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Summer holiday in Merano in South Tyrol
Active holiday and more
Summer holiday in South Tyrol means exercising outdoors surrounded by nature and finally having time for your hobbies. In short - having fun being active. Summer holiday in South Tyrol is a real dream for true outdoor enthusiasts. Nature offers the perfect playground for activities.
The activities on offer at our hotel in South Tyrol not only include golf, hiking and mountain biking, but also plenty more opportunities to experience an active summer in South Tyrol. Take a bird's-eye view of South Tyrol while paragliding or see things from a totally different point of view with a helicopter flight.
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Summer holiday with golf packages in South Tyrol
Fancy some golf?
Discover the most wonderful fairways at the seven golf clubs in South Tyrol:
- Passeier Merano Golf Club - Distance: 17 km
- Lana Golf Club (all year) - Distance: 9 km
- Golfclub Kastelruth - Distance: 60 km
- Golfclub Petersberg - Distance: 65 km
- Lake Karer Golf Club
- Dolomiti Golf Club - Distance: 43 km
- NEW: St. Vigil Seis Golf Club
Golf discounts for you:
Play on the South Tyrolean golf course of your choice and receive a 20% discount on the green fees when booking a minimum stay of 5 days (only on direct bookings). We kindly ask that you submit your receipt from the golf club to us on the day of departure. The discount will be deducted from your hotel bill. Our reception staff would be happy to reserve your tee off times or arrange coaching for you.
Our classic car hotel, the Ansitz Plantischerhof
Pivotal focal point for events in the region
With 300 days of sunshine every year, our classic car pleasure tours enjoy a season which almost lasts the whole year. The unique location amongst the vineyards and the Sarntal Alps make classic car tours as delightful, varied, unique and exciting as they could possibly be. Furthermore, the region around Merano offers the sensation of freedom all year round thanks the classic car tours and events which are organised here. While you are here, you can of course stay here with us at the classic car hotel in Merano. Climb aboard.
Spend a week here in summer - a week brimming full of stylish holiday with your classic car at our hotel in South Tyrol. Experience the luxury and the benefits that our gourmet and classic car hotel has to offer for yourself:
- Organised classic car tours to the most beautiful places in South Tyrol
- Culinary gourmet moments form Norbert Hanifle's kitchen
- Wine tours with the hotelier Johannes Gufler
- Comprehensive weekly programme of activities in the natural surroundings as well as for the body and soul
- Daily massages at the Golden SPA
- Overnight stays in our high-class room categories
- Opportunity to take part in whisky and cigar degustations
Find out all the details about classic car pleasure weeks at our Hotel Ansitz Plantitscherhof in Merano and take advantage of our all-round service package for classic car owners spending their holidays with us.
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Candidates are scarce in most non-partisan races for the November election a week away from the filing deadline.
The May primary has up multiple races in the general election for county offices, including judge-executive, jailer, clerk and magistrates, pitting a Republican against a Democrat.
However, non-partisan candidates who would like to run for mayor and city council or commission seats in Williamstown, Dry Ridge, Crittenden or Corinth have until 4 p.m. Aug. 12 to file.
Kentucky General Assembly's 2014 regular session may have ended months ago, but several new laws passed will finally go into effect July 15.
The state constitution specifies that new laws take effect 90 days after the adjournment of the legislature, except for general appropriation measures and those containing emergency or delayed effective date provisions.
The General Assembly's 2014 session adjourned on April 15, making July 15 the day that most laws will take effect.
A week before the end of the 2013-14 fiscal year the Dry Ridge City Council approved amending the budget to add $40,000.
The additional funds were allocated to the Dry Ridge Fire Department, upping its appropriations for the year to $1.028 million.
Chief Tom Jump said before the first reading of the budget amendment that he did not intend to use all of the funds and any remaining would be put back in the city's general fund.
The filing deadline may still be two months away, but the first candidate for a non-partisan city race has turned in his paperwork.
Vincent S. Stephens has filed to run for mayor of the city of Dry Ridge.
The May primary has set up multiple races in November for county offices, including judge-executive, jailer, clerk and magistrates, pitting a Republican against a Democrat.
However, non-partisan candidates who would like to run for mayor and city council or commission seats in Williamstown, Dry Ridge, Crittenden or Corinth have until 4 p.m. Aug. 12 to file.
The votes have been tallied and the local political matchups are set for the November primary election.
For county judge-executive, Republican Steve Wood will face off against Democratic candidate Richard Austin, a long-time magistrate on the Grant County Fiscal Court.
Austin handily won his primary race with nearly 50 percent of the vote against three opponents.
He led the pack with 1,179 votes, followed by 469 votes for Shirley Wilson, 411 for Anitra Jump and 307 for Keith Ellington.
Grant County residents could soon be getting a phone call from the Northern Kentucky Health Department asking for their input.
The health department will be sponsoring a random telephone survey beginning July 21 to gauge the community's perceptions of health-related issues.
The 15-minute survey, which the department will conduct overt two weeks, can be answered by any adult age 18 and older.
Both cell phone and land-line phone numbers will be included in the survey sample.
A captain at the Grant County Detention Center was still on the job days after being found guilty of domestic violence charges.
Steven Skinner, 27, and his wife, Michelle Skinner, were both charged with fourth-degree assault April 17 after an alleged domestic dispute with his wife.
A Grant County jury found Steven Skinner guilty on the charges July 31. He was ordered to pay a $500 fine and court costs, but no jail time or probation.
After Skinner's arrest, Jailer Terry Peeples said, if convicted, Skinner would be fired.
(Editor's note: This story contains sexually-explicit allegations in a lawsuit filed against the Grant County jailer.)
Terry Peeples is accused of sexual assault and harassment in the latest lawsuit filed against the Grant County jailer.
Peeples, who is seeking his second term in the November election, has had previous lawsuits filed against him by at least six former employees since taking office in 2011.
The Ark Encounter received good news last week when the Kentucky Tourism Board gave approval to $18 million in tax incentives.
The board unanimously voted on July 26 to approve sales tax incentives for the theme park, which is being constructed off Ky. 36 in Williamstown.
The Ark Encounter is another development of Answers In Genesis, a conservative Christian non-profit that also operates the Creation Museum in Boone County.
Garbage scattered on the banks of Boltz Lake prompted Wanda Hammons, magistrate of the 2nd district, to work with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife, Grant County Judge-Executive Darrell Link's office and Jailer Terry Peeples to clean up the area.
