The first Wood Badge training was organized by Francis " Skipper " Gidney and lectured at by Robert Baden-Powell and others at Gilwell Park ( United Kingdom ) in September 1919.

The axe and log logo was conceived by the first Camp Chief, Francis Gidney, in the early 1920s to distinguish Gilwell Park from the Scout Headquarters.

Seeing this, Gidney chose the axe and log as the totem of Gilwell Park.

Potter created wood carvings at Gilwell Park, including the Jim Green Gate, Gidney Cabin, the Leopard Gates, and totems he carved for the 1929 World Jamboree.

Francis Gidney, the first Camp Chief, conducted the first Wood Badge course at Gilwell Park 8 – 19 September 1919.

' Art e Scienza ' exhibition with works by Eric Bainbridge, Alastair Brotchie, Anthony Caro, Leonora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun, Stephen Cox, Tony Cragg, Neil Cummings, Brian Eno, Barry Flanagan, Jeremy Gardiner, Eric Gidney, Jocelyn Godwin, Anthony Gormley, Paul Hayward, Allen Jones, Liliane Lijn, Peter Lowe, Kyeran Lyons, Conroy Maddox, Thomas Major, Kenneth Martin, Mary Martin, Alastair Morton, Hugh O ' Donnell, Andrew Owens, Digital Pictures, Mike Punt, Bridget Riley, Kurt Schwitters, Peter Sedgley, Jeffrey Steele, Paul Thomas, Philip West, and Alison Wilding.

People with the name Gidney include:

As of October 6, 2011, the Vipers owner Jeff Gidney has been hospitalized with a serious illness, leaving the team's future in limbo.

Captain Francis " Skipper " Gidney became the first Camp Chief in May 1919 and served until 1923.

The Gidney Cabin was built and named in his honour in 1929 to serve as a training centre.

* Gidney, R. D. and Millar, W. P. J.

* Gidney, R. D. From Hope to Harris: The Reshaping of Ontario's Schools.

* Gidney, R. D. and Millar, W. P. J. Inventing Secondary Education: The Rise of the High School in Nineteenth-Century Ontario.

* Gidney, W. T., Joseph Wolff, ( Biographies of eminent Hebrew Christians ), London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews, 1903

* Little, S. and Gidney, C. 2004.

With the upcoming Presidential election, former Howard Hughes business associate John H. Meier, working with Hubert Humphrey and others, wanted to feed misinformation to Richard Nixon.

When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Lorre took refuge first in Paris and then London, where he was noticed by Ivor Montagu, Alfred Hitchcock's associate producer for The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), who reminded the director about Lorre's performance in M. They first considered him to play the assassin in the film, but wanted to use him in a larger role, despite his limited command of English, which Lorre overcame by learning much of his part phonetically.

Isidore Franckel wanted a well known non-Jewish lawyer as co-counsel and engaged Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, a flamboyant Corsican, leading anti-fascist activist and a former Education Minister in Radical government of Édouard Herriot and a Yiddish-speaking lawyer, Serge Weill-Goudchaux, as his associate.

In a somehow comparable, more moral rather than legal mode, Numa sought to associate himself with one of the roles of Vegoia in the neighbouring Etruscans ' religious system by deciding to set the official boundaries to the territory of Rome, which Romulus had never wanted, presumably done with the same concern of preserving peace.

To cast the role of Buckaroo Banzai, Richter wanted an actor that " could both look heroic with grease all over his face, and project the kind of intelligence you would associate with a neurosurgeon and inventor ".

After being at large for four months, he was arrested in his new Paris apartment on September 28, 1973, on information supplied by an associate who wanted a reduced sentence.

After Maddox's death in 2003, Tom Murphy, the former Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, said of the former governor: " He had a reputation as a segregationist, but he told us he was not a segregationist, but that you should be able to associate with whoever you wanted.

It was brought to the attention of producers Edgar Lansbury ( brother of Angela Lansbury ) and Joseph Beruh by Carnegie alumnus Charles Haid ( associate producer ), who wanted to open it Off-Broadway.

The use of a magician's top hat and magic wand in images and logos also showed that MandrakeSoft wanted to associate the name with a magician and not ( for example ) the mandrake root.

Serious plans to merge the University with Sacred Heart fell through in 1992 ; the law school instead wanted to associate with Quinnipiac University, but Sacred Heart maintained that any takeover would have to include the law school.

" Their views however were not supported by the general population, who continued to see a distinct difference between witchcraft and cunning craft, with the witch-hunter John Stearne, an associate of Matthew Hopkins, remarking that whilst he and Hopkins wanted to prosecute the cunning folk, they could not because " men rather uphold them, and say, why should any man be questioned for doing good.

The show's creators decided " what we wanted to do was really put together a team of misfits in a way, people that you would not necessarily associate with being superheroes on television ": hence Eduardo as a slacker, Roland as a " square ", and Kylie as moody and sarcastic.

Due to the strange nature of how he came to live there, Kei wanted to keep the situation a secret from his new friends for fear of being ostracized as being too old to associate with them.

Woodward wanted to become an actor but initially in the post-war period became an associate member of RADA while taking amateur roles.

