband. Elderkin said he was told the man then went back to the cashier and said he had to get something out of his car and walked out of the store and was stopped in the vestibule and brought back to the office after he attempted to discard the thumb drive in his waistband. He said they recovered a number of credit cards from the suspect that appeared to be fraudulent. He said they recovered identification from the suspect that one of the agents recognized from an organized fraud ring they got a bulletin about. Elderkin said his own inquiries about the cards found on the suspect resulted in them being identified as fraudulent. The suspect was identified as Misael Santana, 41, of 2930 Old Tampa Highway, Lakeland, Fla. He was charged with credit card fraud and obstruction and held for arraignment they next day.
Officer John Larivee reported he was dispatched to an accident at the Fur Seasons Apartments at 1445 Warwick Ave. around 12:20 p.m. on Sept. 18 for an accident. Dispatch said a Mercury Milan with Massachusetts plates struck a cement parking block and the car was still stuck on the block. The caller also reported that the driver "did not appear right." He said Sgt. Scott Robillard was the first on the scene and he told Larivee the driver was chewing something and he told him to spit it out. He said they could not immediately identify what it was but they suspected it was drugs and the driver appeared to be impaired. He said the driver was sweating and nervous and his eyes were dilated and his movements were rapid and even though he was unsteady on his feet. He claimed he didn't know what the drugs were but that he bought them in Providence. Larivee said there was an empty pill bottle and some pills scattered on the floor of the car and there was a lot of money strewn about the interior. He said they found two baggies, one empty, in his wallet that appeared to be cocaine and another empty baggie behind the driver's seat. He said they also found a number of other items that looked like they had been adapted for taking drugs, like an inhaler and a fake cigarette. He said Rescue arrived and determined that the driver was not in any medical danger but that the driver gradually seemed to be getting over the drugs as the investigation continued. He said they found a pamphlet from the 14th Annual Wormtown Music Festival that ran from Sept. 14 through Sept. 16. He said he asked the driver if he knew where he was and the man said "Massachusetts" and said "Monday" when asked what day it was. Larivee also said he told the man he was in Warwick and then asked him why he was in Rhode Island and the man replied that he "takes care of a kid in Providence" but provided no other details. Larivee said they gathered up $326 in cash from the car, along with an expensive large screen Alienware laptop ($2,549 retail). Robert A. Riley, 28, of 24 Chauncy St., Cambridge, Mass., was charged with possession of cocaine and later released on $2,000 surety bail. Larivee said they could not charged him with DUI because no witnesses actually saw him driving the car and only came out after the impact.
Officer Daniel DiMaio reported that he and three other officers were dispatched to an auto service business on Elmwood Avenue around 12:40 a.m. on Sept. 18 for a report of an alarm. He said they arrived to find the third window from the right front of the building had a hole about the size of a bullet with "spider webbing" surrounding it. He said they did a brief search of the building interior and found that the projectile that made the hole was now lodged in the back wall. He said the owners of the business arrived and confirmed that the "bullet hole" was new and the suspected projectile lodged in the wall were not there the last time they were at the property. He said they checked the security footage for the property but learned no more about the incident. DiMaio said the report was forwarded to detectives to have the projectile removed and examined.
A Barrington doctor advised Officer Albert Marano that any prescriptions from his office that were on a full sheet of paper were fake, according to Marano's arrest report for a Barrington resident who is charged with presenting just such a script at the CVS in Meadowbrook on Sept. 13. Marano said he and two other officers set up a perimeter around the drug store when they got word that a man who placed a prescription for 90 Oxycontin pills in the 30mg size earlier that day was back at the pharmacy to pick up the drugs. Marano said the man had not yet picked up the drugs but was at the pharmacy. Marano said Sgt. Scott Robillard approached the man, who admitted he was there to pick up the prescription but had been "spooked" and started to walk away from the store. The doctor told Marano that this was just the latest of a number of instances when prescriptions said to be from him had been presented in Pawtucket, Cranston and nearby parts of Massachusetts. The doctor told Marano the Tiverton Police found some of the phony full-sized sheets in a dumpster in their town and he asked if the one presented in Meadowbrook was that size. When Marano told him it was, he asserted that he only used the smaller prescription pads for patients in his clinic and any full-size sheets were phony on the face of it. He also offered to provide Marano with any other assistance he needed to prosecute the case and that he wished to press charges against Joel LaFrance, 27, of 129 Metropolitan Park Dr., Barrington. Marano said LaFrance insisted he was acting alone but material from the Barrington doctor led Marano to other doctors and other suspects who were using the phony prescriptions forms and forging various names that directly or indirectly came back to the same set of forms and suspects within the past few weeks. LaFrance was charged with false representations to obtain controlled substances. The report was forwarded to the Rhode Island Attorney General's office.