Inmates from the Grant County Detention Center in the Class D program visited the lake Aug. 5 and picked up trash and debris, as well as mowed and did some weedeating.
Maintenance crews from the fish and wildlife are assigned to Boltz Lake and visit at least twice a year.
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Organizing My Classroom Library: The Never-Ending Story
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As I set up my classroom this year, I was so proud of myself. I had carefully organized when I packed up my room in June, so my room looked "livable" in just a few hours this fall. "Wow, this is smooth sailing," I thought smugly. Then I approached my classroom library, and I didn't emerge until 8:30 p.m.!
The hours disappeared as I labeled book baskets, leveled new books, culled through my collection, and planned new library routines. This was certainly time well spent, but I have to tell you, sometimes my "librarian hat" feels heavier than my "teacher hat." That said, I feel that much of my success as a reading teacher can be attributed to my classroom library. Join me on a photo tour of my classroom library, as I reflect on my organization systems and what works for me.
The Evolution of a Library
This is what my classroom library looked like my first year teaching. It's not particularly organized or all that inviting, with not-very-full book baskets. During that hazy first year, I could barely keep up with lesson planning; organizing my classroom library was far beyond me. I gratefully adopted shoddily leveled baskets from a retiring teacher, and we made do.
"Who cares how my library looks? That's just aesthetics," I thought. However, throughout the year, I realized something wasn't working. The library became less and less organized, my students were not careful with their books, and independent reading was a chore. After speaking with colleagues, reading everything I could get my hands on, and thankfully stumbling upon Beth Newingham's website, I realized that in order to rehab my reading workshop, I first had to revamp my library.
Welcome to Our Library!
As I grew as a teacher, I realized having an inviting, organized classroom library is an essential part of managing reading workshop. My students take an active role in maintaining our organized library, books are accessible to all of my students, and best of all, my students fall in love with reading as they discover books that speak to them. This is what it looks like:
Nonfiction Baskets
Nonfiction is currently enjoying its turn in the spotlight, thanks to the Common Core State Standards. I am looking to give nonfiction a boost in my classroom library — my library used to be very fiction-centric. My class is two-thirds boys this year, so I have extra impetus to ramp up the nonfiction collection.
I'm planning to swap nonfiction baskets every two to three months throughout the year to keep the topics fresh. I've also set aside a shelf for large-format nonfiction picture books. These books don't fit in my library baskets, but they are some of the most popular books among many of my boys.
Leveled Baskets and More
I only level about a third of my library collection. Leveled books are an excellent scaffold for my developing readers. It helps my students feel secure while choosing their books, and it gives them a sense of growth as they advance through the levels. However, I try not to overemphasize reading levels in my class. Many of my students have made incredible leaps as readers when they have struggled through a book that was above their reading level but that deeply interested them.
Try using the Scholastic Book Wizard (also available as an app with a scanning function) for an easy way to level books.
The clear basket on the bottom shelf is our "book hospital" for damaged books. I also include a lot of poetry in my classroom library, an often overlooked genre.
Series and Author Baskets
Series books are very popular among my third-graders, and I find that particular series become "fads" for a while among my students. Part of keeping my students interested in reading is gauging when their series interests wax and wane. After many of my students have read through a series, I swap out those books for another series, usually on a higher level. I refresh my series and author (blue) baskets at least three or four times throughout the year. Series books that are not in use get stored away in our closets. (This isn't glamorous, but here's a peek behind the scenes of my classroom library.) The spinning racks available through Scholastic Reading Club are perfect for displaying series books together.
Magazines and Reference Books
Magazines are awesome! They provide high-interest short texts in a wide range of genres (think authentic test prep). I get my subscriptions through DonorsChoose: Click, American Girl, and National Geographic for Kids are particular favorites among my students.
Audiobook Collections
These shelves have our books that pair with audio recordings. Books with the yellow sticker pair with mp3s on our class iPods; books with the red sticker pair with our CD collection. I also load our classroom iPods with podcasts and audiobooks that do not match up with our hard-copy collection. Sometimes it is OK to just listen to a book without reading along. That's how I listen to audiobooks, after all.
My "Teacher Books"
Here are my guided reading shelves. I keep the books that are on my students' current levels on these shelves, and swap them for higher-level books throughout the year. Keeping only the relevant levels out helps me focus when deciding on a book for a particular lesson. (I use labeled bins to store guided reading books that I don't currently need — photo at right.)
The other shelf houses my collection of read-aloud picture books. I used to keep these mixed in with the students' books, but books were often missing when I needed them for a lesson. This bookcase is now hands-off for the kids. It makes them all the more excited to hear these titles when I share them with the class.
Reading Notebooks
My students use reading notebooks to track their reading progress, take notes, collect interesting words, and much more. We store their notebooks on top of a bookshelf, and I use plastic file racks to keep the notebooks neatly in place.
Book "Check Out" System
I taped library pockets to the sides of two bookcases for our "Look What We're Reading" book check-out system. Each time my students borrow a book from the library, they write the title and the basket on the top of an index card and slip it into their pocket. When they return the book, the remove the corresponding index card and drop it into a "used card" basket. This system helps me track what my students are reading at a glance, it helps my students keep our library organized, and it is very simple to manage.
Some Helpful Links
If you want any of my book basket labels (patterned off of Beth Newingham's fabulous labels), visit the "Teacher Resource" section of my class website. Here is a Word document with the outline for my library basket labels, in case you want to make your own: Library Basket Labels Template
Ray Reutzel wrote a very useful book about organizing and planning an effective classroom library, Your Classroom Library: New Ways to Give It More Teaching Power: Great Teacher-Tested and Research-Based Strategies for Organizing and Using Your Library.
Make sure to check out Beth Newingham's article about organizing a classroom library, "Give Your Classroom Library a Boost." She was my original inspiration. The Scholastic Teacher magazine article "Creating Your Dream Classroom Library" also has some great ideas.
I would love to hear your tips for organizing your classroom library, as well as any questions you may have about my library. Please comment below.
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The Library labels are awesome! Thanks for organizing them so beautifully!
I laughed at the way you started this article - it sounds just like me! My classroom library never seems to be to my liking. It is a constant "work in progress." I loved your ideas and are going to try them. Whenever I tell my friends that I am going to work on my library, they roll their eyes, laugh at me and, say "AGAIN??!!" Wish me luck! Thanks so much for sharing this info!
