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each patrol is led by an elected boy Patrol Leader. As of 12/31/2010, Boy Scouting membership included 792 202 youth members and 493 852 adult leaders. There are 40 099 troops, with an average size of 20 youth members. Varsity Scouting is a separate, optional, non-coed, and little-used program for |
boys age 14 until 18 (mostly used by the LDS/Mormon church). Varsity Scouts wear the same uniform as Boy Scouts (with slightly different insignia), and work on the same ranks. Varsity Scouts typically camp like Boy Scouts, and often compete in team sports. Adult team leaders can be male or |
female, over age 21 (age 18-20 for Assistant Coaches). The adult leader of the team is the Coach. The boy leader of the team is the elected Team Captain, and each squad is led by an elected squad leader. As of 12/31/2010, Varsity Scouting membership included 59 863 youth members |
and 22 806 adult leaders. There are 8539 teams, with an average size of only 7 youth members. As of 12/31/2010, overall youth membership in the Boy Scouting Division (Boy Scouts + Varsity Scouts) totaled 852 065, a one-year loss of 5.1%. Sea Scouting (formerly Sea Exploring) is part of |
the Venturing program. The former career-awareness Exporing program is now part of Learning for Life. Male Venturers can work on the same ranks as Boy Scouts (technically, they must earn the ranks through First Class as a member of a Boy Scout troop). In addition, all Venturers have their own |
advancement system, culminating with the Venturing Silver Award. And Sea Scouts have an additional advancement program, culminating with the Quartermaster award. BSA's Venturing Division is unusual compared to the equivalent programs in most other countries because high-school-aged young men have the option of being a ... |
in a Scout troop or join a Varsity team. There is no BSA program equivalent to the Rover programs available in some countries (for those over age 21). Adult leaders can be male or female, over age 21 (age 18-20 for associate Advisors). The adult leader is called the Venturing |
Advisor. The key youth leader of a Venturing crew is the elected crew President. As of 12/31/2010, Venturing youth membership totaled 227 994, a one-year loss of 11.4%. There are 18 856 crews, with an average size of 12 youth members. Female youth membership is 31% of the total. And |
there are 61 080 adult Venturing leaders. Two programs—Learning for Life (school-based programs) and Exploring (work-site-based program) Learning for Life is a non-traditional, coed, classroom-based character education program, with programs set up by grade: Seekers (K-grade 2) Discoverers (grades 3 and 4) Challengers ... |
Builders (grades 7 and 8) Navigators (high school) LFL members are not required to adhere to the Scout Oath or Law, and membership is open to any youth subject to the age restrictions. Exploring is the branch of Learning for Life that focuses on workplace-based and career-oriented interests for high-school-aged |
youth. Note that what was for many years called "Exploring" is now generally covered in the Venturing program. Goal is to help young people develop skills, positive attitudes, values, and career awareness. Learning for Life apparently no longer reports its membership numbers. Provides special leadership and emphasis to... |
rural Scouting programs in the Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, and Venturing divisions Major focus on minority involvement in Scouting, with specific focuses on African Americans, Hispanic Americans/Latinos, and Asian Americans Names and Numbers While the Girl Scouts of the USA call all their units troops, the BSA identifi... |
by the program they conduct: Cub Scouts belong to a pack, which is divided into several dens (at least one Tiger den, Wolf den, Bear den, first-year Webelos den, and second-year Webelos den). Webelos dens may also choose to call themselves patrols and adopt a patrol name instead of a |
den number. Boy Scouts belong to a troop, which is divided into several patrols. Varsity Scouts belong to a team, which is divided into several squads. Venturers belong to a crew, and Sea Scouts belong to a ship. Learning for Life participants belong to a group. Unit identification (pack, troop, |
etc) is more confusing in the US than in most countries. Outside the US, units usually are part of a Scouting "group". Each group would include one or more program "sections" such as a pack, a troop, and a crew. The group would have a number associated with its town |
or area (such as the 2nd Brixton Scout Group), and often all group members wear a common neckerchief. In the US, which doesn't use the "group" concept, each pack, troop, etc, is separately numbered, and there is no link to the unit's location. For example, in our town, there is |
a Pack 97 and a Troop 97, which are unrelated and meet at separate locations. And, since unit numbers are repeated in each of the 300+ local Scout Councils, there could be 300 (or more) Troop 97's in the US. Actually, due to the many Scout Council mergers over the |
Dr.Gerstenfeld held this lecture on the 8th of November in Helsinki Finland. The summary of the lecture is republished here with the author’s consent. THE ABUSE OF HOLOCAUST MEMORY 2011-2012 Summary of Lecture in Helsinki 8 November 2012 By Manfred Gerstenfeld The Holocaust has become a symbol of absolute evil in Weste... |
