PhilNews June 27th, 2014 years of Issue Four 76 Philmont Outing in Scouting PhilNeighbors Dallas Elmore five days of hands-on, outdoor Kyle Nutter Staff Writer program intended to give them Staff Writer ideas for outing at their home units. Beginning in 1990, Philmont Unit and council leaders from The conference began eight partnered with Vermejo Park, all across the country attended years ago after PTC participants LLC. and gained permission an outdoor-oriented training began remarking that the courses to the Greenwood Tract. conference at the Philmont didn’t always take advantage of the Greenwood opened up a direct Training Center from June 15 outdoor activities the Ranch had to route from Baldy Country to the through the 20. offer. Valle Vidal. The connection saved The conference was intended “The feedback said ‘we want crews from an indirect course to provide adult leaders with to do the same stuff the kids do,’” that added days and miles, and the necessary skills to begin said Joe Glasscock, the coordinator prevented bottle-necking from implementing outdoor programs for the conference. “So we began happening in the North country Kaitlyn Chaballa/Photographer that are the mainstay of Scouting building a program around the near Dan Beard. philosophy. Participants enjoyed Continued on page 3 Larry Bahler, Putting More Outing In Scouting instructor, helps Karen Heiss shoot an arrow on June 19 at PTC. Continued on page 4 PhilFashion: Who Wore it Better?

to fulfill that desire to explore for this summer. Watson: “It’s tight and nature’s domain. The thirst Backpacks are key to being very comfortable.” for compelling views are prepared in the backcountry O’Donnell: “It’s so new coupled with one’s will in while maintaining the and it still has that new pack order for a never-forgetting number one rule: look good. smell. I feel like I can strut experience to be completed in They help hold all of the around the mountainside.” America’s largest youth camp, needed gear and have gotten but first, fancy, head-turning more and more comfortable Who’s your fashion gear must be obtained. over the past decade. Sporting inspiration? That is where the kind- the new internal frame, Kelty Watson: “Zooey hearted people of Camping Coyote 80 liter backpack are Deschanel is my fashion Outfitting Services comes Camping Outfitting Services inspiration because she’s in. They help assist the staff Kassidy O’Donnell aw e s om e .” campers and staff in getting and Kelley Watson. Both of O’Donnell: “Jimmy Scott Allen/Staff Writer Scott Allen/Staff Writer the backcountry necessities: these young women have Hendrix because of his Kelley Watson, Outfitting Kassidy O’Donnell, Outfitting Services staff, models the Kelty Services staff, models the Kelty food, tents, bear bags, dining exemplified the correct way uniqueness. He wears Koyote 80 Liter. Koyote 80 Liter pack. flies, backpacks and gas. to wear the new backpack. whatever he wants to wear.” They are ready and willing Here’s what they have to say Scott Allen has driven us to explore the to help those adventurous about the new backpack, their What would you tell Staff Writer uninhabited. Humans yearn souls become prepared for fashion inspiration and some campers about fashion? for something new and their outdoor adventure styles they’ve seen around the Watson: “Green on green Since the beginning of experience is the threshold with various options of gear Ranch. never goes.” man, it has been our desire for adventure. Here at to choose from. This week, O’Donnell: “Comfort is to travel. The curiosity of Philmont, thousands of they showed off some new What do you like about ke y.” what lies on the other side people come from all around backpacks that are available the pack? Continued on page 3

@Philmont PhilmontScoutRanch.org Philmont Scout Ranch 2 | PhilNews Friday, June 27, 2014 PhilmontScoutRanch.org News and June 27-July 5 Friday, 27 Saturday, 28 Monday, 30 Tuesday, 1 Thursday, 3 Friday, 4 Saturday, 5 Photo Team 8 p.m. 8 p.m. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. 8 p.m. 8 p.m. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. 8 p.m. Friday Floats at Tau Day Brat Day at Baldy Dodgeball at Baldy Humans vs. Independence Saturday Shakes at the SSSAC celebration at Pavilion Pavilion Zombies at Baldy Day BBQ at Baldy the SSSAC the SSSAC (pie Pavilion Pavilion and ice cream NPS Manager provided) Photo Contest Bryan Hayek begins; turn submissions in to registerphilmont. PhilNews Editor org/photocontest Amanda Push “The only person you are “When I was 5 years old, my PhilNews Writers destined to become is the mother always told me that Scott Allen Dallas Elmore person you decide to be.” – happiness was the key to life. Kyle Nutter Ralph Waldo Emerson When I went to school, they Emet Blood asked me what I wanted to be Photography Manager “Ask and it will be given to you; when I grew up. I wrote down Erin Irwin search, and you will find; knock ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t Photographers and the door will be opened for understand the assignment, and I Kaitlyn Chaballa you.” –Jesus Morgan Court told them they didn’t understand Christine Henri Cassidy Johnson “Your perceived self-failure will life.” –John Lennon Stephen Maurer become a catalyst for profound re- “Paris is always a good idea.” – John Mitchell Bethany Nilson invention.” –Conan O’Brien Audrey Hepburn

Photo Lab Lead Imara Chew Corrections Bear Safety Tip of the Week Photo Lab Techs Collin Anderson If any other corrections are seen please notify the PhilNews Editor by Never set up an isolated tent. One is the tastiest Peter Friedlander emailing [email protected] or I-Camp it to News number! Bear behavior leans toward the path of least and Photo Services. resistance. Therefore, a Philmont bear may identify Marketing Manager Join us for a Workshop at the Craft Center an isolated tent as food options with reduced risk. Jessica Micheli Remember to orient all tents in clusters at least 50 Call extension 1267 to reserve your spot or text 407-749-2722 Marketing Staff with your name, department, the date and workshop you want to sign feet away from any point in the Bearmuda Triangle. up for. Dominic Baima June 25 at 1:30 p.m. - Wood Turning with Lathe (beginner); limit seven; cost $10; walk away with a small wooden ornament Lead Videographer July 16 at 1:30 p.m. - Welding (beginner); limit ten; cost $8; walk Gabe Marchetti away with a welding project July 23 at 1:30 p.m. - Wood Turning with Lathe (beginner); limit Videographer seven; cost $10; walk away with a small wooden ornament Connor Black July 30 at1:30 p.m. - Welding (beginner); limit 10; cost $8; walk away with a welding project August 6 at 1:30 p.m. - Welding (beginner); limit ten; cost $; walk away with a welding project August 13 at 1:30 p.m. - Wood Turning with Lathe (intermediate); limit six; cost $10; walk away with your creation PhilmontScoutRanch.org Friday, June 27, 2014 PhilNews | 3

Continued From Page one, Scouting Philmont Museum Bike outdoor stuff … and very little as well. classroom time.” Councils will often have Giveaway Participants split their days in climbing or shooting committees order to maximize their exposure to that will assist units in either various outdoor activities. A typical training or participating in classroom day involved them activities. To register, fill out a form with learning new ideas at locations all “We’re here to remind adults over the Ranch. that three-fourths of the word Kaitlyn Chaballa/Photographer your name, email and zip code “We spent Tuesday morning at Scouting is outing,” said Bahler. Larry and Denise Bahler Rayado learning about Project Wild Staff were often on hand to and then did Leave No Trace at the facilitate the class’ activities in the collection of like-minded Scouters at the Philmont Museum Chase Ranch,” said Larry Bahler, backcountry. to be the best asset for finding the lead faculty. “The support we have gotten new ideas. Leaders spent the week Each half-day module was on both sides of the road has picking the brains of their classmates dedicated to a particular activity. been tremendous,” added Bahler, for tips on how to prepare Scouts Leaders would participate in a regarding the staff’s willingness for trips like Philmont or other high sampling of the activities, then to assist the conference and its adventure activities. the instructors would offer them participants. “The networking is resources to facilitate their home For participants, the conference outstanding,” said Kevin Dockery, units involvement. provided access to new ideas for a nine year Scoutmaster from “We would tell them how to activities with their home units that Warsaw, Mo. get qualified for it, emphasize that they wouldn’t have access to locally. Philmont’s location in the they have to plan ahead, make sure Some class members were even Sangro de Cristo Mountains they have qualified leadership and introduced to the idea of trekking in accented the outdoor aspect of the Drawing will be Nov., 10, 2014 instructors,” said Bahler. the Philmont wilderness. training program. While Bahler noted that it was “I had never heard of Philmont “What better way to get people Winner will be notified by email easier for large units to marshal before I came out here,” said Ryan excited for the outdoors than resources for high adventure, Dunnam, a Venture Crew advisor being in the premier location for aquatics, or shooting sports, small from the Palmetto Council in S.C. Scouting?” said faculty member Bill units can engage in these activities Other participants found the Montgomery. Continued From Page one, Issue Three Sudoku Solutions Who Wore it Better Beginner Easy

Who do you think is the Weird fashion among most fashionable staff at crews? Bear Safety Tip of the Week Philmont? Watson: “There’s always Watson: “Christine those with the Justin Bieber Never set up an isolated tent. One is the tastiestSalisbury ... go Christine! look with their beats on, number! Bear behavior leans toward the path of leastHer style is fun and very go- flat bill hat, high socks and getter, like she is.” shades.” resistance. Therefore, a Philmont bear may identify O’Donnell: “Mark O’Donnell: “The an isolated tent as food options with reduced risk. Anderson because he’s always mohawks you always see, Remember to orient all tents in clusters at least 50 so consistent and looks classy those are always very in his Class A uniform.” interesting.” feet away from any point in the Bearmuda Triangle. Medium Difficult Open daily from noon to 8 p.m. 4 | PhilNews Friday, June 27, 2014 PhilmontScoutRanch.org Mark’s Minute: Be an Intensively Active Listener Mark Anderson information must take place. Director of Program, There needs to be an active “Regardless of ability, Unit 2 creation, transmission and no one individual can processing of information Are you an intensively which stimulates feedback accomplish and complete active listener? that, in turn, creates more anything worthwhile When Theodore Roosevelt information. without direct or indirect became President after the As each person listens, death of William McKinley on they must listen like a leader. cooperation from others.” Sept. 14, 1901, he conducted This means that they must be his first cabinet meeting six at least as active as the talker, cooperation from others.” days later. engaged with the message To accomplish and He asked each secretary and allowing the words to complete worthwhile efforts, for advice and counsel. He spark ideas. They must ask we must be intensively active did not sit back and listen questions that will produce listeners. This applies to passively as the briefings were information that is relevant to our interactions with our made, but was intensively the conversation. coworkers, participants and active in the way he listened. As each of us accomplishes guests. He asked many questions, and our responsibilities this We must remain engaged he drew out instructive details summer we must do so with throughout the process. from the presentations. the help and support of others. Passive listening severely When two people talk Waite Phillips wrote, compromises the process of about something important – a “Regardless of ability, no one productive communication topic entailing risk and reward, individual can accomplish and and cooperative efforts. hazard and opportunity – complete anything worthwhile Become an intensively much more than a transfer of without direct or indirect active listener! Samantha Waidler/Photography Manager 2011 Continued From Page one, PhilNeighbors