Hi! Great Article! Thanks for the tips on how to manage a classroom library! Can you give me more information about your Readers Notebooks? How do you use them? What types of data sheets go in them? Please respond when you get a chance. I am returning to the classroom after several years out and am looking to refresh my knowledge!
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Fantastic resource--thank you! Do you, or any of the other readers, allow students to bring books home on a daily basis? If so, how do you manage. I was heart-sick this fall as I was unpacking because I realized how many of my books were missing. I am looking for possibly a parent letter or other suggestions for maintaining records of books. Any ideas? Many thanks!
Hi Margaret,
Thanks for your comment! "Disappearing books" is an inevitable part of managing a classroom library. I do let my students take books home - it's the only way to really make sure that my students read every single night. (A minimum of thirty minutes of independent reading is a part of my daily homework for the students.) Of course books get lost and damaged, and I've tried many systems, but none of them truly seem to help. At the beginning of the year, I teach several mini lessons about respecting books, being responsible for the classroom library, and setting up a designated "borrowed bookshelf" at home for library books. I ask the parents to help me maintain our library and to stay on top of their children. I've tried using various "check out" systems - a binder with pages for each student, clothespins on the book baskets, and library pockets with index cards. However, I find that after the first few months, it becomes a burden to maintain the systems, and it doesn't really prevent missing books anyway.
The best solution for me is to just let the students borrow books as they need them, without a check-out system, and at the end of the year, I have a serious discussion with the students about missing books. I give them a guilt trip about how hard I've worked to build a rich classroom library and that I want future classes to also be able to read all of their favorite books. Then I make a deal with the students: For each "missing book" that is returned to the classroom, the students earn a minute of extra recess or playtime. During the last weeks of school, I can use the extra recess time anyway to help with the spring fever, and the students are highly motivated to find every single missing book (and some books that don't even belong to the classroom) to earn extra playtime minutes. I hope this works for you!
I love your ideas and would like to suggest one that I find helpful. I have a large collection of high-interest, leveled books that I refer to as the "Teacher's Special Collection." I use these with children reading below benchmark and they enjoy reading one of "the teacher's" books! I keep this collection near my small group table.
Thanks for this great suggestion! I too, keep "special" books in a closet, and my students are all eager to get to read my secret stash of books. Ah, the tricks of the trade.
Thank you for sharing this wealth of information. I am beginning Reading Workshop, and I am in the process of reorganizing my library. I have non-fiction books that are related to Social Studies concepts, and others I've collected. And yes, boys love Science picture books. Last year I had gendered based ELA classes. Now I know where to begin to become more organized with my class library.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I am starting a new chapter of my life in a new school and a new grade. I took a wonderful reading class this summer that requires a year long project, and mine is setting up a functional classroom library that will increase both reading interests and reading levels. I appreciate the pictures and explanations.
Hi I have a 2 year toddler class, how can i organize my library for them? We are required to have books in all areas for the children and we use the High scope curriculum.
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For those of you with limited shelving, you can have white gutter material cut to size and screw them to the wall like shelves. Depending on how secure you make them, you can display highlighted or seasonal books or store more.
It was very interesting seeing your hard work and I will admit it looks very functional and something I would love to have. However, you have a lot more room for books than I have. I do have a very large library as I have been teaching for 20+ years; but I am in a portable with 28 desk and students, 7 computers,and space for a couple of book shelf. I would love to see how teacher do it with a very litytle space to work with.
Wow. As an "old" teacher teaching a "new" subject, I learned a lot from this. Thank you for sharing it. I kind of stumbled through my first year as an ELA-R teacher, as you said, with the few books I could beg, borrow, and buy, and always struggled with how to organize them. The students, of course, used my same system - none. I'm going to try a better system this year!
Thank you! This post will be so helpful to me this summer when I have time to revamp my library!! I appreciate the help!
I need help with this like you wouldn't believe! I've gotten some great ideas thanks. My problem is, however, I teach Kindergarten and I'm so unsure how to organize all my pre and early readers. Have any ideas?
Great ideas! I am taking notes right now. Seeing your library motivates me to make mine even better next school year!
Your library is truly impressive. What a great teacher!
This post has inspired me to organize my classroom library. I am ashamed to say that it has no sort of organization whatsoever, this is a large task in front of me. It is something that has needed to be done and now I have the inspiration to accomplish this mighty task! Thanks and wish me luck...
Wow! Thanks I just moved from 2nd to 5th and need to revamp my library. What do you include in your reader's notebook? And please post a virtual tour of your classroom in the future it seems like a wonderful set up:)
Elizabeth, thank you for taking the time to comment! I love your idea about displaying non-fiction books facing out so that students can see the covers. I am going to set up a non-fiction display tomorrow! You are spot on - I have so many wonderful non-fiction books in the room that don't get read because the kids don't want to dig through the baskets.
All the best, Alycia
I love reading posts on library organization. I am constantly changing my library as I add more books and change grade levels. I lay out many of my non-fiction books in book displays to entice students into reading more non-fiction books (I find they don't always take the time to sift through baskets). As soon as I display new non-fiction books, they "disappear" into my student's book boxes. It is also very visually appealing to have books with beautiful photographs displayed in the classroom.


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Still I stick to my point that subjective impressions are not a solid ground for a hardware reviewer, as they heavily depend on the tester's tastes and habits. Moreover, it's just hard to compare a dozen of monitors in practice as you forget about the first one when working with the ninth or tenth monitor. I don't even mention different testing sessions that may take place several weeks apart from one another: the result can be not very objective, even if the tester is the same person.
Besides that, subjective impressions are dull and succinct like "this one is better than that one." But why is it better? Well, if the specification claims "16msec response time" for the first monitor, and "40msec" for the second, I can well ground my vague feelings, but what if they both have "25msec"? Did one of the manufacturers declare the response time incorrectly, and it is actually smaller or bigger than specified? Or maybe it is correct, but the response time is different in some other operational mode like under reduced screen brightness or on transitions between black and gray? These questions can only be answered through objective, without that flimsy human element, measurements of the monitor parameters.