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From LSU Sports:
BATON ROUGE – LSU will conclude its spring football practice on Saturday, April 20 in Tiger Stadium with the annual National L-Club Spring Game.
Kickoff for the contest is set for 2 p.m. and admission is free of charge.
Prior to kickoff for the spring game, LSU will host a Fan Fest in Lot A of Tiger Stadium beginning at 11 a.m. with food and drinks, a live band, and inflatables and other activities for the kids. The gates to Tiger Stadium will open at noon with the kickoff to follow at 2 p.m.
Other events on campus that day include the nationally-ranked softball team hosting Missouri at 6 p.m. at Tiger Park and the LSU track and field squad hosting the Alumni Gold Relays at Bernie Moore Track Stadium.
More details about the LSU National L-Club Spring Game and the Fan Fest will be made as the date of the game approaches.


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SUNNYVALE, Calif. and SHANGHAI, China -- January 27, 2003 -- Artisan Components, Inc., (Nasdaq: ARTI), a leading provider of semiconductor intellectual property (IP) and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), China's first advanced open-IC foundry, today announced an agreement for the development and delivery of Artisan's widely-used design platform for SMIC's advanced 0.18-micron CMOS process. This agreement signals the expansion of SMIC's foundry strategy by broadening its worldwide presence and potential customer base. By adopting Artisan's widely- used design platform, SMIC gains access to thousands of worldwide users developing ICs utilizing Artisan's IP design solutions.
Under the terms of agreement, Artisan expects to deliver its standard set of memory generators, standard cell and I/O library platform products optimized for SMIC's 0.18-micron design rules and characterized using the latest electrical models of SMIC's process. The products will include Artisan's extensive set of views and models of the industry's leading EDA tools. The agreement calls for Artisan to distribute the products under its free library program on a worldwide basis. This agreement marks Artisan's first license of its IP with a local manufacturing partner in China and adds to its already extensive network of design service partners and end users.
"SMIC's strategy is to be at the forefront of the world's foundry technology and having a global presence is mandatory," said Richard Chang, CEO of SMIC. "We adopted Artisan's design platform because its solutions are widely used around the world and known for their performance, quality and support. We look forward to working with Artisan in a long-term relationship in developing products for future next generations of process technologies."
"SMIC has assembled an impressive array of capabilities to be a leading foundry on the world stage. Its technology roadmap and capacity plans offer customers assurances of a long-term design and manufacturing partner," said Mark Templeton, president and CEO of Artisan Components. "We are pleased that SMIC has added Artisan's design platform solutions to this set of capabilities and look forward to a long-term relationship in developing products and in supporting SMIC's customer base."
Product Availability
Simulation views for Artisan's memory generators and standard configurations of SAGE-X Standard Cell and I/O Libraries are expected to be available in the late first quarter of 2003. Complete views for all these products are expected to be available by the second quarter of 2003. Customers interested in Artisan's SMIC-based library products should contact SMIC at firstname.lastname@example.com or Artisan via e-mail at email@example.com or via telephone at 877-ARTILIB (877-278-4542).
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the delivery of products by Artisan, the characteristics of such products, the impact of the Artisan/SMIC relationship and the future of the Artisan/SMIC relationship. Actual results may differ materially, and Artisan disclaims any obligation to update or correct this information. These statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties, including the demand for semiconductors and end user products that incorporate them, general economic conditions, competition, technical limitations, customer concentration, risks related to international operations and international intellectual property protection, the integration of SMIC's 0.18-micron process technology with Artisan products and whether there will be technical or other difficulties that delay or prevent the availability of such 0.18-micron library products. We refer you also to the documents that the Company files from time-to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, in particular the section entitled "Factors Affecting Future Operating Results" in the Company's annual report on form 10-K and its quarterly reports on Forms 10-Q. Artisan disclaims any obligation to update or correct the information contained in this press release as a result of financial, business or any other developments occurring after the date of the release.
