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There is nothing in the NYLT syllabus about management. There's developing a vision, goals, planning, problem solving, EDGE, conflict resolution. All put into practice with hands-on outdoor activites. No management.

Yeah, it's always fun to trash "National". Eagle92 threw out a speculation. He is not "National".

The rifle range at Philmont Scout Ranch uses plate steel animal targets.

Yes, patrols may do their own activities sans adults. See the Guide to Safe Scouting section "Leadership Requirements for Trips and Outings" http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/HealthandSafety/GSS/gss01.aspx

"A consultant for a Backpacking trip??????? I musta missed something." If one doesn't know anything about backpacking or mountain climbing or SCUBA diving or whitewater rafting, then a consultant is needed. A proper Powderhorn course tells you where you can find competent experts to help you do the event.

The Trainers EDGE is a training course that Woodbadge staff and NLYT staff is required to take. It has nothing to do with the Patrol Method nor Troop Leadership Training (TLT). An element of that course (EDGE) is being used in the current Boy Scout rank requirements, and in TLT. Trainer Development Conference (TDC) is still a current course for adult trainers. The Train the Trainer (TTT) course was replaced by the Trainer Development Conference many years ago.

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Since there are so many personal definitions of the word "bylaws" it's essentially impossible to really know what it is anyone means when they use the word. The orignial poster wants ideas for bylaws, but no one knows what that person considers to be bylaws, Emb021 has provided the only correct definition. Using the term "bylaws" when what is wanted is a list of rules or something else is confusing and perpetuates the misuse of the word.

I don't get it. How do they make more money from the same book? Are you implying that all Webelos leaders are dumb enough to buy a new book simply because of a different cover? The ad clearly says "this book has been updated with a new cover. There are no content changes from previous version." I wouldn't call that a whole lot of hoopla. Can you imagine the complaining that would come if nothing was said? What is the problem here?

What's that got to do with a print run of a leader book where the only change is a different picture on the cover?

The answer is in what you quoted. If the boy is 11 it doesn't matter what grade he is in or what grade he's completed, or how many times he's repeated (or skipped) grades.

What big lawsuit? Pay for it how? What are you saying?

Scouts are not things an adult "keeps" in one place or another.

Rather than sensitivity training for camp staff, the Jewish boy needs a lesson from his Rabbi that a Boy Scout hat is not a yamaka.

No other flag except the United States flag is permitted to be folded in the triangular fold.

We do this a lot..

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Eamonn, I'm with you 100%.

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in it." Polonius

For years we've heard the argument that space program money develops technologies that then trickle down to earth uses. Solar cells, dehydrated food, etc. etc. It's a rather weak argument. How much more efficient it would be if we took that same funding and used it to directly develop new technologies with specific benefit to our needs here on earth. Let the benefits trickle on to the space program.

The purpose of the board of review is to determine if the requirements have been met. If they have not, advancement is deferred, and the board spells out in writing exactly what must be completed.

"This is one of those areas where havin' Bylaws in place ahead of time avoids this kind of silly argument, because it spells out a process and makes it harder for a couple folks to hijack it." Or, one can simply refer to the Troop Committee Guidebook or the Cub Scout Leader Book, which have a good process already spelled out.

You're listening to the wrong "news". Try the McNeil-Lehrer Newshour.

" I'm curious if other units have tried this kind of punitive response?" It's not punitive. A pack meeting is not an event put on for the entertainment of dens. It is a gathering of the dens and it is the dens the make it happen, under the leadership if the Cubmaster. Den 1 does the opening flag ceremony, Den 2 does a skit, Den 3 leads a game, Den 4 provides refreshments, etc.