The value of the partnership his siblings. The staff camp became much more than just a offers opportunities for Scouts “The cabin restoration short-cut. The 11,216 acres of to learn and try their hand at stunning terrain, arresting vistas homesteading. The cabin, barn program at Philmont rose and notable history provided and spring house provide an from the need to restore Scouts with scenery and a atmosphere that reveals the the significant buildings at homesteading experience found challenges and lifestyle that come nowhere else on the Ranch. with pioneer life. Currently, Rich Rich Cabins. Staff members Rich Cabins is the former Cabins remains the only living developed technical skills homestead of Joe Rich and history camp on a neighboring from restoring the cabin property. The cabin restorationand barn.” program at Philmont rose from the need to restore the significant The elevation within this buildings at Rich Cabins. Staff special land ranges from 7,635 to members developed technical 12,181 feet. Scouts learn Leave- skills from restoring the cabin No-Trace principles which are and barn. These skills have been mandatory on the property. used to successfully restore Conservation efforts enacted buildings across Philmont and by Scouts on the land include: as well as on the “Ponil Partners” wildland fire support, invasive land. species eradication and working Logging roads provided with the Cimarron Watershed routes through the Greenwood. Alliance to improve the quality However, after special permission of local streams and rivers. was granted and five summers The partnership with of trail work, a trail from Baldy Vermejo Park, LLC. benefits Connor Spurr/Photographer 2013 Mountain and Copper Park to both parties and contributes to Staff work on cabin restoration the Valle Vidal now traverses the a better experience for all who at Rich Cabins in 2013. Greenwood Tract. come to Philmont. PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org Friday, June 27, 2014 PhilNews | 5 The Ranger Mile: Continued Early-Season Adventures in the Valle Vidal Training Welcome to The Ranger Mile, a weekly column in which members of the ranger staff will profile various hiking opportunities for staff on days off. Schedule Matt Hart Continued Trainings or CTs are training sessions put on by ranger Associate Chief Ranger Things to Remember trainers nearly every night of the summer from 6 p.m.-6:45 p.m. in the Walcott Room of the SSSAC. These sessions are fun and Many staff members will only • Always carry the ten hiking essentials and follow Philmont informative. All staff are welcome and encouraged to attend, we hope to see you there! venture north into the Valle Vidal backcountry procedures. Unit of Carson National Forest to • Complete a staff backcountry access permit and check the Dates Topic climb Little Costilla Peak, or perhaps water conditions of any trail camps you plan to visit in June 27 and 30 GPS/Navigation #2 to ride mountain bikes at Whiteman Logistics. June 28 Geologist Ed Warner: Geology, Vega. For those seeking a break Ecology, Forestry and Range from the heavier-trafficked trails • Arrange a ride back to Base before beginning your trip. Finish your hiking well in advance of your planned Management of Philmont’s property, however, June 29 LNT/WPG departure time. there are countless opportunities for July 1 and 5 Astronomy solitude and adventure elsewhere • When visiting staff camps, represent your department in the Valle, especially with Little well by treating backcountry staff and crews respectfully. Costilla closed for elk calving season Always allow participants to engage in program before until July 1. For any visits, be sure you do. Carson National Forest to review your navigation skills and low-impact procedures beforehand. Canyon. Pitch tents at the edge of three stream beds northwest into Stop by the Ranger Office with the trees, hang low-impact bear a long finger meadow. After a – Community Meeting any questions about low-impact bags, and if you keep your voices quick but steep uphill, you’ll drop You are invited by the Carson most about the Carson National camping or cross-country hiking. down, you may have company from into McCrystal Canyon. Enjoy a National Forest to attend a Forest Forest? Why and how do you use the Ponil Park: Located at the an elk family coming to drink in the gradual, four mile descent alongside Plan Assessment Community forest? Why is the forest important junction of Seally and North evening. the stream then cut south past the Meeting on Saturday, June 28, from to you and how do you think it is Ponil Canyons, this 19th-century McCrystal Creek: Flowing Forest Service campground to Ring 2-4 pm at the Cimarron Watershed different now than in the past? cemetery site is an ideal destination southwest out of the Costilla high Place or continue to follow the creek Alliance Office located next to the 2. Think about the Carson for a quiet night of low-impact country, McCrystal Creek is a lush to the Whiteman parking area. If Cimarron Smokehouse and across National Forest’s impacts in the camping. Thanks to our wet early and rarely-visited playground, you’re not looking to travel cross- from the Village Park (312 E. 9th local area. What would you like to season, the North Ponil is verdant but those who make the trip country, simply enjoy an out-and- Ave.) protect or improve? How do you and flowing, while views of Little often describe it as one of the back hike along the creek! The Forest Plan serves as the hope the forest will serve future Costilla to the northwest and Black prettiest hikes in the Valle. For Shuree Ponds and Middle “vision” for the forest and provides generations? Mountain to the south provide staff experienced in cross-country Ponil Creek: With the USFS broad management guidelines to 3. Are there other ways a striking backdrop to the wide, travel, a visit to Whiteman Vega Cimarron Campground located help the Carson National Forest your community can benefit the ponderosa-lined canyon. To get can precede the hike. From the nearby, Shuree Ponds can be a realize that vision. This meeting forest or the forest can benefit the there, hike down the North Ponil staff yurt, travel north into the popular spot during summer, but it’s is part of the first steps in the plan community? Canyon from the Whiteman Vega sprawling meadow above camp. also the gateway to some great hikes revision. Come prepared to discuss All Philmont Staff are parking area (off Cerresoso Road), Upon reaching the windmill at its involving the Middle Ponil Creek. these questions: encouraged to attend this public or approach from the west via Seally center, follow the southernmost of Drive past McCrystal Campground 1. What do you appreciate meeting! on Cerresoso Road and continue over Windy Gap before parking at the Cimarron Campground. Enjoy Submit Your Work to PhilNews some time beside the ponds, or if you’re looking to get away from people, start heading southeast along Middle Ponil Creek. A Forest We are accepting poems, short stories, photos Service road will soon join the creek bed and continue on toward the and artwork. Baldy Country. Those looking for a loop route can eventually turn from Either I-Camp or email any articles you wish the stream and follow another road east past wildflower-strewn Iris Park to be considered. Please submit all articles by to Ring Place. Continue following Friday to be in the following Friday’s issue. the creekside road, however, and it will eventually turn to trail before descending all the way to Rich Email: [email protected] Ponil Park Chris Zapple/Ranger Trainer Cabins. 6 | PhilNews Friday, June 27, 2014 PhilmontScoutRanch.org Chaplain’s Corner Philmont Staff Association Announces Third Annual Writing Contest Meet the Chaplains The Philmont Staff the Philmont Rangers.” D.H. Lawrence, Walker Percy, Staff who have hiked every Association (PSA) is holding “Last year we got a lot of Willa Cather, and Zane Grey peak and seen every stream in Fr. Arthur Nave “Outside of my parish its third annual writing contest great submissions, and I’m are just a few of the great the Philmont area but are still Catholic Chaplain for Philmont’s seasonal staff hoping that this year we’ll get novelists who have used New looking for new wilderness work, I volunteer members. even more,” Smith said. Mexico as a setting for fiction. to explore have a variety of As a Catholic priest, it is with the Arizona The deadline for The Philmont Staff Smith offered this options, all within a few hours an honor and privilege to be submissions is July 20. The Association Writing Contest advice to those considering of the Ranch. able to serve at Philmont this Department of Public Philmont Staff Association will recognize a winner in the submission: “Philmont has A backpacker can summit summer. Safety as a chaplain will announce the winners on following categories: such obvious beauty and Wheeler Peak in one day if he Even though I am along with my work with August 3. Winning entries • Adventure Story: Has because we love it so much, or she starts early. Drive out only here for two and half will appear in “High Country,” something strange or unusual it is too easy to fall back on the night before and either weeks, I am enjoying myself Scouting at the regional the magazine of the Philmont happened to you or someone clichés and sentimentality,” spend the night in Taos or at a immensely as a Philmont and national levels.” Staff Association. Composers you know at Philmont? A he said. “The trick to writing campground at the head of the chaplain. of winning entries will also near miss or close call? A about Philmont, especially Bull-of-the-Woods Trail. I began in Scouting in receive a gift certificate to the dream realized – or deferred? when you’re writing for people The hike is 16 miles round 2001 as a chaplain for my Department of Public Safety Tooth of Time Traders. A crazy day-off road trip? Let who already know about trip and should be completed local Scout camp, Camp as a chaplain, along with my The judges for the contest us hear about it. Philmont, is to take what is before the frequent afternoon Geronimo in Payson, Ariz. work with Scouting at the will be a panel made up of the • Spiritual/Personal familiar and somehow make it thunderstorms hit. Hikers I was ordained a Catholic regional and national levels. Publications Committee of the Memoir: From Henry David new. That’s what will catch the should make sure to fill out the priest in 2008 after nine years My hobbies include Philmont Staff Association. Thoreau to John Muir to Annie judges’ attention.” summit book at the peak of the of seminary. doing jigsaw puzzles, Warren Smith will chair the Dillard, the “green world” has All submissions must mountain. I am currently the camping, hiking, biking and panel. Smith is a past editor of provided powerful settings for be submitted by email, as a Another shorter route is the Parochial Administrator swimming. “High Country” and a writer reflection on spiritual matters. Microsoft Word attachment Williams Lake Trail. Although (pastor) of St. Charles I look forward to getting for WORLD Magazine, one What has Philmont taught you to an email. Email all only seven miles round-trip, Borromeo Catholic Church to know and visit with of the nation’s largest news about your life or your God? submissions to wsmith@the hike finishes with a steep in Peoria, Ariz. everyone and being able to magazines. He has also written • Poetry: All forms worldmag.com by midnight, uphill and scree. Outside of my parish work assist any way I can. or edited ten books, including welcome. July 20, 2014. Please limit all I volunteer with the Arizona See you on the trail. “I Wanna Go Back: Stories of • Fiction: Lew Wallace, submissions to 1500 words.