About SMIC
SMIC is the first pure-play advanced IC foundry in China to achieve volume production for 8-inch wafers at 0.25-µm and finer line technologies. Established in April 2000, SMIC is a Cayman Islands company based in Shanghai. The foundry provides customers with a full range of services that include: design services, mask manufacturing, wafer fabrication as well as testing capabilities. For more information, please visit www.smics.com.
About Artisan Components
Artisan Components, Inc. is a leading semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider. The company's design platforms are licensed to over 1000 companies worldwide. Artisan's design platforms provide IC designers with a common interface to a range of process technologies from the world's leading foundries. Built on Artisan's Process-Perfect™ memory generators, standard cell and I/O libraries, Artisan's design platforms include a comprehensive set of views and models supporting leading design tools and methodologies. Artisan's worldwide network of EDA, IP and design service partners extend the Artisan standard to a complete set of system level design and integration solutions. Artisan is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. More information about Artisan Components, including free library access can be found at: http://access.arm.com.
Artisan Components is a registered trademark and Process-Perfect is a trademark of Artisan Components, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.


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Horoscopes for week of April 17, 2003
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Who or what will rescue you, Taurus? A divine intervention, perhaps? A sympathetic friend who totally understands you? A teacher who knows exactly what you need at this turning point? I suspect the answer is none of the above. Don't worry, though, because a brave hero is on the way, primed to provide you with an exit, a solution, and a cure. And who is this great deliverer? For a clue, I give you this poem by Simeon Samuel Frug: "No savior from without can come/ To those that live and are enslaved./ Their own messiah they must be,/ And play the savior and the saved."
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Here's what I wrote in my journal on an April night ten years ago: "Ever since I learned to see three sides of every story, I've been coming across much better stories." Here's what I overheard from a woman in the grocery store check-out line today: "I'm not saying that truth is always relative, but I have often found it to be fluid, slippery, vagrant, scrambled, promiscuous, and kaleidoscopic." And here's a favorite saying of seminal TV newscaster Art Amadon: "I get my way more often now that I have more than one way." What else do you need to know to prepare for the upcoming week, Gemini?
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"What if you stumbled on a person living in the dark, starved, chained, drugged and poisoned?" asks futurist Jay Gary. "You'd turn on the light, unlock his chains and nourish him back to health. That poor soul is the human imagination -- yours and mine." I agree with Gary's assessment. Our imaginations are in bad shape, numbed by the media's nonstop onslaught of fear-provoking, spin-doctored, soul-killing "information." The situation is tragic. Imagination is not just a playful capacity we call on when we're making art, after all. It's our ability to form mental pictures of things that don't exist yet; it's what we use to shape our future. But here's some good news, Virgo: You now have special power to rehabilitate and reinvigorate your imagination. Get in there and turn on the light, unlock the chains, and nourish it back to health.
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My acquaintance Judith decided to go all out in helping her daughter sell Girl Scout cookies. She filled her garage with cases of all nine varieties in preparation for a marketing onslaught on friends and neighbors. Then one night disaster struck. Raccoons exploited a hole in the roof to break in and plunder the stash. But while the marauders ripped open boxes of every cookie type, they ate only one: the Samoas, also known as Carmel deLites, which are covered in caramel, sprinkled with toasted coconut, and laced with chocolate stripes. In the coming week, Libra, I urge you to be like those raccoons in this one regard: Unleash your passionate hunger very precisely. Don't go after what you sorta kinda like; pluck only the treats you long for with all your heart.
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You don't realize how fertile you are, Capricorn. Nor can you possibly comprehend how much more fecund you will become in the coming weeks. That's why it's so lucky you have tuned in to this horoscope. Just in time, I am alerting you to your awesome generative power, ensuring that you will be very thoughtful and discriminating about which seeds you sow. About six months from now, therefore, you will most certainly harvest great big beautiful fruits, not great big ugly weeds.
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To those living in the Northern Hemisphere, the North Star is the second most important star. Also known as Polaris or Pole Star, it is always directly overhead all night long. Compared to the other stars, which come and go, it's a bastion of stability. Throughout history, it served as a beacon aiding the navigation of sailors. That's why it became a symbol for a homing signal or guiding principle. Synonyms for "polestar" include focal point, gist, marrow, pivot, root, and crux. In your own life, Aquarius, what is the metaphorical equivalent of the North Star? According to the astrological omens, it's time to make adjustments and do upkeep in your relationship with that hub. (For those of you in the Southern Hemisphere, your equivalent is Sigma Octantis.)
