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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
– Henry Kissinger
Boys join Scouting for a variety of reasons, mostly because their parents think it is a great idea, but then they come to the realization that Scouting is fun and that hanging out with their buddies on a camp out is an opportunity for fun and adventure. And then there is the leadership part 0f Scouting. Young men start leading. When they are in the new Scout patrol, they are being guided and have much of their skills explained to them in the early going. It is a Troop Guide or Assistant Scoutmaster then that is teaching and coaching them along so they get the spirit of Scouting and start to push themselves to greater adventure. It is early on that they will grasp the passion of Scouting or not. It is in those first couple months that the Scout will embrace the culture of the Troop and develop his attitude toward camping and the out doors. It is during those early months that the Scout will explore new hobbies and career opportunities. He will be introduced to new cultures and see the world, and his nation as he may have not seen them before. He will be given challenge after challenge that will test his ability to follow and lead. The Scout will test him self and push himself in directions that he may not be totally comfortable in, but in the end will learn and grow from the experience. That is where the leader comes in. The Troop Guide or the Scoutmasters need to be aware and watch for the opportunities that will challenge todays Scouts. This is the Scouting program and why the Scout continues to come back. I honestly believe that when we take the adventure out of Scouting, we will stop being Scouts. I have seen to many Scouts leave the program because they feel they are not getting the most out of it. Now, having said that, it does take the Scout to apply themself also. I mean, you can lead a horse to water…
My son and I had this talk last night on the way home from the Lodge meeting. We discussed the fact that there are so many Scouts out there that really "Max the Minimum". In other words, they set their sights on being an Eagle Scout and will do the minimum to get there. They are not looking for adventure and are just as happy having their parents earn their Eagle for them. they have floated through the program and got out of it exactly what they put into it. Which is not saying a whole lot. On the other hand, there are many Scouts that apply themselves, get involved, seek adventure. You can see those guys. They take advantage of the program and everything it has to offer. They go to Philmont, Jamboree, and talk about their adventures on the last 50 miler or as a Camp Staffer. They are the Scouts that are motivated to do more, see more, and be more. They are not from the rich families, but know what they want and go get it! These are the Scouts that I really love to have in the program. There is room for everyone, that's true, but like my son says, he would rather backpack with 5 guys that want to be there than 36 that don't.
I recently stumbled on this article written by Theodore Roosevelt. I am going to share it here in it's entirety. I wish we had a political figure, President or some one else that had the guts to write this today. I can honestly say that I agree with the article and wish we had this attitude in America today.
The American Boy
Published in St. Nicholas, May 1900
Of course, what we have a right to expect of the American boy is that he shall turn out to be a good American man. Now, the chances are strong that he won't be much of a man unless he is a good deal of a boy. He must not be a coward or a weakling, a bully, a shirk, or a prig. He must work hard and play hard. He must be clean-minded and clean-lived, and able to hold his own under all circumstances and against all comers. It is only on these conditions that he will grow into the kind of American man of whom America can be really proud. There are always in life countless tendencies for good and for evil, and each succeeding generation sees some of these tendencies strengthened and some weakened; nor is it by any means always, alas! that the tendencies for evil are weakened and those for good strengthened. But during the last few decades there certainly have been some notable changes for good in boy life. The great growth in the love of athletic sports, for instance, while fraught with danger if it becomes one-sided and unhealthy, has beyond all question had an excellent effect in increased manliness. Forty or fifty years ago the writer on American morals was sure to deplore the effeminacy and luxury of young Americans who were born of rich parents. The boy who was well off then, especially in the big Eastern cities, lived too luxuriously, took to billiards as his chief innocent recreation, and felt small shame in his inability to take part in rough pastimes and field-sports. Nowadays, whatever other faults the son of rich parents may tend to develop, he is at least forced by the opinion of all his associates of his own age to bear himself well in manly exercises and to develop his body—and therefore, to a certain extent, his character—in the rough sports which call for pluck, endurance, and physical address. Of course boys who live under such fortunate conditions that they have to do either a good deal of outdoor work or a good deal of what might be called natural outdoor play do not need this athletic development.
In the Civil War the soldiers who came from the prairie and the backwoods and the rugged farms where stumps still dotted the clearings, and who had learned to ride in their infancy, to shoot as soon as they could handle a rifle, and to camp out whenever they got the chance, were better fitted for military work than any set of mere school or college athletes could possibly be. Moreover, to mis-estimate athletics is equally bad whether their importance is magnified or minimized. The Greeks were famous athletes, and as long as their athletic training had a normal place in their lives, it was a good thing. But it was a very bad thing when they kept up their athletic games while letting the stern qualities of soldiership and statesmanship sink into disuse. Some of the younger readers of this book will certainly sometime read the famous letters of the younger Pliny, a Roman who wrote, with what seems to us a curiously modern touch, in the first century of the present era. His correspondence with the Emperor Trajan is particularly interesting; and not the least noteworthy thing in it is the tone of contempt with which he speaks of the Greek athletic sports, treating them as the diversions of an unwarlike people which it was safe to encourage in order to keep the Greeks from turning into anything formidable.
So at one time the Persian kings had to forbid polo, because soldiers neglected their proper duties for the fascinations of the game. We cannot expect the best work from soldiers who have carried to an unhealthy extreme the sports and pastimes which would be healthy if indulged in with moderation, and have neglected to learn as they should the business of their profession. A soldier needs to know how to shoot and take cover and shift for himself—not to box or play foot-ball. There is, of course, always the risk of thus mistaking means for ends. Fox-hunting is a first-class sport; but one of the most absurd things in real life is to note the bated breath with which certain excellent fox-hunters, otherwise of quite healthy minds, speak of this admirable but not over-important pastime. They tend to make it almost as much of a fetish as, in the last century, the French and German nobles made the chase of the stag, when they carried hunting and game-preserving to a point which was ruinous to the national life. Fox-hunting is very good as a pastime, but it is about as poor a business as can be followed by any man of intelligence. Certain writers about it are fond of quoting the anecdote of a fox-hunter who, in the days of the English civil war, was discovered pursuing his favorite sport just before a great battle between the Cavaliers and the Puritans, and right between their lines as they came together.
