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Two Tucker Creek Middle School students are in trouble with the law after police say they faked an attempted abduction to cover up a plan to skip school.
Two Tucker Creek Middle School students are in trouble with the law after police say they faked an attempted abduction Monday to cover up a plan to skip school.
The two students, both girls ages 13 and 14, told police that they were approached by a male subject while waiting for the school bus at 6:45 a.m. at the corner of Lee Drive and Coyote Trail, according to a release from the Havelock Police Department.
Havelock Police Chief G. Wayne Cyrus said that six officers and investigators responded and began an investigation. He said the case also involved a brief search of a wooded area nearby.
According to the release, investigators discovered inconsistencies in the accounts of the alleged abduction by the two girls, and through later interviews with friends of the alleged victim and an adult witness, determined that the story wasn�t true.
Cyrus said that a group of teens had made plans to skip school, but when one member decided to back out, the two girls hatched the fake abduction scheme.
Juvenile petitions for filing a false police report will be filed against the two girls and police are working with Juvenile Services on the incident, according to the release. The names of the two girls were not released because of their ages.
Cyrus said police wrapped up the investigation in less than 3 1/2 hours.


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A's Ruin Home Opener for Twins with 8-3 Victory
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Yoenis Cespedes proved he can play through a hurting right heel, giving Scott Kazmir and the Oakland Athletics a spark with a pair of RBIs that helped spoil the Minnesota Twins' home opener with an 8-3 victory on Monday.
Cespedes has been hobbling around the last few days with the injury, but the team wasn't worried enough about it to hold him out of the lineup. The Cuban slugger followed a leadoff walk to Brandon Moss by crushing a double in the second inning for the first run against Kevin Correia (0-1) and hit a sacrifice fly in the seventh.
Kazmir (2-0), who stymied with Twins in five starts against them last season for Cleveland, completed six innings with six hits, three runs and four walks allowed.

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Celebration of Classic MGM Film Musicals Celebrate 75 years of MGM musicals as star musicians and singers from the classical and musical theatre worlds re-create the sounds of the golden age of Hollywood. Performances include show-stopping songs from movie classics "The Wizard of Oz," "Meet Me in St. Louis," "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," "High Society," "Gigi," and more. D
9:00 pm
America ReFramed "Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman - Part 1" In this two part documentary, master storyteller Jennifer Fox lays bare her own turbulent life to penetrate what it means to be a free woman today. As her drama of work and relationships unfolds over four years, our protagonist travels to over seventeen countries to understand how diverse women define their lives when there is no map. Employing an ingenious new camera technique, called "passing the camera", Fox creates a documentary language that mirrors the special way women communicate. D
11:30 pm
Global Voices "Family Portrait In Black and White" Olga Nenya, from a small Ukrainian town, is raising 16 black orphans in a country of Slavic blue-eyed blondes. The reality of growing up as a bi-racial child in Eastern Europe - a rare and truly visible minority - is not for the faint of heart. These children always have to be on guard against the world that surrounds them. D


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Hold the Cake: 10 Light Desserts to Satisfy a Sweet Tooth
In Japan, a person with a sweet tooth is described as having betsu-bara, literally a separate stomach. If you have one, you'll understand. No matter how much you eat at dinner, your second stomach has room for a little something sweet — but that doesn't mean dessert has to be a sugar or dairy bomb. Here are 10 lighter treats we reach for when our betsu-bara starts grumbling.
1 Oranges With Lavender and Mint: Dress up winter's best fruit with a little orange flower water and fresh herbs.
2 Oven-dried Apple Chips: So easy to make at home.
3 Dates: What other fruit can taste like butterscotch candy? Dates are especially satisfying when eaten with a few raw almonds, toasted pistachios or other nuts.
4 3-Ingredient Healthy Ice Cream: Coconut milk-based sherbet made from fresh beet or carrot juice hits the ice cream spot without being heavy.
5 Yogurt With Caramelized Figs: Figs caramelized with rosemary and honey are spooned over yogurt and topped with pistachios and smoked sea salt. Light yet complex!
6 Meringue Cookies: These uncomplicated cookies are airy, crisp and lightly sweet.
7 Peanut Butter and Honey Granola: So sweet and satisfying, whether topped with milk, mixed with yogurt, sprinkled over fresh fruit or eaten plain.
8 Broiled Grapefruit With Cinnamon Sugar: Not just for breakfast.
9 Magical Roasted Persimmons: Dust persimmon slices with cinnamon or five-spice powder and bake them until their edges curl, and something magical happens….
10 Sweet Milk Liqueur: Sip a small glass after supper and drink your dessert instead.
What are your favorite not-too-heavy ways to satisfy a sweet tooth?
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Railgun.Speaking from a person in the military whose job currently is the storing of explosive munitions...this is a horrible idea!! Not like you need specialists to stack and maintain a bunch of metal that is launched be electricity!?
"This is really an example where reality and the past have exceeded the imaginations of Hollywood."He described the enormous vertebrae as, "sort of like if you saw a mouse skull the size of rhino skull."http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/monster-titanoboa-snake-invades-york-224358461.html
The officer...approached and saw that the naked man was actually chewing the other man's head, according to witnesses. The officer ordered the naked man to back away, and when he continued the assault, the officer shot him.The attacker continued to eat the man, despite being shot, forcing the officer to continue firing. Witnesses said they heard at least a half dozen shots.
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''The question is, will it fly?'' says Eli Alperowicz, using his paring knife to carve a cardinal out of a large beet. He holds the bird in front of him to study it, and with a few more strokes gives it a dignified crest and graceful tail. Then he puts the cardinal on its bamboo skewer perch.
Eli Alperowicz is a chef who specializes in fancy garnishes. With sleight of hand he turns improbable vegetables into exquisite flora and fauna. Beside the cardinal, a basket of flowers made out of turnips, radishes, carrots, and onions adorns the counter where he has been working.
''Now, how do you think I will make the cardinal's cage?'' he continues. Taking a honeydew melon, he first slices a thin piece off the bottom to give the melon a stable base. Then he puts his paring knife in at midline.
''You must remember where the middle is and always come back to it with each scallop,'' he explains, quickly circling all the way around the melon's circumference in even arcs. He pulls the two halves apart, inserts skewers around the scalloped rim, and puts the canopy top onto the open ends of the skewers.
The brilliant beet-red cardinal perched in its pale green honeydew cage is one of several table decorations Alperowicz has suggested for Christmas. As a garde manger chef, who specializes in the cold buffet table where pates, cold meat and fish dishes, fancy salads, and vegetable garnishes are presented, he is full of ideas for holiday ornaments made out of food.
Dressed in his chef's toque and whites at this demonstration at Newbury Junior College, where he teaches garde manger, Mr. Alperowicz speaks directly to his audience about his metier: ''The major thing is time and patience.'' To encourage those less practiced than he is, he says that no matter how skillful, he must still watch closely and take his time. Rushing will only ruin whatever he is making.
He refers to his knives and other tools as ''my study kit.'' Besides the razor-sharp paring knives and thin, curved tourner knife for fluting mushrooms and other round surfaces, Alperowicz has a wide assortment of implements.
Although traditionalists might raise their eyebrows, he says he uses any tool that creates an interesting effect. This includes a surgical knife and other medical instruments, a wood-carving knife, wood file, and various carpentry tools.
As Alperowicz shows how to shape a gardenful of flowers from vegetables, he gives tips along the way. To make unpeeled vegetables more malleable, for instance, he suggests soaking them in heavily salted water with about 7 percent salt. After he completes each individual flower, he drops it in ice water, where it opens up and ''blooms.''
With a woodcarving tool, Alperowicz fashions a red chrysanthemum out of a Spanish onion. ''It's not very romantic,'' he comments on the beautiful flower. ''You wouldn't give this to a loved one.''
From a large carrot he slices a long, thin rectangle in which he cuts lengthwise slots. When folded in half and attached with others to a toothpick, the carrots become a spectacular blossom.
Taking a yellow or red pepper, he shows how to cut diagonally from near the stem down to the tip, making long pointed petals, with the seeds on the inside appearing as the flower's center. After forming petals around a radish, he cuts away on the inside to make the white center contrast with the red petals.