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Early in his career, Robert Bly rarely wrote love poetry, though he studied the work of others who did. As he aged, he stopped reading the angst-ridden ruminations of modern poets and sought out the ecstatic love poetry of mystics like Rumi and Kabir. Increasingly, forgiveness and compassion became central aspects of Bly's emotional repertoire. His rage about his own past romantic disappointments dissipated. In his mid-forties, he wrote Loving a Woman in Two Worlds, his first collection of love poetry. A critic in the New York Times Book Review said it wasn't a real book of love poems, because there wasn't enough hatred and anger in it. To which I say: Ha! Your assignment this week, Pisces, is to write a love poem and think love thoughts from which all hate and anger have been purged.
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Dina Temple-Raston, national security and counterterrorism correspondent for National Public Radio, is coming to McPherson College on Nov. 3 to talk about current terrorism news and how it fits into the larger picture of national security.
Dina Temple-Raston, national security and counterterrorism correspondent for National Public Radio, is coming to McPherson College on Nov. 3 to talk about current terrorism news and how it fits into the larger picture of national security.
The Flory Public Policy Lecture starts at 4 p.m. in the college's Mingenback Theatre with Temple-Raston talking on the subject "Behind the Scenes of Today's Terrorism Cases."
Temple-Raston said she covers national security differently from many reporters in the same field.
"I see it not as a law enforcement beat but as the intersection of culture, religion, poverty, young men coming of age, and foreign policy," she said. "Those are all ingredients in virtually every story we do."
Temple-Raston has worked as a foreign correspondent for Bloomberg News in Asia, opening Bloomberg's Shanghai and Hong Kong offices for its financial wire and radio services. During the Clinton Administration, she was also Bloomberg's White House correspondent, while also covering finance and economics for "USA Today" and "CNNfn."
She joined NPR in March 2007, and her work appears regularly on national NPR news magazine programs. She's also an award-winning author, including "A Death in Texas," which won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award and was chosen as one of the Best Books of 2002 by the "Washington Post." Her second book, "Justice in the Grass: Three Rwandan Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes, and a Nation's Quest for Redemption," was a "Foreign Affairs" magazine best-seller.
She's had a varied career, she said, and is most proud of the times a story has made a difference, she's gotten first to a story or issue, and when she's helped to mentor the next generation.
Her work for NPR is in the background of listeners' daily life, but at the same time it's up-close and personal.
"People listen to us when they are doing something else — driving, cooking, getting ready in the morning — but radio still has an amazing intimacy," she said. "And that is very powerful. Everyone likes to be read to as a kid. In a sense, that is what I now do for a living."
Temple-Raston said she thinks the current generation of college students in the United States grew up with a different perspective on terrorism than she did. The closest event to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks for her was Pearl Harbor. Her great uncle was in the Navy and at Pearl Harbor, she said.
"We have talked about it, but it all seemed very distant," she said. "We grew up in the Cold War. We were worried about a nuclear holocaust, not terrorism. That is a different type of fear on an individual level."
Hearing what college students and other citizens of Kansas are thinking is what she's most looking forward to in the lecture at McPherson College, Temple-Raston said. She encourages them to take an active role in speaking up about their position on issues of national security and counterterrorism.
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ACT 1: Week-54 secondary endpoint1,2*†
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6-mercaptopurine (6-MP), or azathioprine (AZA). Patients were randomized to the following treatment groups: REMICADE® 5 mg/kg (n=121), REMICADE® 10 mg/kg (n=122), or placebo (n=121). Infusions were administered at Weeks 0, 2, and 6, and every 8 weeks thereafter through Week 46. Final efficacy evaluations were completed 8 weeks following the last infusion. Concomitant treatment with stable doses of 5-ASA, corticosteroids, and/or immunomodulators was permitted throughout the study. Of patients receiving steroids at baseline, tapering was allowed beginning at Week 8. The primary efficacy endpoint was clinical response at Week 8; secondary endpoints included remission and mucosal healing.
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DETROIT – For the second time in days, a bogus bomb threat closed a major crossing in Detroit between the U.S. and Canada for several hours.