These writers apparently consider it a merit in this man that when his country was in a death-grapple, instead of taking arms and hurrying to the defense of the cause he believed right, he should placidly have gone about his usual sports. Of course, in reality the chief serious use of fox-hunting is to encourage manliness and vigor, and to keep men hardy, so that at need they can show themselves fit to take part in work or strife for their native land. When a man so far confuses ends and means as to think that fox-hunting, or polo, or foot-ball, or whatever else the sport may be, is to be itself taken as the end, instead of as the mere means of preparation to do work that counts when the time arises, when the occasion calls—why, that man had better abandon sport altogether. No boy can afford to neglect his work, and with a boy work, as a rule, means study. Of course there are occasionally brilliant successes in life where the man has been worthless as a student when a boy. To take these exceptions as examples would be as unsafe as it would be to advocate blindness because some blind men have won undying honor by triumphing over their physical infirmity and accomplishing great results in the world. I am no advocate of senseless and excessive cramming in studies, but a boy should work, and should work hard, at his lessons—in the first place, for the sake of what he will learn, and in the next place, for the sake of the effect upon his own character of resolutely settling down to learn it.
Shiftlessness, slackness, indifference in studying, are almost certain to mean inability to get on in other walks of life. Of course, as a boy grows older it is a good thing if he can shape his studies in the direction toward which he has a natural bent; but whether he can do this or not, he must put his whole heart into them. I do not believe in mischief-doing in school hours, or in the kind of animal spirits that results in making bad scholars; and I believe that those boys who take part in rough, hard play outside of school will not find any need for horse-play in school. While they study they should study just as hard as they play foot-ball in a match game. It is wise to obey the homely old adage, "Work while you work; play while you play." A boy needs both physical and moral courage. Neither can take the place of the other. When boys become men they will find out that there are some soldiers very brave in the field who have proved timid and worthless as politicians, and some politicians who show an entire readiness to take chances and assume responsibilities in civil affairs, but who lack the fighting edge when opposed to physical danger. In each case, with soldiers and politicians alike, there is but half a virtue. The possession of the courage of the soldier does not excuse the lack of courage in the statesman and, even less does the possession of the courage of the statesman excuse shrinking on the field of battle. Now, this is all just as true of boys.
A coward who will take a blow without returning it is a contemptible creature; but, after all, he is hardly as contemptible as the boy who dares not stand up for what he deems right against the sneers of his companions who are themselves wrong. Ridicule is one of the favorite weapons of wickedness, and it is sometimes incomprehensible how good and brave boys will be influenced for evil by the jeers of associates who have no one quality that calls for respect, but who affect to laugh at the very traits which ought to be peculiarly the cause for pride. There is no need to be a prig. There is no need for a boy to preach about his own good conduct and virtue. If he does he will make himself offensive and ridiculous. But there is urgent need that he should practise decency; that he should be clean and straight, honest and truthful, gentle and tender, as well as brave. If he can once get to a proper understanding of things, he will have a far more hearty contempt for the boy who has begun a course of feeble dissipation, or who is untruthful, or mean, or dishonest, or cruel, than this boy and his fellows can possibly, in return, feel for him. The very fact that the boy should be manly and able to hold his own, that he should be ashamed to submit to bullying without instant retaliation, should, in return, make him abhor any form of bullying, cruelty, or brutality. There are two delightful books, Thomas Hughes's "Tom Brown at Rugby," and Aldrich's "Story of a Bad Boy," which I hope every boy still reads; and I think American boys will always feel more in sympathy with Aldrich's story, because there is in it none of the fagging, and the bullying which goes with fagging, the account of which, and the acceptance of which, always puzzle an American admirer of Tom Brown. There is the same contrast between two stories of Kipling's. One, called "Captains Courageous," describes in the liveliest way just what a boy should be and do. The hero is painted in the beginning as the spoiled, over-indulged child of wealthy parents, of a type which we do sometimes unfortunately see, and than which there exist few things more objectionable on the face of the broad earth. This boy is afterward thrown on his own resources, amid wholesome surroundings, and is forced to work hard among boys and men who are real boys and real men doing real work. The effect is invaluable. On the other hand, if one wishes to find types of boys to be avoided with utter dislike, one will find them in another story by Kipling, called "Stalky & Co.," a story which ought never to have been written, for there is hardly a single form of meanness which it does not seem to extol, or of school mismanagement which it does not seem to applaud. Bullies do not make brave men; and boys or men of foul life cannot become good citizens, good Americans, until they change; and even after the change scars will be left on their souls. The boy can best become a good man by being a good boy—not a goody-goody boy, but just a plain good boy. I do not mean that he must love only the negative virtues; I mean he must love the positive virtues also. "Good," in the largest sense, should include whatever is fine, straightforward, clean, brave, and manly. The best boys I know—the best men I know—are good at their studies or their business, fearless and stalwart, hated and feared by all that is wicked and depraved, incapable of submitting to wrong-doing, and equally incapable of being aught but tender to the weak and helpless. A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward, and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals. One prime reason for abhorring cowards is because every good boy should have it in him to thrash the objectionable boy as the need arises. Of course the effect that a thoroughly manly, thoroughly straight and upright boy can have upon the companions of his own age, and upon those who are younger, is incalculable. If he is not thoroughly manly, then they will not respect him, and his good qualities will count for but little; while, of course, if he is mean, cruel, or wicked, then his physical strength and force of mind merely make him so much the more objectionable a member of society. He cannot do good work if he is not strong and does not try with his whole heart and soul to count in any contest; and his strength will be a curse to himself and to every one else if he does not have thorough command over himself and over his own evil passions, and if he does not use his strength on the side of decency, justice, and fair dealing. In short, in life, as in a foot-ball game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard!
Have a Great Scouting Day!


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Parents, UW-L chancellor respond to financial aid proposal
President's proposal would rate colleges
LA CROSSE, WI - Like a lot of high school juniors, Natalie Grande is indecisive when it comes to college choices.
"I was leaning more towards engineering and architecture, but now I think I'm leaning towards business... but some days I just want to be an orthodontist," Grande said of potential school majors she's considering.
Unlike a lot of high school juniors, she's been thinking about it for quite some time.
"I think I've toured a total of 6 colleges," she said.
Natalie and her mom, Robin Sweet, toured the UW-La Crosse campus Thursdayin the hopes of finding the right fit for them. That fit includes tuition costs and access to financial aid.
"I would love to look at financial aid, unfortunately, from all our friends who have run it, everytime they do it, it's more of an exercise in paperwork than it's been an exercise in productivity," said Sweet.
President Barack Obama announced a proposal Thursday that would rate colleges based on affordability and graduation rates and award them higher federal aid.
"I think when the president's system is enacted, if colleges are rated by affordability, we will come out very well," said UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow.