Unlikely beet stems, trimmed and nicked at intervals on an angle, miraculously shape themselves into graceful foliage when immersed in the cold water. The beet root itself he sculptures into a gorgeous rose.
Taking a leek in his hand, he slices vertically almost through to the root many times, then snips away at the unruly top. ''You give it a haircut,'' he says. In cold water the floppy leek eventually curls into an exotic flower.
Using skewers as stems, Alperowicz arranges a bouquet in the basket. ''It's not more expensive than a big flower arrangement,'' he says, ''and afterward you can make soup out of it.''
Eli Alperowicz was born in Lithuania but grew up in Israel. Although trained in electrical engineering, he later decided that field was not for him.
''Food was very important in my house,'' he explains. ''When I was growing up I constantly watched my mother prepare meals for the family. Everybody says his mother's a great cook; my mother really was a great cook.''
So at the age of 28 he went to Tadmor, a professional chef school in Israel, for 20 months of intensive training 12 hours a day. He read every cookbook he could get hold of and immersed himself in his new career.
Since then Mr. Alperowicz, who is married to an American and speaks five languages, has worked in restaurants in Israel, France, Canada, and the United States. Before Newbury he was the head garde manger chef at the Hotel Meridien in Boston.
''You know what I learned working in France?'' he asks. ''We in the US have nothing to be ashamed of.'' Then, questioned about American cuisine, he replies, ''I think it has a lot of potential if people won't be pretentious about it.''
On another visit to his kitchen, Alperowicz was busy preparing for a special banquet of American cuisine. For over a month he had been making pheasant centerpieces of salt dough, but these were not for the amateur. Flattening pieces of dough with a rolling pin, he wrapped them around a wire mesh base layer upon layer, cutting, filing, sanding the surface with his assortment of tools to make the dough look like feathers.
After the birds had dried naturally in the air, he was painting them one by one with caramelized cornstarch and rubbing alcohol to give a warm brown coloring. By brushing the color on or rubbing it with his finger, he showed how he could achieve special textures and shading. Each pheasant, strikingly realistic, had its own character.
On a separate table at the side of his kitchen stood a grand turkey prepared for the cold-buffet table at this banquet. It was made of tallow, a combination of suet, paraffin, and beeswax, and sculptured and etched in great detail.
While this regal bird surveyed the room in full splendor, Alperowicz helped a young student who was struggling with mayonnaise. ''Life is a messy job,'' he exclaimed. Then, in a gentle voice he coaxed her, ''We've got to get it fixed today, right?''
Mr. Alperowicz has created the following recipe for the holiday season ahead. It is a white seafood mousse, colored with spinach, pimento, and olives, cleverly constructed so that each slice down the length of the terrine will reveal the glorious Christmas tree inside.
You will find it easier to make than you suspect, a delicious recipe for Christmas entertaining and a delight to behold. Christmas Tree Mousse 1 1/2 pounds lemon sole 1/2 pound scallops 6 egg whites 2 tablespoons lemon juice, or to taste 2 teaspoons salt, or to taste 1/4 teaspoon white pepper, or to taste 1 cup heavy cream 3 ounces fresh trimmed spinach leaves 1/4 cup loose parsley leaves 1 envelope unflavored gelatin Pimento strips 5 black pitted olives
Cut sole into pieces and put in work bowl of food processor fitted with metal blade. Process until sole is completely smooth, turning machine off and scraping down sides with spatula several times. Remove sole to a bowl and repeat with scallops. Add pureed scallops to sole and stir to combine.
Return half of sole and scallop mixture to work bowl. With machine running, add 3 egg whites one at a time. Add half each of lemon juice, salt, and pepper. With machine running, add half of cream and process until mousse makes soft peaks, no more. When pressed with a finger, surface of mousse should leave indentation mark.
Put mousse mixture in another large bowl and repeat with remaining seafood puree. Combine all seafood mousse in bowl and correct seasoning. Keep chilled.
Put spinach and parsley leaves into work bowl and process until finely chopped. Add 1 cup seafood mousse and process to combine. While machine is running, sprinkle in gelatin. You may season mousse further with lemon juice, and salt and pepper to taste. Set aside 2 tablespoons green mousse.
Chop up a few pieces of pimento and stir into rest of green mousse. Chop olives finely and mix with reserved 2 tablespoons green mousse. Keep all mousse chilled.
Butter a 1 1/2-quart loaf pan. Cut waxed or parchment paper to fit bottom and sides of pan, with enough overhang to cover top. Butter both sides of paper. Spoon about 2/3 white seafood mousse into pan. Using wet spatula, make a V-shaped trough down center of mousse to form upside-down pine tree. Put a row of pimento in apex of V to form star on top. Fill V with green mousse; be careful not to smudge edges.
To form trunk, make a row down center of pan with black olive mousse mixture. Then carefully cover with remaining white mousse, smoothing top with spatula.
Cover with overhanging paper, then tightly cover with aluminum foil. Set mousse in larger pan and place on oven rack. Pour boiling water in larger pan to come halfway up sides of mousse. Bake in preheated 350-degree F. oven 1 hour, or until a knife inserted in center comes out clean (instant meat thermometer should register 140 degrees F.).
Remove loaf pan from water and let mousse sit for at least 20 minutes. Take off foil and paper on top, then run knife around sides and invert. Carefully peel off paper. Cut loaf into thin slices. To avoid smearing tree pattern, remember to wipe off knife blade after each slice.
Serve hot with beurre blanc or hollandaise, or serve cold with Green Mayonnaise, recipe below. Green Mayonnaise 4 egg yolks 2 teaspoons mustard, or to taste 2 tablespoons lemon juice, or to taste 2-3 cups vegetable oil, to desired consistency 6-8 fresh spinach leaves, trimmed 1/2 cup loose parsley leaves 2 shallots, chopped Salt and white pepper to taste
Put egg yolks in processor with mustard and half of lemon juice. Briefly turn on machine to combine them. With motor running, pour in oil in slow, steady stream until it reaches desired consistency.
When mayonnaise is thick and thoroughly emulsified, add spinach, parsley, and shallots, and process until finely chopped. Season to taste with remaining lemon juice and salt and pepper.


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about the output file of GW09
Hello every one I have a question about the sotfware "Gaussian 09" which is used in computational chemistry. This software can compute nearly every things of a molecule by various methodes such as ab-initio, hartree-fock and so on. I wish to know if it is possible to extract the hamiltonian of the given molecule as a matrix in the basises used for simulation from the output file? Indeed, does this software give us information about the matrix form of the hamiltonian for example in semi-empirical basis as an output?
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Handbell choir at First United Jan. 5
The First United Methodist Church of Amityville will present a holiday concert Sun., Jan. 5, 2014, 3 p.m. featuring the handbell choirs of the church. The choirs are directed by Robyn Hyland. A free-will offering is suggested. Refreshments will be served immediately following the concert.
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Darla: http://darla.com/ (Hammock - Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tommorow. great disc)
Data Obscura and Blue Oasis: http://www.dataobscura.com/ (lots of good stuff here)Infraction: http://www.infractionrecords.com/ (Parks "Umber" is a great disc)
Kranky: http://kranky.net/ (Stars of the Lid and Loscil among others)
Lotuspike: http://www.lotuspike.com/Spotted Peccary: http://spottedpeccary.com/Somnia: http://www.somniasound.com/ (only 9 discs so far)
Waveform: http://www.waveformhq.com/Interchill: http://www.interchill.com/ (not anymore though)
Dakini: http://www.dakinirecords.com/ (although they haven't had a new title in 2 years)
I don't think many here would agree Hypnos is the be-all of ambient right now, not even Mike. ;-)
Dear Austere-- Although I liked your Hypnos release a lot
"This is true, though I read the first Austere post to be less a definitive statement ("there are no good ambient labels but Hypnos") and more a challenge ("it seems this way to us, but let us know what other labels are worth looking at")"
...We look forward this week to checking out many of the recommendations - Dataobscura seems very popular!...Oh, and Mike, Interchill just really sucks. Wouldn't bother with them. Too many egos although there are some Good People as well. And Dakini, forget about, we worked hard to try to get Gio to do wholesale w/a label, including 60% up-front payment, but he'd had "bad luck with wholesale in the U.S." and has just given up and won't even try. Not to mention it's not really Hypnos Store material. Fortunately the Makyo CDs are all very wonderful and pretty timeless!
