text: DARK TERRITORY SHADOW PUPPETS Benzar System 2373 Commander Dylan North couldn't believe that the fight on the inside was more important than the one on the outside right now. "Permission to speak freely sir?" He asked through clenched teeth, his eyes being drawn every few seconds to the viewer which was lighting up with energy discharges and the too frequent explosions. Captain Larpek barely acknowledged him; his eyes riveted also the carnage on the main screen. "Permission denied," he crisply replied. The purplish-blue Benzite captain gripped his chair tightly with webbed hands, the barbells hanging from each side of his face twitching with each new image of destruction. The Eleventh Fleet, charged with protecting the Benzar System, had been decimated by wave after wave of Dominion forces. The first officer had sat back in nearly dazed horror after hearing reports that the Dominion had bypassed the Benzar Defense Perimeter. Surely the 11th would be able to hold the line, but North had never seen so many starships or so many people intent to kill him, and slaughter they had. North blessedly hadn't been at Wolf 359, but the scenes of burnt out hulls and oceans of ship fragments reminded him of the Federation News Service reports he had seen. And now it was happening all again. The Dominion had devastated the 12th Fleet in the Tyra System and now they had waylaid another entire fleet, over a hundred starships and countless lives all lost to these butchers. Now the helm officer moved the ship as ably as he could through the debris field, one step away from the wolves on their heels. The first officer leaned over even more in his chair, his lips close enough to the man's ear that only the Vulcans on the bridge could hear them. "You can't go through with this," he rasped, "We have orders." The bridge rocked as a spiral disruptor blast battered their shields. The uptight Benzite almost laughed, the sound coming out as a terse grunt. The younger man finally turned to him, his dark eyes boring into him. "What orders? There's no one left to give them. Fleet Captain Walker died on the Monarch five minutes ago." North grimaced, the image flashing through his mind. It seemed like the implosion of that grand Sovereign-class vessel had been the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. The few surviving ships had started to break formation, scrambling anywhere to escape the Cardassians and Jem'Hadar. "The planetary leaders are back on Benzar, as are the Birthing Technicians, not to mention the Federation ambassador," Larpek said, "We're leaving this abattoir and going back to evacuate them before it's too late." While the captain spoke, he subconsciously fingered the small polished black stone hanging from his neck. North knew enough about Benzite culture to know that a pledge stone signified marriage. The first officer also knew that Larpek's wife was one of the Birthing Technicians. Another inconvenient memory of his wife, thankfully safe on Betazed, flickered through his mind. Wouldn't he disregard orders to, to save her? Feeling hypocritical, North said, "Sir, I-I can't allow you to do that. I know this is about saving your wife as much as it is about rescuing the Benzite leadership." Larpek didn't bat an eye. "It is," he nodded, "The Dominion has won this battle, but the victory will not be complete until they have our best political and scientific minds for whatever nefarious purposes they might devise." "Our orders are to remain here, to give no quarter, to fight to the last," North said, paraphrasing a florid Fleet Captain Walker. "We can't overturn orders for personal feelings." "Mr. North for the short time we have worked together, I think you know that I am a stickler for protocol," Larpek's smile was grim. "But in this instance the personal matches with the critical, so we are going to Benzar." "We just can't run from a fight sir, no matter how hopeless it might appear." North expressed, finally giving voice to what had been twisting his stomach in knots. "I will lodge a formal protest," he threatened. "Do what you feel is necessary," Larpek replied, unfazed. "If you do not feel you can continue to perform your duties because of this impasse..." North shifted his jaw, his expression hardening. "I'm not going to sit this one out. You're going to need me, this crew as well. We'll settle up after." "Excellent," Larpek said, turning away from him. "Helm, change course," he ordered. "Best speed to Benzar." ************************************************************** Vulcan May 2376 Admiral Samson Glover gently kicked back the bed sheet so that the nocturnal wind could cool his sweat slickened skin. T'Prell shivered beside him and wrapped the blood green cover around her bare olive shoulders. She pursed her lips in annoyance and Samson smiled. "Still cold natured I see?" "I was birthed and raised on a desert planet, you know?" T'Prell said, "This one." "A lovely one it is," his grin grew larger, "But not as lovely as you." His Vulcan lover arched a black eye brow. "Oh please, Sam you were never good with come