Gow added UW-L measures well in both graduation rates and affordability, making it the model college for a high federal rating.
If Natalie ultimately chooses UW-L as her college destination, more federal funding is one option she won't be indecisive on.
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The catalyst for all this was what appeared to be a rather mild observation shared on Twitter by the novelist Jodi Picoult: "Would love to see the NYT rave about authors who aren't white male literary darlings."
With fellow New York Times best-seller-list fixture Jennifer Weiner, Picoult had caught more than a whiff of sexism in the literary establishment's recent, near-unanimous canonization of Jonathan Franzen's latest novel. In a subsequent interview with the Huffington Post, the pair questioned why the New York Times rarely reviewed their own books positively — if at all — even as they perched atop its best-seller list.
They had a point. Following up on their allegations, Slate confirmed that over 60 percent of books reviewed in the New York Times in the preceding two years were written by men. What's more, when it came to the books reviewed in both the daily Times and the Sunday Book Review, 71 percent were written by men.
While the fracas abated eventually, the underlying problem never went away. Last week — more than a year after the initial controversy — Weiner posted an update to her blog. By her count, the coverage split still hovers around 60–40 in favor of men. While those books the Times reviewed twice saw a marked improvement to a 50–50 split in the past year, Téa Orbreht was the only woman among 10 men to earn the Times trifecta of two reviews and a profile.
My own research has turned up even more damaging statistics. To test Weiner's hypothesis, I turned to another literary gatekeeper: public radio. NPR is one of the few mass media outlets to devote regular coverage to books and novelists. According to their own Web site, 34 million people tune into NPR stations every week, and almost 27 million listen regularly to at least one NPR show. And NPR drives sales: as any bookseller will tell you, a guest spot on Fresh Air sends droves of right-minded Americans scurrying to their local independent.
Does NPR, arguably the most far-reaching book-review outlet in America, favor women or men? I tallied the genders of novelists reviewed or interviewed between August 1 and November 31, 2011, on the NPR shows Fresh Air, All Things Considered,Talk of the Nation, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition, and the WBUR shows On Point and Here and Now.
As it turns out, public media is worse than even the New York Times. Far worse. NPR and WBUR talked about male writers about 70 percent of the time. Of the roughly 60 works of fiction discussed on NPR, only about 20 were written by women. Of the six novelists featured on more than one program, all but Amy Waldman, author of The Submission, were men. Of the three novelists interviewed on more than one program, all were men. Terry Gross interviewed twice as many male as female novelists, and Morning Edition apparently dedicated no coverage at all to women fiction writers.
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Title: Cady & Olmstead, Jewelers
Description: Advertising card for Cady & Olmstead showing pink roses next to separate images of a cottage in snow and a ship at sea. Front of card says: "Cady & Olmstead, Jewelers." Front lower right corner has number B 413. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card:
718 Main St. & 717 Delaware St.,
Kansas City, Mo.
Subject(s): Advertising cards; Jewelers; Roses; Seas;
Local Subject(s): Cady and Olmstead Jewelers;
Date: ca. 1880-1900
Item Type: Advertising Card
Dimensions: 8 x 13 cm.
Collection: Advertising Cards (SC3)
See finding aid: http://www.kchistory.org/u?/Local,37216
Company Notes: Cady and Olmstead crafted the sword of gold presented to General John J. Pershing at the dedication of the Liberty Memorial, November 1, 1921. The sword was ''eighteen-carat gold, engrossed with laurel wreaths in green and gold and studded with diamonds, rare rubies and sapphires. (For photo of the sword, see MVSC Q 330.9778 K16, October 21, 1919, page 736.)
See Also: SC3, Box 9, Scrapbook 5, pages 68, 127; SC3, Box 9, Scrapbook 4, pages 56, 65, 77, 103
Location: SC3, Box 2, Jewelers
Barcode: 10019560
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Description Unique with big ears and small lappets that project forward from the base of each ear, extending over the snout. This small bat looks large, owing to huge ears and long, lax, yellowish-gray to blackish-brown fur. Forearm 41-49mm.
Dimensions 103-135mm, 40-53mm, 8-16g
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Habitat Canyons & caves, Forests & woodlands, Deserts
Range Southwest, California
Discussion In the open, they emit loud clicks at about 1-second intervals, sounds that are audible to humans. It is known from a variety of both arid and wooded habitats in southwestern North America.


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Rev. John Charles Swanson
Rev. John Charles Swanson, age 58, of Janesville, died after a brief battle with cancer on Wednesday, March 20, 2013, at UW Hospital, Madison. He was born in Janesville on Aug. 15, 1954, the son of Paul and Ruth (Butler) Swanson. John received his Bachelor of Science in Forestry from UW-Stevens Point and his Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, IL. He married Jane Ann Van Dinter in Brown Deer, WI on Aug. 21, 1976. John and Jane served with Campus Crusade for Christ from 1977 to 1997 at Michigan Tech. University, UW-LaCrosse, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. John began pastoring River Hills Community Church in Janesville, WI in 1997. He enjoyed the outdoors, hunting, reading, cycling, and running. John loved visiting his father 's homestead in Minong, WI, and vacationing each summer in Door County. John dearly cherished ministering to his congregation at River Hills, spending time with his family, especially playing with his five grandsons, and caring for his disabled son, Jared. Above all else, John loved his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and yearned that others would come to know and love Jesus so that God might be glorified. Through the trials that John faced on this earth, he often encouraged himself and others with Hebrews 12:1-2, "Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God."
Rev. John is survived by his loving wife, Jane Swanson; 6 children: Jared Swanson, Justin (Anne) Swanson of Lexington, KY, Julia (Mike) Hess of Janesville, Jordan (Stephanie) Swanson of Mukwonago, WI, Joelle (Garrett DeMeyer, fiancé) Swanson of Milwaukee, and Jaimee Swanson of Janesville; 5 grandchildren: Maxwell, Evan, Liam, Declan, and Griffin; mother, Ruth Swanson of Oregon, WI; 4 siblings: Grace (Mark) Thomsen of Milwaukee, Eric (LaVonne) Swanson of Madison, Ed (Melissa) Swanson of Mexico, and Kyle (Darlene) Swanson of De Pere; many nieces, nephews, and other extended family and friends. John was preceded in death by his father, Paul Swanson, on May 12, 2011.