case in say, 1960. Yet one might have expected that with the Second World War more than 65 years behind us, the mention and memory of it would fade away. Indeed, there is in many circles what is termed “Holocaust fatigue.” These people do not want to hear anything anymore about the Holocaust. At the same time, many oth... |
Holocaust. It took 60 years until in 2005 the United Nations General Assembly named 27 January as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this day, every member state of the UN has an official obligation to honor the victims of the Nazi era and develop educational material about the Holocaust. This year the remembr... |
the Holocaust? What are the main reasons for this increasing interest in the Holocaust? We can identify some but do not know their relative weight. Memorial celebrations take place every year in many places. There are also new monuments still going up and new memorial centers are being inaugurated. One was at Drancy th... |
deported Jews transited before almost all of them were sent to their deaths. Yet both memorial days pass and monuments disappear from the public eye most of the time. New historical research is being published about the Holocaust. Additional documents are also discovered. One example among many was that in October 2012... |
the ghetto of Kutno between 1939 and 1940 were released. This was done to mark the official establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto in October 1940.2 Such research and discoveries are mentioned in the media. Thus they also play a role in the increased interest. The increasing central place of the Holocaust in European socie... |
One is that European societies have become increasingly secular, which means that their common norms and values have to a large extent broken down. In such an ideological and moral vacuum, one seeks out standards many people more or less agree upon. The Holocaust partly fills that function. It plays a role as a definin... |
basic questions which many Europeans do not like to ask themselves explicitly. What was it in European culture and in European societies that made the Holocaust possible? This leads to a taboo question. Have the elements which made the Holocaust possible disappeared, or are they to some extent still with us? The first ... |
at present they do not seem inclined to do so. The present generation is not responsible for what their ancestors did. However, the Holocaust and Nazism can not be eliminated from German history. I would like to phrase the question somewhat differently. Many of the ancestors of contemporary Germans and Austrians were N... |
without hesitation. Is it at all imaginable that nothing of these attitudes has remained in these countries today? Another element of importance for the increasing interest in the Holocaust is the growing uncertainty in the world. That requires more and more points of reference for events which take place almost daily.... |
European countries with many neo-fascist and neo-Nazi characteristics. This becomes problematic in particular if these parties enter Parliament. While the interest in the Holocaust is growing there is simultaneously also a massive increase in the distortion of the history and the memory of the Holocaust. To understand ... |
In my book, “The Abuse of Holocaust Memory, Distortions and Responses” I have developed eight categories of distortion. These are: Holocaust Justification and Promotion, Holocaust Denial, Holocaust Deflection and Whitewashing, De-Judaization, Holocaust Equivalence,Holocaust Inversion, i.e the Portraying of Israel and J... |
done about it? There is no single way to fight against the abuse of the Holocaust. Education is very important. So are memorials, monuments etc. The crucial point however remains not to let abuse of the Holocaust enter further in the public debate. It is a task for everybody to react when Israel is called a Nazi state ... |
bring the Iranian leaders Grand Ayatollah Khamenei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad before an international court because of their Holocaust promotion and to do the same with Hamas. This could be the beginning of a much wider struggle against Holocaust distortion. |
Gluten Free Facts What is gluten? Gluten is the protein found in wheat, barley, rye and related wheat species such as spelt and kamut. It helps baked goods keep their |
form and chewy texture and is also added to other food items more and more, both for consistency and taste purposes. Helpful Hint: Buckwheat, contrary to its name, is not |
actually wheat and does not contain gluten. What foods contain gluten? The obvious foods that contain gluten include foods made from a flour base. Wheat, barley, and rye based breads, |
cookies, pastries, and bagels all contain gluten. However, hidden sources of gluten are abundant in many packaged goods from soy sauce to spice mixes, to breath mints. More and more |
companies are voluntarily labeling their products as gluten free and some even go through a gluten free certification process. Here is a short list of foods that can have hidden |