On the DataObscura/Blue Oasis label be sure to check out Kwook "Skywave". One of my favorites.
I lost interest in Interchill when it seemed that so much of what they were producing was heavy dub techno stuff.
But their early releases are still some of my favorites, like Northern Circuits, Magnetic Blue, Interior Horizons and Centripetal by Ekko.
Is Makyo still creating music? I have 4 of his albums from the Dakini label but haven't heard from him in years.
We're on the other side, very into the whole Black Dog / Planet Dog /...not sure if Northern Circuits is an Ekko release we missed or a band on Interchill we missed?
I don't have any Dakini. What can you recommend as the best to seek out (in print or not)? I have my eye on "Sky Dancing Vol.2" as the cover art is gorgeous.
A new and up comer is Glacial Movementshttp://www.glacialmovements.com/
I don't have any Dakini. What can you recommend as the best to seek out (in print or not)? I have my eye on "Sky Dancing Vol.2" as the cover art is gorgeous.
I agree with Austere, all albums by Makyo are really good as is Padmasana (a Makyo collaboration). I also like all of the Sky Dancing series (compilations).
Orchid by Ishq is excellent.I have no idea which of these are still in print.
Went to the Dakini website and some of the titles indicated "sold out." Are you sure they're all still available?
We've agreed, after much debate, that most ambient musick out there in the last 3-4 years has been shite.


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Opinion: Hawking's Moral Black Hole
Assistant books editor Sohrab Ahmari on Stephen Hawking's decision to join the academic boycott of an Israeli conference. Photo: Getty Images
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... welcome back to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel ... the Cambridge University theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking ... pulled out of a conference in Israel in protest ... over that country's treatment of Palestinians was on the back and forth first he was in ... many was out now he's definitely out so what's going on here ... assistant books editor so ever Mari is here so I'm just in general question ... what do we care what Stephen Hawking doesn't when he thinks of Israel ... we should ... I he is one of the symptoms of our days were We fetish I Sciences just because ... I'm you know hockey has come up with fascinating and insightful theories ... about the non of them in the space time and and and black holes ... doesn't mean that his views on moral and political issues ... should be definitive ... in yet we've we've put scientists on on on a pedestal this plan and and ... it just because he's anti Israel are therefore he must be right because he has he has ... been a brilliant insights into ... the law calls well like it or not though that we do pay attention to what the lady says and says hey what's his history ... in the Middle East has he ... done this other countries to resist a specific to Israel election to the hypocrisy and double standards in this are astounding ... he is now hawking actually travel to Iran and in in two thousandseven to great fanfare from this the state run media that ... the great scientists is visited and he was a ten day visit according to press TV which is ... the Iranian ... regime or again ... and that not a peep about ... about Iran's human rights issues he didn't boycott of the Iranian regime where where there's a there's no such thing as academic freedom for academics are regularly thrown in jail ... on Sunday Funding Christina still tied to a very oppressive regime right and he's also been to China another country where you've is no such thing as academic freedom over there ... but Israel the one stay in the in the region where there is a vibrant academic life winners academics on the state payroll ... who basically think the station exist and yet they continue to have tenure ... that's the country you boycott the it there's another aspect of this it seems really odd to me and ... you know as an academic approach a prominent one should new welcome ... it opened in Koreans you know and and and and and serve ... go to Israel the sea with its all about and what is he was he gained from doing this has deeply it's right ... I mean there was an opportunity from a few key things he he ... he has criticisms of of Israeli policy ... policies in the Palestinian territories ... there's a setting where you know he was invited by Shimon Peres the president is famous the end of ... and you could've had a head and I love with with has about about ... about the issue but ... this pleases foreclosed today ... and the you know it is or was gonna go on being a ... vibrant ... economy does really well compared to its neighbors ... and by the way it actually produces the chips that allow Stephen Hawking to communicate with the rest the world of the with ... the chip that allows them to to to to speak of this but it is the isthe used his condition is produced by Intel which is prime year which makes ... most of its cutting edge ... computer chips ... the interstates I think I mean if you were to be ... be doing this and really to face meeting he might do away with the chip as well ...


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Saturn MD2 Collection: Sonic Trio.
Developer Last Online: Nov 2018
Hey guys !
Did you ever wanted play as Sonic R Sonic or
Sonic Jam's Sonic World Sonic, Sonic 3D Blast Special Stage for Saturn/PC Sonic, Sonic R Tails or Sonic Jam's Sonic World Tails even Knuckles ?.
These models are with my Custom animations, because each saturn game have different animations...
Download: SaturnCollectionMD2_By Davee0.zip
A - Alpha Update AB - Alpha-Beta Update B - Beta Update C - Normal ;
18.7.2017 ;/; 7/18/2017 AB-Update
+Added Knuckles(55%)
+Added Sonic's Super Transformation(WIP)
+Added Sign, 1-up icon for Sonic/Knuckles (Sign need texture)
*Tweaked Sonic
20.7.2017 ;/; 7/20/2017 B-Update
-Removed Tails
+Added Miles
*Fixed Sonic grap Animation.
Things to do:
Smooth Super Transformation
Sign Texturing.
Tweak Miles's Animations.
Tweak Knux
Link to wiki how to set up MD2.
Actual MD2.dat content:
Sonic saturnsonic.md2 10.0 0.0
Tails saturntails.md2 14.0 0.0
Knuckles saturnknux.md2 9.0 0.0
Poster of update:
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Man, you should have seen my face when I saw this thread pop up in the new posts page. Sonic R is one of my favorite childhood games and I've always wanted to play with their models in SRB2. But I'll be honest, I'm kinda disappointed. I'm not saying you haven't done a good job—I know there are currently no rigs for the Saturn models, which meant you did all the piecework, like rigging a skeleton, texturing, and making animations all by yourself. I commend you for doing all of that on your own, especially since it looks like these are your first MD2s. But if you ever update these to include the super transformations and item icons, perhaps you could make them a liiiiittle more faithful to the source material? Here are some design nitpicks I had:
• The eyes are wayyyyy too small. Is there a way to make that texture cover more of the face area? Not only do they currently look way off compared to the source material, they just completely derpy in general. It makes their foreheads look huge, ahaha.
• I don't want to hammer on the animations too much since you DID do them all by yourself, which is impressive in its own right—but I found some of the dynamics choices to be a little jarring. For instance, the way the characters bob their heads when they run is completely unnatural. It's like they're jamming (no pun intended) to fire mixtapes as they speed through the zones. I'm no animation expert, but I think the up and down movement you're looking for actually stems from the entire body moving up and down instead of just the head doing a nod. Refer to this sheet for some handy animation guides. You can also study animations from MD2s by practiced modelers such as Jeck Jims' classic pack and VirtualBlitz's 06 pack. Those animations were also made by hand and they pretty much nail how movement should look.
• Looking at the modes themselves, certain proportions definitely need some work. Tails' shoes are way too big, and while his head is an oval, it should be a vertical oval rather than a horizontal one (though if you manage to fix the size of the eye textures, I don't think it'll be that big of a deal). The tips of his tails also look a little small—when he was running or flying, they looked like little white dots to me. Sonic's model looks pretty accurate to his look in Sonic R, but Tails needs some work all around if you're aiming for accuracy. Pull up a picture of Tails from Sonic R and see what you can do to get the proportions right!
Keep in mind, I'm just an avid Sonic R fan. You certainly don't have to go ahead with these changes if you like your models the way they are, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who really wants to see legitimately faithful Saturn Sonic models. Still, well done for actually doing them though. I'm glad someone put in the effort to at least make it a thing!
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These aren't my first real MD2s even. I am only first time experienced with bone joints really.
And these aren't definitely final versions of both these models, I am planning to make from Ground up new animations and little fixies. When I will be done with Animations then I will go to make objects like monitors, springs, signpost. When I will be done with objects then I will make Signpost and 1-up Icon for Character itself. And it will take while, because it isn't my only project.