PhilStars: Coming to a sky Near You Week of June 27-July 3 Here at Philmont, there’s plenty of opportunity to observe the night sky. The solitude of the backcountry and absence of light pollution create perfect conditions for star watchers. This summer, we’re going to be posting weekly predictions and charts that discuss what to look for and when to see it. Information was taken from Astronomy.com giant star; both are in Taurus. Scott Allen June 27: The new moon Staff Writer will occur at 2:10 a.m. MDT. June 29: The young moon, The Bootids meteor shower which resides in the West- As the month of June will also occur and while it Northwest sky, will be near comes to an end, Mars is isn’t very reliable, it gives Jupiter with Castor and Pollux quickly moving. After sunset, gazers a chance to see a (the Gemini twins) 30 minutes it will be in the Southwest sky shooting star. They will be after sunset, at 8:55 p.m. and close to both the moon seen near the Big Dipper and Waxing Gibbous moon at Baldy Town. Scott Allen/Staff Writer and Spica, the bright star of can be observed until July 2. June 30: As the waxing Virgo, on July 5. Venus is the This will be a perfect chance crescent moon grows, it will question mark. evening twilight, but it will morning star, and in late June/ for night photography. head west towards Regulus reappear in the morning sky in early July Mercury will join and away from Castor and July 2: Venus will be in the August. Pollux and Castor will and appear below Venus. June 28: At 5:10 a.m., 45 Pollux. East-Northeast sky an hour appear to the right of Jupiter. The oak moon, which has minutes before sunrise, the before sunrise, at 4:55 a.m., been dominant since June Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, will July 1: At 9:25 p.m., an with the Pleiades above and The week of June 25-29: 10, will remain until July 7. be seen in the East-Northeast hour after sunset, the moon Aldebaran below. Rocky Mountain Star Stare in The Celts believed the oak section of the sky above Venus will be near Regulus, the Westcliffe, Colo. (three hours was connected with spells for with Aldebaran below. The brightest star in Leo. The July 3: In the West- from Philmont). For more protection, strength, fertility, Pleiades is an open star cluster sickle will be above Regulus Northwest section of the sky, information go to http://www. money and success. and Aldebaran is an orange and looks like a backwards Jupiter will disappear in the rmss.org/ PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org Friday, June 27, 2014 PhilNews | 7 Dallas On Days Off: Local Backpacking Dallas Elmore On both routes, the first few Staff Writer miles are on private property; “A backpacker can summit staffers should be aware of any Wheeler Peak in one day Staff who have hiked every signs posted on the route. peak and seen every stream in The Great Sand Dunes if he or she starts early. the Philmont area but are still National Park in Colorado is Drive out the night before looking for new wilderness only a three hour drive away. to explore have a variety of The Sand Dunes rise almost 750 and either spend the night options, all within a few hours feet out of the ground, forming in Taos or at a campground of the Ranch. mounds that dominate the at the head of the Bull-of- A backpacker can summit landscape. Staff members can Wheeler Peak in one day if he rent or purchase sand boards at the-Woods Trail.” or she starts early. Drive out various retailers. the night before and either Another attraction is puts you over mountains and spend the night in Taos or at a Medano Creek, a stream that around lakes. campground at the head of the flows through the dunes. Also in Colorado lies Bull-of-the-Woods Trail. Visitors can build sand castles Fishers Peak, just outside The hike is 16 miles round or laze around at the closest of Trinidad. The Mesa is trip and should be completed beach to Philmont. surrounded by private land, before the frequent afternoon Staff may also be interested but the peak can be reached thunderstorms hit. Hikers in the Latir Peak Wilderness. through Sugarite State Park in should make sure to fill out the The 20,000 acre designated Raton, N.M. summit book at the peak of the wilderness is deep within the Staff members should mountain. Carson National Forest and bring a map and compass as Another shorter route is the contains spectacular scenery, the last few miles don’t have a Williams Lake Trail. Although wildlife and 12,000 foot peaks. trail. only seven miles round-trip, Only a two hour drive away, Outside of the navigation the hike finishes with a steep backpacking options include issues, the 9,600 foot peak is uphill and scree. a fourteen mile hike that only a four mile hike.