A Funeral Service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, at RIVER HILLS COMMUNITY CHURCH, 2843 W. Court St., Janesville, with Rev. Steve Krug and Rev. Tom Suchy officiating. A visitation will be held on Monday from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the church. Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. In lieu of other expressions of sympathy memorials may be made to River Hills Community Church. SCHNEIDER APFEL SCHNEIDER & SCHNEIDER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORY is assisting the family.


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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 2:43 PM GMT on June 06, 2011
There is not much change to report on the large, wet, and disorganized tropical disturbance (Invest 94L) in the Western Caribbean, between Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The disturbance has brought intermittent heavy rains to Jamaica over the past two days, but nearby islands have thus far escaped the deluge. Satellite-estimated rainfall amounts of 1" per hour occurred in ocean regions just east of Jamaica this morning, but the heaviest rains have missed the island so far this morning. Visible satellite loops show no increase in organization of 94L in recent hours, and the storm's low-level spiral bands and upper-level outflow are poorly defined. The storm's center of low pressure is located about 130 miles south of Grand Cayman Island, in a region with no heavy thunderstorm activity. An intense clump of thunderstorms exists on either side of this low, near Jamaica, and just east of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Water vapor satellite loops show the Caribbean has moistened over the past two days, and upper air balloon soundings from the Cayman Islands continue to show much moister air at mid levels of the atmosphere (2% humidity at 500 mb on Saturday, compared to 69% last night.) Wind shear remains in the moderate range, 15 - 20 knots, and is predicted by the SHIPS model to remain below 20 knots through tonight. Water temperatures in the Central Caribbean are about 1°C above average, 28 - 28.5°C, which is 2°C above the threshold needed to support development of a tropical storm.
Figure 1. Rainfall rates of up to 1" per hour (orange colors) were estimated by the F-17 satellite for 94L at 7:03am EDT Jun 6, 2011. Image credit: Navy Research Lab, Monterey.
Since 94L is so large and poorly organized, today's mission by the Hurricane Hunters has been cancelled. A new mission is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at 2pm EDT. This morning's 00Z and 06Z model runs were unimpressed with 94L, with most of them showing little or no development. A band of very high wind shear of 30 - 50 knots lies over Cuba and the southern Bahama Islands. The GFS and ECMWF models show 94L pushing slowly northwest at about 5 mph, hitting this shear on Tuesday and Wednesday, preventing any further development. The NOGAPS model predicts that a gap may open up in the shear sufficient for the storm to organize into a tropical depression late this week. Given 94L's current disorganization, I doubt the storm will ever develop. NHC gave 94L a 40% chance of developing into a tropical depression by Wednesday, and I believe these odds should be lower, near 20%. Regardless of development, 94L is capable of bringing very heavy rains to Jamaica, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, and Haiti through Wednesday. These rains will probably spread northwards into South Florida and the Bahama Islands by Thursday or Friday.
Figure 2. Morning satellite image of 94L.
Exceptional heat in the South
A sizzling June heat wave set record high temperatures across much of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and the Florida Panhandle on Sunday. The high temperature at the Houston, Texas airport hit 105 degrees, the warmest temperature ever recorded in the month of June (old record: 104 degrees on June 24th and June 26th, 2009.) The earliest Houston ever recorded a temperature of 105 degrees prior to Sunday was July 26th, 1954. Records for Houston date back to 1891. There have been only 15 days in which the temperature has reached or exceeded 105 degrees in Houston:
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2 - 1962
3 - 1980
5 - 2000
So far this month, new maximum temperature records in Houston have been established on four out of the first five days. Galveston and Houston both crushed their previous record high temperature for the day (June 5th) by a remarkable seven degrees. Residents can expect another day of triple-digit heat today, thanks to the upper level ridge of high pressure parked over the state. Houston will likely break the old record of 98°F for the date.
Figure 3. An intense low pressure system moves inland over California as seen in this satellite photo taken June 4, 2011, at 2pm PDT. Image credit: NASA/GSFC.
Record rains in California
A large and unusually intense low pressure system moved inland over California over the weekend, bringing large areas of the state rains unheard of in June. According to our weather historian, Christopher C. Burt, rainfall at Mining Ridge on the Big Sur coast totaled 8.31" Sunday, which, if verified, would be California's heaviest 1-day June rainstorm on record. According to the document "Historic Rainstorms in California" Dept. of Water Resources, Aug. 1997, the previous maximum June daily rainfall was 5.83" at Forni Ridge on June 18, 1982. San Francisco had its 2nd greatest June 1-day rainfall, going back to 1850, and both the San Francisco and Oakland airport have now had their rainiest Junes on record. Rainfall at Santa Barbara Airport yesterday totaled 1.24 inches, the wettest June day there on record (previous record: 0.51" on June 5, 2009.) The 1.38"of rain so far this June has made it the wettest June in recorded history at Santa Barbara Airport, going back to 1941.
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09-01-2013, 02:44 PM #1Junior Member Guppy
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Planted Tank Fishless Cycle Concern/Questions
Ok, so have a few questions and concerns that I haven't been able to find anyway so I signed up and decide to post instead of lurking and trying to find the answers myself. Haven't had much luck with the way I've been phrasing my Google searches and what not..
I think my tank is going great, but not sure on the cycling process is going good, or on right track...
Here's the testing that I've been logging since I started the tank last week. Does everything seem on track for only being 7 days old? Trying to do it the right way...
Amm Dosing: 1 Tblsp = 2ppm
Initial Tank Tests and ammonia dosing started.
PH Level: 7.6
Amm: 4ppm
NO2: 0ppm
NO3: 0ppm
8-26-13 11:30am
Ph Level: 7.8
Amm: 4ppm
NO2: 0ppm
NO3: 0ppm
8-27-13 7:45am
PH Level: 8.2
Amm: 4ppm
NO2: 0ppm
NO3: 0ppm
8-28-13 12:30pm
PH Level: 7.4
AMM: 1ppm
NO2: .25ppm
Dosed to 3ppm amm
8-28-13 8:20pm
Amm: 2ppm
NO2: 1ppm
NO3: 5ppm
dosed to 4ppm amm
8-29-13 10:45am
Amm: 2ppm
NO2: 2ppm
NO3: 10ppm
Amm dosed to 4ppm
8-30-13 10:30pm
Did no Testing
Dosed CO2
Amm: 2ppm dosed to 4ppm
NO2: 2ppm
NO3: 10ppm
KH: 180ppm
GH: 180ppm
9-1-13 7:45am
Pre Weekly Water Change
ph: 8.0
amm: 3ppm
NO2: 5ppm + (off chart)
NO3: 10ppm
After Water Change: 50%
ph: 7.4
amm: 1ppm
NO2: 5ppm+
NO3: 6ppm
I seem to be cycling great in my understanding. Plants have been in since friday and are doing great, no die off, no melting, color has come back to them fantastically, and my water has cleared up tremendously.
