In the spreading confusion, a sombre declaration of national purpose to the world has degenerated into a highly visible domestic quarrel, with every family member putting in his or her word.
Superfit 60-plus members put in longer hours at their gyms than any other age group, averaging eight visits per month, according to the healthcare charity Nuffield Health.
Even its hardest-working members put in serious surfing time.
Members put in requests for food packages, and pay in either cash or food stamps.
Discuss any real dark secrets and their children could be taken away or family members put in jail.
A left-leaning co-operative group helped with a grant of €50,000 ($65,000), Tuscan organisations donated machinery and members put in cash.
Members put in a few dollars each week, and offer loans of $50 or $100 for money-generating projects like buying a flock of hens or brick-making molds.
This year 90-odd Audubon members put in a day each during the third week in December counting birds in Jersey, Westchester, Long Island and the 5 boroughts of N.Y.
Last year, for instance, Tukes generated an income of £320,000 and its 100 active members put in 3,500 hours of work each month.
It works on many of the same principles as a cooperative buying club does: to cut overhead, members put in some of the work needed to keep the enterprise going.
Over the following weeks other team members put in their two cents, with Ward, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and linebackers James Farrior and James Harrison participating in the top-secret design meetings and funneling requests to Dan Rooney, the team chairman, and his son Art II, the team president.