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Scott Allen and Emet Blood ties or mine props. camp, the first words given Staff Writers The idea behind spar by the interpretive staff are climbing as an activity is to similar to what an employer Crater Lake and Pueblano enliven a part of history. It would have said: “Welcome are the two living history shows participants what kind to the camp. These are the logging camps located in of work loggers had to do daily jobs available.” It’s an attempt Philmont territory. and how tough it was. The to bring the participants into Historically, men at logging job was quite dangerous and character for the activities. camps would make spar poles although it is fun for campers, The second activity for moving timber out of the the activity does bring a level available at these camps is tie woods. High climbers would of respect and appreciation cutting, where participants climb to the top of a spar, for the men who did this for a process a certain sized log into a sometimes 200 feet tall, to living. Today, great measures railroad tie. The hope is that the install a pulley and climb back are taken to ensure the safety of activity will give participants an down. Then a “steam donkey,” participants. interest in working with one’s or steam powered winch, was “The average life hands and further appreciate used to pull the cables which expectancy of someone who that the work back then was not would lift timber, enabling the signed a contract as a spar-pole easy. felled trees to be moved back climber was seven years,” said The evening program for to a processing camp where John Ignatowski, camp director these logging camps starts they would be made into at Crater Lake. with advisors’ coffee and then construction lumber, railroad When Scouts arrive in a campfire. The campfire is full of old-time music and original skits inspired by the camps historical interpretive year in the early 1900’s. This year, the camps are really focusing on bringing to life the history of the camps. The campfire is an example of what loggers did at night to celebrate another day of survival and the love of life. At the end of the campfire, Doyle Maurer/Photographer the camp director gives a Noah Schraut of expedition 613-S2 reaches the top of a spar pole short speech dedicated to at Crater Lake on June 15. crew 613-L2, got to enjoy some of the inspire reflection among the was a hail storm. The night “It was a lot more intimate,” amazing views. Thomas, who climbed participants. The hope is to after, the Crater Lake’s campfire Ignatowski said. at Cito, was excited once he repelled help participants search within got rained out, but instead of The staff at Pueblano are back down. themselves for what they are ending the program, the staff also looking to get more in- “That climb was fantastic,” grateful for, what they intend moved all the campers into the depth with their crews. They Thomas said. “The best part was the for their lives and to think about cabin, lit the stove and some have brought the lumber-tying view of the valley from the top. It was who they want to become. lanterns and kept the music and closer to the cabin in order to gorgeous.” On one such night, there the evening program going. get more participants involved. A few things have changed in the Steve Weis, camp director at past few years. Miners Park is now a Pueblano, said they are also commissary so participants get to enjoy changing a few things with the milk and fresh fruit when they arrive. evening campfire. Dean Cow recently had owls nesting “We’ve changed the on one of the climbing routes, but they campfire since last year,” Weis left before Scouts arrived. Cimarroncito said. “Before, it was more goofy has a brand new indoor bouldering stuff and we’ve tried to take a gym that is in the former commissary more historical approach.” cabin. Things at the climbing camps So, whether you find continue to improve and go up, just as yourself in the South country a climber on a rock face. or North country, Philmont has All of the climbing camps are the opportunity for both the within a 90 minute hike from the nearest staff and participants to enjoy turnaround so staffers are encouraged the history and activities that to come out and enjoy some of the John Mitchell/Photographer existed in these logging areas views that only the mountain goats get Josh Grindley, a participant in Crew 614-S, climbs a spar pole at before the land became what it to experience. Pueblano on June 16. Jonathan Ignatowski, Crater Lake camp director Doyle Maurer/Photographer is today. 10 | PhilNews Friday, June 27, 2014 PhilmontScoutRanch.org Weekly Advice Column Ask Camping The cultural history of Ask Infirmary Philmont is portrayed at the various museums and Services Scott Allen interpretative camps. However, Staff Writer There’s always someone on duty: a there is a geological history Kyle Nutter medic, driver and radio person. that tells the story of how the Staff Writer mountains encompassed within What does the Infirmary do? Has anything changed recently? Philmont, the Cimarron Range, About how many crews do you We see patients as they come in We’re one of three infirmaries in developed. work with a day? and do re-check. We make sure New Mexico and we got our final The Cimarron Range is a Outfitting Services handles they can go out on the trail. If license three years ago. southeastward-extending arm of approximately 80 crews a day, they need something, they send the Sangre de Cristo Mountains while also furnishing staff with them to the Infirmary and we How is an infirmary different that began forming between 50 all the materials needed to try to get them taken care of. We from a health lodge? and 60 million years ago. The safely enjoy the backcountry. check blood pressure and we’re An infirmary has a specific group elevation of the Range fluctuates responsible for the well being of of people that they take care of. between 7,500 and 12,441 feet. Why are some of the pots everybody on the Ranch: the staff, We can do more: we have a trauma The landscape can be divided dented? Can you give us a Cassidy Johnson/Photographer Cassidy Johnson/Photographer all of the participants and everyone room, we can do IVs, we can into five categories: gravel- newer one? Scott Zerull, Camping Outfitting Sam Spalding, Camping Outfitting at the PTC. As the radio calls come stabilize people and get them out. capped lowland plains, smooth- Sometimes they get beaten up Services staff Service assistant manager in to the radio room, the medics We have 15 in-house beds where sided rocky benchlands, rough from being in the backcountry, and the doctors will access them we can keep patients. A health hummocky hillsides, rugged and no we cannot give you a Do we need Micropur? times a day, taking more than over the radio to see if we need to lodge is more like a first aid station mountain country and high newer one. That is why it is Yes, water purifying devices three items. We wanted to go get the patients and bring them that gives out Aspirins and we can marshy meadowlands. Water, important to take good care of can break and you can put conserve the food a bit better. down for further treatment. So, we do more than that here. The care climate, erosion and other surface the equipment you are given. Micropur in your water to make generally end up seeing about ten is a little more in-depth with an Sometimes a staff member it drinkable. Can staff get trail meals for percent of everybody that comes to infirmary than it is with a health will squeeze the pot to make it their days off? Philmont. lodge. rounder to placate a crew. What can staff rent out? Yes, as long as staff bring their Staff can use anything here. backcountry permit, they What are some frequently asked How many staff are at the Why do we have to put up bear However, staff have to use the can get as many meals as they questions that you get? Infirmary? bags? 2012 tents. The new tents are for need for their days off. We We get a lot of questions over the We have 45 total with re-check, the Bears have huge noses and strong campers. Staff can rent packs at order enough food to give trail phone before they come. They medical support drivers, nurses, sense of smell. It is important no extra charge, but an extended meals to anyone who needs it. deal with height and weight, blood doctors and medical students. that bears do not become rental must be approved by However, the participants are pressure, asthma, medications, can accustomed to obtaining food Mark Anderson. We can rent priority. We discourage staff they come if they are on certain What’s the favorite part of your from backpackers. We are external frames pretty freely. from taking meals that we’re medications, etc. job? willing to give you extra bear giving to crews that day. Working with the people. The bags, if needed. What is available at the food What are the Infirmary’s hours of doctors, medics and the whole wall? What is your favorite part operation? staff in general is like the rest Why can’t we play on the Mostly things found in trail of working at Outfitting The front door is open 8 a.m. until of Philmont, it’s a family and bungees? meals. This year we also added Services? 7 p.m. and the back door is 24/7. everybody gets along really well. You will stretch them out and fruit such as oranges, apples We can all agree that it is make them easily breakable. and pears. We order items Christine Salisbury, Camping specifically for the food wall. Outfitting Services manager, Why are you giving me a our boss. We’re working hard Frisbee? How do you choose what to to change the face and raise The “Frisbee” is a strainer to aid order? the reputation of Outfitting cleaning after meals. We want everyone to like what Services and Christine is is available. We just set up a changing everything around Can we use our own request board with a list of here to improve the atmosphere. equipment? everything that we can order. We sat down as staff and made It is a ranger’s responsibility, Whatever items have the most goals to turn this place around. not Outfitting Services staff, to tallies will be ordered within The other day, two advisors ensure that the crew’s personal reason, we need to have variety. were singing along with the equipment is adequate. music we were playing. It feels However, any crew that brings Why can only two items be great when I’m sitting at a meal bear rope that is less than taken from the food wall per and I hear people talking about Cassidy Johnson/Photographer a quarter inch must use a day instead of three? how great and fun Outfitting Participants go through Medical Re-check before beginning their Philmont issued bear rope. People were coming in multiple Services is. trek on Thursday, June 19. PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org Friday, June 27, 2014 PhilNews | 11 History Blurb: The Geological Side PSA Seasonal Kyle Nutter factors affect these divisions. Subsurface motion morphed Staff Writer Molten lava flow from nearby the landscape into what is Staff Scholarship The cultural history ofvolcanoes capped ridges and seen today. An upthrust of Philmont is portrayed at peaks. Basalt, an igneous rock Precambrian metamorphic rocks The Philmont Staffthe ranch, including the Silver the various museums and from cooled lava, tops Crater displaced sedimentary rocks at Association Seasonal StaffSage Staff Activity Center and the interpretative camps. However, Peak, Rayado Peak, Urraca Mesa the Fowler Pass Fault. Much of Scholarship program has steadily PSA office. Scholarship awards of There’s always someone on duty: a there is a geological history and Fowler Mesa. the Southern country developed grown over the past seven years. $500 for 1st year staff, $1,000 for medic, driver and radio person. that tells the story of how the Another rock that has from this upthrust. Geological More dollars for college expenses 2nd year staff, and $1,500 for 3rd mountains encompassed within transformed into icons of folds formed from deformation have been awarded each year, and year staff will be made for the Fall Has anything changed recently? Philmont, the Cimarron Range, Philmont is dacite porphyry. An sculpted the peaks and valleys more Philstaff have submitted of 2014 – Spring of 2015 academic We’re one of three infirmaries in developed. igneous rock, dacite porphyry hiked on by Scouts. applications for these funds. Both year. Payment of the scholarship New Mexico and we got our final The Cimarron Range is a materializes from cooled magma North country matured from trends continued last summer. will be distributed directly to license three years ago. southeastward-extending arm of and makes up almost all of the stacks of intrusive sills and dikes. 120 summer staff applied for the the school. Applications are due the Sangre de Cristo Mountains ridges and cliffs at Philmont. The intrusions of dacite porphyry PSA Seasonal Staff Scholarships August 31, 2014. How is an infirmary different that began forming between 50 When the rock resists erosion, into sedimentary layers are in 2013. Thanks to our members’ Over the past five years, from a health lodge? and 60 million years ago. The ridges and cliffs are created, and exposed throughout the Northern generosity, the PSA awarded a $150,000 was been awarded An infirmary has a specific group elevation of the Range fluctuates when it succumbs to erosion, mountains up to Baldy Mountain. total of $45,000 to 46 recipients to Philstaff. First-year staff to of people that they take care of. between 7,500 and 12,441 feet. valleys are made. Once the Rivers and streams last year. seasoned veterans, Wranglers to We can do more: we have a trauma The landscape can be divided rock has been exposed to air by cut canyons into the rough The Philmont StaffPTC staff to Rangers, freshmen room, we can do IVs, we can into five categories: gravel- erosion, dacite often weathers into countryside, and weathering Association is working hard to to graduate school students, stabilize people and get them out. capped lowland plains, smooth- thin columns. Prominent rock continues to mold the landscape. make 2014 an even bigger year the Philmont staff has been We have 15 in-house beds where sided rocky benchlands, rough formations composed of dacite The mountains that are home for the Seasonal Staff Scholarship well represented amongst the we can keep patients. A health hummocky hillsides, rugged consist of the Tooth of Time, to Philmont have an extensive program. There will be more funds scholarship winners. All college lodge is more like a first aid station mountain country and high Cathedral Rock, Lovers Leap, and past that slowly assembled over available for you to use for school and post-secondary education that gives out Aspirins and we can marshy meadowlands. Water, the Palisades at Cimarron Canyon millions of years and isn’t close to expenses. However, you need to students are encouraged to apply do more than that here. The care climate, erosion and other surface State Park. stopping. apply. Forms are available around this year. is a little more in-depth with an infirmary than it is with a health lodge.

How many staff are at the Infirmary? We have 45 total with re-check, the medical support drivers, nurses, doctors and medical students.

What’s the favorite part of your job? Working with the people. The doctors, medics and the whole staff in general is like the rest of Philmont, it’s a family and everybody gets along really well.

Cassidy Johnson/Photographer 12 | PhilNews Friday, June 27, 2014 PhilmontScoutRanch.org

Trail of Courage Plants at Philmont Philmont Scout Ranch has been asked and agreed to launch the Trail of Courage Program. Over the next few years, it will be rolled out to all parts of the Boy Scouts of America including other high adventure bases, summer camps and Boys’ Life Magazine. I encourage you to join me by participating in the Trail of Courage-right Decisions/Right Now-Be Tobacco Kyle Nutter plant’s fruit primarily grows Free. Teenage smoking dropped from 36.4% in 1997 to 21.9% in 2003. However, each year since 2003 the percentage of Staff Writer in a cone-shape on the edges teenage smoker continues to rise! This is a startling fact, since we know the danger and risk of smoking to our health. of the flat pads and reaches What is the program? The program allows conversation to take place with each crew. These conversation focus on the Here at Philmont, staff and approximately two inches in seven parts of the program: A new mountaineering 1. Become personally fit. participants are surrounded by length. opportunity for Philmont staff beautiful wildlife. The following 2. Eat a nutritious diet. is being developed between the Yellow flowers bloom 3. Exercise. is a guide for those interested in from the fruit and span up Mountaineering Foundation identifying the local flora and 4. Be tobacco free and not smoke or use smokeless products. of Chicago and the Ranch’s to three inches in late spring 5. Live free of drug and alcohol habits. administration. fauna of the Ranch. to early summer. The petals 6. Learn the seven cancer danger signs. Opuntia fragilis, or Prickly are occasionally tinted red. 7. Live the Scout Oath and Law The foundation is offering Pear Cactus, prospers in dry Each flower lives for one day, Who Leads the Conversations? Each Ranger is asked to coach the Crew Leader to guide conversations during the scholarships for Philmont staff deserts, grasslands and piñon- opening at sunrise and closing crew’s trek that focus on each of the seven parts of the program. members to attend a certified juniper forests. Prickly Pear at midday when the heat On the last night of the trek, the Crew Leader will encourage the crew to take the pledge and commit to the seven parts mountaineering school. Any of the program. flourishes on hillsides, canyon becomes unbearable. Seeing a staff member is eligible to apply bottoms and lower desert The recognition for making the pledge and participating in the program includes a Trail of Courage patch and Boys’ flower in full bloom is a rare Life Personal Pledge Card. These items are available to the crew free of charge at the Safekeeping Counter in Camping basins. At Philmont, this plant and lucky occasion, but don’t can be found around Base Headquarters. get too close. The flower may Can Staff Participate? Yes! Each member of the Philmont Staff is asked to participate in the Trail of Courage program. Camp, Zastrow, the Ponil be enthralling, but the thorns Step 1: Review the material in the Trail of Courage-Right Decisions/Right Now-Be Tobacco Free brochure. You may Canyon country, Abreu and the are painful. wish to discuss the program with your friends and your department. Cathedral Rock area. Step 2: Make personal commitment to pledge to work on achieving each of the seven part so the program. The Prickly Pear Cactus Step 3: Complete the Staff Pledge Card and turn it in at the Personnel Counter at the CHQ Office. stands between four and six Each staff member who participate will receive the Trail of Courage patch and the Boys’ Life Personal Pledge Card. feet tall and is typically eight to ten feet wide. The perennial Trail of Courage -Right Decision/ Right Now-Be Tobacco Free Pledge plant is formed from attached “I pledge to become personally fit, eat a nutritious diet, exercise, be tobacco free, live free of drug and alcohol habits, plate-like pads that grow from learn the seven cancer danger signs and live the Scout Oath and Law.” a dense base. Thorn clusters Printed Name Signature evenly blanket the thin, green Morgan Court/Photographer pads. Glochids, barbed spines, Opuntia fragilis, or Prickly Department Date mix with the larger thorns. The Pear Cactus PhilmontScoutRanch.org Friday, June 27, 2014 PhilNews | 13 Mountaineering Scholarships for Philmont Staff