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Den leaders and Cubmasters conduct meetings implementing the three steps in Cub Scout advancement: preparation, qualification, and recognition. The Den &Pack Meeting Resource Guide, No. 34409, explains the mechanics for doing so while helping to maximize advancement. It has four parts: Overview of Cub Scouting and Using the Den & Pack Meeting Resource Guide; Den Meeting Plans; Pack Meeting Plans; and Resources, Forms, and Applications. Den meetings—two monthly—support a traditional school year and are designed to result in advancement for all boys. Supplemental plans are provided for dens that meet more often, and adjusting for different school schedules is simple. To achieve a full experience and the greatest impact, regular "home assignments" challenge parents and sons to work together.
Den leaders, Cubmasters, and their assistants stimulate interest in advancement and present the program where it occurs. The responsibility for Cub Scout advancement administration, however, belongs to a pack committee ("Unit Advancement Responsibilities," 22.214.171.124). The pack committee collects den advancement reports, compiles and maintains them in pack records, reports advancement to the council (see "Internet Advancement Highlights,"188.8.131.52), purchases awards and ensures their presentation,and helps plan and facilitate various ceremonies. The committee may also recommend special pack activities that lead to greater levels of achievement.
Consult the Cub Scout Leader Book, No. 33221, to learn more about the responsibilities of the pack committee.
A key responsibility for den leaders is to implement the core den meeting plans as outlined in the Den & Pack Meeting Resource Guide, No. 34409. For Wolf, Bear, and Webelos advancement, den leaders take the lead in approving requirements, though their assistants, and also parents who help at meetings, may be asked to play the role of "Akela" and assist. Parents sign for requirements that, according to meeting plans and instructions in the handbooks, take place at home. For the Bobcat trail and Tiger Cub achievements, parents (or adult partners) should sign in the boy's handbook; the den leader then approves as progress is recorded in the den's advancement record.
Akela (Ah-KAY-la) is a title of respect used in Cub Scouting—any good leader is Akela, which is also the leader and guide for Cub Scouts on the advancement trail.
After a new member earns his Bobcat badge, he begins on the Cub Scout rank appropriate to his age or grade. Once he has progressed past the Bobcat rank, he continues to move forward. In other words,he cannot go back and work on ranks that he missed due to his age. Upon earning the Webelos badge and the Arrow of Light Award, he will also have learned the requirements for the Scout badge and begins his journey through Boy Scouting.
Advancement performance in Cub Scouting is centered on its motto: "Do Your Best." When a boy has done this—his very best—then regardless of the requirements for any rank or award, it is enough; accomplishment is noted. This is why den leaders, assistants, and parents or guardians are involved in approvals. Generally they know if effort put forth is really the Cub Scout's best.
The Cub Scout program is centered primarily in the den,the home and neighborhood, but often takes place in theoutdoors. It leads to advancement through six ranks.
The Bobcat badge is earned first, before all other ranks. The trail to Bobcat involves learning the Cub Scout Promise, Law of the Pack, and signs and symbols of Cub Scouting, with an introduction to Character Connections®. After earning the Bobcat rank, new members begin work on the rank appropriate to their age: Tiger Cub, Wolf, Bear, or Webelos.
Tiger Cub rank is for boys who are in the first grade (or are 7 years old).
After earning Bobcat rank, first-graders or boys at least 7 years old work on the Tiger Cub badge. Its 15 requirements are divided evenly among five achievements. Each of the five includes a family activity, a den activity, and a den outing called "Go See It."
Before receiving his Bobcat badge, a Tiger Cub earns the Immediate Recognition emblem. Then he adds a bead upon completing each of the 15 parts of the achievements. White beads are for family activities, orange for den activities, and black for Go See It outings.
Once a boy has earned his Tiger Cub badge, he can earn "Tiger Track" beads. These spark interest in new hobbies, activities, or skills. The flat, yellow beads are added to the Immediate Recognition emblem. One is awarded for every 10 electives finished. The elective activities appear in the youth handbook. There is no limit to the number of Tiger Track beads a boy can earn, and he can repeat electives at the discretion of the den leader and adult partner. A boy can work on them at the same time as achievements, but he cannot receive beads until he has earned the Tiger Cub badge.
The Wolf rank is for boys who have completed first grade or are 8 years old.
For the Wolf badge, work begins with 12 achievements involving simple physical and mental skills covering—for example—knowledge of the U.S. flag, a Cub Scout's religious duties, and other age-appropriate educational activities. When the 12 are completed, the Wolf badge is presented at a pack meeting.
For the Bear rank, 12 achievements are required, just as for Wolf. However, boys have 24 from which to choose, organized into four categories: God, Country, Family, and Self. The requirements are more challenging than those for the Wolf rank.
The Progress Toward Ranks emblem acknowledges advancement as Wolf and Bear Cub Scouts complete the achievements. Like the Tiger Cub Immediate Recognition emblem, it hangs at the right pocket of the uniform shirt. It features a lanyard divided in two: one for Wolf, one for Bear. When a boy completes three achievements, he earns a bead: yellow for Wolf, red for Bear.
A newly recognized Wolf or Bear Cub Scout then turns his attention to Arrow Points. Arrow Points develop interests and teach skills, many of which are useful in Boy Scouting. One is awarded for every 10 electives: a Gold Arrow for the first 10, and Silver for every 10 there after. There is no limit to the number of Silver Arrows that can be awarded, but they must be completed before boys move to the next rank's program. Boys can choose from a number of electives; each represents an opportunity for experiential learning. Though designed to broaden horizons, those so designated may be earned multiple times; but when a boy repeats an elective, he should get credit only when his skills have improved over the previous experience. Boys may work on elective projects concurrently with achievements, but cannot receive Arrow Points until they earn the badge for their age or grade level.
Unused parts of achievements that were used for the Wolf or Bear badge may not be counted toward Arrow Points. For example, in Bear Achievement 9, "What's Cooking," four of seven parts listed are required for the achievement. The other three may not be used as electives toward Arrow Points. Since 12 achievements will have been used to earn the Bear badge, electives may be chosen from any of the remaining 12. Once a boy moves to the next rank level, he may not earn Arrow Points from the earlier level.
Webelos, an acronym for "We'll Be Loyal Scouts,"is the rank for boys who have completed third grade or are 10 years old. Webelos Scouts can choose between the diamond and oval patches for uniform wear.
The Webelos Scout advancement plan has two primary components: the Webelos badge and the Arrow of Light Award. Both are based on activity badges that range from Aquanaut and Sportsman to Geologist and Forester (see "More on Webelos Activity Badges," 188.8.131.52).The Webelos badge calls for earning three of them, along with several other requirements listed in the Webelos Handbook.
