Pedoman Menggunakan Kompas

Instrumen yang digunakan untuk pengukuran sudut horisontal adalah kompas magnetik. Yang dipergunakan dalam kegiatan pemetaan gua adalah tersedia dari model Suunto tipe KB 14/360R, KB-77/360 RT yang sering dipergunakan oleh surveyor gua. Perbedaan dari kompas tipe KB 14/360R dan KB-77/360 RT, adalah kompas tipe KB-77/360 RT memiliki cermin prisma yang dapat membantu pembacaan menjadi lebih mudah. Disamping itu cardnya dilengkapi dengan angka pembacaan back azimuth.
Cara Penggunaan

Kompas Suunto tipe KB 14/360R dan KB-77/360 RT
Garis vizir pada lobang pembidik diarahkan pada stasiun target sampai terlihat menjadi segaris. Garis vizir akan terlihat menunjuk pada garis skala tertentu, dimana garis skala tersebut menunjukkan besar azimuth target terhadap arah utara magnetik. Angka yang menunjukkan besarnya azimuth stasiun target terhadap arah utara magnetik, dibaca pada lobang pembidik kompas.

Kompas jenis KB 14/360R, atau KB-77/360 RT memiliki skala penuh sebesar 360?. Setiap satu garis skala menunjukkan perubahan sebesar 1?. Tetapi akurasi pembacaan sudut yang dapat dibaca sampai dengan ??. Sedangkan angka yang tertulis pada card kompas ini merupakan kelipatan 10?.

Sumber-Sumber Kesalahan

Kesalahan yang dapat timbul tidak hanya kesalahan akibat instrumennya sendiri, tetapi juga bila instrumen dihubungkan terhadap sudut pembacaan kompas, instrumen terhadap anomali dan variasi magnetik bumi. Anomali yang disebabkan oleh magnetik batuan, biji besi, dll. Terutama sekali pada area gunung api (Bowler, 1971). Dalam area batu gamping, anomali sebesar 3? adalah hal yang biasa. Pada daerah lava dapat terjadi anomali sebesar 20? . Dengan kesalahan sebesar ini tidak memungkinkan untuk membuat survey magnetik yang akurat (Ellis, 1971).

Arah dari magnet lapangan berubah setiap hari sesuai dengan perubahan dalam ionosphir, ini dikenal dengan diurnal variation, tetapi cukup kecil sekitar 0,2? . Tidak terlalu mengkhawatirkan. Variasi bumi disebabkan oleh perubahan kedalaman dalam bumi dan menghasilkan perubahan sekitar lebih 30? pada periode dua sampai tiga abad. Biasanya dihubungkan sebagai perubahan deklinasi, sekalipun dengan tepat bahwa penyimpangan berbeda secara geografi dan meridian magnetik menyebabkan semua alasan tersebut. Apa yang berhubungan dengan badai magnetik, dapat menyebabkan perubahan yang tidak hilang selama berjam-jam atau berhari-hari dan dalam kasus yang ekstrim dapat sebesar beberapa derajat. Kejadian ini dapat tak teratur dan tidak terkirakan luasnya.

Kesalahan paling sering terjadi dalam satu waktu pembacaan kompas adalah disebabkan oleh jumlah titik stasiun. Pengaruh dari baja atau besi yang melingkupi kompas, kadang terlupakan. Memiringkan sisi kompas saat pembacaan juga menghasilkan kesalahan (Stevens, 1965). Memiringkan kompas dengan sudut terlalu besar, dapat menyebabkan card kompas menjadi lekat dan tidak dapat berputar. Sehingga pembacaan kompas pada stasiun yang lebih tinggi dari yang lain, akan menghasilkan kesalahan. Dengan Suunto dan kompas prismatik Mark III, kemiringan maksimum untuk pembacaan yang presisi adalah 15? . Listrik dapat menyebabkan medan magnet. Garis tenaga listrik dapat mempengaruhi pembacaan kompas.

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Kak SBY Prihatin Pramuka Dicibir

Ikut kegiatan Pramuka memang asyik. Selain memperoleh banyak pendidikan kepemimpinan, Pramuka juga memberi banyak pengalaman yang menantang, seperti naik turun gunung, belajar tali temali dan sebagainya.
Namun akhir-akhir ini kegiatan Pramuka dianggap kegiatan yang jadul, alias jaman dahulu banget. Pendapat seperti ini dibantah oleh Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY). SBY pun meminta kepada generasi muda untuk tidak malu-malu mengikuti kegiatan kepanduan tersebut.