Dallas Elmore for the scholarship, as long as foundation realized they would A lack of clubs to invest “There are school across Staff Writer he or she passes the Philmont be better served by selling the in frustrated the foundation’s screening. After the screening, land and dedicating the funds to efforts. The plan to pass out the country to fit any A new mountaineering staff members are free to attend other purposes. scholarships was shelved for staff member’s needs opportunity for Philmont staff a mountaineering school of their After selling Devils Lake a couple years until a few of is being developed between the choice as long as it is American campground for almost $600,000, the foundation’s members ranging from certification Mountaineering Foundation Mountain Guide Association the foundation set out to further remembered their experience at in alpine, rock and top of Chicago and the Ranch’s approved. However, the its goal of expanding ‘flatlander’, or Philmont. Gradually, the idea rope climbing.” administration. Foundation has stipulated that Midwestern, climbing knowledge. developed to provide Philmont The foundation is offering whoever receives the scholarship To do this, they wanted to provide staff members with the financial scholarships for Philmont staff must return to Philmont and a scholarship for a member of a means to attend mountaineering and Scouters. members to attend a certified begin to pass on the knowledge flatlander mountaineering club to school. While the final details of the mountaineering school. Any they received at the school to attend certified guide school. The Despite the change from scholarship haven’t been worked staff member is eligible to apply Scouts and staff alike. member would then return to Midwestern clubs to Philmont, out, the funds are in place for The foundation washis club and share his newfound the foundations mission hasn’t three or four staff members to “The foundation is offering created out of the Chicago knowledge and expertise. changed. apply and then attend a certified Mountaineering Club in order Much to the foundation’s “The underlying spirit is to mountaineering school of their scholarships for Philmont staff to promote climbing technique, surprise, however, there is return skills for mountaineering choice. There are schools across members to attend a certified safety and knowledge, and no equivalent to the Chicago back to Philmont,” said Gorby. the country to fit any staff mountaineering school. Any manage the Clubs land in Devils Mountaineering Club in the The foundation has dedicated member’s needs ranging from Lake State Park in Wisconsin. Midwest area. to the Philmont scholarship fund. certification in alpine, rock, and staff member is eligible to They also maintain one of the “All of the clubs had either They are looking for responsible top rope climbing. apply for the scholarship, as largest climbing libraries in the disbanded or turned into purely candidates who are willing to Applications will be available long as he or she passes the United States. However, as the rock climbing groups,” said not only gain mountaineering soon for staffers to complete 30 year agreement on the club’s Jack Gorby, the foundation’s knowledge but pass that and submit to Steve Nelson, Philmont screening.” campground came due, the chairman. knowledge on to Philmont staff Philmont’s comptroller.

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Monday - Saturday 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Sunday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 14 | PhilNews Friday, June 27, 2014 PhilmontScoutRanch.org Photo Contest Rules Wanted: Whiskers Photos must be submitted between 8 a.m. July 1 and 11:59 Emet Blood p.m. July 21. Staff Writer 1. Entrant must be the photographer who took all photos he/ she submits. 2. Entrant must be currently employed by Philmont Scout This week’s facial hair Ranch. style is inspired by Napoleon 3. Entered photos must have been taken on Philmont property, III with a twist: your not so in a Philmont program area or be scenes of Philmont average handlebar mustache landscapes. coupled with a single chin 4. No digital alterations (e.g “Photoshopping”) are permitted, braid. This is a one of a kind except in the Digital Creations category. look and a complement to an 5. Each submitted photo must be in a digital format, between already outstandingly friendly 2MB and 40MB in size. No printed photos will be accepted. face. 6. To be considered in the contest, all photo entries must be Twisted stache sides submitted to: registerphilmont.org/photocontest are noticeable as they come 7. Prior to judging, all photos will be printed in an 8x10 format. from the ever-memorable (Some cropping may occur.) Salvador Dali. The truest 8. All entered photos will become property of Philmont Scout form of unique individualism Ranch. is obvious due to the suave 9. A maximum of three photos per entrant, per category may combo. The single braid on the be submitted. chin reminds us of Samuel L. 10. Photos stamped with date, time, copyright, titles, text, Jackson’s role in Jackie Brown watermarks and/or special graphic treatments are generally 1997. not considered. Some folks use wax to 11. Over $600 in prizes will be awarded to contest winners. Three tighten the twist on the curl winning photos from each of ten categories will appear in the in their upper-lip fur. It is PhilNews, on PhilmontScoutRanch.org and be displayed in advised that for the look the Silver Sage Staff Activities Center. The best photos will you use an all natural wax decorate 2015 Philmont publication covers. and be sure to comb out that 12. Entrants must include a title and the location from which stache you’ve got to avoid any remaining clumps. each photo submission was taken. Salvador Dali was known 13. 2014 contest categories: Camper Activity, Digital Creations / for his undeniable confidence Black & White, Flower & Plants, Humor, Landscape, Porch in being 100 percent himself, View, Staff Activity, Storms & Rainbows, Sunrise or Sunset, 100 percent of the time. If you Wildlife. Doyle Maurer/Photographer “Salvador Dali was “Only took a week.” - Ian Sandoe known for his undeniable want to be a certain way, do This style is truly a confidence in being 100 it. You need to remember, as combination of attention percent of himself, 100 cliche as it sounds, a wolf does grabbing uniqueness. What not concern himself with the unique look can you bring to percent of the time.” opinions of sheep. the world? Attention: If you are interested in being featured in the next “Wanted: Whiskers” please stop by the PhilNews office in the News and Photo Services Building PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org Friday, June 27, 2014 PhilNews | 15 Photo Contest Rules Photos must be submitted between 8 a.m. July 1 and 11:59 Ask the Participants Emet Blood p.m. July 21. Staff Writer 1. Entrant must be the photographer who took all photos he/ she submits. 2. Entrant must be currently employed by Philmont Scout Ranch. 3. Entered photos must have been taken on Philmont property, in a Philmont program area or be scenes of Philmont landscapes. 4. No digital alterations (e.g “Photoshopping”) are permitted, except in the Digital Creations category. 5. Each submitted photo must be in a digital format, between 2MB and 40MB in size. No printed photos will be accepted. 6. To be considered in the contest, all photo entries must be submitted to: registerphilmont.org/photocontest 7. Prior to judging, all photos will be printed in an 8x10 format. (Some cropping may occur.) 8. All entered photos will become property of Philmont Scout Ranch. 9. A maximum of three photos per entrant, per category may be submitted. 10. Photos stamped with date, time, copyright, titles, text, Trevor Wertz, 17, on his first trek at Philmont. Christine Henri/Photographer Dan Wertz, 15, on his first trek at Philmont. Christine Henri/Photographer watermarks and/or special graphic treatments are generally not considered. “Cyphers Mine was my favorite staff camp. The program was really fun.” “I really enjoyed Zastrow; the orienteering there was a lot of fun. We got to go all 11. Over $600 in prizes will be awarded to contest winners. Three over while we were there. Trail Peak was my favorite part of the whole trek, it was winning photos from each of ten categories will appear in the “The river crossings going to Cyphers Mine was my favorite part of the trek all-in-all.” really neat.” PhilNews, on PhilmontScoutRanch.org and be displayed in the Silver Sage Staff Activities Center. The best photos will“We didn’t experience anything out of the ordinary, but the time we spent hiking was “We got lost a few times, but we got to use triangulation. My only advice is don’t lose awesome. It changes lives.” your smellables.” decorate 2015 Philmont publication covers. 12. Entrants must include a title and the location from which each photo submission was taken. 13. 2014 contest categories: Camper Activity, Digital Creations / Black & White, Flower & Plants, Humor, Landscape, Porch View, Staff Activity, Storms & Rainbows, Sunrise or Sunset, Wildlife.

Nathaniel Johnson on his trek at Philmont. Bethany Nilson/Photographer Zach Schneider, 17, on his first trek at Philmont. Bethany Nilson/Photographer “My favorite staff camp was Black Mountain because we got to shoot some black powder rifles “I really liked panning for gold, and there was a staff group at one of the mining and one of our crew members had a hook for a hand for a night thanks to the blacksmith.” camps who did a Stomp performance. It was one of the best musical shows I’ve seen.” “My favorite part of the trek altogether was the second to last day. We were pushing hard. We did five mountain peaks in the week and we finally just chilled for three hours at the stockade “My favorite part of the trek was on Window Rock and when we got up there we and then hiked the Tooth. We stayed the night and hiked back to Base Camp.” really bonded as a crew. I felt like it was a really special moment for me at Philmont.”