There are 20 activity badges in all. Webelos Scouts may earn as many as they like.
Compass points recognize progress beyond the Webelos badge and offer intermediate recognition leading to the Arrow of Light Award. The compass points emblem is presented to each boy who earns seven activity badges—four in addition to those required for Webelos rank. For every four thereafter, a metal compass point is pinned to the emblem. It takes 19 activity badges to earn the emblem and all three points.
The Arrow of Light Award is Cub Scouting's highest rank.It is earned after fulfilling the requirements for the Webelos badge, usually during the second-year Webelos program. Much of the experience gives Webelos Scouts the chance to practice skills that prepare them to become Boy Scouts. Once completed, the award should be presented during an impressive pack ceremony involving Scouts from a local Scout troop. Their involvement may encourage eventual "bridging" recipients into the troop.
Webelos Scouts who have earned the Arrow of Light Award have also completed most of the requirements for the Scout badge. This can be easily completed and then presented when the boy has joined a troop and his Scoutmaster has signed for accomplishment in his Boy Scout Handbook.
The Arrow of Light Award may be completed only while the following four conditions are met: (1) The Webelos Scout has been registered and active for at least six months since completing the fourth grade or since turning 10 years old; (2) he is still registered in a pack or as a Lone Cub Scout; (3) he has not yet joined a troop; and (4) he has either not yet graduated from the fifth grade or has not yet turned 11, whichever is the latter.
The minimum age for a Cub Scout who has earned the Arrow of Light Award to become a Boy Scout is 10 years old. The Boy Scout joining requirements as stated in the Boy Scout Handbook, read as follows: "Be a boy who is 11 years old, or one who has completed the fifth grade or earned the Arrow of Light Award and is at least 10 years old …"
Many activities and related awards are available for Cub Scouts, dens, and packs. A few are outlined here. Others are covered in the Cub Scout Leader Book, No. 33221, and featured in the new Guide to Awards and Insignia (available in winter 2012).
All achievements, electives, and other requirements for Cub Scout ranks are shown in the respective handbooks. The Webelos Handbook includes requirements for the Arrow of Light Award and all activity badges.
Cub Scouting's Fun for the Family program is a series of activities designed to help strengthen families. All family members are encouraged to participate and earn the Fun for the Family Award. Details can be found in Fun for the Family, No. 33012. The award includes a patch along with Fun for the Family program pins in five categories.
More than just a recognition opportunity, this program develops new skills, improves those existing, and otherwise enriches Cub Scouting. Details can be found in the Cub Scout Academics and Sports Program Guide, No. 34299. Activities include subjects like science, video games, collecting, and chess; and sports such as baseball, skateboarding, and table tennis. Each has two levels—a belt loop and a pin. Belt loops, which can be earned more than once, are awarded when each of three requirements is met. Cub Scouts may then continue with additional requirements and earn the pin. Archery and BB gun shooting are included, but can only be conducted at a council presented activity with certified supervisors.
Activity badges help Webelos Scouts develop interests in areas that may lead to hobbies or career choices. The projects involved help accomplish the purposes of Cub Scouting while providing the foundation for exciting and worthwhile den meetings. Some badges may occupy a den for a few weeks; others may take longer. Families are encouraged to work at home with their boys on projects begun at den meetings, but the Webelos den leader approves completed work.
The Webelos den leader and assistant(s), and the den chief, may handle portions of instruction during meetings. But the badges will have more meaning when a qualified activity badge counselor teaches most of the requirements, provides resources, leads field trips, and gives other useful service. A parent or family member, pack leader, teacher, coach, or other adult with talents or skills related to the specific badges may serve in this capacity. A local Scoutmaster or the district advancement chair can help identify merit badge counselors who might also work with related activity badges.


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TUPELO – A group of Lawndale Elementary School third-grade students wants to knock your socks off in the new year.
About 40 challenge students in Joannah Ballard's five classes made sock puppets last week inspired by their resolutions for 2013. Their ideas varied – some wanted to became a famous athlete or a straight-A student or to start a business – but all of them had to have a wow factor.
Kara Roberts, 8, wanted to practice so she could become a famous tennis player.
"Since I was five years old, I've always dreamed of it, and I watched people on TV playing tennis," she said.
Attached to her puppet was a purple tennis racket made out of pipe cleaners with a fuzzy ball glued to it, "to make it look like she hit it," Kara said.
The exercise began with a writing assignment prompted by the question, "in 2013, I am going to knock your socks off by…" In a paragraph, students had to describe what they would do, how they would do it and what would happen after they did it.
Next, they decorated the puppet, using materials like cotton-ball noses, red-felt mouths, fabric strip clothing and yarn hair.
"We talked about resolutions and ways we could better our families, schools or communities," Ballard said. "We talked about their goals and interests."
Ellora Dey, 9, made a resolution to have a dog-walking business so she could meet more people in her neighborhood. She made a leash out of pipe cleaners for her dog puppet.
"I like dogs," she said.
Meanwhile, Ali Vallarian, 8, resolved to throw an awesome party with a friend.
"The last time I tried, I failed," she said. "It was a windy day and everything blew away. We will try on a sunny day and will make more decorations."
Her puppet had a fabric jacket with sequence and had a ribbon twirler.
"It is cool because it is fun, and my favorite subject is art," she said of the project.
Patrick Helms, 9, wants to become a better football player by catching and running better. He plans to do drills with his cousin and his brother.
His twin, Reece Helms, 9, resolved to read better. This semester, he said, the goal of the number of books he has to read to have an accelerated reader party was doubled. At such a party, he said, "you get to do fun things, like make cookies."
Patrick's puppet had a Styrofoam ball cut in half that served as a helmet. Reece's held a construction paper book and wore pipe cleaner reading glasses.
Nicol Milev, 9, decorated a sock with tennis shoes to represent her goal of running two miles each month.
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John Duhring, Cogswell Polytechnical College Submitted to the VentureWell Open 2015 Conference
Fleshed-out characters, roles and narratives lie at the heart of both art and innovation. Recent revelations that Apple and others are looking for an appreciation of design in their workforce calls for innovation programs to strengthen this approach. This paper will expose the importance of art and design in the entrepreneurial/innovation process. By harnessing the imagination of collaborative teams, crossing boundaries of practice and function, students in college can establish their pathway to innovative and successful careers.
