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Until now, I have never seen or heard of this.
Ken.. the Scouter's Code of Conduct just recently came out January 13, 2017 check out Bryan On Scouting's article: http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2017/01/13/what-is-the-scouter-code-of-conduct/
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Did you attend a course a the Philmont Training Center? If not, could be someone that knew you and attended there and recommended you. Did your SE get back to you after that initial conversation?
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We are celebrating an anniversary this year too. I have seen a few cool things. Troop 1 from Sacramento did a very well done historical review video. This took a lot of time you can tell, but what a great thing to have done.
Really nice video. Bummer it is not captioned yet.
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Out of curiosity, anyone have problems following the the new Cub handbooks in understanding the way the scout law and oath is supposed to be signed in American Sign Language?
Back in 2014 there were hardly any videos but today googled and saw several. Had to shake my head when most of them were incorrectly signed. For some it was so obvious the person was hearing, not Deaf. I know they are trying to be helpful.
So let's see...
Is American Sign Language (ASL) English in sign language?Can all deaf people lip read?
Can all Deaf people understand written English?
What is the most common misconception of ASL?
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Barking spiders. Just heard it the other day for NSP.
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Now shall we move to food and which nationality they go too? (I was wondering how TaHawk got pasta with latin or scot since neither struck me as Italian.. *laughing)
If I could get Chocolate to stop being fattening then I could eat more of it says this Hershey Gal! -
We see this all the time in our council. Pancakes at a restaurant on a certain day, Applebees, Cam's Pizza, Mark's Pizza, and etc. The nice thing is the scout and his parent do not do the planning, getting supplies,cooking and clean like spaghetti, fish fry, bbq chicken dinners or pancake breakfast.
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My thought... confusion on the posting thread so I'll jump back to the top with the first post. You should have a fundraiser specifically for this trip and not take it away from your charity fundraiser. Not sure if they do bottles but here that month bottle fundraiser brings in a lot and for just half a days work once a month on Saturday. Think about building up a 'troop campership' fund and keep it as a specific level annually. As for scouts who don't have funds for the trip, they WILL do more than the average scout to help pay. My son and I did that with me being a single parent. Ask neighboring troops if your scouts can join in on some of their fundraiser yet have the dollars come to your troop for your scouts. I've done that with christmas wreath sales and spring flowers.
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Welcome to the forum and YES we have a scout representative at Committee Meetings. Basically it is the SPL who brings the PLC stuff to the Committee member to help implement the Troop program.
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Yes, I've heard it but we address this in our district AT the EBOR if the Scout makes it. We explain our expectations to stick around help teach younger scouts, provide leadership modeling and more.
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Pie irons in campfire are a nice snack, even in cold.
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My opinion, will be VERY different from what I see here. Start through yourself by going to trainings and RT. Focus on getting training and network for yourself closer to home. Discussion will lead to talking about your troop and those closer to home can actually go to some of your troop meetings and talk about Boy-led. The other is Wood Badge. The reason I suggest Wood Badge is tickets ahve a great way of bringing in support for you to finish them and if you write them to include this change to more boy-led, things might happen better pushing the adults back to the sidelines where they belong with zipped mouths letting the boys do.
The other thing is your son's Patrol can make decisions to veto the troop's leadership decision if he takes it to his PLC. Your son's patrol CAN decision to go to another summer camp instead of where the troop is going. Shyness on your son's part... please consider sending him to NYLT. NYLT is the youth version of Wood Badge and has done wonders for many a boy!
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So strange how today's announcement through Bryan On Scouting really hits home and on the tails of my post just a couple weeks ago. Check out the 'NEW' Planning Sheet:
http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2017/02/01/scout-planning-worksheet/Makes me wonder.. do we have Scouters in Scouter.com that are directly connected to National Council??
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This is hilarous
. When I first opened the topic, I expected a question on gaining someone's wisdom. Opened the link, and laughed so hard! Good one Stosh! 
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stand in front of the presentation so that the audience can read some of the slide but not all of it....
for example a graph, where the presenter is standing to the side but in front of the Y axis legend..... so the audience has no idea what it is showing and the presenter is talking about it but never mentions what exactly that y axis represents.....
Troop Treasurer - Got this one but like your example of graph point where an important detail gets block that is critical.
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Not quite sure I understand but if the idea is to get people with no hearing problems to understand then how about working it from their point of view. Give a presentation as a mime. Use slides so the audience has to read what you want to say. All you have to do is point where they have to read. Start off with slides that explain what you're doing. Go on to slides that tell a story. The first few slides are fine, everyone can read them. Just about the time the suspense thickens modify the slide so parts of the story is blocked. Just place a block over the text so the audience can only read some of the words. Put the block in different parts of the screen on different pages. Slowly make the block bigger. Better yet, the block could be pictures of things people do that make it hard to lip read.