Edit: Ehh.... I failed, I have now faces right.
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I managed to upsize Sonic's face myself. Even though I think Sonic R's standards would require it to go a teensy bit bigger, I don't think you'd need to go any bigger than this to make it fit the blend between all the Saturn games you wanted to achieve. Honestly, as long as the eyes don't look small like they currently do, it should be all. Whenever you have the motivation, I think Tails is the one in need of those from-the-ground-up animations you were talking about, whereas Sonic is mostly fine—so I would focus on fixing Tails' model and animations first!
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Hey, Guys !
This update removes toiles and adds Miles. Still need tweak, but that's small thing.
Also added Ugly knuckles. I need just little bit of time.... to tweak him. But everything else is alright.
Poster of this update is :
Good work! Sonic looks pretty damn good now. I still think some of his animations are a liiiiiittle bit stiff and definitely asymmetrical in many areas, but he's in a good place at the moment. Tails and Knuckles definitely need a lot more work, but of course this is my personal feedback so don't feel like you need to account for every detail if you like any particular quality about your models. With that said:
Your improvement on Tails is excellent; his proportions are much more accurate and his model is overall wayyyy better looking! Nice job. I still think there are a couple of design flaws, though. His twin tails definitely still need some enlivening. The white area needs to be made bigger, and I hesitate to say this in case it backfires, but perhaps the tails need just a smidgen of thickening as well? They need to be a little more solid and visible, since I think Tails' biggest problem currently lies in his animations. The ones where his tails move, such as running and flying, particularly need attention since those are the ones where the tails are basically the only bits that are actually in motion. They happen to be the animations the majority of players will see the most playing as Tails, so those definitely need the most attention. For flying, I would angle the tails further (but not completely, of course) towards the horizontal, like a helicopter—since that's how it is in most games. At the moment they kind of unnaturally stick up in the air and twirl around. Make sure the tips point outwards rather than up, as well. I think the same would go for running, too. Speaking of which, his hands are placed very awkwardly during that running animation. Perhaps his arms are too long? Feel free to experiment a bit.
I know your Knuckles is heavily in beta so I won't go into too much detail, but one thing that really irks me is that his motions are definitely asymmetrical and a little jerky. I noticed that all of his frames seem to be slightly angled to the left ever so slightly, but maybe that's just me. Viewing his running animation from the front reveals that his head moves side to side in a very unnatural fashion. I also feel that his jump animation rotates around an off-center radius. He has twisted feet during his climb, but that animation is probably still being worked on, as is the very placeholder-looking balancing animation. It's a pretty good start though! He looks a little skinny as well, and I think that's because his limbs are skinnier than those of the other two.
Overall, good improvements! I'm glad you're continuing to work on these. In general, try to keep all animations smooth but lively, and making things symmetrical (if it is possible) will always give a huuuge quality boost to your work. :)
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Thank you for criticism and I know Miles' tails are badly animated, because of low polycount Miles's tails are hard to animate. So I will try my best. And Knuckles will be redesign to be more like Sonic R/Sonic 3D Blast variant.
And I like to note I had problems with camera angles (I taken screenshots of game and made them as background in MM3D, But often camera was off).
Today I was in Dilemma. I saw sonic mania's screenshot of special stages.
Should I wait on Sonic Mania and try to make similar animations or just continue with these models.
(Simplistic version of this question: Should I accept sonic mania as saturn game.)
Sure, you can take inspiration from the Mania model if you want. IIRC, we haven't seen the front of it yet so it's hard to know if it'll be easy enough to integrate, but it's definitely Saturn-inspired, or else they wouldn't use such a model. I know someone else is working on Sonic R models for SRB2 anyway, so you looking into Mania will make each of you guys' models stand out from each other!
I have an idea you should add md2s for Amy you could add the sonic the fighters/sonic championship model and mabye you could add Espio with his model from fighters and another great idea would be Metal Sonic With his sonic r model and last an eggman boss model. if you could make this happen i would be real happy thanks for reading if you are
These looks sooo good i love them :D
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I like these a lot maybe you could do more of this amazing look with an improved knuckles.
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Redskins play tough against undefeated Wyoming
Wyoming left Rudness Field with an undefeated regular season record Thursday night. But the Wolves sustained a huge scare from a fired-up Belding soccer boys team.
Yes, Wyoming defeated Belding 2-0 in the O-K Blue Conference clash and ended the regular season at 17-0-2 overall and 12-0 in the league. But it was in stark contrast to earlier this season when the Wolves prevailed over the Redskins 9-0 in a game that ended on the mercy rule.
Sergio Bautista-Santos kept the Redskins in the game with stellar goalkeeping.
"Everybody played as hard as they could," said the senior Redskin keeper. "We left it all on the field."
Wyoming broke a scoreless tie with 29:15 to play in the second half when Bautista-Santos wasn't able to cover a loose ball and Melecio Terrones fired the ball in the net for Wyoming.
Eddie Burdalic scored an insurance goal with 4:13 left in the game.
"I was so impressed with how Belding played," said Wolves coach Romer Carrasco. "They worked hard."
Belding ends the regular season 4-12 overall and 3-11 in the league.
"They have a very good team," said Belding coach Blaine Kemme. "We were done with them at the 40-minute mark, the last time. To play this well was a tremendous effort for all our guys."
Bautista-Santos wound up with 18 saves.
"We marked up and made sure we didn't leave guys open," Bautista-Santos said, adding that on Wyoming's second goal, "one of their guys was offsides but the referees didn't see it."
The Wolves dominated the first half, but the Redskin defense kept the game scoreless.
In the second half, the Redskins' offense was more effective and had a chance to take the lead when Dylan Meyers had an open shot at the net with 33 minutes to play. But the ball hit the goal post and four minutes later, the Wolves took the lead on Terrones' goal.
"I couldn't get around in time," Meyers said of his shot attempt.
Meyers also had an open shot with seven minutes to play with a chance to tie the game, but fired it wide.
"We played wiser tonight," Meyers said, referring to the last time the two teams played. "We got a lot of through balls to get the ball downfield to the scorers. This makes us feel that we can compete against them."
"We had two great scoring opportunities," Kemme said. "We did a much better job of marking their players tonight. Our defensive effort was better."
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Hollywood's Strategy For The Future: Pretending The Government Can Save Them
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A few weeks back, I went to Hollywood to appear on a panel for the Filmmaker Forum event, all about "piracy." You can see a short clip of the panel here. One of the panelists was Kevin Suh, who has the title "VP of Content Protection" at the MPAA. Of course, just the fact that the MPAA has a position that involves "content protection" suggests that there's a pretty big problem with how the MPAA views where the market is heading (hint: protectionism is not going to get you very far). Kevin was extremely nice -- and we had quite a pleasant conversation prior to the panel. But, at one point, he made some assertions (not in the video) that seemed odd to me. First, he went on and on about how much money these new "digital locker" sites make, and then in the very next sentence said that Hollywood couldn't offer a competing service because it would make no money.
At one point, I challenged him on the idea that taking down these sites was effective, and he insisted that the sites that were taken down had stayed down, and no others had stepped up to take their place. While I don't follow these sites all that closely, I'd already seen that this wasn't true, as lots of our users like to send in tips about new sites popping up (or where those "downed" sites reappeared). And, in fact, the press is noting that at least one of the sites taken down went right back up days later.
But what's really troubling about the article that has that info, is that it focuses in on how the US government has pledged to continue to be Hollywood's copyright cops, based on questionable legal authority (this, by the way, is one reason why the government is so keen to pass COICA, which would give the feds some authority that they're lacking here). But the simple fact is that this is a huge waste of taxpayer money, trying to stop the unstoppable and protect the unprotectable. There are all sorts of great opportunities for better, smarter business models for the industry, and yet rather than explore those, we have VPs of protectionism, running to the government and getting them to run crazy, legally dubious domain name seizures that do little, if anything to help.
About the only good thing that I can think of is that more and more filmmakers are realizing this. Following the panel, I was (quite pleasantly) surprised by just how many filmmakers spoke to me about how ridiculous the MPAA's position on all of this is, and saying that it's time for the industry to actually compete. Unfortunately, the industry hasn't had to compete in so long, thanks in part to lobbying efforts by the MPAA, that the legacy players don't seem to know how to do so. That's why it's going to be the up and coming filmmakers that figure it out.