"Saya ingin katakan, sebagai kepala negara saya cinta Pramuka," ujar SBY di hadapan sekitar seratusan pengurus Pramuka Kwartir Nasional (Kwarnas) yang baru saja selesai melakukan Musyawarah Nasional (Munas) di Istana Negara, Jl Veteran, Jakarta, Kamis (18/12/2008).
SBY prihatin dengan banyaknya masyarakat yang mulai under estimate dengan kegiatan yang pertama kali diperkenalkan di Indonesia oleh Sunaryo Atmodipuro ini. Seolah mencibir para pembenci Pramuka, SBY pun mengikuti perkataan mereka soal Pramuka.
"Hari gini masih pakai pakaian Pramuka," ujar SBY menirukan para pembenci
Pramuka disambut tawa hadirin.

Dengan bangga, kakek Aira ini menceritakan pengalaman pertamanya ikut Pramuka saat dia masih duduk di bangku SMP. Kala itu, SBY bangga ikut kegiatan Pramuka disaksikan langsung oleh Presiden Soekarno.

"Sebagai anggota Pramuka pada saat itu, saya mengikuti apel Pramuka pertama kali yang dihadiri oleh Presiden Soekarno di lapangan Pacitan," kenang SBY.
SBY pun merasa berhutang budi dengan Pramuka. Sebab, setelah dia mengikuti Pramuka yang menjunjung tinggi nilai kedisiplinan, kemampuan leadershipnya pun menjadi kian terasah.

"Ini bukan lips service. Tapi kita sendiri pernah merasakan sebagai Paramuka, dengan segala aktivitas di dalamnya." ujarnya.
SBY juga menjelaskan, dalam dua tahun terakhir dirinya telah merevitalisasi Pramuka yang selama ini dianggap tidak ada gunanya. "Ini menghargai hakikat reformasi. jangan dianggap ini adalah warisan orde sebelumnya yang harus ditinggal," pinta SBY.

Karikatur Kak SBY

Yang unik dalam acara ini, panitia membagi-bagikan Jurnal Munas yang cuma ada empat halaman, namun full colour. Dalam jurnal tersebut ada karikatur SBY yang memakai seragam lengkap Pramuka sedang menyirami tunas kelapa.
Di bawahnya, ada gambar anggota Pramuka yang bilang," Terimakasih, Kak (SBY) atas siramannya. Semoga kaum muda kita akan semakin mandiri dan cinta tanah air.

Salam Pramuka!!!

Sumber : detik.com

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ORTERGA 2008

Berbagai macam kesibukan telah membuat saya lama tidak mengunjungi rumah kecil saya ini.
Untung kuncinya tidak ketinggalan di hutan, he… sehingga saya masih bisa membuka ruang utama yang telah banyak terdapat pesan di beranda yang mengitarinya. Ceillee..

Seperti yang sudah saya singgung sebelumnya, hutan adalah tempat di mana saya dan kawan-kawan menghabiskan waktu beberapa hari yang lalu, tepatnya pada tanggal 13-15 Desember 2008 di Bumi Perkemahan Genilangit, Poncol, Magetan.
Di tempat yang lumayan jauh dari peradaban ini Racana Ronggo Warsito-Niken Gandini pangkalan STAIN Ponorogo meleksanakan agenda rutin tahunan yaitu ORTEGA “Orientasi Tamu Pandega” yang dilaksanakan untuk merekrut anggota baru gerakan pramuka STAIN.
ORTEGA kali ini adalah ORTEGA pemecah rekor dari yang sebelumnya. Jika tahun-tahun kemarin hanya diikuti oleh sekitar 35 peserta, berbeda dengan tahun ini yang meningkat drastis menjadi 102 peserta. Hal ini disebabkan karena pihak akademik STAIN Ponorogo mewajibkan mahasiswa jurusan PGMI “Pendidikan Guru Madrasah Ibtidaiyah” untuk bergabung menjadi anggota pramuka.