Was really cloudy, and a greenish/brown tint.. I do know my GH/KH is kinda high and way ph has been stable but high side... trying to control that with just water changes, and the addition of the mopani wood.
One mistake you're making is topping up the ammonia - do not do this, it can stall your cycle. ONLY re-dose ammonia when the reading drops to zero.
Don't test more than once a day (you'll be tempted to top up) - and always test at a similar time each day.
Don't do water changes during the cycle. Your plants will be fine.
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." Carl Sagan
~ 350 Litre Tank Journal ~ ~ 30 Litre Tank Journal ~
PH fluctuates during cycling, don't worry about it and save your tests.
+1 to firefly, wait for the ammonia to drop before redosing.
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You got some good advice so far
I would also suggest dosing your ammonia at 2ppm now. As you have just got your nitrite spike, you should only dose your ammonia back up to 1/2 of the level you started using. As already stated, test once a day and only dose ammonia up to 2ppm when the level is at 0ppm (but no more than once a day)If you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease.
"Not using a quarantine tank is like playing Russian roulette. Nobody wins the game, some people just get to play longer than others." - Anthony Calfo
Fishless Cycle Cycling with Fish Marine Aquarium Info [URL="http://saltwater.aquaticcommunity.com/"]
You're into this method now, but just so you know and perhaps to help others, with live plants there is no need for any "cycling" as such. Once the tank is planted, you can add a few fish. Plants take up most of the ammonia/ammonium and do this faster than bacteria. Niotrite is not produced by the plants, so you don't have that issue. Some bacteria will get past the plants to bacteria and continue, but you willnot be able to detect either ammonia or nitrite using our aquarium test kits. Nitrates will be correspondingly low so that problem is also avoided.
This planted method is much simpler, safe for fish, and allows you to get going faster. You can change over, and if you decide to, do major water changes to get rid of the artificial ammonia. And I would certainly be careful about adding any ammonia at this stage with plants in the tank, as ammonia is toxic to plants as well as fish in high levels. And to bacteria for that matter.
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Something we all need to remember: The fish you've acquired was quite happy not being owned by you, minding its own business. If youre going to take it under your wing then youre responsible for it. Every aspect of its life is under your control, from water quality and temperature to swimming space. [Nathan Hill in PFK]
There are benefits to both systems. The benefit for me to the fishless cycle was that it allows you to stock everything at once. Arguably less of a disease risk compared to adding a few fish from the LFS every week or two. Depends on your set-up."Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." Carl Sagan
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+1 to the above
I have always liked completing a fishless cycle in all of my planted set-ups as that seamed easier to me as well as having less of a risk to something going wrong. You can do a set-up closer to the walsted method, that works as well. Just my personal preferenceIf you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease.
"Not using a quarantine tank is like playing Russian roulette. Nobody wins the game, some people just get to play longer than others." - Anthony Calfo
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09-02-2013, 01:44 AM #8Junior Member Guppy
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Thanks all for the help. I did a 60% change today, ammonia came out to 0ppm and nitrItes are readable at like 1.5ppm nitrAtes are reading 5ppm. Also while I was out today, I picked up another piece of mopani, and got a good deal on Staurogyne Repens, and got them planted.. IMAG0531 (1024x612).jpg


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Every leader has his own style of leadership, but generally they can be defined or fall into one of four categories. This is not to say that a leader can not move from style to style, and in general as a leader is developing and in the forming stages of developing the team (Patrol) the leader will use many different styles.
Tonight I watched as my youngest son was at Football practice. On the team there are those that are emotional leaders, they pump up the guys and get them to rally. Then there is the Quarterback, a leader in the huddle and a director at the line of scrimmage. He is a vocal leader and pretty much echos the instructions coming from the coaches on the sideline.
Then there are the quiet leaders of the team. Those guys that are in on every plan, hitting hard and hustling even when they are tired and beaten up. These guys lead by example. You rarely hear a word out of them, but the whole team knows they can count on them.
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Delegating (including joining)
Directing is when the leader tells the led what needs to be done and how to do it. Commonly found in the Forming stage. He does not ask for opinion or input, he just wants to get the task complete. Much like the Quarterback, he directs the Patrol to completion.
Coaching can be found when the group is on its way to Norming. Some direction is still needed and skill levels are not quiet there. The coach explains the process, then lets the team execute.
Supporting leaders have a group that has developed, but not mastered, skills. He steps back and lets the team succeed jumping in when needed. He has confidence in his leadership and in his patrol. He is like the emotional leader on the football team, he pumps up the team when they need it and pats them on the back when everything is going well.
Delegating leadership is found when the patrol is executing skills as a high performance team. The leader can turn over the task to anyone on the team and know that things will be done correctly. One thing that needs to be mentioned in delegating however is that a leader can delegate, but not remove himself from responsibility. The accountability of the Patrol still is on the leader. The Performing stage is when Delegating leadership is usually found and things are going great.
Like I said, team development fluctuates. As new members join the team may revert back to forming for a short time, the leader must make the adjustment in his style to meet the needs of the team.
It has been said before also that the leader must tailor his leadership style to meet the needs of the led. Not everyone is motivated the same, nor do they respond to leaders the same.
Knowing yourself and the leadership styles will help you move you team in the right direction. A team that is operating in the High performance (Performing) mode is fun and limitless.
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Captain Brenden Kichton started the scoring for Spokane with a power play goal just 19 seconds into the game from Reid Gow and Todd Fiddler to give the Chiefs a 1-0 lead. Shea Theodore scored for Seattle with just 5.6 seconds left in the first to even the game at one after 20 minutes. The Thunderbirds Mitch Elliott scored just 3:26 into the second period to give Seattle the lead at 2-1. Spokane's Collin Valcourt scored an unassisted shorthanded goal on Seattle's power play at 7:22 to bring the Chiefs back even at 2-2. Seattle's Branden Troock scored at 17:20 to put the T-Birds back on top at 3-2, but Spokane's Mike Aviani countered with his 20th of the year from Fiddler at 19:07 to make it a 3-3 game after two.