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History will be kind to Cisco for boldly making a whopping $100M investment in the small and medium business sector. It all started a year ago in the heat of the world financial markets "reset" and I fondly remember this was one piece of good news at a time when we needed it.
Yesterday, on the one year anniversary of this Cisco act, I spoke with Mark Monday, a small business vice president at Cisco, and received an update. The update can be split into three categories:
Service and Support. Cisco has announced two new support offerings. One relates to pre-sales and the other relates to a "rapid" replacement service.
Broad Technology Portfolio. Cisco made announcements in the communication and security areas. Four things stood out in the briefing to me. First – VPN capabilities built-in to the 525G IP phone. That means you can take the said telephone in your backpack to your home office and be efficiently and securely connected to your SMB telephone network back at the office. Second – our friends at Trend Micro have teamed with Cisco to provide gateway and endpoint security for the new Cisco SA 500 Series Security Appliance(s). Nice to see our friends playing nicely in the school yard. Third, the access point "clustering" capability in the 541N allows you to easily create a large and robust WiFi network. Finally, the fourth item that caught my eye was the wireless capabilities for the Cisco 500 series unified communications telephones.
Partner Profitability. Two announcements here. The Partner Development Fund (PDF) is a rebate program that puts cash back in the hands of the Cisco partner. Cisco reports this type of incentive is helping to grow the partner's business volume as much as 42% versus folks who do not participate in the PDF program. And Cisco Capital is providing a zero percent financing option.
So that's may highlights on this, the first anniversary of the Cisco small business investment announcement. I leave you with two questions followed by the full press release.
First – have you heard the new Cisco radio advertisements?
Second- what's your take on all this…please comment!
Cisco Celebrates Anniversary of $100 Million Small Business Investment by Helping Partners and Customers Accelerate Their Business
New Small Business Services, Technology and Ongoing Profitability Programs Help Enable Partners' and Customers' Success and Boost Economy
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Dec. 1, 2009 – Cisco today announced new partner presales technical support and a new hardware advanced-replacement service specifically designed for partners selling to the small business market. Cisco also announced it is expanding the industry's broadest portfolio of small business technology with new and enhanced networking, security and collaboration solutions. In addition, Cisco is continuing its partner profitability and financing programs to help partners and small businesses accelerate their business and boost the economy as it recovers.
Service and Support: Cisco launched new partner presales technical support and a hardware advanced-replacement service to help partners successfully sell, deliver, install and support Cisco Small Business solutions.
- Cisco Partner Design Support offers complimentary assistance to partners in the design, installation and configuration stages so they can create and deploy the best solutions to solve their customers' unique business problems.
- The new support service provides partners with access to a team of expert engineers focused on Cisco Small Business technology. It is offered via phone or online chat and in nine languages.
- Cisco Small Business Pro Rapid Replacement Service provides four-hour hardware replacement plus 24-hour technical support and coverage for Cisco Small Business Pro products so partners can quickly resolve their customers' problems with little downtime.
- The three-year service also includes software updates, 24-hour phone access to the Cisco Small Business Support Center and access to the Cisco Small Business Support Community.
Broad Technology Portfolio: Cisco has expanded the industry's broadest portfolio to include more than 600 networking, security and communication products purpose built and priced right for the small business. The expansion includes new and enhanced technologies to help small businesses connect, secure and communicate.
- Cisco AP 541N: The industry's first 802.11n dual-band clustering access point built for the small business allows partners to quickly set up and expand wireless access to provide small businesses with the freedom to work wirelessly with business-grade performance, reliability and security.
- Cisco MonitorView: New capabilities in the Cisco Configuration Assistant enable the Cisco SPA 525G IP Phone to receive and display live video streaming from Cisco Small Business security cameras, helping small businesses secure their business and run their business more smoothly and productively.
- Cisco VPN Support for the Cisco SPA 525G IP Phone: New software VPN technology for the Cisco SPA 525G IP Phone allows small businesses the flexibility to have teleworkers easily connect to the business in a highly secure environment over almost any broadband connection from where ever they choose.
- Cisco SA 500 Series Security Appliances: Enhancements have been made to the all-in-one security solution designed to help protect a small business's network and critical data while allowing employees to connect to the business network. New enhancements include:
- Intrusion prevention system (IPS) to help monitor the network for malicious or unwanted activities and automatically block or prevent those activities.
- Cisco ProtectLink Gateway to block attacks through a hosted service that integrates anti-spam, anti-phishing, content filtering and Web reputation monitoring.
- Cisco ProtectLink Endpoint to extend protection to Windows PCs and prevent users from accessing the Internet if their security levels are not up-to-date.
- Cisco Hosted Small Business Communications: This complete, reliable, cost-effective customer premises equipment solution allows service providers to deliver hosted IP telephony services to small businesses. The solution includes the new Cisco SRP 500 Series Services Ready Platforms, Cisco switches and IP phones, which can all work seamlessly together.
- The Cisco SRP 500 Series Services Ready Platforms is a flexible, affordable customer premises device that enables service providers to easily create, provision and deploy managed data, voice and security services for small businesses.
- Smart Business Communications System (SBCS) Release 2.0: An enhancement has been made to the complete collaboration and communications system to connect offices, employees and customers anywhere at any time.
- Release 2.0 includes the ability to support up to 100 users, so partners can easily install a solution that will smoothly and economically grow with the small business.
Partner Profitability: Cisco continues to invest in partner profitability programs and innovative financing offers to help small business partners increase their profits and compete more effectively.
- The Small Business Partner Development Fund (PDF) program has helped Select partners grow their Cisco business at times as much as 42 percent.
- The PDF program, which provides quarterly payments to qualifying partners based on their purchases of Cisco Small Business products, is open to various partner types selling into the small business market, including: Cisco Registered Partners, Cisco Specialized Partners, online resale partners and service providers.
- In the current economy, Cisco CapitalSM provides extended payment terms and an innovative range of financing options including zero-percent financing to qualifying partners and small businesses.
- In the U.S., Cisco Capital is providing zero-percent financing of Cisco Unified Communications and Small Business Pro Series solutions for small businesses. This offer has been extended through July 2010 with terms of 36 months same-as-cash and the option to take ownership of the equipment at the end of the lease.
- In Europe, the Cisco EasyLease zero-percent financing program has been extended to include all Cisco products and solutions with a maximum deal size of up to £200,000 or €250,000.
- Cisco Capital continues to support Cisco channel partners through credit lines and payment terms beyond standard net 30-day terms.
- Cisco offers end-user financing in over 80 countries, more than any other vendor in the IT industry.
Product Pricing and Availability
- Cisco AP 541N is listed at US$499 with regional variations and is currently available in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
- Cisco MonitorView and Cisco VPN Support are firmware upgrades for the Cisco SPA 525G IP Phone for customers with a service contract. The Cisco SPA 525G IP Phone is listed at US$430 with regional variations and is currently available in most countries worldwide, except China and Japan.
- Cisco SA 500 Series Security Appliances pricing starts at US$550, depending on the model. The security appliances are currently available in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia. The new enhancements are available as licenses: IPS is a US$150 license; Cisco ProtectLink Gateway is US$178 for a five-seat license; Cisco ProtectLink Endpoint is US$185 for a five-seat license. Enabling IPS and Cisco ProtectLink Endpoint functionality requires a firmware update, which is scheduled to be available in late December.
- Cisco Hosted Small Business Communications prices vary by region, specific configurations and number of users. The solution is currently available in the U.S., Canada and Europe.
- Cisco SRP 500 Series Services Ready Platforms pricing starts at US$250, depending on the model. It is currently available in the U.S., Canada and Europe.
- Cisco SBCS Release 2.0 pricing can be as low as US$164 per user, but varies by region, number of users, business needs and specific configurations. Cisco SBCS Release 2.0 is currently available in most countries worldwide.
- All products are available to small businesses via Cisco Partners and Resellers.