Seperti halnya kehidupan, kegiatan ini banyak menemui rintangan yang membuat saya dan kawan-kawan panitia tidak sedikit terepotkan. Terang saja, sejak awal pemberangkatan alam sudah tidak bersahabat dengan menurunkan hujan (Hehe… emang lagi musim). Tetapi keadaan alam yang kurang mendukung tidak lantas membuat semangat kami surut. “Bersama Kita Bisa”, sepertinya slogan presiden kita ini juga tepat untuk slogan kami selama kegiatan di sana.

Tidak hanya sampai di situ, hujan juga masih mengguyur tenda kami di hari kedua sehingga ada beberapa sesi acara yang terpaksa kami tunda. Dan dari peserta juga banyak yang sakit, seperti masuk angin, sakit perut, sakit kepala, hipotermia, bahkan ada satu poeserta putri yang kesurupan. Cuaca buruk dan udara dingin yang menusuk sudah pasti membuat daya tahan tubuh melemah. Apalagi kami hanya berlindung di bawah tenda yang sudah pasti bocor ketika hujan deras.
Tetapi karena kesolidtan kami dari panitia dan semangat besar dari peserta telah berhasil membawa acara ini pada purna pelantikan yang insyaAllah tanpa ada rasa kecewa. Ya, ORTEGA 2008 dapat dikatakan berhasil. Peserta yang semula berangkat dari keterpaksaan banyak yang mengaku senang selama mengikuti kegiatan, apalagi kegiatan penjelejahan yang sangat menantang dan melelahkan namun syarat akan keindahan alam.

Selamat dan Sukses
Atas terselenggaranya ORTEGA 2008
Racana Ronggo Warsito-Niken Gandini
Pangkalan STAIN Ponorogo
Semoga kita tidak hanya besar dalam kuantitas, tetapi juga bisa besar dalam kualitas

Jauhlah dari kampung,
Turuti kata hati,
Guna bhakti pada bunda pertiwi…

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Survey ORTEGA 2008

Hari Kamis, tepatnya tanggal 11 Desember 2008, saya bersama beberapa kakak dari pramuka Racana Ronggo Warsito-Niken Gandini Pangkalan STAIN Ponorogo
(Iephe, Sholeh, Zainuri, Walid, Irham)terpaksa izin tidak masuk kuliah karna harus survey kegiatan ORTEGA(Orientasi Tamu Pandega)di desa Genilangit-Poncol-Magetan.
jam 07.00 WIB rencana berangkat,tapi tetap saja siapapun saya rasa sudah hafal dengan budaya molornya Ponorogo,akhirnya kami melaju kencang layaknya Valentino Rossi bergaya mejemput kak zainuri,dengan senang kami bernyanyi sepanjang jalan
tanpa menghiraukan kiri-kanan,setelah beberapa menit sampai juga di desa Carangreja-Sampung-Po.
Rencana awal, saya mau bagi-bagi duwit humas,tapi setelah saya buka tas,tiba-tiba???????gdubrak….!!!!!!!!!!!
dompet(duwit,SIM,STNK)ketinggalan di kos, dan jarak kos dari Sampumg sudah jauh sekali, akhirnya setelah merenung sambil musyawarah sejenak, kami nekad tetap berangkat dengan motor kosongan.
Sempat dag-dig-dug juga sih di jalan,tapi emanng dasar lewat hutan,jadi ga ada oprasi.tenang deh..

Perjalanan sekitar satu setengah jam, akhirnya sampai di kantor perhutani dan Polsek Poncol,sambil menunggu teman-teman saya konfirmasi di dalam,
tidak saya lewatkan momen itu untuk melaksanakan hobi saya yang sangat urgen(taking picture) tentunya dan tetap bersama teman sebangnsa narsis he….


setelah itu kami langsung melaju menuju buper (naik-naik ke puncak gunung, tinggi-tinggi sekali….), nyampe deh di tempat persemaian…langsungn disambut pak Febri(mandor),dan mas Nanik(asisten yang sangat handal dan perhatian sama kita tentunya…)