gluten: - Luncheon meat - Blue cheese - Gravy and gravy powder - Baked beans - Self basting turkeys - Seasoning Mixes - Instant coffee - Brown rice syrup - |
Potato chips - Soy sauce - Hot Chocolate - Salad dressings - Curry powder - White pepper - Malt vinegar - Breath mints - Oats (while naturally gluten free, there |
is a risk of contamination through harvesting, milling, and processing; Udi’s only uses certified gluten free oats) (1) (2) For a full list of unsafe ingredients, click here: Who should |
eat a gluten free diet? Some people must eat a gluten free diet because they’ve been diagnosed with Celiac Disease or Gluten Sensitivity, in which the only cure is a |
gluten free diet. Others eat gluten free because they suspect gluten is causing them undesirable symptoms that they wish to avoid. Still others have learned that gluten can cause inflammation |
and therefore they seek to eliminate it from their diet. No matter what your situation, a gluten free lifestyle may be of benefit to you. Who can get Celiac Disease |
or have a Gluten Sensitivity? The short answer is: anyone. Some are more predisposed to have this disease or intolerance than others, especially if a family member has been diagnosed. |
It has been noted that northern European countries, specifically Nordic countries, as well as Italy and Ireland have a higher rate of Celiac Disease, and approximately 1 out of every |
133 Americans have Celiac Disease. (7) What is Celiac Disease? Celiac Disease is an autoimmune disorder where gluten triggers the immune system to attack the lining of the small intestine. |
Over time, Celiac Disease can cause malabsorption, leading to a wide range of health problems such as iron and mineral deficiencies, osteoporosis, liver disease, infertility, neurological disorders, and even some |
forms of cancer. (3, 4) For more information, click here: Celiac Disease and Diabetes About 1% of the total population has celiac disease. It is more common in people with |
type 1 diabetes. An estimated 10% of people with type 1 diabetes also have celiac disease. For more information, click here: What is Gluten Anyway and Where Is It? By |
Danna Korn, Living Gluten Free for Dummies, 2nd edition Gluten has a couple of definitions; one is technically correct but not commonly used, and the other is commonly used but |
not technically correct. Here’s the common definition: Gluten is a mixture of proteins in wheat, rye, and barley. Oats don’t have gluten, but may be contaminated, so they’re forbidden on |
to have a general idea of what kinds of food have gluten in them so you know what to avoid. Foods with flour in them (white or wheat) are the |
most common culprits when you’re avoiding gluten. The following are obvious gluten-glomming foods: - Cookies, cakes, and most other baked goods But along with these culprits come not-so-obvious suspects too, |
like licorice, many (read ‘most’) cereals, and natural flavorings. When you’re gluten-free, you get used to reading labels, calling manufacturers, and digging a little deeper to know for sure what |
you can and can’t eat. You have to do without these foods, but you really don’t have to do without. There’s a subtle but encouraging difference. Food manufacturers make delicious |
Breaking the cycle of poverty More than one-third of the 242 counties in the Southeastern persistent poverty region are located in Georgia. Spanning from Athens-Clarke county to Miller to Troup, these counties are defined by statistics that boggle the mind, especially against the backdrop of Georgia's economic strength... |
27.4 percent of children live below poverty level (defined as an income of $17,650 for a family of four); - 29.5 percent of residents age 25 and above do not have a high school diploma; - the unemployment rate is 7.1 percent, 40 percent higher than other Georgia counties; - the rate of low birth-weight babies is 25 per... |
than the national rate. "The data confirmed what I already knew about the region, but it was still startling to see the unevenness of growth and development," said Art Dunning, vice president for public service and outreach at UGA. "This is an economic issue, pure and simple." "What was a complete surprise to me was th... |
and metropolitan Georgia," said Jim Ledbetter, director of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at UGA, which conducted the study. "These problems have persisted for decades. We need both a body of knowledge and a set of programs built over the years to address these issues." U.S. Senator Zell Miller secured $250,00... |
collection on poverty in Georgia and other Southern states. Macon businessman Benjy Griffith matched that with a $250,000 gift to the UGA Foundation in support of the study. The year-long study, completed in December 2002, paints a stark picture of a region not only separated from the economic boom that metro Atlanta h... |
threatens to draw the rest of Georgia into the cycle of poverty. "I've seen this problem up close," said Griffith, whose timberland and real estate business stretches from Georgia to Texas. "I believe UGA research can help develop a plan to address poverty in this state. Somebody has to do something." "We need a popula... |