Supporting Quotes
- Gia McNutt, president and CEO, Special Order Systems:
"Over the past year, Cisco has demonstrated that it is 100-percent committed to the small business market. Most enterprise-focused companies have produced mini-versions of products for small businesses, but not in this case. Cisco has built solutions specifically for the small business market, which has helped partners like me solve my customers' business issues. Cisco has also created services and incentives to help me be successful and more profitable in the small business market."
- Adrian Biesecker, owner and CEO, BBC Biochemical:
"We needed to connect two sister companies that share office space to cut costs and share company information to help us both perform better, while keeping our sensitive patient information separate and private. We looked at several companies but none of them could provide all the solutions that Cisco could, including everything from the network to mobility to financing. Cisco was the only one that came to the table with everything we needed and the results have been flawless."
- Ian Pennell, co-chair, Small Business Council, Cisco:
"We're proud of our accomplishments this past year and are extremely focused on continuing to build and deliver the right technologies, services and support and profitability programs to help our partners and small business customers accelerate their business as the economy recovers."
- Andrew Sage, vice president, Worldwide Small Business Sales, Cisco:
"With the Cisco Small Business Advantage, our partners have all the essential tools necessary to help them be successful and profitable in the small business market."
Supporting Resources
- Cisco Small Business Web site: http://www.cisco.com/smallbusiness
- Cisco Small Business U.S. Spanish Web site: http://www.cisco.com/go/espanol
- Cisco Services for Small Business
- Cisco Partner Central Web site: http://www.cisco.com/web/partners
- Read the News@Cisco Feature: "Services are Key to Small Business Support"
- Become a fan of Cisco Small Business on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CiscoSmallBusiness
- Follow Cisco Small Business on Twitter @CiscoSmallBiz
- Watch customer videos on the Cisco Small Business YouTube Channel
- Visit the Cisco Small Business Innovators Forum, a community for small business owners
- Visit the Cisco Small Business Support Community
- Visit the Cisco blog, The Platform
- Visit the Cisco Channels blog
- Ian Pennell, co-chair, Small Business Council, Cisco: Cisco Small Business Anniversary
- Andrew Sage, vice president, Worldwide Small Business Sales, Cisco: New Additions to the Cisco Small Business Advantage
- Rick Moran, vice president, Small Business Solutions Marketing, Cisco: New Cisco Technology Helps Small Businesses Drive Business Forward
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Last month, for the first time, I traveled to Frankfurt, Germany to attend the annual Creativeworld show (and its sister shows, Paperworld and Christmasworld).
The shows are put on and hosted by Messe Frankfurt, the massive exhibition center in Frankfurt that also plays host to events such as the Frankfurt auto show, the world's largest auto show. Before you can begin to really absorb the show itself, it's necessary to orient yourself to the venue. And the Messe (as it is called in brief) is absolutely massive. It's so large I can't even compare it in size to any convention center that I've ever been in here in the U.S. A better comparison would be that the Messe is the size of a small college or corporate campus – a series of almost a dozen buildings connected by aerial walkways and a network of roads.
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A Doctor for Development
At its meeting on April 21, the board of the World Bank, the world's largest development agency, will choose its next president. Nigeria's finance minister has been nominated, as has Dr. Jim Yong Kim, an Asian-American. Some nations would like to see a non-American in the president's seat for once, because Americans have occupied it since 1944, when the bank was established. But Dr. Kim is a stellar choice for the job and a credit to our nation.
Though Dr. Kim did not rise from poverty, his personal achievements are impressive. Born in Seoul and raised in Iowa by highly educated parents, Jim Yong Kim became a Harvard-educated physician and anthropologist, and chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was a highly effective director of the Department of H.I.V./AIDS at the World Health Organization and has co-founded two global health organizations. Partners in Health works with impoverished communities in Haiti, Peru and elsewhere; the Global Health Delivery Project improves public health in disadvantaged populations by maximizing health delivery systems. Dr. Kim, an expert on tuberculosis and a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant winner, is currently president of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.
President Obama described the World Bank as "one of the most powerful tools we have to reduce poverty and raise standards of living in some of the poorest countries on the planet." As one who speaks three languages and has traveled widely for decades to improve world health, Dr. Kim's skills are a glove-like fit for a leadership post customarily held by a business executive.
Latinos on the Move
As Latinos spread across the country, their influence within the U.S. electorate has become more complex and less predictable, as these three examples show.
While Latinos live primarily in the Southwest and Florida, with large populations in New York, New Jersey and Illinois, nearly half still live in just two states: California and Texas. But these geographic patterns are changing. Whereas in 2000, two-thirds of Latinos lived in the 50 counties with the largest Latino populations, 10 years later that percentage had shrunk to 59 percent. And in the interim, the Latino population of nearly every county in America grew; some doubled. These data, based on an analysis of the U.S. Census by the Pew Hispanic Center, contain other surprises.
Who would have thought that three of the 10 counties with the fastest Latino growth rate would be in Georgia? Or that Texas would contain all 10 counties with the highest proportion of Latinos? In eight of those counties, the Latino population exceeds 90 percent of the total. In a representative democracy, that ought to translate into political clout, which has occurred to some extent. When Latino population growth enabled Texas to add four new House seats, the partisan redistricting battles went to the U.S. Supreme Court. After the ruling, only two of the four new districts reflected the Latino growth spurt. Still, Latinos gained influence.
Latino immigration is a third complicating factor. While immigrants themselves cannot vote, citizens tend to cast ballots based on their experience and perception of immigrants. Surprisingly, the percentage of Latinos who are foreign-born is greatest in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Alabama. After the November election, it may become clearer how native-born Latino and non-Hispanic voters took immigrants into consideration at the polls.
Round and Round We Go
Here is a disturbing fact: close to a third of automobile traffic in some urban areas can be attributed to drivers looking for parking spaces. In other words, a notable number of city drivers are not traveling anywhere. They have already arrived and simply cannot find an appropriate place to stop.
Try not to dwell on the absurdity of this daily waltz. The practical problems are cause for worry enough. Higher pollution levels, excessive noise, congested streets—the headaches caused by roaming drivers are legion. And think of the personal costs. Spending your evening behind the wheel circling for parking is a waste of time and money no matter what may be on NPR.
What is city government to do? Restricting parking to local residents is one option. Another: raise parking meter rates to free up valuable street spaces. Yet these are only minor fixes. Cities like San Francisco and New York were not built for heavy car traffic, but they are now home to residents who have grown reliant on personal transportation. The U.S. car culture, nurtured on Eisenhower's highway system, has infected our cities. The proper solution is to reduce the number of cars through expanded mass transit and the promotion of bicycle use. Congestion pricing, a success in London but twice rejected in New York, also merits further consideration.
Frustrated motorists sometimes like to pray for a parking space. They might also offer up a prayer for city planners. Without their help, we may never escape the urban merry-go-round.
The issues of representation and gerrymandering raise an important question for Catholics: What can we do to promote a democratic environment that fosters participation among all of God's people, especially groups that have been historically excluded or marginalized in the political process? For example, voter turnout for some Latino communities is still low. Catholic teaching already encourages political participation of the faithful - how might these teachings and communications be developed to robustly address Latinos and other politically marginalized people?
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Political influence aka Ballot Power is absolutely important for Latinos in their new land. While Latinos are rapidly spreading out in numbers all over the USA, a lot more important for them as a group and for the nation as a whole is their unquestionable influence in Educaction, Scientific Research, Government, Arts and Entertainment and above all, Religion.
Your Current Comment does not contain a single sentence on these critical issues. In the Catholic Church in the USA, Latinos represent its largest membership group as we have embraced and strenghten our faith with enthusiasm and conviction.


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More and more it becomes clear, particularly if you have been following these interviews, that not all Ubuntu users or forum members fit the stereotype of a Linux geek — the middle-class, mid-20s, white male from Illinois. As another example to the contrary, bodhi.zazen leads the Ubuntuforums Beginner Team, moderates full time, and is involved in some Ubuntu spinoff projects, like Fluxbuntu. Another non-techie with a personal history in computers, bodhi.zazen might represent the face of Linux enthusiasts to come: someone who has interests and responsibilities (like four children!) beyond the computer screen, but has one foot planted firmly in the Ubuntu community.
