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Rain, traffic cause delays, but jamboree proceeds undaunted Date published: 7/30/2010
BY PORTSIA SMITH
Rain, heat, even lightning. No matter what the conditions were at the National Scout Jamboree yesterday, the Boy Scouts of America's main motto is to "be prepared." A 10-minute thunderstorm that soaked Fort A.P. Hill about 1 p.m. tested the Scouts. It didn't stop most of the activities that they could participate in, but two attempts to break world records were delayed until later in the evening. Sharon Allen, a registered nurse at Mary Washington Hospital and the Virginia chairwoman for the Emergency Cardiovascular Care committee, was coordinating an attempt to break the world cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillation training record. All of the nearly 45,000 Scouts and leaders were invited to participate in hopes of being recognized by Guinness World Records for having the most people trained in CPR at one time and for having the most people trained within 24 hours. Allen didn't expect every single Scout to get training, but she hoped for at least 7,000 to beat the record of 6,577 set in Mexico this past March. Starting at 8 a.m., the Scouts completed seven 45-minute sessions in the jamboree's arena area, Allen said. One session was cut short because of the rain. The last session had the biggest turnout, with 1,120 Scouts, Allen said. That won't break the Mexico record, but Allen was hoping to claim the title for the most in 24 hours by combining all the participants in the seven sessions. "We're trying to break this record, but the weather really screwed us up a little," she said. "We worked so hard on it." Allen said an official count won't be known any time soon. Per Guinness rules, the Scouts have to videotape the event, get a notarized sheet with each of the 75 instructors' signatures verifying how many they trained, then submit it in a timely manner. Guinness could take weeks, even months, to let the Scouts know if they broke the record, Allen said. A second record attempt at the jamboree involved yo-yos. Scouts last night were trying to break the world record for most people yo-yoing simultaneously. Boys' Life Magazine, a publication of the Boy Scouts of America, coordinated the event in partnership with Yomega, a yo-yo manufacturing company. According to Boys' Life, the current record for simultaneous yo-yoing is 662 people.
The BSA does not allow gays. Barrack Obama believes in the inclusion of LGBT people. Wouldn't it be terribly hypocritical of him to be at their jamboree? Give him credit, it's one of the few times he's not been a hypocrite.
He's too busy appearing on the View to celebrate 100 years of the BSA.
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