That is a clever idea to illustrate a point Matt R. I'll use this in an hour presentation. This idea can be like a 2 part within the presentation: the educating and then the background storytelling. I would reverse the action of the blocking as I go through the presentation.
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Note Reader - reads from notes, but uses eye contact over the top of the papers, but keeps mouth covered. Otherwise, always turn around and read from the PowerPoint with back of head to the audience.
Didn't think about the paper covering mouth. I had several for the 'Lip News Coverage' - facial hair like the over growth bread and overhanging mustache, hands in face when sitting down, and Italian speaker with waving hands. Thanks Stosh!
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No experience teaching lip readers, but I'll take a guess:
Board room - presenter talks facing the presentation (e.g. chalk board, fire lay) behind, instead of the audience before him/her.
Shoe shine - talks with head down, or at a poor angle for audience to see his/her mouth.
Good guess Qwazse as now I'll use the 'Shoe Shine'. Got the action but not the 'humor'. Board room is gonna be 'Lips in the Back of the Head' --or-- 'Back of Head Lips' unless someone brings another to my attention.
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Monday we are supposed to have a bunch of the pdf of req changes printed. Why is that PDF so annoying to use? like nobody wants it in their book with top stapled so that every other page prints upside down? The scouts don't want to flip it up to sign off stuff that way when used to turning pages right to left to sign. and they have to cut the pages in half and it seems they get kinda out of order when you do that.
When I was preparing for this for my Midway, I found two different versions:
Back to back from scouting.org: http://www.scouting.org/filestore/boyscouts/pdf/524-012_BS_Requirements_Insert.pdf
Single pages: http://www.scouting.org/filestore/boyscouts/pdf/524-012_BS_Requirements.pdf
http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/2016BoyScoutRequirements_8.14.2015.pdf
Bryan on Scouting was the one who clued me in to the pdf versions: http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2017/01/03/new-boy-scout-requirements-now-mandatory-jan-1-2017/
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It happens. Let your troop know and suggest to scouts to make copies for the future while you set up a system to prevent this from happening again.
I run a merit badge day event and had an advancement chair approach me for this info. I tracked down theirs through my records and gave them new copies. -
Guess I'm on the wrong side of the pond too because I never heard of it either.
Welcome LizaNot. -
My son's Pack did a different version of den spirit through Den blankets for Pack meetings. We ended up taking a solid blanket and added things to each from each scout using the double sided iron on glue that one uses with fabric.
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I can lose that whole article in a heartbeat. Boys will never find it on the internet and all this troop planning will ultimately get lost in the discussion of patrol planning and coordination between patrols. The adults will never outnumber the boys because we only have the SM and the ASM and they are always off jaw-jacking while these kinds of calendar discussions are being held.
BOR's? Whenever necessary.
COH's 5th meeting of the month
Troop Open House - when the Webelos show up.
Service Projects - as needed, scouting for food, neighborhood clean up - spring and fall, etc.
Cross-overs - Last week in June
Summer camp we set, district sets camporees, etc. and the monthly outings are whenever the boys can get away. two this month, maybe none next.
This process usually takes us about 10 minutes every year to set up. All the rest of the plans are done on a patrol basis. The boys plan it and the adults get to go along for fun.
My boys seem quite please with the way things seem to be working out. Spring hike coming up next month along with a Webelos outing next month, maybe some hiking thing the following month Summer camp after that. Jury is still out on that, only a couple of experienced boys the rest will be Webelos cross-overs and we may need to lean heavily on a mess hall camp this year. Boys haven't confirmed what they want yet.
And I guess some one DID lose it, Stosh... *laughing
Mind must be elsewhere as I couldn't fully grasp your meaning until I tried the link...*smiles
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Putting together a 15 minute presentation by this Tuesday Jan 31, 2017 for the second part of Trainer's EDGE/ Train the Trainer called the 'Deaf Scouter Experience'.
Need your help please on lip reading scenarios you encountered with presenters, trainers, scouters or scouts. My goal is to be informative but with a bit of humor in picture graphics. Need creative labeling the type of scenarios too.
A couple of examples:
Motion sickness - the walking back and forth presenter
Star is Lit - the in front of the sunshine window presenter
What can you think of??
Canada Girl Guides restricting scout unit travel to USA
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My first awareness came from a Facebook posting of this article:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamilton-church-volunteers-denied-entry-to-u-s-so-they-wouldn-t-steal-american-jobs-1.4022969
Seems this is a ripple effect, along with a bit of precautionary measure thrown in so youth are not getting stuck at the border. With youth, things like this can really play havoc on their emotions from excitement to disappointment due to cancellation on the spot without really understanding the full scope, especially after months of planning and looking forward to their trip.