the 21st century and a community infrastructure which supports that population," said Ledbetter, looking ahead to the next phase of the study. "Then we can craft a set of policies and programs to address these issues." "This is not an issue of historical or social justice," Dunning said. "Those discussions don't get us... |
Jean Ritchie, folk singer and UK graduate, being presented the school's first Founders Day award by President Donovan. According to the April 4, 1944 Board of Trustees Minutes President Donovan recommend that the University celebrate the day of its founding. "Some time ago I requested Professor E. L. Gillis, who is pro... |
with it, to study various dates that might be considered as an appropriate date on which to celebrate a Founders Day Program. After considerable research, Professor Gillis has suggested that February 22 would be a very appropriate time for such a celebration. It was on February 22, 1865, that the General Assembly of Ke... |
Elementary Matrices Generate the General Linear Group Okay, so we can use elementary row operations to put any matrix into its (unique) reduced row echelon form. As we stated last time, this consists of building up a basis for the image of the transformation the matrix describes by walking through a basis for the domai... |
or writing the image of a domain basis vector in terms of the existing image basis vectors. So let’s say we’ve got a transformation in . Given a basis, we get an invertible matrix (which we’ll also call ). Then we can use elementary row operations to put this matrix into its reduced row echelon form. But now every basi... |
a vector that’s linearly independent of all the others, or else the transformation wouldn’t be invertible! That is, the reduced row echelon form of the matrix must be the identity matrix. But remember that every one of our elementary row operations is the result of multiplying on the left by an elementary matrix. So we... |
all the elementary row operations and write which tells us that applying all these elementary row operations one after another leads us to the identity matrix. But this means that the product of all the elementary matrices on the right is . And since we can also apply this to the transformation , we can find a list of ... |
From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia Heliocentrism is a theory which has become an established dogma in 21st century privately-funded science, despite having been abandoned in the 20th century, according to Conservapedia. Heliocentrism is the concept that a giant magnet is |
located in the center of the Earth, and the planets and the universe revolve around it, attracted by the magnetic energy. Heliocentrism is criticized for ignoring the everyday observations of mountain climbers and airplane travellers. It has been characterized by |
Sarah Palin as "a lie perpetrated by scientists to diminish the glory of America" and pushed onto the good, God-fearing people by ignorant pagan-types suffering from Gross Moral Turpitude. edit Proponents of Heliocentrism The most ardent supporters of heliocentrism are |
found in US academia, despite or perhaps because of how the theory is being used to diminish the central role of the USA and its establishment at the center of the universe. Among those scientists that support it, the overwhelming |
majority also support the theories of evolution, climate change, nuclear fusion, ley line energy production, spacial time distortion, and extra-dimensional astral travel as well as using more tax dollars to fund their own research. Notable believers in heliocentrism include Charles |
Darwin, Lenin, Al Gore and Ellen DeGeneres. edit Evidence of Heliocentrism Heliocentrism is widely considered as being in accordance with the teaching of the holy book, which is commonly accepted as scientific evidence. Firm proofs of heliocentrism include: - He |
has fixed the earth firm, immovable. (1 Chronicles 16:30) - Thou didst fix the earth on its foundation so that it never can be shaken. (Psalm 104:5) - who made the earth and fashioned it, and himself fixed it fast… |
(Isaiah 45:18) - The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. (Ecclesiastes 1:5) As a reliable scientific theory, heliocentrism has surprisingly been approved by school boards in Kansas. |
Coral reefs aren't just pretty, they're also vital to marine species and island communities. But they're also facing threats from warming seas. NBC's Anne Thompson reports. More than half of |
82 species of coral being evaluated for inclusion under the Endangered Species Act "more likely than not" would go extinct by 2100 if climate policies and technologies remain the same, |
federal scientists concluded. The experts cited "anthropogenic," or manmade, releases of carbon dioxide as a key driver of warming seas and oceans absorbing more CO2, in turn making waters more |
acidic. "The combined direct and indirect effects of rising temperature, including increased incidence of disease and ocean acidification, both resulting primarily from anthropogenic increases in atmospheric CO2, are likely to |
represent the greatest risks of extinction to all or most of the candidate coral species over the next century," the experts concluded in a report released Friday by the National |
Marine Fisheries Service. The report was part of a process to determine which species, if any, merit protection. The Center for Biological Diversity in 2009 had petitioned for the review |