Stewart picked off a Seattle pass in front of the Thunderbirds net and rifled home his 9th goal of the year early in the third for the game winner. Chiefs goalie Eric Williams turned aside 10 Seattle shots in the third, including several with Seattle on the power play in the final 2 minutes and the net empty to preserve his 20th win of the season. Spokane outshot Seattle 37-30 in the contest.
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I've taken to using a personal web-log, so I don't post here as often as I should. I still read the recentlog daily. What's new?
I'm working regularly these days, which is nice.
My patch to Metacity for a better window-handling mechanism turned out to be harder than I thought it would be, so it's requeued into my "stuff to do" list.
Reading of bgeiger's enthusiasm for Go has gotten me interested. I play a simpler off-shoot game called "Pente" that I learned at school in third grade. I teach the simple rules to every poor soul who comes to my apartment and play them until they get pretty good. Last fall I even bought a roll-up vinyl Go "board" for carrying around, as the boards are the same dimensions. However, if I'm going to play Go, I'll need to purchase some pieces; Pente games are relatively short, and therefore one needs far fewer pieces, so I'm a couple hundred pieces short.


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I just found out that I know more women with concealed carry permits then men. And I think they are getting more concerned about bans then most men also. It seems that more and more women that are not involved with hunting or shooting sports are gunning up in secret. One day I might have to pat my wife down before I go into one of my "what you didn't do dishes" days.
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Description ADULT In breeding season, has dark gray upperparts and paler underparts heavily marked with dark barring; note pale supercilium. In winter, has uniformly gray upperparts and underparts with white belly. JUVENILE Similar to winter adult, but note subtle pale fringes to feathers on back and upper wing coverts.
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Habitat Fairly common, nesting in Alaska and northwestern Canada beside mountain streams above timberline. Long-distance migrant, some birds wintering in Australia. Some remain in southern California; widespread and fairly common on Pacific rocky coasts on migration.
Observation Tips Fairly easy to find on rocky coasts in spring and fall; presence often first detected by hearing call.
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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 314, April 22, 2005
GNU Make, Part 1
[ Thanks to Kate Hedstrom of ARSC ]
In a previous article, I provided an introduction to make, the standard Unix project management tool. At that time I wrote:
Make has a portable subset of features, with system-dependent extensions. If you want to use extensions, I suggest sticking with those supported by gnu make (gmake), since it is available most everywhere.
Over the years, the community has moved from the stance of writing portable Makefiles to a stance of just using a powerful, portable make. The make bible from O'Reilly has come out in a new (third) edition, with the new title of "Managing projects with GNU Make" and a new author, Robert Mecklenburg, 2005, ISBN 0-596-00610-1. If you have been considering learning more about make, and perhaps dusting off your Makefiles, read this book.Make Rules
The core of make hasn't changed in decades, but concentrating on gmake allows one to make use of its nifty little extras designed by real programmers to help with real projects. The first change that matters to my Makefiles is moving from suffix rules to pattern rules. I've always found the .SUFFIXES list to be odd, especially since .f90 is not in the default list. Good riddance to all of that! For a concrete example, the old way to provide a rule for going from file.f90 to file.o is:
.SUFFIXES: .o .f90 .F .F90 .f90.o: <TAB> $(FC) -c $(FFLAGS) $<while the new way is:
%.o: %.f90 <TAB> $(FC) -c $(FFLAGS) $<
In fact, going to a uniform make means that we can figure out what symbols are defined and use their standard values - in this case, $(FC) and $(FFLAGS) are the built-in default names. If you have any questions about this, you can always run make with the -p (or --print-data-base) option. This prints out all the rules make knows about, such as:
# default COMPILE.f = $(FC) $(FFLAGS) $(TARGET_ARCH) -c
Printing the rules database will show variables that make is picking up from the environment, from the Makefile, and from its built-in rules - and which of these sources is providing each value.Assignments
In the old days, I only used one kind of assignment: = (equals sign). Gmake has several kinds of assignment (other makes might as well, but I no longer have to know or care). An example of the power of gnu make is shown by an example from my Cray X1 Makefile. There is a routine which runs much more quickly if a short function in another file is inlined. The way to accomplish this is through the -O inlinefrom=file directive to the compiler. I can't add this option to FFLAGS, since the inlined routine won't compile with this directive - it is the only file that needs it. I had:
FFLAGS = -O 3,aggress -e I -e m FFLAGS2 = -O 3,aggress -O inlinefrom=lmd_wscale.f90 -e I -e m lmd_skpp.o: <TAB> $(FC) -c $(FFLAGS2) $*.f90
The first change I can make to this using gmake style assignments is:
FFLAGS := -O 3,aggress -e I -e m FFLAGS2 := $(FFLAGS) -O inlinefrom=lmd_wscale.f90
The := assignment means to evaluate the right hand side immediately. In this case, there is no reason not to, as long as the second assignment follows the first one (since it's using the value of $(FFLAGS)). For the plain equals, make doesn't evaluate the right-hand side until its second pass through the Makefile. However, gnu make supports an assignment which avoids the need for FFLAGS2 entirely:
lmd_skpp.o: FFLAGS += -O inlinefrom=lmd_wscale.f90
This appends the inlining directives to FFLAGS for the target lmd_skpp.o only. I think this is pretty cool!
Another assignment operator sets the variable only if a value has not already been set elsewhere (the environment, for instance):
FC ?= mpxlf90_r
If we had used := or =, we would override the value from the environment.Portability
Using gmake across all platforms solves some portability issues, but not all. For instance, there is an example in chapter one which uses the pr command with some gnu-only options. The IBM has an older pr in /usr/bin and the gnu version in /opt/freeware/bin. The example failed until I changed my path to make the gnu version my default.
The book has a chapter on portability with an emphasis on cygwin, which is great if you use cygwin. There is also an example of extracting the machine-dependent parts of the Makefile into a series of include files:
MACHINE := $(shell uname -sm sed 's/ /-/g') include $(MACHINE)-defines.mk
Running uname on the IBM gives differing values for the -m option between iceberg and iceflyer - perhaps uname -s is enough for my needs. Having an automatic way to set the MACHINE type is nice, but our users are using more than one Fortran compiler under Linux, so knowing we're on Linux is only half the battle.
In the past, I have been using imake to build Makefiles for all the different systems I have access to. Robert Mecklenburg claims that gmake is powerful enough to eliminate the need for imake. I'll let you know if I agree as I read more of this book and continue to update my Makefiles.