Tell as much as you're willing about your "real" life — name, age, gender, location, family, religion, profession, education, hobbies, etc.
Bodhi.zazen is derived from Buddhism — "bodhi" is a symbol of enlightenment and refers to the tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment. "Zazen" is the sitting meditation at the heart of Zen Buddhism.
I am a non-IT professional in Montana and a father to four children. I chose Montana for the natural beauty and the solitude of the outdoors. I spend my weekends with the children hiking, skiing and touring the local hot springs.
When and how did you become interested in computers? in Linux? in Ubuntu?
My father was a systems analyst and I recall the days when computers were programed with punch cards. I built my first "computer" as a home electronics project and programmed it (in machine language) to flash lights and neon red numbers. Neon green Unix mainframe -> DOS -> mouse -> Google. Viruses, worms, adware, spyware.
After many years of "brain death" it occurred there must be a better way. At the advice of a guru I started with Red Hat. The command line stopped me dead in my tracks. Same with Debian. Slackware did not even have a gui (that was before I knew how to spell "startx"). Moreover, many Linux communities seemed to take great pride in elitism and RFTM.
Ubuntu changed all that.
"A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed. … "
When did you become involved in the forums? What's your role there?
One day, in 2005, much to my surprise, I saw a question on the forums I actually could answer. I have been actively involved with the forums ever since.
Are you an Ubuntu member? If so, how do you contribute? If not, do you plan on becoming one?
From time to time I have put together a "How-to", although xpod thinks they should be called "how – longs." I have contributed to the Ubuntu wiki and the UDSF. I lead the Beginners Team and moderate on the forums.
What distros do you regularly use? What software? What's your favorite application? Your least favorite?
I am somewhat of a distro explorer hopper, although I keep coming home to Ubuntu. I like Arch Linux, Fedora, Wolvix, Zenwalk, Fluxbuntu, Sabayon, and Elive. I am also very impressed with Mint Linux. Personally I like to perform minimal installs plus Fluxbox, plus only the applications I need (Fluxbuntu if I am being lazy).
My favorite application has to be Virtualization. At the risk of starting a jihad, my least favorite application is KDE.
What's your fondest memory from the forums, or from Ubuntu overall? What's your worst?
More then anything else, I still enjoy welcoming new users, and my fondest memories are the "eurekas" as new users explore a new OS. Least favorite part of the forums is a toss up between the Backyard and malignant code.
What luck have you had introducing new computer users to Ubuntu?
I have had had great success converting people to Linux and Ubuntu. In my experience most people can use Ubuntu as easily as they use Windows, if I install it for them. I teach an eight-week, hands-on, Linux course once a year at the local Adult Learning Center. My wife and I refurbish donated hardware, wipe the hard drives, install Ubuntu, and give them to the needy within our community.
What would you like to see happen with Linux in the future? with Ubuntu? If there was one thing you could tell all new Ubuntu users, what would it be?
In the future I would like to see Open Source become the standard operating system installed by default with new computers.
Along those lines I would like to encourage people to donate to open source projects. We all know Linux is "free," but are you willing to contribute to the cause? By that I only mean to point out that many of the applications in the open source community are written and maintained by developers, and made available for download on public servers.
If you like this service consider donating $25-50 yearly to your favorite developer, application, Ubuntu, whatever. This will keep the Linux community going and is certainly a small investment in return for the service. Think of like contributing to NPR or PBS. … The beer may be free, but you should tip the bartender.
Peace be with you,
For a synopsis of bodhi.zazen's involvement in Ubuntu, take a look at his Launchpad page. For more interviews with community members and staff, read Nine Simple Questions.


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Key West, Florida - The fleet was dreading the possibility that racing might not happen on Thursday, but instead, around noon, the signal was given to depart for the course area and prepare to race. With the long, onland postponement issued at 9 a.m. and then another minimum hour long on the water postponement at 1p.m., the fleet finally kicked off racing around 2 o'clock.
The weather was a complete surprise as everyone had envisioned very different racing conditions for the day. The sun worked hard at burning off the overcast skies producing cooler, milder tempatures, but wind was also on tap at 10-12 knots and periodically gusted to 15.
Race one had plenty in store for the overnight leaders such as Joe Woods on Red from the UK, Claudio Recchi from Italy on Let's Roll, Philippe Kahn on Pegasus 32 and Michael Illbruck on Pinta. Working her way to the lead position, tack-by-tack was lady helm Kate Mullin on board Arkle. Kate did an extraordinary job making her way to the front. In the final stretch she took the lead and held on to the finish. Following behind was Stephen Pugh from San Francisco, California on Taboo and in third was Jeff Ecklund from Ft. Lauderdale on STAR.
The second race of the day didn't start until late with overcast skies back in for the duration, winds up and a slight sea chop. The conditions were ideal for the twenty-seven strong fleet. With a peek of sunshine, the Melges 32 start was clean. This time, it was Ecklund taking to the leading edge as the fleet mostly stayed to leeward on the first upwind leg. Ecklund took to the first mark with Marty Kullman and Mike Carroll from Tampa, Florida on New Wave right behind and Illbruck. Ecklund played the shifts taking the lead to the finish, leaving his friendly rival Kullman/Carroll to battle it out with Illbruck. Illbruck and the all amatuer team of Kullman/Carroll made it a close finish with Illbruck ultimately taking second place honors. Kullman/Carroll finished in third. Another full-on Corinthian team is Pieter Tassler on Bliksem finishing in fourth and in fifth was Pugh.
The overall points spread is tight which means there is no margin for error looking ahead to Friday's final round of racing. Racing is scheduled to start one hour earlier that originally planned. Ecklund leads, Kullman/Carroll are three points out of first place and in third is Woods.
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For the record, those of you who were unable to make the Melges Rocks party last night — this was the party to have a ticket to. All Melges sailors were not only packing the Island Dogs Bar on Front Street until the wee hours of the morning but spilling out onto the street! There was an amazing band, the beer and wine flowed freely courtesy of Melges Performance Sailboats. A very special presentation was also made to recognize Recchi and his entire team for their accomplishments as 2007 Melges 32 World Ranking Champions. The party was a blast!
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To paraphrase Kermit the Frog, it hasn't been easy being a seed company employee, particularly one whose trademark colors are green and yellow, in recent years. Like Kermit, who grew up on the banks of the creek that meanders through Scott, Miss.-based Delta and Pine Land Co., seed company employees have been misunderstood, their motives questioned or impugned.
"In the last few years, I think there has been a concept that companies like ourselves have been focused on the transgenics; that we haven't been paying attention to the foundation of germplasm development," Tom Kerby, director of technical services for D&PL, told a group of editors. "I just want to reiterate to you that hasn't been the case."
Although other companies had been involved in developing transgenic traits, Delta and Pine Land became the poster child for "the seed companies are only interested in transgenics" criticism, in part, because of the flamboyant personality of its late chairman, Roger Malkin.
At the Beltwide Cotton Conferences a couple of years ago, seed companies took a shellacking from critics who complained that cotton yields had plateaued and that U.S. cotton was becoming noncompetitive because breeders weren't focusing on yield improvement.
The amazing thing was that the company folks took their whipping in relative science, knowing that varieties like DP 555 BG/RR and Stoneville's ST 5599 BR were months away from introduction.
"We felt we had some good varieties on the way, but we had not completed the testing," Kerby said. "The worst thing we could have done would have been to talk about them and then found out they didn't live up to our expectations."
They didn't need to worry. "I had 555 on some buckshot last year, and it picked about 1,350 pounds," said Pete Hunter, farm manager for Stovall Farms in Clarksdale, Miss.
Quality, another perennial issue, appears to be improving with the planned introduction of varieties like DP 444 BG/RR in 2004. At another stop on the trip to Scott, Tunica County, Miss., grower Brad Cobb was elated that he was getting lengths of 36 and 37 on his 444 vs. 32 and 33 on other varieties.
If companies made mistakes, they appear to be learning from them, stressing unusual features like the "split terminal" phenomenon that sometimes occurs in 444. "Our tests indicate that it does not impact yield, but we want to make sure growers can get their hands around it when they encounter it in the field," notes Kerby.