of 82 species it considered in jeopardy. Of the 82 species, all of which are in U.S. waters, 46 are "more likely than not" to face extinction by 2100, while |
10 are "likely," the report stated. The authors did note that the limited science of corals meant that "the overall uncertainty was high." The fisheries service will next seek public |
comment as it considers the petition for listing. The Center for Biological Diversity, which in 2006 petitioned and got protection for staghorn and elkhorn corals, said conditions have only worsened |
for corals. "Coral reefs are home to 25 percent of marine life and play a vital function in ocean ecosystems," the center said in a statement. "Since the 1990s, coral |
growth has grown sluggish in some areas due to ocean acidification, and mass bleaching events are increasingly frequent." More content from msnbc.com and NBC News: - Baseball-sized hail, 40 tornadoes |
reported as dangerous storms slam Midwest - NRA official accuses media of sensationalizing Trayvon Martin story - Reports: Secret Service personnel accused of hiring prostitutes - American Nazi Party gets |
Courtesy Iona Knapp Iona Knapp, right, has been diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment, a potential precursor to Alzheimer's disease. Like 1 in 7 people with Alzheimer's or other dementias, the 65-year-old Lake Monticello, Va., woman lives alone. Her daughter, Sharon Mullen, lives 90 minutes away, in Manassas. Iona K... |
died of Alzheimer’s disease and her late mother suffered from dementia. Now, the 65-year-old Lake Monticello, Va., woman has been diagnosed herself with mild cognitive impairment, or MCI, and she fears their fate soon may be her own. The trouble is, Knapp lives by herself, which would make her one |
of 5.4 million people in the U.S. living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias -- and one of 800,000 Americans doing it alone, according to a new report issued Thursday by the Alzheimer’s Association. The report, “2012 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures,” estimates that one in seven people with Alzheimer's |
or dementia lives alone, and that up to half of those people have no identifiable caregiver. Most are older women with milder impairment. “That’s a huge issue,” said Dr. Kenneth Langa, professor of medicine at the University of Michigan, and an expert on the economics and demographics of Alzheimer’s Disease. |
As the baby boom generation ages, more and more people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s will be living alone, sometimes because they choose to do so, but also because a spouse has died, or because they have few or no children living nearby, said Langa, who wasn’t involved in the new report. |
The analysis finds that Alzheimer’s costs the country about $200 billion per year in Medicare, Medicaid, and personal out-of-pocket expenses. As enormous as that cost is, it takes 15.2 million unpaid caregivers, usually family members, to keep it from rising even higher. The personal impact on living alone with Alzheim... |
dementia, or even MCI like Knapp’s, can be dramatic compared to living with a caregiver. Patients who live alone have a much higher risk of wandering off, suffering bad falls, missing medication and doctor appointments, and exacerbating other medical conditions like heart disease or diabetes. Ultimately that’s not only... |
to those people, but it ratchets up costs, too. As Knapp herself discovered when she served as an unpaid caregiver to her mother, living alone has a host of practical costs and dangers. When she accompanied her mother to the bank one day, “the teller said, ‘Your mother is way |
overdrawn. She has no money,’” Knapp recalled. “I looked back over the past two years of records, and found my mother had bankrupted herself.” Now, she said, “I imagine my own future. I meet with my attorney on Friday. I want to talk to him about all kinds of things |
I can put in place so my older daughter can step in and take over financially.” Such advanced planning is critical for anybody with Alzheimer’s, but especially for those who live alone, said Angela Geiger, chief strategy officer for the Alzheimer’s Association. Legal and logistical considerations like advanced directiv... |
of attorney designations, and answers about who will be part of the care team must be addressed. None of these decisions is pleasant, Geiger explained, but they must be addressed. “You really want to say, ‘Here are the two or three triggers for me. I’d like to go to assisted |
She writes reminders on a white board. She programs appointments into her smart phone. Such tactics aren’t foolproof, though: This week, she missed a doctor’s appointment. Knapp is considering the purchase of an alarm button she can wear to alert emergency services in case she finds herself injured or lost. |
She’s also thinking of selling her house, and moving into senior housing close to her daughter, Sharon Mullen, whose family lives in Manassas, Va. Transportation will be available there, she hopes, because she’s already growing worried about her own driving. “There are times now, when I’ll be, like, ‘Where am |
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