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Date: Tuesday April 26th, 2005 Time: 1:00 p.m - 2:00 p.m Location: West Ridge Research Building (WRRB) Room 010
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IBM: Array Bounds Checking
Out of bounds array operations can be a pain to track down. Fortunately the IBM compilers allow array bounds checking to be enabled for arrays of known size by simply adding a few compiler flags.XL Fortran
Bounds checking is enabled with the "-C" compiler flag. When an out of bound operation is detected a trap signal will be generated and cause the application to core dump. Because this method causes a core dump, be sure to compile with debugging information (i.e. -g). Below is an example program.
iceberg2 1% cat out_of_bounds.f ! program: out_of_bounds ! ! example of array bounds trapping with xlf compiler ! compile: ! xlf_r -C -g out_of_bounds.f -o out_of_bounds ! program out_of_bounds implicit none real a(100) integer ii call init(a,100) print *, a(10) ! The loop below will generate a trap when element ! a(102) is accessed. ! do ii=2, 110, 2 a(ii)=2*ii enddo end program subroutine init(array, size) ! The loop below access element 0 of array. ! which is illegal in this case. ! ! The array bounds checking may not catch ! access out of bounds at the end of the ! array if the array wasn't statically allocated ! in the subroutine. ! real array(*) integer size integer ii ! The array starts at element 1! do ii=0, size array(ii)=ii enddo end subroutineE.g.
iceberg2 2% xlf_r -g -C out_of_bounds.f -o out_of_bounds
Running the program yields the following:
iceberg2 3% ./out_of_bounds Trace/BPT trap (core dumped)
Using your favorite debugger it doesn't take long to find the two bugs in the code.Visual Age C/C++
The "-qcheck" flag allows array bounds checking, null pointers and integer divide by zero to be trapped. The array bounds checking will detect out of bounds array operations for arrays of known size (i.e. statically allocated). Below is an example with some array operations which will and will not generate a trap.
iceberg2 7% cat qcheck_demo.c #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> void initArray(int * array, int size); int main(int argc, char ** argv) { int ii; int * dynArray; int statArray[100]; dynArray = (int *) malloc(sizeof(int)*100); /* the following won't generate a trap! */ initArray(&statArray[0],100); /* neither will these out of bound accesses in a dynamically allocated array... Though it may cause a segmentation fault. */ for(ii=0;ii<1000;++ii) { dynArray[ii]=ii; } /* the following will generate a trap. */ statArray[0] = 10* statArray[100]; return 0; } void initArray(int * array, int size) { /* this function demonstrates an out of bound memory access that won't be trapped by -qcheck=all */ int ii; /* this for loop access array[size] which is out of bounds, but won't generate a trap. */ for(ii=0;ii<=size;++ii) { array[ii]=ii; } }
iceberg2 8% xlc_r -qcheck=all -g qcheck_demo.c -o qcheck_demo iceberg2 9% ./qcheck_demo Trace/BPT trap (core dumped)
Using totalview we quickly find one of the problematic lines.
iceberg2 10% totalviewcli qcheck_demo core ... d1.<> dwhere > 0 main PC=0x10000470, FP=0x2ff22700 [qcheck_demo.c#29] 1 .__start PC=0x10000200, FP=0x2ff228e0 [/.../qcheck_demo] d1.<> dlist 29 29 > statArray[0] = 10* statArray[100]; 30 31 return 0; 32 } ...
Though the array bounds checking methods don't catch all out of bounds operations, it can be a quick way to find a pesky bug. As with other debugging options it's best not to enable bounds checking on production codes.
If these methods don't help track down the bug, other tools such as Electric Fence and Totalview allow more general memory error checking.
( See HPC User's Newsletter issue 244 for more information on Electric Fence. )
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A: [[ Emacs isn't available on the Cray X1. Thus, I must edit source [[ code on my desktop workstation and move it to the X1 for [[ compilation and testing. It goes like this: [[ [[ ---WORKSTATION--- [[ edit [[ save [[ forget to move updated file to X1 [[ [[ ---X1--- [[ make (Ooops! now I realize I don't have the updated file.) [[ [[ ---WORKSTATION--- [[ ftp file to X1 [[ [[ ---X1--- [[ make [[ run # # Martin Luthi: # Believe me, I don't evangelize for Emacs! But here we go... If you have ssh / krsh access ot the maschine, you can (in your local Emacs session) load the file with Tramp (Transparent Remote (file) Access, Multiple Protocol). Loading the file can be as simple as loading /melancholia:myfile (Examples and an overview can be found on http://www.fifi.org/doc/tramp/tramp-emacs.html) If your username is different: /user@machine:/path/to.file In the case of ARSC, you might need to supply the protocol /ssh:daniel@melancholia:myfile or with Kerberos /krlogin:daniel@melancholia:myfile There are also options for multi-hop login (I used that once to log into a local firewall, a remote firewall and the actual machine.. it works!) The huge benefit of Tramp is that you can use your local, customized, fast Emacs within your environment, and edit files somewhere on the globe. Only the initial load, and sometimes saving, take some time. # # Editors answer: # Another option is to automate the file transfer step as part of the make process, back on the HPC system. Here are two examples, ready for you to modify as desired. First, a shell script that retreives the file from the workstation, and then runs make: File: ./get_and_make -------------------------------------------- #!/bin/ksh SYNTX="Expected Args: <remote_host_name> <remote_path_and_file>" HOST=${1:?$SYNTX} FILE=$(basename ${2:?$SYNTX}) PTH=$(dirname ${2:?$SYNTX}) echo "${0}:Retrieving file \"${FILE}\" from directory \"${PTH}\" on \"${HOST}\"" echo " verbose cd ${PTH} newer ${FILE} bye " kftp ${HOST} echo "${0}:Running \"make\"" make -------------------------------------------- Sample session: --------------- klondike$ ./get_and_make pike /tmp/userdirectory/d.f90 ./get_and_make:Retrieving file "d.f90" from directory "/tmp/userdirectory" on "pike" GSSAPI authentication succeeded Name (pike:baring): Verbose mode on. 250 CWD command successful. local: d.f90 remote: d.f90 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode ( 18740 ) 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for d.f90 (20312 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. 20312 bytes received in 0.00093 seconds (2.1e+04 Kbytes/s) 221 Goodbye. ./get_and_make:Running "make" ftn -O msp -rmo -eZ -F -U ORIGINAL -O ipa5 -c d.f90 ftn -O msp -o d d.o -- A second approach is to do everything from inside make. The following makefile has been modified to use "scp -p" to copy the file from "workstn" to "klondike." (The "-p" option preserves the modification time of the file. Thus, "make" otherwise behaves as usual, only repeating the compilation and link when the file has been modified.) File: makefile.retrieve -------------------------------------------- EXE = d FC = ftn FFLAGS = -O msp -rmo -eZ -F -U ORIGINAL -O ipa5 LDFLAGS = -O msp LIBS = OBJ = d.o timers.o all: retrieve $(EXE) retrieve: scp -p workstn:/tmp/userdirectory/d.f90 . $(EXE): $(OBJ) $(FC) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(OBJ) $(LIBS) .SUFFIXES : .o .f .f90 .f90 .f90.o: $(FC) $(FFLAGS) -c $< clean: rm -f core core.* $(EXE) $(OBJ) -------------------------------------------- Sample session: --------------- klondike$ make -f makefile.retrieve scp -p workstn:/tmp/userdirectory/d.f90 . d.f90 100% 20KB 19.8KB/s 00:00 ftn -O msp -rmo -eZ -F -U ORIGINAL -O ipa5 -c d.f90 ftn -O msp -o d d.o timers.o Q: When my job completes, I want to get the output back to my local machine in an automated fashion for post processing, etc. Is there a user friendly and secure way of doing this?