“No matter who you are or how you feel, going to the top of a mountain and seeing all of “You should become a foreman. The foreman are the toughest people here at Philmont is inspiring and breathtaking.” Philmont. They just constantly put in their all.” 16 | PhilNews Friday, June 27, 2014 PhilmontScoutRanch.org What’s New This Week: The Redesigned Trading Post Merchandise Website

Dallas Elmore amount of new and old products in styles of that gear. Staff Writer the store, the categorization itself Major changes from previous took close to 50 hours. versions of the site include a new In March of this year, the Tooth Migacz was not alone in Quicklook feature that brings up the of Time Traders redesigned and this endeavor. Bryan Hayek, the features and photos of the product reworked their merchandise website. department manager of News and without moving the customer to a The new website features a Photo Services (NPS), worked on new page. The site also contains completely altered layout, user the design and helped take the a reference system that points friendly inventory selections and product shots. customers in the direction of other product photos for easy comparisons “He would do all the physical products they might prefer. The and examinations. The new layout design and the code, then I would last three items that every customer Morgan Court/Photographer and design were headed by Casey come back in and say if we needed to looks at are also recorded in order Casey Migacz, Tooth of Time Traders e-commerce manager Migacz, the Tooth of Time Traders change it,” Migacz said. to point the consumer back in the streamline the ordering process that “People are getting to the site e-commerce manager. The end result is an accessible direction of their product searches brings in over $300,000 a year to the from places that have no connection “We really began work in and attractive online presence lest they forget what they were Trading Post. to Philmont,” Migacz added. September of 2013,” said Migacz. for the Trading Post. Anytime a searching for. He is also interested in In addition to deals that are “We went live with the website on customer opens up the site, they are Although the website has just improving Philmont product posted for the yurt, the Trading Post March 20.” presented with a drop down menu completed a total overhaul, Migacz reviews, like the Thunder Ridge has dedicated two emails a month Migacz built the navigation that divides products by categories is already looking for things to Tent. towards advertising sales. features for customers that allows and still further subcategories. improve. “Since we can only sell products The website is already drawing them to switch between web pages Once a customer clicks on a desired “I always want feedback,” said that have Philmont on them, we national and international following. and products. He also did all of the category, the page loads with all the Migacz, “We’re always striving to get want our customers to be able to “We had buyers from Japan and categorization of products, dividing examples of that type of product. better.” review them,” said Migacz. Puerto Rico, and we make a lot of each category into styles and sizing The merchandise is accompanied He is especially focused on Online traffic to the website online sales to Texas and California,” that would be easily accessible to with marketing shots done by NPS the custom t-shirt design feature. has already seen a significant said Valentina Garcia, the mail order the customer. With the voluminous that includes the available sizes and By this time next year, he hopes to improvement. merchandise clerk. PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org Friday, June 27, 2014 PhilNews | 17 Recipes of the Week

Potato Skins

Ingredients • 6 small to medium sized potatoes, rinsed clean • 8 oz of sharp cheddar cheese, shredded • 8 slices of smoked, thick cut bacon, cooked and crumbled • 1/2 stick of unsalted butter • 6 tbsp sour cream, optional • Salt for taste • Pepper for taste

Directions Cassidy Johnson/Photographer 1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. “People are getting to the site 2. Poke the top of each potato with a fork and place on a baking sheet. Cook in the oven for 1 hour. Once cooked, remove from the baking sheet, and place on a plate to let cool for from places that have no connection about 15 minutes. to Philmont,” Migacz added. 3. Cook bacon, low and slow on the stove, for about 15-20 minutes. In addition to deals that are 4. Once potatoes are cooled, use a sharp bread knife and cut lengthwise. posted for the yurt, the Trading Post 5. With a small spoon, being careful, scoop out about 70 percent of the potato, as you still want some potato in your boat. has dedicated two emails a month 6. Next, melt your butter in the microwave. Get your broiler heated to high. Brush the butter on the inside and outside of each potato skin and place them back onto the baking towards advertising sales. sheet. Season the inside of each skin with salt and pepper. The website is already drawing 7. Place them under the broiler for 8-10 minutes until the insides get a bit crispy from the melted butter. national and international following. 8. Remove, and place generous amounts of cheddar cheese into each skin, topping with bacon pieces. Place these back under the broiler for about 3-4 minutes until the cheese is “We had buyers from Japan and nice and bubbly. Carefully remove from the oven. Puerto Rico, and we make a lot of 9. Place a dollop of sour cream on top if you would like, and enjoy! online sales to Texas and California,” said Valentina Garcia, the mail order merchandise clerk. Seven Layer Taco Dip Chili

Ingredients Ingredients • 1 (1 ounce) package taco seasoning mix 1 pound lean ground beef • 1 (16 ounce) can refried beans 1 cup chopped onion • 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened 1/2 red bell pepper, chopped • 1 (16 ounce) container sour cream 3 tablespoons chili powder • 1 (16 ounce) jar salsa 2 teaspoons minced garlic • 1 large tomato, chopped 14.5 ounces peeled and diced tomatoes • 1 green bell pepper, chopped 15 once can kidney beans, drained • 1 bunch chopped green onions 1 cup tomato sauce • 1 small head iceberg lettuce, shredded 1 cup salsa • 1 (6 ounce) can sliced black olives, drained 1/4 cup taco sauce • 2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese Directions Directions 1. In a large saucepan or stockpot, cook ground beef, onion and red 1. In a medium bowl, blend the taco seasoning mix and refried beans. Spread the mixture onto a pepper until beef is browned. large serving platter. 2. Drain off excess fat. 2. Mix the sour cream and cream cheese in a medium bowl. Spread over the refried beans. 3. Stir in the chili powder, garlic, bay leaf, diced tomatoes, spaghetti 3. Top the layers with salsa. Place a layer of tomato, green bell pepper, green onions and lettuce sauce, salsa and taco sauce. over the salsa, and top with Cheddar cheese. Garnish with black olives. 4. Lower heat and simmer for 1 1/2 hours, stirring occasionally.

5. Stir in beans just before serving and heat through. 18 | PhilNews Friday, June 27, 2014 PhilmontScoutRanch.org US/Canada News Italy police ‘solve’ 1909 Petrosino Sgt Bowe Bergdahl moved to Kevlar inventor Stephanie Canada Orsainville airliftCasey Kasem memorial held in Mafia murder outpatient care on Army base Kwolek dies inmates recaptured in Montreal Los Angeles

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Police on the Italian island of The US soldier held captive for The inventor of Kevlar, Canadian police have recaptured A memorial for the late DJ Sicily believe they have solved a Mafia five years by Taliban-linked militants the lightweight fibre used in three prisoners who escaped by Casey Kasem has been held in murder mystery dating back to 1909. has moved to outpatient care on a bulletproof vests and body helicopter from a jail outside Quebec Los Angeles. Joe Petrosino, a New York Texas military base. armour, has died aged 90. City earlier this month. Mourners at the small, police officer, was shot dead during Sgt Bowe Bergdahl will no longer Stephanie Kwolek was Police said they were detained private ceremony in Bel Air a mission to the island to collect be in hospital all day, but specifics of a chemist at the DuPont at a home in Montreal in the early heard recordings of Kasem’s evidence. his location will not be made public. company in Wilmington, hours of Sunday and more arrests old radio shows, including his The revelation coincided with “His reintegration process Delaware, when she invented were likely. famous American Top 40. the arrest of 95 suspected members continues with exposure to more the stronger-than-steel fibre The three, Yves Denis, 35, Denis Kasem, who was also of two clans involved in extortion people and a gradual increase in 1965. Lefebvre, 53, and Serge Pomerleau, the voice of cartoon Shaggy rackets in the island’s capital Palermo. of social interactions,” an Army It was initially intended to 49, were due to face trial on murder in Scooby-Doo, died in One of those arrested had been spokesman said. be used in automobile tyres. and drugs charges. Washington state last week, recorded boasting that his father’s He has not spoken about his In a statement, DuPont They are set to appear in court aged 82. uncle had carried out the killing, ordeal publicly since his release on 31 chief executive Ellen Kullman on Monday. He had suffered from police say. May. described Kwolek as “a creative The prisoners fled on 7 June in Lewy body disease, a form of Domenico Palazzotto was Sgt Bergdahl, 28, was swapped and determined chemist and a helicopter which landed in the yard dementia, and had recently been overheard telling a colleague that for five prisoners in a US military a true pioneer for women in of the Orsainville detention centre, at the centre of a bitter family “the uncle of my father was called prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a science.” on the outskirts of the city. court battle over his care. Paolo Palazzotto; he killed the top move that sparked a heated political Kwolek is the only A judge had relaxed the His death came days after a policeman killed in Palermo” on the row. female employee of three high-security prisoners’ jail judge allowed the star’s daughter orders of Cascio Ferro. Ferro was a Fellow soldiers have also argued DuPont to be awarded the conditions, allowing them to be in Kerri to withhold food, liquid boss in Sicily’s Cosa Nostra whose Sgt Bergdahl knowingly wandered company’s Lavoisier Medal the jail yard at the same time, so they and medication from her father operations extended to the US, Ansa away from his unit while deployed in for outstanding technical could better prepare their defence, against the wishes of his wife of news agency reports. Afghanistan in June 2009. achievement. Canada’s CBC reports. 34 years, Jean. World News Iraq crisis: Kerry vows ‘intense Sudan death sentence woman South Korean ‘killer soldier’ Ukraine separatists ‘to join truce’, Egypt trial: Outcry over al- support’ to counter Isis ‘freed’ captured rebel leader says Jazeera trio’s sentencing

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US Secretary of State John Kerry A Sudanese woman sentenced A South Korean soldier who Pro-Russia rebels in eastern The seven-year jail terms has vowed “intense and sustained to death for abandoning her Islamic killed five members of his unit has been Ukraine say they will observe a handed out to three al-Jazeera support” for Iraq after meeting key faith has been freed from jail, her captured after a failed suicide attempt, ceasefire until Friday morning, journalists accused of supporting politicians in the capital, Baghdad. lawyer has told the BBC. defence officials say. The soldier, identified responding to the Ukrainian forces’ Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood have He said attacks by Sunni militants Meriam Ibrahim’s death penalty only as Im, shot himself in the chest and unilateral ceasefire. led to an international outcry. were a threat to Iraq’s existence, and the was overturned by an appeal court, was being sent to hospital, they said. The rebel announcement was US Secretary of State John next days and weeks would be critical. the official Suna news agency His capture ends a tense stand- made in Donetsk by Alexander Kerry described the sentences as The insurgents are expanding their reported. off in a forest near his outpost by the Borodai, a leader of the self-styled “chilling and draconian”. control of towns in the north and west. She is married to a Christian border with North Korea. “Donetsk People’s Republic” which James Harding, the BBC’s They are bearing down on a vital man and was sentenced under Sharia On Saturday evening Sergeant Im is defying Kiev. Director of News, said it was an dam near Haditha, and have captured law to hang for apostasy in May after shot and threw a grenade at soldiers On Friday, Ukrainian President “act of intimidation against all all of the border crossings to Syria and refusing to renounce Christianity. before fleeing with his rifle and Petro Poroshenko announced a journalists.” Jordan from government forces. Her husband, Daniel Wani, said ammunition. 15-point peace plan and declared a Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy The key airport in the northern he was looking forward to seeing her. Seven others were injured in the week-long truce. and Baher Mohamed were convicted town of Tal Afar has also fallen, with He wanted his family to leave attack but are expected to live. It is not Mr Borodai was speaking after of spreading false news on Monday. some reports saying the town itself has Sudan as soon possible, Mr Wani, clear what the motive behind his attack attending preliminary peace talks in The trio had denied the charges been captured. who is a US citizen, told the BBC was. Donetsk. and are expected to appeal against Heavily armed Iraqi troops are Focus on Africa radio programme. The incident sparked a massive The high-level talks also the verdict. protecting the dam near Haditha. Its The death sentence for Meriam manhunt, with thousands of troops involved representatives of the other The White House said that destruction would damage the nation’s Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, who gave birth deployed to block possible escape breakaway region - Luhansk - and jailing journalists because their electricity grid. Residents told BBC to a daughter in prison not long routes, guard the border between Viktor Medvedchuk, an opponent reporting did not fit the government Arabic that rebels had surrounded the after she was convicted, sparked North and South Korea, and protect of the Kiev authorities who is close “narrative” was “a blow to democratic town but had not yet entered it. international outrage. areas where civilians live, officials said. to Russian President Vladimir Putin. progress in Egypt.” PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org Friday, June 27, 2014 PhilNews | 19 Entertainment Casey Kasem memorial held in‘Prehistoric Sistine Chapel’ gets Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys fails to Ellen DeGeneres wins eighth talk Sir Tony Robinson leads tributes The Bunker Diary wins children’s Los Angeles world heritage status top box office show Emmy to actress Patsy Byrne book prize