on lines," T'Prell groaned. "But yet, somehow, here we are," the admiral chuckled. "Yeah," T'Prell said, joining in him in a laugh. "Who would've thought it?" "I know, but you know how we are, off again, on again, a never ending cycle," Glover surmised. "I am glad we are on again, in spite of everything," T'Prell replied. The wattage of the admiral's grin dimmed. "Let's not argue on my last night here T'Prell," his admonition sounded more like a plea. "Samson, I'm sorry," T'Prell paused as she turned around to face him, resting her upper body on a propped elbow. Her body tensed and Samson sighed. He knew her body language well enough to know that a fight was brewing. He girded himself for the fireworks. He propped himself on both elbows. Oblivious, T'Prell continued, "But you know how I feel about this mission, and you know I feel even worse not being a part of it." "You know I could get in trouble for telling you, it is classified," Samson grumbled. "No, it's so black that it is totally off the books," T'Prell frowned. "And you know what that means, if you get caught, you're totally on your own." "I will endeavor not to get caught then," the admiral chuckled but T'Prell didn't get the joke. "I'm serious Samson," T'Prell pressed. "I'm a member of the V'Shar. I like cloak and dagger games as much as the next person, but even this goes beyond the pale for me. What Logan is proposing could start a war, and even worse, could tarnish the Federation's reputation for transparency and democracy at the worst possible time. We're still recovering from the Dominion War, there are billions of beings across the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, who still feel lost, left behind, are still trying to make sense of it all. We need to be that beacon for them, we have to be that light." Samson grunted. "Now, who's being the idealistic one?" T'Prell glared at him. "Listen T'Prell, I hate to say it, but the war did change us. It changed me. It turned my son into a hollowed shell and my daughter-in-law into an amputee. And I got off lucky. The Dominion wreaked so much destruction and devastation that I would be remiss in my duties if I ever allowed a threat of that scale to emerge again." "The Romulans suffered catastrophic losses too and they are dealing with incipient revolts from their subjects, they are not that threat, and neither are Federation citizens." Samson recoiled as if T'Prell had physically struck him. T'Prell didn't relent. "Sam, I just can't believe you signed off on continued blood screenings on all starbases and outposts. You were one of the main opponents of that tactic from the onset. I remembered how rankled you were when Conrad Haas instituted it over your head on Deep Space 5." "That was a life time ago, millions of years ago," Samson said, a sour taste in his mouth. "As head of Starfleet Security, I thought it was the best thing to do. Not all the guns from the war have fallen silent, as evidenced by the Cardassian militants and even that Changeling that had infiltrated the Klingon Defense Force a few months ago." "Yes, the Changeling that helped save your son from some of those militants," T'Prell pointed out. "One good Changeling," Samson rolled his eyes. "Okay, that's two counting Odo. Am I supposed to think there aren't some bad ones out there, smarting that they were defeated by a bunch of solids? I can't take that risk, and I wouldn't imperil anyone under my watch. But you don't have to worry about that anymore; I'm not Security chief anymore." "You resigned to go on this insane mission," T'Prell replied. "Subverting a plebiscite on Benzar? Using terroristic tactics? What happened to you?" "What happened to you?" Samson shot up in bed, his eyes flashing, his nostrils flaring. "You've done much worse, but I never judged you because I trusted that you knew the difference between right and wrong and if you felt extreme tactics were necessary, then they were." "Sam, I-," T'Prell began. "No," he shook his head furiously. "No," he said. He swiveled around and planted his feet on the hard, plasma rock floor. He hunched his shoulders and stared into the floor's obsidian depths. "Samson," T'Prell said, more forcefully. She placed a hand on his shoulder. He thought about shrugging it off, but left it alone. "Sam, listen, I didn't mean to accuse…" "Save it T'Prell," he gently eased her hand off him and stood up. He turned around to glance at her, "I've got some things I need to wrap up anyway. I know my way out." "No Sam," T'Prell slid out of bed, leaving the sheet behind. Her nakedness, glimmering in the moonlight coming in from the room's slanted windows, took his breath away, but he tried not to keep her from seeing it. He turned away. "Please Sam; let's not end things on a sour note. Come back to bed," she offered. He sighed, his chest caving in, as his resistance weakened. He turned back to her and grabbed her arms. Samson pulled her close and kissed her with a passion he hadn't felt in years, an abandon that he had never unleashed on her before. Pushing her away from him, the former admiral said, "How