Detroit police said a 911 call came in around 7:20 p.m. Monday to authorities on the U.S. side of the Ambassador Bridge, which links Detroit with the Canadian city of Windsor. The caller said a bomb would go off in 10 minutes along the busy freight crossing, police Inspector Don Johnson said during news conference Monday night.
The call prompted authorities in both cities to halt all truck and car traffic across the bridge, said Detroit police spokeswoman Sgt. Eren Stephens.
The bridge was reopened around 1 a.m. Tuesday after security sweeps failed to turn up any incendiary devices, Stephens said.
She said traffic was backed up but is expected to be clear by Tuesday morning's rush hour.
"We have over 100 trucks (waiting to cross), so it's going to take some time," she said.
Monday's bomb threat came just four days after a similar threat was phoned in to Windsor authorities that lead to a four-hour closing of the Detroit Windsor Tunnel, a busy border crossing beneath the river that also connects the two border cities. No explosives were found.
At the time, police said a man had called from a street pay phone and warned of a bomb on the Canadian side of the tunnel. Authorities have since said surveillance video from a coffee shop near the phone booth where the call was made might offer clues about the caller.
Johnson said the call Monday came in from somewhere in Detroit, though other details weren't immediately released.
Police had set up several roadblocks near the bridge, where canine units were called in to search the bridge. The Coast Guard was patrolling the Detroit River beneath the bridge and blocked river traffic until about 1 a.m. Tuesday as well.
The closing led to major traffic backups on expressways and other major roads leading into downtown Detroit, Stephens said. Car and light truck traffic was being diverted to the Detroit Windsor Tunnel about 2 miles away, though large trucks cannot use the underwater commuter tunnel.


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CORNING, NEW YORK. September 5, 1841 Titles Used by the Americans.
I asked the landlord of the inn at Corning, who was very attentive to his guests, to find my coachman. He immediately called out in his bar-room, " Where is the gentleman that brought this man here ?" A few days before, a farmer in New York had styled my wife " the woman," though he called his own daughters ladies, and would, I believe, have freely extended that title to their maid-servant. I was told of a witness in a late trial at Boston, who stated in evidence that " while he and another gentleman were shovelling up mud," &c.; from which it appears that the spirit of social equality has left no other signification to the terms "gentleman" and "lady " but that of ''male and female individual."
HUDSON RIVER, NEW YORK. Sept. 27. 1841. Steamboat Travel; Treatment of Women Travelers in General.
We embarked once more on the Hudson, to sail from Albany to New York, with several hundred passengers on board, and thought the scenery more beautiful than ever. The steamboat is a great floating hotel, of which the captain is landlord. He presides at meals, taking care that no gentlemen take their places at table till all the ladies, or, as we should say in England, the women of every class, are first seated. The men, by whom they are accompanied, are then invited to join them, after which, at the sound of a bell, the bachelors and married men travelling en garcon pour into the saloon, in much the same style as members of the House of Commons rush into the Upper House to hear a speech from the throne.
One of the first peculiarities that must strike a foreigner in the United States is the deference paid universally to the sex, without regard to station. Women may travel alone here in stage-coaches, steam-boats, and railways, with less risk of encountering disagreeable behaviour, and of hearing coarse and unpleasant conversation, than in any country I have ever visited. The contrast in this respect between the Americans and the French is quite remarkable. There is a spirit of true gallantry in all this, but the publicity of the railway car, where all are in one long room, and of the large ordinaries, whether on land or water, is a great protection, the want of which has been felt by many a female traveller without escort in England. As the Americans address no conversation to strangers, we soon became tolerably reconciled to living so much in public.
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. October 27, 1841 Meeting Laura Bridgeman at the Blind Asylum
In the Blind Asylum I saw Laura Bridgman, in her twelfth year. At the age of two she lost her sight and hearing by a severe illness, but although deaf, dumb, and blind, her mind has been so advanced by the method of instruction pursued by Dr. Howe, that she shows more intelligence and quickness of feeling than many girls of the same age who are in full possession of all their senses. The excellent reports of Dr. Howe, on the gradual development of her mind, have been long before the public, and have recently been cited by Mr. Dickens, together with some judicious observations of his own. Perhaps no one of the cases of a somewhat analogous nature, on which Dugald Stewart and others have philosophised, has furnished so many new and valuable facts illustrating the extent to which all intellectual developmcnt is dependent on the instrumentality of the senses in discerning external objects, and, at the same time, in how small a degree the relative acuteness of the organs of sense determine the moral and intellectual superiority of the individual.
LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS. Nov. 15, 1841 Wages in the Mills; Education in Lowell.
Went twenty-six miles to the north of Boston, by an excellent railway, to the manufacturing town of Lowell, which has sprung up entirely in the last sixteen years, and now contains about 20,000 inhabitants. The mills are remarkably clean, and weII warmed, and almost all for making cotton and woollen goods, which are exported to the west. The young women from the age of eighteen to twenty-five, who attend to the spinning-wheels, are good-looking and neatly dressed, chiefly the daughters of New England farmers, sometiines of the poorer clergy. They belong, therefore, to a very different class from our manufacturing population, and after remaining a few years in the factory, return to their homes, and usually marry.
We are told that, to work in these factories is considered far more eligible for a young woman than domestic service, as they can save more and have stated hours of work (twelve hours a day !), after which they are at liberty. Their moral character stands very high, and a girl is paid off, if the least doubt exists on that point. Boarding-houses, usually kept by widows, are attached to each mill, in which the operatives are required to board; the men and women being separate. This regard for the welfare and conduct of the workpeople when they are not on actual duty is comparatively rare in England, wherc the greater supply of labour would render such interference and kind superintendence much more practicable. Still we could not expect that the results would be equally satisfactory with us, on account of the lower grade of the operatives, and the ignorance of the lower classes in England. In regard to the order, dress, and cleanliness of the people, these merits are also exemplified in the rural districts of Lancashire, and it is usually in our large towns alone, that the work people are unhealthy and squalid, especially where a number of the poor Irish live crowded together in bad dwellings.
The factories at Lowell are not only on a great scale, but have been so managed as to yield high profits, a fact which should be impressed on the mind of every foreigner who visits them, lest, after admiring the gentility of manner and dress of the women and men employed, he should go away with the idea that he had been seeing a model mill, or a set of gentlemen and ladies playing at factory for their amusement. There are few children employed, and those under fifteen are compelled by law to go to school three months in the year, under penalty of a heavy fine. If this regulation is infringed, informers are not wanting, for there is a strong sympathy in the public mind with all acts of the legislature, enforcing education. The Bostonians submit to pay annually for public instruction in their city alone, the sum of 30,000l. sterling, which is about equal to the parliamentary grant of this year (1841) for the whole of England, while the sum raised for free schools in the state this year, by taxes for wages of teachers, and their board, and exclusive of funds for building, exceeds 100,000l. sterling.
The law ordains, that every district containing fifty families shall maintain one school, for the support of which the inhabitants are required to tax themselves, and to appoint committees annually for managing the funds, and choosing their own schoolmasters. The Bible is allowed to be read in all, and is actually read in nearly all the schools; but the law prohibits the use of books "calculated to favour the tenets of any particular sect of Christians;Ó Parents and guardians are expected to teach their own children, or to procure them to be taught, what they believe to be religious truth, and for this purpose besides family worship and the pulpit, there are Sunday-schools. The system works well among this church-building and churchgoing population.
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. November 29, 1841 Encounter with Recent English Emigrant
On entering the station-house of a railway which was to carry us to our place of embarkation, we found a room with only two chairs in it. One of these was occupied by a respectable-looking woman, who immediately rose, intending to give it up, to me, an act betraying that she was English, and newly-arrived, as an American gentleman, even if already seated, would have felt it necessary to rise and offer the chair to any woman, whether mistress or maid, and she, as a matter of course, would have accepted the proffered seat. After I had gone out, she told my wife that she and her husband had come a few months before from Hertfordshire, hoping to get work in Virginia, but she had discovered that there was no room here for poor white people, who were despised by the very negroes if they laboured with their own hands. She had found herself looked down upon, even for carrying her own child, for they said she ought to hire a black nurse. These poor emigrants were now anxious to settle in some free state.
RAILWAY FROM NORFOLK TO WELDON, NORTH CAROLINA. December 23, 1841. Separate Arrangements for Men and Women on Railway Cars.