Nah…….ini dia calon buper kita yang masih harus diratakan lagi.
sambil nunggu cangkul datang kita action dulu yuk…!!!!!
buat peta pencarian harta karun sambil foto-foto, bareng pak mandor yang sabar n baik hati, terus berlagak sok meneliti tanaman pula…


pokonya saya jamin, ORTEGAnya bakal seru…!!!!!!
benar-benar di atas gunung, jauh dari penduduk, sering turun kabut,rute penjelajahan yang sangat indah dan menantang, suhu yang mak nyuss dinginnya,n katanya rada angker juga hi….
saya yakin sepulang ORTEGA nanti banyak yang akan terkesan deh……
(slamat datang kawan baru kawan lama,terimalah salam kami semuanya, pramuka mempertemukan,pramuka mempersatukan,pramuka untuk semua golongan…)
ORTEGA 2008…..!!!!! Brrrrrr…..!!!!!!

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Racana STAIN Ponorogo

Racana STAIN Ponorogo beralamat di Jl. Pramuka No. 156 Ronowijayan Ponorogo Ponorogo Jawa Timur 63471 Telp./Fax. 0352-481277 0352-461893

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Guest Book

Silahkan bagi sobat semua mengisi buku tamu, saran kritik.

yang penting bebas, sopan, tidak mengandung SARA

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Adults and leadership

Adults interested in Scouting or Guiding, including former Scouts and Guides, often join organizations such as the International Scout and Guide Fellowship. In the United States and the Philippines, university students might join the co-ed service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega. In the United Kingdom, university students might join the Student Scout and Guide Organisation, and after graduation, the Scout and Guide Graduate Association.

Scout units are usually operated by adult volunteers, such as parents and carers, former Scouts, students, and community leaders, including teachers and religious leaders. Scout Leadership positions are often divided into 'uniform' and 'lay' positions. Uniformed leaders have received formal training, such as the Wood Badge, and have received a warrant for a rank within the organization. Lay members commonly hold part-time roles such as meeting helpers, committee members and advisors, though there are a small number of full-time lay professionals.

A unit has uniformed positions—such as the Scoutmaster and assistants—whose titles vary among countries. In some countries, units are supported by lay members, who range from acting as meeting helpers to being members of the unit's committee.[53] In some Scout associations, the committee members may also wear uniforms and be registered Scout leaders.

Above the unit are further uniformed positions, called Commissioners, at levels such as district, county, council or province, depending on the structure of the national organization. Commissioners work with lay teams and professionals. Training teams and related functions are often formed at these levels. In the UK and in other countries, the national Scout organization appoints the Chief Scout, the most senior uniformed member.

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Uniforms and distinctive insignia

The Scout uniform is a widely recognized characteristic of Scouting. In the words of Baden-Powell at the 1937 World Jamboree, it "hides all differences of social standing in a country and makes for equality; but, more important still, it covers differences of country and race and creed, and makes all feel that they are members with one another of the one great brotherhood".[43] The original uniform, still widely recognized, consisted of a khaki button-up shirt, shorts, and a broad-brimmed campaign hat. Baden-Powell also wore shorts, because he believed that being dressed like a Scout helped to reduce the age-imposed distance between adult and youth. Uniforms are now frequently blue, orange, red or green, and shorts are replaced by long trousers in winter, and in areas where the culture calls for modesty.

While designed for smartness and equality, the Scout uniform is also practical. Shirts traditionally have thick seams to make them ideal for use in makeshift stretchers—Scouts were trained to use them in this way with their staves, a traditional but deprecated item. The leather straps and toggles of the campaign hats or Leaders' Wood Badges could be used as emergency tourniquets, or anywhere that string was needed in a hurry. Neckerchiefs were chosen as they could easily be used as a sling or triangular bandage by a Scout in need. Scouts were encouraged to use their garters for shock cord where necessary.


Distinctive insignia for all are Scout uniforms, recognized and worn the world over, include the Wood Badge and the World Membership Badge. Scouting has two internationally known symbols: the trefoil is used by members of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) and the fleur-de-lis by member organizations of the WOSM and most other Scouting organizations.[44][45] While these are the largest boy and girl Scouting associations, not all Scouts or Scouting associations belong to them.

The swastika was used as an early symbol by the British Boy Scouts and others. Its earliest use in Scouting was on the Thanks Badge introduced in 1911.[46] Lord Baden-Powell's 1922 design for the Medal of Merit added a swastika to the Scout fleur-de-lis to symbolize good luck for the recipient. Like Rudyard Kipling, he would have come across this symbol in India. In 1934, Scouters requested a change to the design because of the later use of the swastika by the National Socialist German Workers Party. A new British Medal of Merit was issued in 1935.