BBC BBC Clint Eastwood’s filmBBC BBC BBC adaptation of hit musical Jersey A memorial for the late DJ A cave in southern France Boys has only managed to debut at The Ellen DeGeneres Show has Sir Tony Robinson has led Young Adult author Kevin Casey Kasem has been held in dubbed the “prehistoric Sistine number four at the North American received its eighth Daytime Emmy tributes to British actress Patsy Brooks has won 2014’s Cilip Carnegie Los Angeles. Chapel” has been added to Unesco’s box office. award for outstanding entertainment Byrne, best known for playing Medal for The Bunker Diary, his Mourners at the small, World Heritage list. Kevin Hart comedy Think Like talk show. Nursie in Blackadder, who has fictional diary of a kidnapped boy private ceremony in Bel Air The 1,000 drawings carved in the A Man Too topped the box office CBS soap The Young and the died aged 80. held hostage in a bunker. heard recordings of Kasem’swalls of the Decorated Cave of Pont chart. Restless picked up best drama series, Sir Tony played dim-witted It took Brooks a decade to get old radio shows, including his d’Arc, or Grotte Chauvet, are 36,000 Eastwood’s film, about Frankie while its star Billy Miller won for best sidekick Baldrick in the show and the teen novel published, as it was famous American Top 40. years old and include mammoths and Valli’s group, based on the Tony lead actor in a drama series. cast Byrne in his Maid Marion and originally rejected for its “lack of Kasem, who was also hand prints. award-winning musical, took just Good Morning America won Her Merry Men series. h o p e”. the voice of cartoon Shaggy Cave experts only discovered $13.5m (£7.9m) over the weekend. best morning programme. He told BBC Radio 5 Live she Canadian Jon Klassen’s This is in Scooby-Doo, died init in 1994 as the entrance had been It featured a mainly unknown The Steve Harvey Show was had been like a mother to “her Not My Hat, which sees a thieving Washington state last week, concealed by a rockfall 23,000 years cast aside from Christopher Walken named outstanding informative talk boys” on the Blackadder set. fish get his comeuppance, was also aged 82. earlier. and got mixed reviews. show, while Harvey also won the best “Patsy was just a real confident awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal He had suffered from It was one of several cultural and Las Vegas ensemble movie game show award for Family Feud. centre of all the scenes,” he said. for illustrated books. Lewy body disease, a form of natural wonders granted the status Think Like a Man Too took $30m For the first time this year, the “She had unerring skill to Voted for by UK librarians, the dementia, and had recently been by a committee of delegates in Doha, (£17.6m) in a slow weekend, Daytime Emmys offered awards for make the daftest, silliest thing medals are the oldest children’s book at the centre of a bitter familyQatar. narrowly beating 22 Jump Street, Spanish language shows - winners sound absolutely real and awards. court battle over his care. UN cultural agency Unesco said which took $29m in its second included Telemundo’s Un Nuevo Dia absolutely plausible,” he added. Previous Carnegie winners His death came days after a the cave, located in the Ardeche region week of release. as best morning programme. “I was so fond of her as including CS Lewis, Terry Pratchett, judge allowed the star’s daughterof France featured “the earliest and Dreamworks’ animated sequel The ceremony, which aired on a person and so in awe of her Arthur Ransome, Penelope Lively Kerri to withhold food, liquid best-preserved expressions of artistic How To Train Your Dragon 2 TV until last year, was only streamed capabilities that when I decided I and Philip Pullman; while Quentin and medication from her fathercreation of the Aurignacian people”, slipped to third spot with $25.3m online this year. The move reflects wanted to introduce a mother to Blake, Shirley Hughes and Raymond against the wishes of his wife ofwho were believed to be the first (£14.8m), ensuring that the dwindling audiences for daytime Maid Marion, my first choice was Briggs have all been awarded the 34 years, Jean. modern human culture in Europe. weekend’s top three were all sequels. television. Patsy. Greenaway. Sports Egypt trial: Outcry over al-US football fans joyous then Jazeera trio’s sentencing deflated American League National League AL East W L GB East W L GB BBC BBC Toronto 43 35 - Washington 40 35 - Baltimore 40 35 1.5 Atlanta 38 37 2 The seven-year jail terms The heartbreak was etched on NY Yankees 39 36 2.5 Miami 38 38 2.5 handed out to three al-Jazeera the faces of USA football fans as Boston 35 42 7.5 NY Mets 35 41 5.5 journalists accused of supporting a last-gasp equaliser by Portugal Tampa Bay 31 47 12 Philadelphia 34 41 6 Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood have denied them a place in the last 16 AL Central Central led to an international outcry. of the World Cup. Detroit 40 32 - Milwaukee 47 31 - US Secretary of State John The game finished 2-2 as Kansas City 40 36 2 St. Louis 42 35 4.5 Kerry described the sentences as Portugal’s Silvestre Varela scored Cleveland 37 39 5 Cincinnati 38 37 7.5 “chilling and draconian”. in the final seconds of the game. Minnesota 36 38 5 Pittsburgh 38 38 8 James Harding, the BBC’s “It was a thriller,” said Chicago Sox 35 42 7.5 Chicago Cubs 31 43 14 Director of News, said it was an US coach Jurgen Klinsmann. AL West West “act of intimidation against all “Everybody who had a chance to Oakland 47 29 - San Francisco 45 31 - journalists.” be today in Manaus will talk about LA Angels 41 33 5 LA Dodgers 42 36 4 Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy this game for a long time.” Seattle 41 36 6.5 Colorado 34 42 11 and Baher Mohamed were convicted The US now needs at least a Texas 35 40 11.5 San Diego 33 44 12.5 of spreading false news on Monday. draw against Germany in Recife Houston 33 44 14.5 Arizona 32 47 14.5 The trio had denied the chargeson Thursday. and are expected to appeal against the verdict. World Cup Results Thursday, June 19 Italy/Costa Rica: 0/1 Nigeria/Bos-Herce: 1/0 South Korea/Algeria: 2/4 The White House said that Colombia/Ivory Coast: 2/1 Switzerland/France: 2/5 Germany/Ghana: 2/2 jailing journalists because their Wednesday, June 18 Japan/Greece: 0/0 Honduras/Ecuador: 1/2 Monday, June 23 reporting did not fit the governmentCameroon/Croatia: 0/4 Uruguay/England: 2/1 Sunday, June 22 Australia/Spain: 0/3 “narrative” was “a blow to democraticAustralia/Netherlands: 2/3 Saturday, June 21 USA/Portugal: 2/2 Netherlands/Chile: 2/0 progress in Egypt.” Spain/Chile: 0/2 Friday, June 20 Argentina/Iran: 1/0 Belgium/Russia: 1/0 20 | PhilNews Friday, June 27, 2014 PhilmontScoutRanch.org Technology Android and Windows to get ‘kill US government leaks names of Amazon Fire Phone offers 3D Lego fuses real and virtual worlds Unlikely hit app Yo is ‘hacked’ by switch’ potential Bitcoin buyers views and gesture controls students BBC BBC BBC BBC BBC Construction toy firm Lego Google and Microsoft will add a A list of potential bidders for Amazon has unveiled its has blended the real and the virtual Messaging app Yo, which in “kill-switch” feature to their Android an auction of government-seized first handset, offering 3D visuals with bricks that can be built and then the past week has rocketed to the and Windows phone operating bitcoins has been accidentally - thanks to four face-tracking transferred to online games. top of the app download charts, systems. leaked. cameras on its front - and gesture It is part of a trend among has been hit by a hack. The feature is a method of The US Marshals Service controls. toy manufacturers to straddle the Creator Or Arbel told making a handset completely useless if inadvertently revealed the email The Fire Phone allows its user two realms and appeal to children technology news site TechCrunch it is stolen, rendering a theft pointless. addresses of all interested parties to change an image’s perspective immersed in the digital world. the app was having “security Authorities have been urging while emailing them about the by moving their head, rather than Users can choose to build four issues.” tech firms to take steps to help curb process. creating “pop-out” effects. game sets which come with a special The app allows users to send phone theft and argued that a kill- It apologised for the mistake, The owner can also scroll plate to build them on. a message saying “yo” to friends - switch feature can help resolve the which it said “was in no way through a webpage or bring up The creations can beand nothing else. problem. intentional.” menus by tilting the smartphone photographed and imported into free It has been branded Apple and Samsung, two of the The US government plans to in their hand. games. “pointless”, but has nonetheless biggest phone makers, offer a similar auction about 30,000 bitcoins - Chief executive Jeff Bezos “Children have always imagined raised $1m (£600,000) in feature on some of their devices. currently valued at about $17.4m announced the phone at a press their Lego creations as immersive investment. The move by Google and on June 27. event in Seattle. worlds which come to life for hours TechCrunch said it was Microsoft means that kill switches The crypto-currency was One industry watcher had of role-play and adventure,” said contacted by three college will now be a part of the three most seized by the FBI during a raid doubts about what was on show. Ditte Bruun Pedersen, senior design students who said they had popular phone operating systems in in October on the internet “We’ve seen similar gesture manager at Lego Future Lab. uncovered a flaw in the app. the world. marketplace Silk Road. controls on Samsung’s Galaxy “Recently, smartphones and “We can get any Yo user’s In an attempt to tackle the The seized bitcoins are part range, and not many people use tablets have become a popular platform phone number (I actually texted issue, policymakers have launched of the civil forfeiture and criminal them,” said Francisco Jeronimo, a for empowering game mechanisms the founder, and he called an initiative called Secure our action brought against Silk Road mobile devices analyst at market that kids love. Lego Fusion brings these me back),” the students told Smartphones. owner Ross William Ulbrich. research firm IDC. two favourite play patterns together.” TechCrunch. Health Sunbathing ‘may be addictive’ Dementia is ‘one of greatest Diabetes gene ‘raises risk tenfold’ Goggles help surgeons ‘see’ Microwave helmet ‘can spot a warning enemies of humanity’ tumors stroke’ BBC BBC BBC BBC BBC A genetic susceptibility that Spending time basking in A “big, bold global push” is gives a tenfold increased risk of Scientists are continually Scientists say they have the sun’s warming rays may needed to beat dementia, David developing type 2 diabetes has been seeking new ways of targeting cancer devised a helmet that can quickly have addictive properties, claim Cameron has told a summit in discovered. - and the latest is high-tech goggles. determine whether a patient has researchers in the US. London. The gene mutation, found in Currently doctors treating had a stroke. Their study, published in He pledged to accelerate progress the population of Greenland, will cancer have two main approaches - It could speed diagnosis and the journal Cell, showed that on dementia drugs, by increasing give clues to the different causes of bombard the tumour with drugs and treatment of stroke to boost chances sunlight led to the production of funding and making new drugs more the condition, say Danish scientists. radiotherapy or cut it out. of recovery, the scientists say. endorphins in the skin. accessible. The research, published in The second option is very The wearable cap bounces The Harvard Medical School The prime minister was speaking Nature, adds to evidence genetics common but not always successful microwaves off the brain to team said their experiments to an audience of 300 experts who plays a role in the chances of - because it is often also impossible determine whether there has been on mice showed repeated UV have pledged to find a cure by 2025. developing diabetes. to tell where the tumour ends and a bleed or clot deep inside. exposure led to addiction in the He wants a team of experts to Other factors included healthy tissue begins. The Swedish scientists who animals. report back to him by October on how lifestyle, with obesity and a bad To try and combat this surgeons made the device plan to give it Other scientists said drugs companies can be encouraged diet increasing risks, said a diabetes often remove tissue surrounding the to ambulance crews to test after describing it as “addiction” was a to develop new dementia medicines. charity. tumour, but cancerous cells often successful results in early studies step too far. In his speech, the prime minister Several susceptibility genes remain, necessitating further surgery. with 45 patients. There have been previous told experts that dementia is one of have been linked with diabetes, But a new goggle technology When a person has a stroke, suggestions that people can get the “greatest enemies of humanity.” meaning that if an individual is being developed in the US lets doctors must work quickly to limit addicted to the sun. “We are renewing our carrying one of these genes they face surgeons “see” which cells are any brain damage. A study of university students commitment to say by 2025 we want a greater risk of developing diabetes. cancerous and which are healthy, If it takes more than four using tanning salons suggested to find a cure to dementia. We should Danish researchers say the new increasing the chances that they will hours to get to hospital and start around one in three met the treat this as a disease rather than as mutation is present in almost one in be able remove all cancer cells in one treatment, parts of their brain tissue definition for addiction. some natural part of aging,” he said. five of Greenlanders. operation. may already be dying. PhilmontScoutRanch.org Friday, June 27, 2014 PhilNews | 21 Environment/Science Titan: Clue to ‘Magic Island’ Honeybee shortage threatens MPs say UK government ‘too Virunga Park oil hunt in DR Winter floods: MPs criticise mystery on Saturn moon crop pollination in Europe slow’ on marine conservation Congo halted funding priorities