They wanted a brand that people and companies could associate themselves with-instead of a text as before.

A heated debate ensued after a brief statement on the Boing Boing site regarding this action stated: " Violet behaved in a way that made us reconsider whether we wanted to lend her any credibility or associate with her.

Weider wanted to get rid of the custodians union ( SEIU Local 32B-J ) and was willing to pay Aparo $ 600, 000, but Aparo's associate D ' Urso was an FBI informant and had recorded the meeting.

One idea was to have associate Joseph Watts tell his wife that he wanted his house painted, and they would put up plastic on the walls and floor to protect it from " paint ".

Gambino associate Joseph Watts wanted Gotti to kill Bilotti's brother Joseph because he might seek revenge.

Milian claimed that she had to spend more than $ 300, 000 defending herself in the case, which she settled in 2006, and wanted $ 300, 000 plus damages from Paul and his associate, Spencer Cowlings Entertainment.

He also wanted to be made an associate producer at Paramount.

I wanted to create a melody that the public would remember, and associate it with.

On one of the more notable occasions, in 1903, Edison's workers electrocuted Topsy the elephant at Luna Park, near Coney Island, after she had killed several men and her owners wanted her put to death.

Meyer had desperately wanted the Liberty Memorial, a tall war memorial in Penn Valley Park overlooking downtown Kansas City, for two scenes: postcard-perfect shots of Kansas City near the beginning and a scene of Robards stumbling through the ruins.

To the north of Jackson Hole, Yellowstone National Park had been established in 1872, and by the close of the 19th century, conservationists wanted to expand the boundaries of that park to include at least the Teton Range.

In August 1995, after passage of the law, the city held a public referendum asking registered voters living in three Prince George's County neighborhoods north of New Hampshire Avenue whether they wanted to be annexed to the city of Takoma Park.

More recently the Authority wanted to change the name of the area to The Broads National Park in recognition of the fact that the status of the area is equivalent to the rest of the national park family, but was unable to get agreement from all the different parties.

On August 13, 2009, County Supervisor Ray Watson announced that he wanted to appoint an advisory council to assist him in the governance of the area, which includes Frazier Park, Lebec, Fort Tejon and Tejon Village, Pinon Pines, Lake of the Woods, and Pine Mountain Club.

The residents of Phenix Park wanted to retain local control of their affairs as an independent village.

He also stated in this correspondence that he wanted the patent to be known by " Your name of Cliftons Park ", and the patent was named the Clifton Park Patent.

Casey had purchased the Nathanial Conklin estate in 1874 and he wanted a rail depot and post office located closer than the LIRR Deer Park depot that had opened in 1853.

The newcomers wanted to escape from the crowded and economically depressed conditions in Manhattan and The Bronx and enjoy the fresh pine air, privacy and lower costs of rural Wyandanch yet be within an hours ride of the " City " on the LIRR. American-Irish John Douglas Sr. and John Douglas, Jr. built the first home in Wyandance Spring Park ( no spring, no park, no roads ) at the corner of what is now S. 29th Street and Jamaica Avenue in the early 1920s.

From 1970 until 1994, Norton was the location of the Earth Peoples Park, a " liberated " 592 acre piece of land that was open to anyone who wanted to live there, free of charge.

In 1958, the foundry ( then trading under the name Mears and Stainbank Foundry ) had offered to recast the bell, and was told by the Park Service that neither it nor the public wanted the crack removed.

Game Park planned their system to be powerful and useful, but they also wanted users to be able to create homebrew software.

However in 1908, the Association was forced to disband the owners of Armory Park, where the team played, no longer wanted the field torn up by cleats.

He wanted to bring it to New York ( either Broadway or Central Park ), but balked when his Amherst faculty advisor explained to Papp that, contrary to Papp's published claim, Steinman was never threatened with " near-expulsion " from the college.

Ilitch wanted this event to have a positive impact on downtown Detroit and recommended the use of Comerica Park.

These originate from an original population that was set free in 1974 by the owner of the Meli Zoo and Attraction Park near the Atomium who wanted to make Brussel more colourful.

It is seen by Phillies fans as a compromise between the Phillies and their fans, many of whom wanted Citizens Bank Park named in honor of Ashburn.

* Brodick Park in the west of Hinckley was recently the subject of controversy between local people and the Council which had wanted to sell the park for housing, however following a recent change in administration, this sale has been cancelled.

The Winnipeg statue was housed in the suburban Polo Park Mall for a few years after 1999, until the Hudson's Bay Company opened a Bay store at that location and wanted the statue of its former competitor removed.

Erving recalled, " ater on, in the Rucker Park league in Harlem, when people started calling me ' Black Moses ' and ' Houdini ', I told them if they wanted to call me anything, call me ' Doctor '.

The State Park Commission, run by Richard Lieber, had acquired $ 20, 000 for the purchase of the area, but the lumber company Hoosier Veneer wanted $ 30, 000 for it.

In the following 1999 feature film " Trailer Park Boys ," also in black and white, the character Julian states to the camera in the film that he wanted his life to be documented after receiving a telephone psychic's prediction that he would die soon.