Programs for post-adolescents and young adults include the Senior Section, Rover Scouts, Senior Scouts, Venture Scouts, Explorer Scouts, and the Scout Network.
The Boy Scout Venture Crew will assist at the grand-opening celebration for the new owners of the Foster Freeze at 201 S. Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank.
Over the next two weeks, American scouts ventured into the no man's land between camps at all hours to hunt British sentinels, a practice the British found barbarous and unnerving.
We haven't written much about Scout Ventures, but the New York City-based firm has built up a big portfolio over nearly a decade of investing, with exits like Olapic (acquired by Monotype for $130 million) and Kanvas (acquired by TechCrunch's parent company AOL).
This allowed the National Council to designate Wood Badge as the advanced leadership training program for Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Varsity Scout, Venturing, council leaders, district leaders, and professional staff.
The profession has expanded since the 1960s, when location scouts increasingly ventured with cameras and compasses across metropolises, forests and deserts as filmmakers began moving away from studio lots.
For U.S. or European companies scouting for new ventures or ideas in Asia, these programs can quickly draw a large pool of ventures.
With alarming regularity, one serious restaurant after another has opened its doors, and although it's doubtful that Alain Ducasse is scouting Amsterdam Avenue for his next venture, there's no question that the physical distance between acceptable restaurants is shrinking.
So in 1988 the pair formed their own venture and started scouting vineyards and making wines for others, such as Marks & Spencer's private label, Wines of Moldova, and Catena in Argentina.
Now Collie is in recovery from grad school-postdoc penury, earning a salary beyond previous dreams of avarice as a scout for venture capitalist Lou Crowley.
Now, in this buyer's market, venture capitalists are out again, scouting for deals, albeit selectively.