Our car, according to the usual construction in this country, was in the shape of a long omnibus, with the seats transverse, and a passage down the middle, where, to the great relief of the traveller, he can stand upright with his hat on, and walk about, warming himself when he pleases at the stove, which is in the centre of the car. There is often a private room fitted up for the ladies, into which no gentleman can intrude, and where they are sometimes supplied with rocking-chairs, so essential to the comfort of the Americans, whether at sea or on land, in a fashionable drawing-room or in the cabin of a ship. It is singular enough that this luxury, after being popular for ages all over Lancashire, required transplantation to the New World before it could be improved and become fashionable, so as to be reimported into its native land.
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA. December 28, 1841. Provisions for Slaves.
Returning home to this hospitable mansion in the dusk of the evening of the day following, I was surprised to see, in a grove of trees near the court-yard of the farm, a Iarge wood-fire blazing on the ground. Over the fire hung three cauldrons, filled, as I afterwards learned, with hog's lard, and three old negro women, in their usual drab-coloured costume, were leaning over the cauldrons, and stirring the lard to clarify it. The red glare of the fire was reflected from their faces, and I need hardly say how much they reminded me of the scene of the witches in Macbeth. Beside them, moving slowly backwards and forwards in a rockingchair, sat the wife of the overseer, muffled up in a cloak, and suffering from a severe cold, but obliged to watch the old slaves, who are as thoughtless as children, and might spoil the lard if she turned away her head for a few minutes. When I inquired the meaning of this ceremouy, I was told it was " killing time," this being the coldest season of the year, and that since I left the farm in the morning thirty hogs had been sacrificed by the side of a running stream not far off.
These were destined to serve as winter provisions for the negroes, of whom there were about a hundred on this plantation. To supply all of them with food, clothes, and medical attendants, young, old, and impotent, as well as the able-bodied, is but a portion of the expense of slave-labour. They must be continually superintended by trustworthy whites, who might often perform no small part of the task, and far more effectively, with their own hands.
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA. January 13, 1842 Purchase Price for Slaves; Slave Wedding.
After the accounts I had read of the sufferings of slaves, I was agreeably surprised to find them, in general, so remarkably cheerful and light-hearted. It is true that I saw no gangs working under overseers on suga plantations, but out of two millions and a half of slaves in the United States, thee larger proportion are engaged in such farming occupations and domestic services as I witnessed in Georgia and South Carolina. I was often for days together with negroes who served me as guides, and found them as talkative and chatty as children, usually boasting of their master's wealth, and their own peculiar merits. At an inn in Virginia, a female slave asked us to guess for how many dollars a year she was let out by her owner. We named a small sum, but she told us exultingly, that we were much under the mark, for the landlord paid fifty dollars, or ten guineas a year for her hire. A good-humoured butler, at another inn in the same state, took care to tell me that his owner got 30l a year for him. The coloured stewardess of a steam-vessel was at great painS to tell us her value, and how she came by the name of Queen Victoria. When we recollect that the dollars are not their own, we can hardly refrain from smiling at the childlike simplicity with which they express their satisfaction at the high price set on them. That price, however, is a fair test of their intelligence and moral worth, of which they have just reason to feel proud, and their pride is at least free from all sordid and mercenary considerations. We might even say that they labour with higher motives than the whites-a disinterested love of doing their duty. I am aware that we may reflect and philosophise on this peculiar and amusing form of vanity, until we perceive in it the evidence of extreme social degrradation; but the first impression which it made upon my mind was very consolatory, as I found it impossible to feel a painful degree of commiseration for persons so exceedingly well satisfied with themselves
South Carolina is one of the few states where there is a numerical preponderance of slaves. One night, at Charleston, I went to see the guard-house, where there is a strong guard kept constantly in arms, and on the alert. Every citizen is obliged to serve in person, or find a substitute; and the maintenance of such a force, the strict laws against importing books relating to emancipation, and the prohibition to bring back slaves who have been taken by their masters into free states, allow that the fears of the owner, whether well-founded or not, are real.