about I take a rain check? It'll give me more incentive to get back in one piece." ******************************************************************* Verex III Two Days Later… Presidential Chief of Staff Garth Logan watched the last of the Corvallen freighter's warp trail dissipate, from the window port of his own personal spacecraft, before he made his call. He had been fortunate that Admiral Shanthi had wasted no time in leaving, heading back to her job at Starfleet Administration. If she had stayed much longer her absence might arouse suspicion and he was glad that the woman was sufficiently paranoid and guilt-plagued to not want to spend time at the location of perhaps her blackest deed in defense of the Federation. Though Logan was perhaps even more in a fishbowl than Shanthi, he had the readymade excuse of traveling in support of President Santiago's reelection. From Verex III, he would make a short jaunt to Aaamazzara and then on to Cygnus VII, to shore up lagging support from Santiago's home planet. It would be a disaster if Santiago's own planet turned against him. Logan would do his best to coax skittish and dispirited supporters to hold firm, but actually he could care less. The Federation Council, Starfleet Command, the Federation Presidency itself, they were all mere trappings, shadow puppets to the true masters pulling the strings. A light blinked on his console. He smiled before activating it. In a shocking loss of control, the smile dropped immediately in surprise. The stocky Andorian woman, an admiral's bar on her collar, grinned savagely in response. "Weren't expecting me Mr. Logan, or shall I say Agent Laurent?" Calling him by his birth name caused the man to wince. Though the room was sound proofed and had been tripled check by him personally, he was still concerned that his ruse might be discovered at any moment. The real Garth Logan had been liquidated and replaced years ago, and he had assumed the man's identity on occasion, and it had become nearly a permanent assignment once the section needed an inside man in Santiago's camp once he began making moves toward the presidency. "How might I assist you Visala?" He asked, not acknowledging the woman's rank, or her superior status in the section. Now the Andorian glowered at him. "You really thought you could do an end run around me?" She asked. "What are you trying to prove?" Logan shrugged casually, "I was doing nothing of the sort. The Directorate wanted the Iconian probe, and Special Affairs and Investigations had it very closely under wraps. I knew that Admiral Shanthi could be a vital asset in removing it from Special Affairs' clutches, but that she would only trust an unassailable sort like Admiral Glover with it. This way, it's out in the open and Section 31 can procure it more easily." "At the expense of the careful planning and cultivating of anti-Romulan forces on Benzar?" Visala's tone was derisive. "We could've have achieved both ends. If you had given me enough time to establish myself." The Andorian had recently been promoted to and installed on the Deputy Chief's staff. "Unleashing that probe on Benzar is too unpredictable. It might result in an outcome not to our advantage." "Santiago needs a victory, something to prop up his campaign," Logan replied evenly. Santiago's rival, former Admiral Norah Satie was proving quite resilient as a campaigner, and the Directorate had so far been unable to penetrate deeply within her campaign. "Not only can we get the Iconian probe, we can observe it in action on Benzar, and watch the Romulans overreact. The Benzites will come back to us in droves, Santiago's policies will be vindicated, and it will still leave the Romulans with their Reman problem, and no easy way to pass them off to the Benzites or to us. Hopefully both the Romulans and Remans will devour each other." "This had better not fail," Visala warned, her twin antennae circling the white shock of her hair like serpents. "The Directorate signed off on this," Logan said, with a smirk. The woman huffed. Her hands were tied. Logan had went around her, above her, and made her look ineffectual to boot. He had created a formidable enemy in the Andorian admiral, but at the moment he didn't care. He basked in his supposed triumph. "Did you just call only to threaten me?" "Bah," Visala snorted before disconnecting the link. Logan leaned back in his seat and chuckled. Before the sound of his last laugh faded, the console blinked again. "Here we go," Logan said, certain it was the person he really wanted to talk to. He pressed the flashing light and an aristocratic Romulan looked back at him. "Has the package departed?" The austere Romulan asked, without preamble. "Of course," Logan replied curtly, all business on the outside. 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Her daughter, Selena, said she was sitting on the bus when it stopped to pick up other kids. She said the dog ran to the back of the bus, where she was sitting, and started biting her without being provoked. At one point, she even tried to pry the dogs jaws from her leg.