In the heart of Silicon Valley, Cogswell College encourages engineers and artists to work together in collaborative teams to produce mobile apps, animated films and video games. Students enter the college with an interest in becoming a coder, a musician or an artist and with a portfolio of work already accomplished. Then, they are challenged to both refine their skills and to cross borders to engage in projects that draw from the entire gamut of potential across the student body.
The art program starts with hands-on skill building then evolves to figure drawing to deepen understanding of anatomy, movement and emotion as the basis for "character development". Students then use digital tools to bring collaborative projects to life. This approach goes far beyond programs that "teach the tool" by addressing the foundational elements that make the tool valuable in the first place.
To establish art's role in entrepreneurial education, talking about it isn't good enough. Entrepreneurs can feel good with some exposure to art, but they will forget it in an instant if they haven't been involved in art projects themselves. Working as part of a team, boiling down a project to its essence, switching perspectives and picking up new skills on the fly help entrepreneurs stay on course. By integrating hands-on art and design projects into entrepreneurship education, faculty can provide a rich set of experiences that mirror real-world practice in an academic environment.
Most importantly, art in this approach scales from the earliest doodle to the most complex app, video game or interactive film. The following table provides dimensions to consider when developing courses that bring art into educational experiences. Each assignment takes on deeper significance as the scope moves from intimate to social. Along the way, students develop their perspective, voice and value to teams. Art, when practiced in this context, is not an isolated act. Nor is the refinement of imagination. As part of their college experience, students enter an evolving play-learn- make cycle that will repeat itself throughout their lives. They explore their skillset and aptitude as they relate to the professional options they can pursue. Their college experience, then, becomes a safely scaffolded environment surrounded by guiding faculty and surprisingly gifted peers. It's an environment designed to help students step into being extraordinary.
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Requiring hands-on art projects for those who do not self-identify as artists is similar to teaching science to students who don't expect to become scientists. Practical art skills and the development of a healthy respect for what is learned leads to a deepened awareness of options to bring to bear on future endeavors. In college courses, almost any assignment can be turned into an art project that challenges students to imagine the world in a new way and to create pathways through it by exercising the skills and technologies
at their disposal. The context of these experiences can be adjusted to address issues that will come up in a student's chosen profession.
In an approach that is becoming increasingly significant in startups and innovative projects within larger organizations, well-developed usage scenarios and well-articulated personas combine to inform engineers and entrepreneurs of the core values they are bringing forward through the intended use of their products. Artistic renderings enable quick evaluation of many options prior to "hard coding" a final product. Simple sketching, storyboarding and prototyping methods become tools for developing walk- throughs and quality assurance throughout even complex projects. Simply put, they force the organization to consider the world in a multitude of dimensions and to evaluate options that go unnoticed otherwise.
The learning outcomes offered by the experience of creating art involve not just the skills of producing artwork, but also the disposition to factor complex problems as well as the deep knowledge of the problems that are solved through critical thinking and methodical execution. Students emerge from such programs with an ability to commit themselves wholeheartedly to projects, to understand their role and to adapt to critiques of their work. They learn to play with new ideas in a fluid way, to toy with a variety of approaches to a given problem. From such free play, the imagination to try new things, to model imaginary worlds, radically shifts perspectives and opens opportunities for everyone involved. The adaptability required in such art serves to produce articulate and considerate members of entrepreneurial teams.
Just as coding serves as a starting point for software engineering, basic handwork forms the foundation of art education. Sketching starts for many as a fun way to doodle, to play with line, stroke and shadow, as a basis for increasingly complex structures. Once a student learns to draw lines of varying widths and to shadow, they can combine these elements to program objects and scenes, rendered in real time. They are challenged to consider the properties of light and perspective that shape a two dimensional image. They toy with various approaches until what emerges mirrors for others what the artist sought to convey. A skilled non-artist can develop their craft to such an extent as to inspire their collaborators to think differently, to imagine new possibilities, by forming a simple image for them to consider. Even a single picture can form the basis of decisions, which underscores their value to an entrepreneurial effort.
Basic sculpting skills bring such images into 3D space. Once again, beginning students learn by playing, in this case with clay. They feel the plasticity and toy with their sense of structure, texture and balance. They learn the language of addition and taking away, smoothing and adding texture in real-time. They create and destroy their work until they find admiration from mentors and peers. What emerges can be surprising, as by simply rolling clay into a log or straw or wire, they can create a leg or finger or wisp of hair. With a simple gesture, an eyebrow is lifted, a nostril flared or a muscle flexed to express emotion or vitality. They examine symmetry and perspective to craft works that literally stand on their own. Just as a startup needs basic underpinnings, so does each piece of
sculpture- it is obviously ill formed otherwise. With a basic level of sculpting skill, non- artists can render product ideas, make characters of customers (or partners) and render reference works that can be examined at all angles to show the effects of point of view, lighting, handling and usage.
Similar evaluation methods can be applied to painting, dance, music and acting. Each art has its own language to express, elaborate and accentuate. Traditionally, colleges have focused on writing skills and the results are unquestionably valuable. But, when we are talking about creating enterprises and making industry-ready graduates who can commit themselves to making startups successful, a broad exposure to creative methods can only help students become increasingly aware of their own unique perspectives, limitations and realistic expectations within fiercely collaborative environments. At the very least, traditional hands-on art classes offer engineering and business students the opportunity to stand up to critiques and to develop their voice in ways that can be applied to their chosen specialty.
However, what is strongly suggested in this paper: art skills should be applied towards telling a story to an audience. In many Fine Arts programs, the concept of coherence is not always considered an important ingredient. Unfortunately, graduates from such programs are not always well suited to startup ecosystems. Associate professor Reid Winfrey says, "Cogswell is a design school. Telling a coherent story, whether in a drawing, an animation, a 3D model or a game, is the most important thing." As students advance, they engage in collaborative projects in which they take on roles in telling a story that is bigger than they themselves. These collaborations develop the "soft skills" that are a trademark of Cogswell students: the ability to imagine alternative scenarios and to harness their creativity across the boundaries of traditional disciplines to create new products, services and experiences through the resources of those involved.