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RALEIGH, N.C. - Blake Wheeler scored his second goal of the game with 4:54 remaining to lift the Winnipeg Jets to a 4-3 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday.
Wheeler sped in on a partial breakaway after Carolina defenceman Joe Corvo slipped near the blue line and beat goalie Cam Ward. Wheeler's goal concluded a stretch where the teams scored three goals in a span of 1:03.
Jiri Tlutsy scored twice for Carolina while Jordan Staal also scored for the Hurricanes. Cam Ward made 19 saves.
Andrew Ladd and Evander Kane also scored for Winnipeg and Ondrej Pavelec made 27 saves. Ladd also had two assists.
The Jets have won the first two games of a five-game road trip after losing three in a row at home.
Earlier in the day, Jets rookie defenceman Zach Redmond had surgery to repair a laceration to an artery in his right leg after a teammate accidentally stepped on him during the club's morning skate.
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Keira Knightley and her new husband James Righton share a sweet kiss while riding on a boat during their honeymoon on Thursday (May 9) in Corsica, France.
The 28-year-old actress and the 29-year-old musician wed in a small and intimate ceremony over the weekend in the south of France.
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Ward has worked at Heritage since 2005, when he began his work to build the organization's online fundraising program. He oversees communication with more than half a million Heritage members and supporters online, coordinates online fundraising activities for Heritage's sister organization, Heritage Action for America, and supervises the myHeritage.org website for Heritage members.
A graduate of Dartmouth College, where he worked as an editor at the Dartmouth Review, he holds an MBA from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business.


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Is another massive round of home foreclosures possible starting in 2010?
It just may happen, according to Thomas Shellabarger, a policy adviser for the Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The reason can be traced back to 2005 and 2006, the peak years for home loans that offered low interest rates with little or no money down. Under the terms of such loans, interest rates usually reset automatically to higher levels after five years. That points to 2010 and beyond for potentially greater fallout in the real estate market as homeowners face higher mortgage payments they can no longer afford.
Defaults on the same kind of home loans in recent years led to the current depressed real estate market and were a key factor that led to the current economic recession.
This year alone, more than 1.4 million people have lost their homes through foreclosure and 6,600 more foreclosures occur daily, according to statistics compiled by the Center for Responsible Lending in Durham, N.C.
It's a enough of a concern, Shellabarger told CNS, that federal officials are monitoring mortgage defaults closely, hoping to stave off the entry of another glut of homes into a still overstocked real estate market. Any significant growth in foreclosures would likely derail any hope of economic recovery in 2010 and probably beyond.
Federal legislation to keep people in their homes is being considered. Shellabarger identified one model that comes from Pennsylvania that has caught the eye of federal policymakers and economic advisers.
Under the 26-year-old Keystone State's plan, a homeowner laid off from work can borrow money from the state to use for the monthly mortgage. The plan allows people to stay in their homes and resume mortgage payments when economic times are better.
Once a homeowner starts making mortgage payments again, the homeowner also pays off the state loan. The minimum payment is $25 a month.
Since its start in 1983, the program has been profitable for the state as well, with more than 43,000 Pennsylvanians paying back $26 million more than they've borrowed over the years.
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Darius' Treasure Hunters
The Horselord Darius swaps his warhammer for his lance, eying the squad of swordsmen opposite him on the bridge...
Spurring his charger, the two dash forward onto the bridge...
And leaving destruction his his wake. Two Drakhirri lay slain; their corpses begin to smolder. Two lay disrupted not far away. Darius, however, looks down and notices crimson staining his horses leg (mount -1 hp).
Needless to say, from his vantage in the bushes, the Fuhrer is not pleased. Noticing that Darius' archers are beginning to notch their bows (and having an unused Feat from last turn) he begins a series of cat-calls...
..."Pansy archers, zat's all ze two of you are; nein, more zan pansies who could not heet the broad side of ze Blacksmis Huval! Why doncha run avay now before I keel bos of you!" Well...cower they did!
Darius' slayers remain undeterred. With the aid of a quickening spell from the Dragon Mage, they each have enough movement to assault a downed enemy. One's head is severed; the other Drakhirri's armor is much more resilient.
In the midst of the hubbub, the treasure bearers procure arms for themselves (from The Smiths), and set up a defensive stance behind the shop.
Ravenbane's Highwaymen
Seeing the slaughter of their comrades, the disrupted Drakhirri move to action; the outrider successfully shoves his adversary with his shield, and takes the space to arm himself with a lance. The lone longswordsman also gets to his feet and confronts the slayer who so undecorously severed his friends nape.
Ravenbane turns and fires...
Succeeding in both hitting and slaying Darius' mount! Ravenbane then flies onto the roof of the Blacksmith shop.
On a critical hit that was unsuccessfully parried, the Drakhirri Longswordsman exacts vengeance on a Slayer.
And the un-engaged Drakhirri outrider stands up, remounts, and locks himself in combat with a treasure-bearer. He whiffs his own attacks, while the treasure-bearer skewers the horse since his sword cannot reach the outrider (-1 hp).
The Smith Family
"Well tha cotrapshion was sussessful; less make mor!"
Grandpa Smith sets his defense golem on...defense mode...and tries to begin construction on another golem buddy. Tries being the key word.
Happy with their sales, Smith and Jr. continue to produce more weaponry at the forge.
Hiimboredagain Raiders
On the other side of the river, the Beetle Chariots blaze forward, making it far enough to tramble over the corpses of Drakhirri fallen. The rush of wind and dust douses the flames. As the Hoplomachii disembark, Conrad the Barber remains in the chariot, letting out a fearsome, blood-piercing war cry! But given his far proximity from any foes, the scream only causes the nearby dragonmage to tumble out of the sky.
Meanwhile, the Hoplomachii have used their actions to sprint and leap across the river . The defense golem creekily turns to meet them; it will be noted that Smith swapped the halberd in his arm for an Enchanted Hammer...
Faction Revealed! - Dreska of Leoncor
Winging noiselessly on the wind, Paladin Dreska of the Order of the Sacred Lion descends upon the en-meleed mesa.
Of noble blood (Daughter to the King of Leoncor) and holy disdain, she sneers at the chaos which greets her! "Peasants one and all! Fisticuffs on a day like this when I NEED to get my SHOPPING DONE? Never in all the 7 kingdoms..."
With her on his back, the Gryphon proceeds toward the Blacksmith Hovel, attempting to skirt the embroilments. Her halberdier guardsmen follow on foot as swiftly as is possible...
Kill Chart
Darius - 3
RavenBane - 2
The Smiths - 0 (+2 gold)
Barbarians - 0
Dreska - 0


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Today's plan: Head to Pirate City, hopefully to see Gerrit Cole pitch; Lunch at Mixon's Fruit Farm and Tigers/Pirates in the afternoon. Follow along on twitter during the day or check back here tonight for a full recap.
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Authorities investigating the disappearance of two young girls in Iowa said Saturday that they believe them to still be alive.
Lyric Cook, 10, and her cousin Elizabeth Collins, 8, were last seen by their grandmother more than a week ago when they left on a bike ride.
"We believe these girls are alive and we are not discouraged by the passage of time since their disappearance," FBI spokeswoman Sandy Breault told reporters in Evansdale, Iowa.
She declined to discuss exactly what evidence investigators might have that pushed them toward that conclusion. Breault said she believes someone knows something, and she urged anyone with information to step forward.
A $50,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the successful recovery of the girls and the prosecution of the person, or people, responsible, she said.
"Cooperation with law enforcement is the key factor in discovering the whereabouts of Lyric and Elizabeth. Unfortunately, in this case law enforcement has not received total cooperation from all family and close friends. It's important to note that the majority of the family has cooperated 100%," Breault said. "We believe there's someone out there and we would urge them to come forward."
Family of missing Iowa girls 'bracing for the worst, but hoping for the best'
The girls' bicycles and a purse were found near Meyers Lake hours after they were reported missing July 13.
A search of the 25-acre lake turned up nothing, and the FBI is confident the girls aren't in the lake, said Breault.
Authorities are now calling their disappearance an abduction.