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ONEIDA>> According to Acting Mayor Max Smith, clean up and rebuilding is in full swing in the evacuation area in the flats.
"The area is pretty much open," Smith said. Check points are inactive at this point until curfew, and he said that that is being pushed back until 10 p.m. and will only apply to non-residents.
"At this point, we are more worried about finding out what type of assistance people need," Smith said. "Reenacting the state of emergency allows us to flex some rules, open up what we can do and how we can do it to help people get back into their homes."
Smith said that the curfew will keep people out of the area after 10 p.m. with beefed up police security. Residents and homeowners in the flats will be allowed into the area with little to no restrictions. The wristband system from Monday has long since been disestablished, and residents can move freely.
Smith said that currently, he and other Oneida officials are mobilizing Habitat for Humanity and other volunteer groups on the scene in order to speed up the cleanup operations.
"At this point in time, our purpose is to help residents get their lives back on track in the area," Smith said.
-Habitat for Humanity was working diligently with the city, to determine which homeowners needed help cleaning out their properties.
Shannon Emmons was working with Habitat on July 4 to help clear out Donna Rong's home on Stephen Street. Rong has lived in the house since she was a girl, and inherited the property which she shares with her son, after her mother passed away. Today was the first time she could get assistance clearing out the property.
"I'm doing this because it is the right thing to do," Emmons said.
The crew Emmons was on, which consisted of six workers, had four other houses on their agenda for the day, but she said "I don't think we will get through all of them today."
She explained that homeowners and residents with disabilities, the elderly and those without immediate family in the area are the first that will be helped.
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Emmons explained that the cleanup is a lengthy process that could take anywhere from four to six hours per home. In order for the home to be cleaned and livable, the crew has to help clear all items from the flooded area of the home, remove any carpets or rugs that came into contact with the water, and remove all sheet rock and walling that came in contact with the water.
Habitat does aid people with repairs as well, but Emmons said, "There is a long process and a lot of paperwork to try and get a crew back into a home. Because of everything going on, and the number of homes that need work, it is a bit beyond our scope at this time."
Habitat along with other volunteer groups will be helping throughout the weekend.
-Acting Mayor Max Smith extended the state of emergency for Oneida, effective July 3 at 6 p.m. With the reinstatement comes a 10 p.m. curfew as well as the restrictions in the affected area, which are still the areas between the corner of Madison and Lake streets, the intersection of Linden and Cedar streets, Lenox Avenue and Cedar Street, MacArthur Parkway and Lexington Avenue, to the intersection of East Walnut Street and Wilbur Street and along the Madison/Oneida county line from Sconondoa Street to Prospect Street. Vehicles or unapproved foot traffic in that area is prohibited. Homeowners and residents are allowed in the area freely to clean-up, retrieve belongings and stay in their homes if they have been fully restored.
-On July 3, acting Mayor Max Smith signed a resolution that will allow electric inspectors who are not approved by common council to survey properties in the flood affected area as long as they are approved by National Grid. This resolution will allow homes to be up and running faster, providing more inspections and allowing people to return power to their homes earlier.