Creating artworks yield significant value beyond the expression possible via written words alone. Whether in class, club or studio environments, students form teams to produce sophisticated, collaborative works, to develop workflows and to define roles for themselves within dynamic project environments. Describing these with words alone does not do them justice, just as simply describing a business plan does not a startup make. At the heart of Cogswell's approach are project teams that coalesce around bringing characters to life and bringing meaning to the stories they produce together. By way of example, here are two kinds of team approaches: the studio and the agency.
Studio projects involve a mix of engineers and artists who come together over multiple semesters to build an animated film, mobile app or video game. Since these projects evolve from concept to story and character development, through pre-production and production processes, students must wear many hats. They become co-creators, imagining scenarios and bringing them into being with sketches, clay models and written scripts. Each scene is storyboarded for evaluation and to inform the team as to the articulation needed for character models, environmental assets and audio soundscapes. Clay reference models are put under lights to identify how they can be presented with realistic integrity. Character sketches are elaborated to show emotion and emphasis, bringing to light the students' deep understanding of anatomy and movement as they have learned through figure drawing.
Going through multiple large projects, a student becomes a senior team member. These students are given responsibilities that mirror real world practices, to show "newbies" the ropes and to work collaboratively to solve the very real problems that inevitably crop up. For instance, once all the characters have been digitally modeled and rigged (their anatomy has been programmed to move appropriately when animated), the lighting and textures for scenes require unique skills in which a master rigger might become a junior lighting artist or a novice animator might supervise a group producing texture art to finalize the project. Veterans of such projects take to honing a breadth of skills in order to make themselves indispensable to the team and with an eye towards roles they might choose to take on after graduation.
Another kind of project is that of serving as an agency for external clients, often startups themselves. Typically, startups must focus their scarce resources on building a product that customers love. They don't have the bandwidth to articulate their corporate message or the means to present their brand with sound and animation. While the outcome of such projects might be a one-minute video that exudes the client's brand, the path to achieving an acceptable outcome provides students with opportunities to toy with a variety of possibilities and to respond to real-world feedback. In these projects, the students' artistry must take a back seat to the story they will tell on the client's behalf. They must imagine with the client to describe a world that will unfold with time.
Client meetings include all students on the project team. Students ask the questions and develop a variety of treatments for the client to consider. They learn to decode expressed views, develop briefs and receive critiques. In but one aspect of such a project, audio students provide soundscapes to evoke the emotions and energies that often go unexamined in traditional engineering and business disciplines. Mixing audio with characters and animations affords powerful story options. The students must listen carefully to both what is said and unsaid by clients who are often unaccustomed to working so closely with elements such as these that can unlock their narrative and bring their story to life in the world.
As the process continues, alternatives take on a resonance with the client and students can hone in on true needs. Typically, clients are surprised by the options and the freedom they have to choose or discard as they see fit. The team then executes a series of options based on earlier feedback. At the end of a six to eight-week process, a client makes their final choice, such as what is now on display at Hacker Dojo. In this piece, students imagined a world where everybody and everything is connected. They worked with the client to develop scenarios where the Hacker Dojo could be seen as an enabling platform for networked learning. They then created video animations and audio sculptures to express that world via the visual element of a puzzle piece that is carried from one project to another.
These design and engineering exercises are not unlike that of a startup (where a problem is identified and a solution developed that provides such a benefit to a target population as to underwrite the costs of production and distribution): They are more easily said than done!
Students working on studio and agency projects exhibit a fascinating ability to access knowledge as needed to become experts quickly. In one film project, the class decided to
make the central character an animated goat. In order to model that goat so that the team might realistically articulate its movements, the lead modeler was prompted to research the bone structure and anatomical behavior of goats. Little did he know that a goat has no top teeth at the front of the mouth. As he designed his goat, what he learned propagated naturally across the team.
This describes what John Seely Brown calls "pull" learning: spreading knowledge throughout teams to radically improve overall performance. In this case, no one started the project as a science lesson. After all, the group played around with many ideas before deciding a goat would be their central character. Now the entire team can tell you more about goats than you might ever wish to know!
In an interactive ebook project that features a seven-year-old boy as its central character, students immersed themselves in the psychology and physical processes involved with discovering the world outside the family, particularly for boys of that age. They naturally re-imagined their own childhood experiences and integrated surprising features that enable readers to use their fingers to nudge illustrations, to shine a flashlight into the woods, to combine stars into their own constellations, even to add their own doodles to the boy's sketchpad.
At a quantum level, the knowledge gained by observing teammates while co-developing illustrated and animated stories based on direct feedback through critique and reassessments provides an education that cannot be matched. The knowledge is tangible, timely and appropriate to the project at hand. The lessons learned have proven to last and evolve throughout the careers that lie ahead.
Art To Venture
Want to get to know your customers? Identify them in practice, develop characters that stand out and create a story around them. Animate your story with scenarios in which they experience problems getting to where they are going. Share your story and get feedback on your perceptions and descriptions. If what you share rings true, your potential customers will see themselves in your story and offer up their own accounts along with their appetite to change things if they could. Your customer stories need to be refined continually to provide your venture with perfect knowledge of every aspect of who they are and where they are going.
This is what many call "customer development". It's the lynchpin for validating a business idea and is second nature for experienced entrepreneurs. In its execution, there are no short cuts. Each new venture must start with a blank canvas and develop a true picture in order to build the right product. The stakes are high and failure must be accompanied by learning in order to pivot into a successful next chapter.
Unfortunately, most ventures develop these stories with mere words and numbers on paper. As should be clear by now, the language of words and numbers lack the movement, expression and emotion that surface through pictures, timelines and animations. Simple slide decks typically illustrate what was written, not what is true at a quantum level. Art, even as illustrated here, reveals what can otherwise only be described as a "gut feeling". When "customer development" is executed in a straight- jacketed way, with a goal generating hoped-for data and optics limiting field of view, then a venture is doomed out of the starting gate.
But, when customers emerge in sound and motion, fleshed out in 3D, moving through scenarios that reflect the world as it will be, employees and investors "get it". Creating such new worlds, to make a "dent in the universe" requires more than applying technology to a problem, it also involves articulating possibilities that do not yet exist and behavioral responses that have not been imagined before. Without bringing forth the skills we have described here to harness a collective imagination and to document using the technologies now at our disposal, ventures are limiting their chances for success.