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Scientists have outlined their In more than half of European The development of The hunt for oil is to be halted The government got its best explanations for a mysterious countries, there are not enough conservation zones to protect the in Africa’s oldest national park in funding priorities wrong on river feature dubbed the “magic island”, honeybees to pollinate crops, seas around the UK has been too eastern Democratic Republic of maintenance before last winter’s which has been spotted on Saturn’s according to new research. slow, a group of MPs has said. Congo, a UK-based oil firm has floods, say MPs. moon Titan. Scientists believe that a boom Last year, the government said. Members of the all-party The Cassini spacecraft captured in biofuels has sparked a massive designated 27 marine conservation Virunga National Park is Environment, Food and Rural the “island” during a flyby, but it had increase in the need for pollination. zones in the UK, while a further 37 a Unesco World Heritage site Affairs (Efra) select committee said vanished by the time of the next pass. The shortage is particularly acute zones could be designated by the and home to more than 200 keeping waterways clear had been a The bright splodge is seen in Britain which has only a quarter of end of 2015. endangered mountain gorillas. “Cinderella” activity. in Ligeia Mare, one of the seas of the honeybees required. However, 127 areas are Soco International made the Funding levels for maintenance methane and ethane found at Titan’s Researchers believe that wild recommended for protection concession after the WWF filed a remain “at a bare minimum” and north pole. pollinators including bumblebees and and the Environmental Audit complaint that the company was more money must be found for Icebergs, waves and gas hoverflies are making up the shortfall. Committee criticised a “lack of violating good business practice dredging to avoid a repeat of the bubbling up from the sea bed are all The study is published in the government commitment” on the guidelines. winter’s devastation, MPs said. possibilities, the scientists say. journal Plos One. issue. The world conservation The government said many The study by an international The number of honeybees in the The government said it was group has now agreed to drop its lessons had been learned and team has been published in the UK and elsewhere has been in decline doing “more than ever” to protect case against Soco. measures put in place. journal Nature Geoscience. in recent years, with both pesticide marine habitats. In a joint statement, Soco The record levels of rain that Saturn’s largest moon shares use and disease being blamed for Marine conservation zones have and the WWF said they looked fell on parts of England and Wales much in common with Earth, such losses. been set up to conserve “nationally forward “to working responsibly meant that the winter of 2013/14 as a substantial atmosphere and a Across Europe though, overall rare” or “threatened” habitats and with the Democratic Republic of was the wettest in over 200 years. seasonal cycle. Wind and rain shape numbers of honeybee colonies wildlife in inshore waters, as well Congo and its people to ensure Around 7,000 properties were the surface to form river channels, increased by 7% across 41 countries as in offshore seas around England, that future development benefits flooded, with parts of Somerset seas, dunes and shorelines. between 2005 and 2010. Wales and Northern Ireland. both people and the environment.” under water for three months. Business Alstom board votes to accept China rejects shipping alliance Oil around nine-month high of Eurozone recovery not strong Argentina’s Fernandez de General Electric bid $115 on Iraq fighting enough, says IMF Kirchner wants creditor talks BBC BBC BBC BBC BBC China has rejected a shipping The board of French rail and alliance initiative aimed at saving Violence in Iraq has sent oil The recovery in the eurozone is Argentina’s President Cristina energy group Alstom has unanimously the industry money, despite prices close to a nine-month high. not strong enough, according to the Fernandez de Kirchner has said her voted to accept an offer from General approval from the US and the EU. Brent crude fell 27 cents to International Monetary Fund (IMF). government would negotiate with all Electric. The “P3 Network” was $114.79 a barrel, after reaching That’s the assessment IMF head the country’s creditors. US conglomerate GE is bidding intended to operate in a similar $115.71 on Thursday, the highest Christine Lagarde is delivering to It comes amid signs that $17bn (£10bn) for Alstom’s energy way to code-sharing deals between since September 2013. eurozone finance ministers at a meeting Argentina may start talks with business. The deal still needs regulators’ airlines. Oilfields south of Baghdad, in Luxembourg. investors who refused to take part in and Alstom staff representatives’ The idea was to allow the which export at least 2.5 million The IMF also says the European two restructurings. approval. world’s top three container- barrels per day of oil, are still Central Bank (ECB) should consider Argentina has been in a bitter The French government agreed to shipping operators by volume to unaffected.But the fighting in the buying financial assets with newly row with hedge funds which are support the deal, which will involve the cut costs by sharing ships and port north poses a risk to supplies, created money, if inflation remains low. demanding full payment for bonds state buying a 20% stake in Alstom, and facilities. while foreign oil companies are But the IMF’s regular eurozone they bought after the country other steps to protect French interests. A successful alliance would beginning to pull out staff. health check sees some signs of progress. defaulted. A rival offer from Siemens- have seen about 250 ships Paul Horsnell, head of “Strong policy actions have laid “We want to pay 100% of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was participating in P3. commodities research at Standard the foundations for economic recovery,” creditors,” the president said on Friday. rejected. The idea, announced last Chartered bank, said: “The market it says. Argentina has for years refused GE chief Jeff Immelt said the deal year, came from a proposed has priced in existing geopolitical However, it also says that the to even consider talks with so-called would be “good for France, GE and collaboration among three r i s k .” recovery is not robust, and that “hold-out” creditors whom Ms A l s t o m”. shipping groups: Maersk from Global spare capacity in oil economic activity is still below pre- Fernandez has called “vultures.” If approved, the deal is expected Denmark, Mediterranean production is at about 2%, he said, crisis levels. Some countries, including The country has been in a 12-year to be completed in 2015. Reports say Shipping Company (MSC) from meaning that a spike in demand Germany and France, have got back to fight in the US courts with hold-outs it would be GE’s largest ever industrial Switzerland and CMA CGM from of more than 2% will outstrip those levels, though the eurozone as a who declined to participate a 2005 acquisition. France. production. whole has not. and 2010 revamp of debt securities. 22 | PhilNews Friday, June 27, 2014 PhilmontScoutRanch.org Clue Greek Gods Beginner

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