-A boil water notice has been issued for all houses on Linden, Mott and Stoddard streets, and all houses north of Lenox Ave. on Stephen Street and Lexington Avenue. This notice is in effect until July 8, or until it is rescinded. As a precaution, all homes in the evacuated area should boil water as well.


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Julius Shulman (October 10, 1910 – July 15, 2009) was an American architectural photographer best known for his photograph "Case Study House #22, Los Angeles, 1960. Pierre Koenig, Architect." The house is also known as The Stahl House. Shulman's photography spread California modernism around the world. Through his many books, exhibits and personal appearances his work ushered in a new appreciation for the movement beginning in the 1990s. His vast library of images currently reside at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. His contemporaries include Ezra Stoller and Hedrich Blessing. In 1947, Julius Shulman asked architect Raphael Soriano to build a mid-century steel home and studio in the Hollywood Hills.
Some of his architectural photographs, like the iconic shots of Frank Lloyd Wright's or Pierre Koenig's remarkable structures, have been published countless times. The brilliance of buildings like those by Charles Eames, as well as those of his close friend, Richard Neutra, was first brought to light by Shulman's photography. The clarity of his work demanded that architectural photography had to be considered as an independent art form. Each Shulman image unites perception and understanding for the buildings and their place in the landscape. The precise compositions reveal not just the architectural ideas behind a building's surface, but also the visions and hopes of an entire age. A sense of humanity is always present in his work, even when the human figure is absent from the actual photographs.
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In 1987, the Shulman House was designated a Cultural Heritage Monument by the City of Los Angeles.
In 2000 Julius Shulman gave up retirement to begin working with his current business partner Juergen Nogai.
The Getty Research Institute held a 2005–2006 exhibition of Shulman's prints entitled "Julius Shulman, Modernity and the Metropolis"[4]. The exhibition included sections entitled "Framing the California Lifestyle," "Promoting the Power of Modern Architecture," "The Tools of an Innovator," and "The Development of a Metropolis". The exhibition traveled to the National Building Museum and to the Art Institute of Chicago.
Julius Shulman and Juergen Nogai have had exhibitions at the Design and Architecture Museum in Frankfurt, Germany in Fall of 2005, as well as an exhibition at the Barnsdall Municipal Gallery in Los Angeles 2006, Craig Krull Gallery Bergamont station, Los Angeles, October 2007, and another up-coming show in Spring 2009. An exhibition of their work is also scheduled in Mannheim, Germany in 2010.
On December 16, 2007 Shulman attended a showing of his architectural photography at the Los Angeles Public Library. The exhibit, organized by the Getty Research Institute, included one hundred fifty photographs documenting architectural changes in Los Angeles for the last eighty years. This progression includes the re-development of Bunker Hill, the growth of Century City, the avant-garde architectural designs in Los Angeles, such as Watts Towers, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, and the Getty Villa, as well as the growth of Wilshire Boulevard. The exhibition features the industrial engines at the Port of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles International Airport that helped fuel the growth of Los Angeles Also, featured diverse residential fabric from Echo Park to South Los Angeles. The exhibit spot-lighted Shulman's unique role in capturing and promoting innovative, sleek Case Study Houses, as well as the contrasting tract housing developments with repeated floor plans.
In February, 2008, the Palm Springs Art Museum presented "Julius Shulman: Palm Springs," guest curated by Michael Stern. Containing over 200 objects, this is the largest Julius Shulman exhibition that has ever been presented to date. In addition to the Shulman photographs, renderings, illustrations and models of many of the buildings that Shulman photographed were presented to compliment Shulman's extensive documentation of a place that was so inspirational to him. Rizzoli published the accompanying catalog, "Julius Shulman: Palm Springs." Additionally, a documentary DVD was produced in conjunction with the exhibition "Julius Shulman: Desert Modern."
Selected Shulman works were included in the Annenberg Space for Photography's inaugural exhibit, LOS ANGELES. One of his last commissioned works was of the Space, which opened in March, 2009, with Shulman in attendance.