On a recent tour of the Cogswell campus, a visitor abruptly stopped in a hallway and exclaimed, "This is what makes this place unique"! He pointed to the open door to his left, which led to a clay-modeling studio filled with students rendering figures poised to leap. Then, he pointed through the glass window to his right, which revealed a class of students at keyboards working their way through a Python class. "You force these people together"! It's true. Engineers don't have to go to another building to find an artist. Video game designers can find engineers without looking too far. For colleges to do what is described here might only require such close proximity, as is now available at USC.
Increasingly, employers from startups to studios to enterprises are not looking for what a student did in college. Rather, they are looking for what an individual might contribute as part of their team. A recent graduate who learns by "pull", who commits enthusiastically based on the experience of previous projects, who toys with ideas and who mentors collaborators, stacks up well against more seasoned alternatives. Being comfortable crossing boundaries, mixing coders, designers and technicians, requires an imagination for what is outside a given skillset. It requires an appreciation for the perspectives of others and for the endless possibilities that can be brought into play.
And, just maybe, as artists become part of engineering teams and as non-artists learn what is to be gained through practice, the problems that are identified and products that are built can more fully benefit the population that uses them. Through the practices described here- sketching behaviors, employing storyboards to describe processes, developing personas to gain insights, painting scenarios and articulating the narratives that unfold in any business- loosely coupled teams can more effectively execute their plans, engage customers and persuade investors. What art offers might ultimately be a more refined imagination that opens new worlds of possibility to ventures of all kinds.


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I think a nice 50% discount and free shipping would take away some of the sting so I could move on with my life and not harbor feelings of hate and resentment walking around wanting to kill somebody all the time.
If I rep posts up in buy sale and trade selling the same gear the sponsor sells and claims the are repping the sponsor. Said rep takes the money and runs should the sponsor make it good? Or should the sponsor try to help you track the rep down? Or should they just close you thread?
I know we have seen alot of sponsor go bad and the reps try to help and some fly the coop too. I look at this way if you rep for someone on this board you are standing behind that sponsor and they are standing behind you to be the face of the company.
I think a nice 50% discount and free shipping would take away some of the sting so I could move on with my life and not harbor feelings of hate and resentment walking around wanting to kill somebody all the time.
Yep you know the sponsor had a direct line to the rep and so does the rep to the sponsor.
That seems a lot like if a walmart employee starts selling you shit out of the back door, but then scams you out of money, Walmart now owes you?
That doesn't seem right to me.
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I agree, they should! But in no way do I fault the Co. he reps for or hold them responsible. He was simply an outlaw, a bandito if you will.
Also, I have never been fucked over by an individual, because I don't buy stuff except from the websites. I have been fucked over by companies that are sponsors here. One of them I have been fucked over twice. I have been fucked over by legit and non legit companies. Hell, I have been fucked over by amazon before.
But, I have made 5 orders from Z, and never have I been fucked over. I think you are barking up the wrong tree.
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If you do side business with a rep, the sponsor isn't responsible in any way, shape or form.
Ive been fucked by every sponsor on this board.
I just won't make side deals anymore, thanks GH.
Everybody made fun of this guy except me, cause I wanted him to stick around. The guy even changed his name like he was prince or some shit.
Never thought he'd fuck me?
I just think the sponsor should chose the reps better. If they see they are selling the same gear and stating that it comes from the sponsor. It like they are resenting themselves as able to sale for the rep. I am not asking for any from the sponsor but they should try to help contact the rep. It works they other way around right. You have trouble with a sponsor you contact the rep right?
Btw I haven't mentioned any sponsor name.
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I never asked for the sponsor to give me gear. I mean make it good by ether contacting the rep for you or passing contact info. Oh hell don't let them be your rep.
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OP, I am sorry to hear you've been scammed by someone that a board sponsor has put their faith in rep for them.
If a rep scams you on a side deal it's not the fault of the sponsor and the sponsor is not liable.
That being said, if a rep scams you on a side deal you should let the sponsor know about it so that they are aware of what is going on.
The sponsor may tell the rep to make good on the deal, they may drop the rep altogether or they may do nothing at all.
This is also something that the mods and admins will stay out of because it does not directly involve a board sponsor.
If you're making side deals with a rep or just with some other board member or a guy in the locker room...ask for references and check them out.
Always be careful but no matter how careful you are, you most likely will get burned more than once in this game.
It's part of the "acceptable risks" we take.
If you tell me, "I've been doing gear for 20 years and I've never been scammed once", you're either lying or you don't know good gear from bad and you shouldn't be doing this at all.
I do wish you luck resolving your issue.
Hey where's the locker room.....If you're making side deals with a rep or just with some other board member or a guy in the locker room...ask for references and check them out.
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Anything said by exerciseordie is for educational purposes only! PERIOD!!!! Don't do illegal shit.
Please PM for good deals, got a big stash to shift.
High el quality, Low el cost.
Bitches be loco for them deals.
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....but REPS sell to a middle man using the 'brand's reputation' to help the sale, therefore the rep should be responsible ....
i think nothing less than 10 x the gear for free and a week in a hotel room with his wife then another week with his mother would make things right......
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What did you think you were getting into buying gear from a rep on the side? Not only that, the dude was fucking shady to begin with. Bad move on your part brother. He probably ripped the sponsor off with the gear he was trying to sell, he also was trying to sell a rolex, a handgun, lol red flag right there, plus he has a reputation for being a grade A retard around here.... at least thats what ive been told.....
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And NO the sponsor has nothing to do with this. Its a side deal that is completely out of the sponsors hands.
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If a rep is making side deals claiming to be working for the sponsor (on the side) that should sound fishy in the first place and the sponsor should be made aware of it.
If a rep is making side deals with gear he got from his sponsor, that's fine...as long as he doesn't claim to be selling on the side for the sponsor and makes it known he is making the deal himself.
I don't get where you think "reps sell to a middleman...".
Reps are there to answer questions and facilitate the deals...there are no middlemen.
If you buy from a sponsor, even if you talk with a rep throughout the deal, the gear comes from the sponsor, not the rep.
Sponsors do not ship your order to a rep who reships to you.
So again, slowly this time, if you make a side deal with a rep, even if it's for gear from the rep's sponsor, the sponsor is not liable but should be made aware if you get scammed.
If the rep is claiming to be making side deals FOR THE SPONSOR you should let the sponsor know immediately.
^^^ that's just inviting sponsors to get scammed.
"Your rep offered me a deal, I paid him and now you owe me"
Just my .02
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