A Burnsville Scoutmaster has been accused of molesting three troop members.
It’s impossible to 100% prevent such incidents, just as it’s impossible to prevent death and injury during scouting events. Scouts are specifically taught how to identify and deal with potential abuse situations. Leaders are taught to avoid situations that might enable abuse. For example, individual leaders are never supposed to be alone with individual scouts. We call this “two deep leadership.”
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We said goodbye to Whimsey this morning. She’s been a wonderful dog, though we knew the cancer would be taking her soon.
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There was a documentary produced back in 2002 about free software, open source, Linux, Gnu, Stallman, and Torvalds. A topic ripe with irony.
I finally saw the documentary, Revolution OS
, on Netflicks. The video is avaliable through the iTunes store and the DVD through alibris:


The ultimate moment was when Richard Stallman was given the “Linus Torvalds Award” at the second Linux trade show. So we have this scene of Stallman earnestly explaining the irony of the award to the audience of 5,000 people while two blond, Scandanavian toddlers (Torvalds’ daughters) are cavorting around the stage in the background.
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Matters of the Smith-Atwood family