Shulman was the subject of a 2008 documentary film, Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman. The film, narrated by Dustin Hoffman and directed by Eric Bricker, explores both Shulman's art and uniquely individualistic life offering a lyrical portrait of modernism's most eloquent ambassador. It discusses how Shulman's images helped to shape the careers of influential 20th century architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra and John Lautner. The film won the 2009 Palm Springs International Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature as well as awards at the Austin Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival and the Lone Star International Film Festival.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will visit Indonesia next week, officials said on Friday, in what may prove a crucial step in the battle to meet green standards and open up a potentially huge market for the world's top palm oil producer.
Indonesia is seen as a key player in the fight against climate change and is under intense international pressure to curb its rapid deforestation rate and destruction of carbon-rich peatlands.
A recent blow to the Southeast Asian palm oil industry, which supplies more than 90 percent of world supplies of the edible oil, came in late January when it failed to meet greenhouse gas saving standards to qualify for the U.S. renewable fuels program.
The U.S. EPA said palm oil converted into biofuels in Indonesia and Malaysia cut up to 17 percent of climate warming emissions, falling short of a 20 percent requirement to enter the world's largest energy market.
Next week an EPA delegation will visit a palm oil plantation in Riau province, opposite Singapore on Sumatra island, and then meet the Indonesian agriculture minister in Jakarta, Gamal Nasir, director general of plantation at the ministry told Reuters.
"The visit is very important for both the EPA, American people and the Indonesian government and its people," Nasir added. "This is a good step to prove what EPA claims and Indonesia argues.
"We will be open up to them and prove our arguments in the field."
A senior spokeswoman at the EPA said that the group had been invited and would visit Southeast Asia next week, but was unable to give any further details.
Palm industry figures, including the Indonesian Palm Oil Board (IPOB) are due to be part of next week's EPA visit. The IPOB declined to comment.
In the last few years, Indonesia has seen rapid growth in production of palm oil, with output this year expected to be between 23 million and 25 million tonnes, with around 18 million tonnes exported.
In 2012, palm oil estates will sprawl across 8.2 million hectares of Indonesian land, and is expected to rise about 200,000 hectares each year for the next decade.
Green groups have been critical of expansion in the palm sector.
Plantation expansion is projected to pump more than 558 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 2020, an amount greater than all of Canada's current fossil fuel emissions, a study by Yale and Stanford University researchers said last month.
Plantation expansion in Kalimantan alone is projected to contribute 18-22 percent of Indonesia's 2020 CO2-equivalent emissions, the study added.
For their part, Indonesian government officials and palm industry figures have lobbied the U.S. government on the issue.
Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed off on a two-year forest moratorium in May last year, although critics say breaches still occur.
Although the U.S. is not a large palm oil market at present, with India, China and Europe the top buyers, this could change in the future, say Indonesia-based traders.
Both Malaysia and Indonesian government officials have agreed to work together to improve the palm industry's record on environmental issues.
Additional reporting by David Fogarty in Singapore; Reporting by Michael Taylor and Yayat Supriatna; Editing by Jeremy Laurence


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High-Adventure/Sports Program Manager
From MeritBadgeDotOrg
|Serving as High-Adventure/Sports Program Manager can apply towards Positions of Responsibility requirements for Star, Life, and Eagle.
| High-Adventure Sports
Program Manager
The High-Adventure/Sports Program Manager is a position of responsibility appointed by the Captain who supervises high-adventure or sports practice sessions and an activity in this field of emphasis. The High-Adventure/Sports Program Manager performs a similar function as a Venture Patrol Leader in a Boy Scout troop. He is reports to the team's captain under the leadership of the Squad Leader.
Position description
The High-Adventure/Sports Program Manager is an appointed leader of the aspects of the this field of emphasis in his team. He works with an adult High-Adventure Sports Program Adviser to plan and perform primary leadership for team practice sessions and advancement events. He usually serves a 6- or 12-month term.