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Last message to scouts

Dear Scouts,

If you have ever seen the play Peter Pan you will remember how the pirate chief was always making his dying speech because he was afraid that possibly when the time came for him to die he might not have time to get it off his chest. It is much the same with me, and so, although I am not at this moment dying, I shall be doing so one of these days and I want to send you a parting word of good-bye.

Remember, it is the last you will ever hear from me, so think it over.

I have had a most happy life and I want each one of you to have as happy a life too.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life. Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy, so that you can be useful and so can enjoy life when you are a man.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best. "Be Prepared" in this way, to live happy and to die happy-- stick to your Scout promise always-- even after you have ceased to be a boy-- and God help you to do it.

Your Friend
Baden-Powell

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Scouting movement

On his return from Africa in 1903, Baden-Powell found that his military training manual, Aids to Scouting, had become a best-seller, and was being used by teachers and youth organisations. Following his involvement in the Boys' Brigade as Brigade Secretary and Officer in charge of its scouting section, with encouragement from his friend, William Alexander Smith, Baden-Powell decided to re-write Aids to Scouting to suit a youth readership. In August 1907 he held a camp on Brownsea Island for twenty-two boys of mixed social background to test out the applicability of his ideas. Baden-Powell was also influenced by Ernest Thompson Seton, who founded the Woodcraft Indians. Seton gave Baden-Powell a copy of his book The Birch Bark Roll of the Woodcraft Indians and they met in 1906. Scouting for Boys was subsequently published in six instalments in 1908.

Boys and girls spontaneously formed Scout troops and the Scouting Movement had inadvertently started, first as a national, and soon an international obsession. The Scouting Movement was to grow up in friendly parallel relations with the Boys' Brigade. A rally for all Scouts was held at Crystal Palace in London in 1909, at which Baden-Powell discovered the first Girl Scouts. The Girl Guide Movement was subsequently founded in 1910 under the auspices of Baden-Powell's sister, Agnes Baden-Powell. Baden-Powell's friend, Juliette Gordon Low, was encouraged by him to bring the Movement to America, where she founded the Girl Scouts of the USA.

In 1920, the 1st World Scout Jamboree took place in Olympia, and Baden-Powell was acclaimed Chief Scout of the World. Baden-Powell was created a Baronet in the 1921 New Year Honours and Baron Baden-Powell, of Gilwell, in the County of Essex, on 17 September 1929, Gilwell Park being the International Scout Leader training centre.[28][29] After receiving this honour, Baden-Powell mostly styled himself "Baden-Powell of Gilwell".

In 1929, during the 3rd World Scout Jamboree, he received as a present a new 20 horse power Rolls-Royce car (chassis number GVO-40, registration OU 2938) and an Eccles Caravan. This combination well served the Baden-Powells in their further travels around Europe. The caravan was nicknamed Eccles and is now on display at Gilwell Park. The car, nicknamed Jam Roll, was sold after his death by Olave Baden-Powell in 1945. Jam Roll and Eccles were reunited at Gilwell for the 21st World Scout Jamboree in 2007. Recently it has been purchased on behalf of Scouting and is owned by a charity, B-P Jam Roll Ltd. Funds are being raised to repay the loan that was used to purchase the car. Baden-Powell also had a positive impact on improvements in youth education. Under his dedicated command the world Scouting Movement grew. By 1922 there were more than a million Scouts in 32 countries; by 1939 the number of Scouts was in excess of 3.3 million.

At the 5th World Scout Jamboree in 1937, Baden-Powell gave his farewell to Scouting, and retired from public Scouting life. 22 February, the joint birthday of Robert and Olave Baden-Powell, continues to be marked as Founder's Day by Scouts and Thinking Day by Guides to remember and celebrate the work of the Chief Scout and Chief Guide of the World.

In his final letter to the Scouts, Baden-Powell wrote:
...I have had a most happy life and I want each one of you to have a happy life too. I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life. Happiness does not come from being rich, nor merely being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy, so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man. Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one. But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best. 'Be Prepared' in this way, to live happy and to die happy - stick to your Scout Promise always - even after you have ceased to be a boy - and God help you to do it.