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A very simple way to understand how the Software Assurance and Licensing works. When the license is acquired, the right to the use of the latest version of the software is obtained without the need of having a later version to the one purchased. With Software Assurance, Microsoft offers a range of complementary solutions to the license such as:
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And it is the first return for new Star Wars programming to TV in over 15 years.
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Finally found this one, the early released cases this one was the one that got snatched up first.
Cad Bane is a different figure from the basic, different head, different outfit, different everything. Same pistols and rifle, but different hat even.
The face sculpt is a teeth-gnashing grimace, it's simpler in sculpt than the basic figure with less character, but it works for this vehicle release, and they got the hoses in the right spots this time. The outfit is a buttoned up jacket that's more of a motorcycle look closer sleeves and no tails, and it has a separate shoulder bag (which is packed incorrectly over his right shoulder). The waist has a separate gun belt with holsters.
This Cad Bane's articulation is nearly super. Ball jointed head and mid-torso; ball-hinged shoulders, elbows, and knees; swivel hips; and rotation wrists. The knees are great, they bend well past 90 degrees for a fantastic bike-riding pose. The shoulders are a tad loose on mine, but they work. The wrists feel very thin and bendy, but they work for now. The torso has a good amount of range, important for riding poses.
Paint is pretty decent on the outfit, lots of weathering thanks to a black wash on the jacket and some leathery weathering on the gun belt. The head is simple and a little thick, a bit matte, but it gets the job done.
Accessories start with the hat, it's a bit different from before and a bit bigger too. There's the shoulder bag, which is a little awkward at first because it's slung on the wrong side. The twin pistols are nice, I believe they're the same but slightly different paint, they fit in the holsters and in the hands quite well, but the clear bands have warped them and Bane's hands a little. The bike sports the last accessory, Bane's rifle, which I believe is the same as the basic figure but didn't compare. It's pretty gummy, but holds its basic shape ok, it's just that figures like this can't actually hold rifles with that kind of grip without a hinged wrist, so it's awkward to use for the figure, but that was the case before as well.
The Pirate Speeder Bike is a Swoop and an interesting one. It has a small front hover-cup thing, 2 skis in the middle of the bike, it's a 2-seater with 2 rather long seats each, and then the back has 2 outrigger boxes. It's got that dirty pipe-fitted bike thing, plenty of detail, only a couple screw holes on the side, a decent amount of painted detail, and worn silver and browns. Bane can hold onto the handlebars easily, although they are set forward enough that he has to use plenty of biker lean to use them, and his feet peg into large footboards. The rear seat has no footboards nor a seatbelt, sucks to be the passenger. There is a gimmick here as well, slide the rear tailpipes of the outrigger boxes forward to pop up a small hinged plate and reveal triple guns from either box. It's a simple gimmick, but made effective by the hinged plate hiding them (you can see them from the underside, but they can't fire with that plate there). And as I mentioned before, there's a clip at the back holding his rifle.
Bane can ride 2-handed of course, but he can also be smartly poses reaching for his gun while the other hand holds the grip, it looks really cool actually.
All in all, this is a cool set. It may have a few little issues, but overall it's quite nifty and stylish, there's a good figure included with a decent set of accessories. At $16 it's worth getting.


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Recording Artist Sir Ivan Pledges $100,000 to The Trevor Project to Help Prevent LGBTQ Youth Suicide
NEW YORK, Dec. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Dance-pop recording artist Sir Ivan announced today a pledge to donate $100,000 to The Trevor Project, the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth. The donation will be made by Sir Ivan and The Peaceman Foundation, a nonprofit established by Sir Ivan, in 2005, to battle hatred, violence and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
"As the son of a Holocaust survivor, I was made aware from a very young age of the need to stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves, the bullied, the persecuted. Through my music and whatever influence I may have, I want to demonstrate the importance of acceptance and understanding. I'm particularly focused on the needs of the LGBTQ community – and specifically, LGBTQ youth – who are up to four times more likely than straight teenagers to attempt suicide. There is never an excuse for harassment and bullying, and I, for one, will not stand for it," says Sir Ivan.
"The Trevor Project is grateful to Sir Ivan and the Peaceman Foundation for their generous support of our life-saving, life-affirming services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth," said Abbe Land, Executive Director and CEO of The Trevor Project. "Every gift helps The Trevor Project ensure our services are always available, and young people in crisis can plan for a future that begins today."
Throughout his music career, Sir Ivan has been a champion of the LGBTQ community. His dance music and his videos – and their messages of understanding and respect – are representative of his commitment. His latest single, "La La Land," (http://youtu.be/cSKoNdV3_HY) released in June 2012, is a furthering celebration of diversity, and went on to reach #10 on the UK Music Week's Upfront Club Chart, Top 20 on the DJ Times National Crossover Pool Chart, and Top 30 on the Billboard Dance Club Chart in the U.S. The single's music video begins in black and white, before transitioning into a flurry of rainbow colored flags to show support for the Community.
The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning young people under 24. Every day, The Trevor Project saves young lives through its free and confidential lifeline and instant messaging services, in-school workshops, educational materials, online resources and advocacy. Honored by the White House as a "Champion of Change," The Trevor Project is a leader and innovator in suicide prevention. Learn more at TheTrevorProject.org.
For more information on Sir Ivan, please go to SirIvan.com.
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