The High-Adventure/Sports Program Manager supervises a program event which consists of practice sessions and one or more activities such as an outdoor adventure, ultimate adventure, a tournament or a sports season. The program event planned by the program manager may be one of the following types:
- A long-term high-adventure excursion (once a year), or a short-term high-adventure.
- A sports season or activity by the team members which includes training or practice.
- An ultimate adventure activity with the team (this can be any event including Discovering America, Mechanics, Frontiersman, or other activity).
- A Big Event (a set of multiple activities held in conjunction program managers from one or all the other fields of emphasis), culminating in a high-adventure, sports activity, or ultimate adventure.
At the completion of this program, Varsity Scouts who lead or participate in one of these events earn a Varsity Scout Letter or a Varsity Scout Letter Bar and an activity pin if available (pin requirements are set by the team captain).
Multiple concurrent program managers for this field
The captain normally appoints one high-adventure/sports program manager for each leadership term. An exception would be to appoint one program manager for a short-term adventure activity (3- to 6-month timeframe), and another program manager to lead the team's annual sports season or long-term high-adventure.
Reports to
- Helps choose the high-adventure/sports activity in which the team will participate.
- Plans and conducts the high-adventure/sports program.
- Maintains a schedule of all high-adventure/sports activities.
- Helps develop and update a list of experts who can serve as consultants.
- Coordinates any interteam (such as a Varsity Challenge) or league events.
- Inform team members of upcoming activities.
- Serves as an enthusiastic and responsible example for other team members.
- Enthusiastically and correctly wears the Scout uniform (all four parts).
- Lives by the Scout Oath and Law.
- Shows Scout spirit
The high-adventure/sports program manager seeks input from the entire team to select an activity. A program may require assistance from adult experts who may or may not be a member of the team; the program manager with assistance from the adult program adviser and team leaders, may help locate expert consultants so the team may do activities they may have not done before but would like to try.
A completed program is not just a single event. A program requires training or practice sessions that lead up to the sports season or adventure. The programs listed in the Varsity Scout Handbook's' "Program Features at a Glance" all have activity pins available, but the team may plan activities other than those listed.
Varsity Scout teams do have a long-term adventure once a year. But remember, a program does not have to be climbing mountaintops and league sports play. Things such as bowling tournaments, mechanics, shooting sports, or softball can be accomplished in three to six months.
Don't be afraid to try a Big Event. Incorporating activities of other program managers that tie into and culminate in a high-adventure or sport can increase the fun.
Working with an adult advancement program adviser
The High-Adventure Sports Program Adviser is the adult counterpart to the Scout program manager. The program adviser helps and encourages the youth program manger to:
- Abide by the safely guidelines as printed in the Guide to Safe Scouting and "Safety in the Outdoors" pp. 61-70 in the Varsity Scout Guidebook.
- Makes contact with people and organizations, which help Varsity Scouts learn proper outdoor techniques and sports ethics.
- Organizes transportation and other logistical needs for all high-adventure/sports activities.
- Fills out and fills with the council a local tour permit for all high-adventure/sports activities.
- Is a resource for camping, high-adventure/sports activities that team members will enjoy participating in.
- Reach out to the Varsity Scouts who do not regularly participate.
The High-Adventure/Sports Program Manager is a youth outdoor/high adventure special program leader in its unit. Other outdoor youth program leaders are:
See also
|Varsity Scout portal
- Positions of Responsibility
- Venture Patrol Leader
- Venture Patrol
- Star Rank, Life Rank, and Eagle Scout Rank
Team Positions of Responsibility and Adult Advisers
|Team Leadership:
| Captain • Cocaptain • Team Secretary • Squad Leader • Quartermaster • Chaplain Aide •
Librarian • Instructor • Den Chief • Order of the Arrow Team Representative
|Program Managers:
|Advancement • High-Adventure/Sports • Personal Development • Service • Special Programs and Events
|Other team leadership:
|Historian • Bugler
|Team Coach • Assistant Team Coach(es) • Committee Secretary • Committee Treasurer
|Program Advisers:
|Advancement • High-Adventure/Sports • Personal Development • Service • Special Programs and Events


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