During our stay at Charleston, we were present at a negro wedding, where the bride and bridegroom, and nearly all the company, were of unmixed African race. They were very merry. The bride and bridemaids all dressed in white. The marriage service performed by an Episcopal clergyman. Not long afterwards, when staying at a farm-house in North Carolina, I happened to ask a planter if one of his negroes with whom we had been conversing was married. He told me, Yes, he had a wife on that estate, as well as another, her sister, on a different property which belonged to him; but that there was no legal validity in the marriage ceremony. I remarked, that he must be mistaken, as an Episcopal minister at Charleston would not have lent himself to the performance of a sacred rite, if it were nugatory in practice, and in the eye of the law. He replied, that he himself was a lawyer by profession, and that no legal validity ever had been, or ought to he, given to the marriage tie, so long as the right of sale could separate parent and child, husband and wife. Such separations, he said, could not always be prevented, when slaves multiplied fast, though they were avoided by the masters as far as possible. He defended the custom of bringing up the children of the same estate in common, as it was far more humane not to cherish domestic ties among slaves. On the same farm I talked with several slaves who had been set to fell timber by task-work, and had finished by the middle of the day. They never appeared to be overworked; and the rapidity with which they increase beyond the whites in the United States shows that they are not in a state of discomfort, oppression, and misery. Doubtless, in the same manner as in Ireland and parts of Great Britain, the want of education, mental culture, and respect for themselves, favours improvident marriages among the poor; so the state of mere animal existence of the slave, and his low moral and intellectual condition, coupled with kind treatment and all freedom from care, promote their multiplication. The effect of the institution on the progress of the whites is most injurious, and, after travelling in the northern States, and admiring their rapid advance, it is most depressing to the spirits. There appears to be no place in society for poor whites. If they are rich, their slaves multiply, and from motives of kindly feeling towards retainers, and often from false pride, they are very unwilling to sell them. Hence They are constantly tempted to maintain a larger establishment than is warranted by the amount of their capital, and they often become involved in their circumstances, and finally bankrupt. The prudence, temper, and decision of character required to manage a plantation successfully is very great. It is notorious that the hardest taskmasters to the slaves are those who come from the northern free States.
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. Feb. 1, 1842 Religious Fervor of Women.
While here I heard complaints of the religious excitement into which the city had been just thrown by the arrival of a popular New England preacher, who attracted such crowds that at length all the sittings of his church were monopolized by the fair sex. American gallantry forbids that a woman should remain standing while gentlemen are comfortably seated in their pews, so that at last the men were totally excluded. Notice was immediately given that certain services were to be entirely reserved for the men; this announcement well calculated to provoke curiosity, and to tempt many a stray sheep from other folds. It was then thought expedient for the ministers of rival sects to redouble their zeal, that they might not be Ieft behind in the race, and even the sober Episcopalians, though highly disapproving of the movement, increased the number of their services; so that I was assured it would be possible for the same individual between the hours of seven o'clock in the morning and nine in the evening, to go seven times to church in one day. The consequences are too like those occasionally experienced in the " old country," where enthusiasm is not kindled by so much free competition, to be worth dwelling upon. Every day added new recruits to a host of ascetic devotees, and places of public amusement were nearly deserted-- at last even the innocent indulgence of social intercourse was not deemed blameless: and the men who had generally escaped the contagion in the midst of their professional avocations, found a gloomy cast over society or over their domestic circle. The young ladies, in particular, having abundance of leisure, were filled with a lively sense of their own exceeding wickedness, and the sins of their parents and guardians.


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The Assistant Cub Scout Den Leader shares the work of the Cub Scout Den Leader and may be called upon to serve as a family contact or record keeper, or to handle other details of den operation. Each den should have at least one assistant den leader, and more if needed.
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- Help the den leader as needed.
- Carry out the duties assigned by the den leader.
- Be ready to fill in for the den leader in case of an emergency.
- Help establish a close working relationship with the den leader and den chief, functioning with them as a den leadership team.
- Complete Cub Scout den leader Fast Start Training and position-specific Basic Leader Training. Attend monthly roundtables.
- Attend Pack Meetings and help as needed.
- Take part in the annual pack program planning conference and pack leaders' meetings.
- Attend the monthly den chief planning meeting for den leaders, assistant den leaders, and den chiefs.
- Work in harmony with other den and pack leaders.
- Support the policies of the BSA.
- Is at least 18 years old, subscribes to the Declaration of Religious Principle, and agrees to abide by the Scout Oath or Promise and the Scout Law. Possesses the moral, educational, and emotional qualities that the Boy Scouts of America deems necessary to afford positive leadership to youth. Is able to perform the duties assigned by the den leader. Should be able to fill in for the den leader in case of an emergency. Recommended by the Cubmaster after consultation with the den leader, parents, and guardians of the Cub Scouts involved, and approved by the pack committee and chartered organization. Registered as an adult leader of the BSA.
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