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Scouting for Boys history

Scouting for Boys (1908) is Baden-Powell's rewrite of his earlier military books Reconnaissance and Scouting (1884) and Aids to Scouting for NCOs and Men (1899). These books were military manuals used by the British Army to train scouts. At Mafeking, Baden-Powell recruited and trained boys aged 12-15 as postmen, messengers, and later to carry the wounded, to free men for fighting. Upon return to England, following the Boer War, Baden-Powell learned some British schools had been using his books to teach observation and deduction. He decided to revise his military publications into a book for boys. Several friends supported Baden-Powell, including Sir William Alexander Smith, founder of the Boys' Brigade, and Cyril Arthur Pearson, who owned newspapers and printing presses.[1] In 1906 and 1907 Baden-Powell spent a lot of time writing Scouting for Boys and advancing his ideas about the Boy Scouts Scheme. These were tested in a camp on Brownsea Island in the summer of 1907, where Pearson's literary editor Percy Everett assisted.

Scouting for Boys was published in six fortnightly instalments of approximately 70 pages each, from January to March 1908. They were produced by Pearson's printer, Horace Cox. These six publications were a success, and as planned were issued in book form on 1 May 1908. Scouting for Boys has been translated into many languages. In 1948, the book was still selling 50 000 copies annually. Only in 1967 was a decline noted by the publisher, and in the last decades of the 20th century, even by the Scout movement, the book came to be seen as a period curiosity. It is claimed to be the fourth bestselling book of the 20th century. A realistic estimate is that approximately 4 million copies of the UK edition have been sold. Extrapolating this to 87 different language editions worldwide, historic world sales of Scouting for Boys can be estimated at 100 to 150 millions copies since 1908.

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Robert Baden Powell

Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (pronounced /ˈbeɪdən ˈpoʊəl/) OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB (22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941), also known as B-P, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, and founder of the Scout Movement.

After having been educated at Charterhouse School, Baden-Powell served in the British Army from 1876 until 1910 in India and Africa. In 1899, during the Second Boer War in South Africa, Baden-Powell successfully defended the city in the Siege of Mafeking. Several of his military books, written for military reconnaissance and scout training in his African years, were also read by boys. Based on those earlier books, he wrote Scouting for Boys, published in 1908 by Pearson, for youth readership. During writing, he tested his ideas through a camping trip on Brownsea Island that began on 1 August 1907, which is now seen as the beginning of Scouting.

After his marriage with Olave St Clair Soames, Baden-Powell, his sister Agnes Baden-Powell and notably his wife actively gave guidance to the Scouting Movement and the Girl Guides Movement. Baden-Powell lived his last years in Nyeri, Kenya, where he died in 1941.

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Scouting

Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth movement with the stated aim of supporting young people in their physical, mental and spiritual development, so that they may play constructive roles in society.

Scouting began in 1907 when Robert Baden-Powell, Lieutenant General in the British Army, held the first Scouting encampment at Brownsea Island in England. Baden-Powell wrote the principles of Scouting in Scouting for Boys (London, 1908), based on his earlier military books, with influence and support of Frederick Russell Burnham (Chief of Scouts in British Africa), Seton of the Woodcraft Indians, Smith of the Boys' Brigade, and his publisher Pearson. During the first half of the 20th century, the movement grew to encompass three major age groups each for boys (Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Rover Scout) and, in 1910, a new organization, Girl Guides, was created for girls (Brownie Guide, Girl Guide and Girl Scout, Ranger Guide).

The movement employs the Scout method, a program of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activities, including camping, woodcraft, aquatics, hiking, backpacking, and sports. Another widely recognized movement characteristic is the Scout uniform, by intent hiding all differences of social standing in a country and making for equality, with neckerchief and campaign hat or comparable head wear. Distinctive uniform insignia include the fleur-de-lis and the trefoil, as well as merit badges and other patches.

In 2007, Scouting and Guiding together had over 38 million members in 216 countries. The two largest umbrella organizations are the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), for boys-only and co-educational organizations, and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), primarily for girls-only organizations but also accepting co-educational organizations.

2007 marked the centenary of Scouting world wide, with member organizations planning events all over the world in order to celebrate the event.

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