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Maiden voyage of new Upper Arrow Lakes ferry delayed
The new Upper Arrow Lakes ferry will not be in service for the May long weekend due to delays caused by a subcontractor for the project.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Transportation told the Arrow Lakes News that while construction of the ferry is on schedule, sea trials have been delayed, pushing the maiden voyage of the ferry into June, past the previously scheduled May 16 launch date.
"While construction of the vessel is anticipated to be completed on schedule, the sea trials will be delayed due to unforeseen circumstances associated with personnel from one of the subcontractors," the spokesperson wrote in an e-mail. "A key participant in the sea trials is unable to attend due to medical reasons and the company was not able to immediately assign a replacement."
The $26.5 million ferry is being built by Waterbridge Steel in Nakusp. The Arrow Lakes News took a tour of the ferry in late-February, at which point lead contractor John Harding told us the vessel was on schedule would be ready for sea trials at some point in March, however that is obviously no longer the case.
The ferry will be able to transport 80 vehicles and 250 passengers from Galena Bay to Shelter Bay (and back) and will replace the two existing ferries that currently ply the route in the summer.
Two ferries will run over the May long weekend until the new ferry is in service.


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Suharto | |
Personal Life | |
Date & Place of Birth | 8 June 1921 , near Yogyakarta, Dutch East Indies |
Parents | Kertosudiro and Sukirah |
Claimed religion | Islam |
Education | {{{education}}} |
Spouse | Siti Hartinah (d. 1996) |
Children | Siti Hardiyanti Hastuti, Sigit Harjojudanto, Bambang Trihatmodjo, Siti Hediyati Hariyadi, Hutomo Mandala Putra, Siti Hutami Endang Adiningsih |
Date & Place of Death | 27 January 2008 (aged 86) |
Manner of Death | Sepsis, anaemia, heart failure |
Place of Burial | Buried in Solo with military honors |
Dictatorial Career | |
Country | Indonesia |
Military Service | Led military purge of Communists; KOSTRAD Commander from 1961-65; Chief of Staff from 1965-67 |
Highest rank attained | Chief of Staff and later Commander |
Political beliefs | Militarist |
Political party | Golkar |
Date of Dictatorship | 12 March 1967 (Official Date) |
Wars started | Invasion of East Timor |
Number of Deaths attributed | Post-Coup Purges: 78,000 to 1,200,000 (range of estimates) East Timor: 100,000 |
Suharto (June 8, 1921 - January 27, 2008) was an anti-communist Indonesian military and political leader. He started as a military officer in the Indonesian National Revolution. He came to power following a bloodless coup in 1967, and served as the second President of Indonesia from 1967-1998 during which time he was involved in a number of massacres aimed at eliminating communists in Indonesia[1]. He was forced to resign his presidency in 1998 after mass demonstrations due to his authoritarian and corrupt administration. He passed away on January 27th, 2008.
Suharto was a close ally of the United States during the Cold War. As a result, he became a bête noire of the far left. In the mass anti-communist killings of 1965, it is still not clear exactly what role the army played nor indeed precisely how much control Suharto, still struggling with Sukarno, had. Although Indonesia was never a democracy under Suharto, there was a wide degree of permissible discussion, by Southeast Asian standards a fairly liberal press, and many of the procedures of social consultation that characterise a democracy. Under his rule, millions of people were freed from poverty, Indonesia became self-sufficient in rice, and a sizeable manufacturing economy grew up.[2]
Atrocities in East Timor
Suharto ordered an invasion of the small island of East Timor to overthrow the murderous communist front group FRETELIN. A Truth Commission found that 17,600-19,600 Timorese were violently killed and about 100,000 died from hunger and illness. The deaths were spread out evenly over the entire 25-year occupation. Indonesian forces were responsible for more than two-thirds of the killings. The excess deaths have not been attributed definitively to either side.[3] Radical leftists attempted to conflate the slaughter with the Cambodian Holocaust, in which the communists massacred or starved to death 2.2 million people in four years of peacetime--27% of Cambodia's 1975 population of 8.1 million. There is no comparison between the two crimes. The closest comparison would probably be the brief period of communist rule in East Timor.
- ↑ Suhato: A Political Biography, be R.E. Elson
- ↑ Remebering Jakarta's Man of Steel
- ↑ http://www.ictj.org/en/news/features/846.html [Dead link]


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Nothing felt especially different for Mitch Atkins on Sunday. It all simply felt better, and it showed.
Atkins pitched six hitless innings, striking out seven and issuing just one walk, as Double-A Mississippi thumped Chattanooga, 14-1, at Trustmark Park.
"When I'm in a groove like that, and [catcher Matt Kennelly's] putting down the right fingers, it's easy for me to pitch and throw the ball and not have to worry about certain things," Atkins said. "Once you get in a groove, it's not too much thinking; it's just get the ball and throw."
The 28-year-old right-hander found himself in a jam in the first inning after hitting O'Koyea Dickson with a pitch and walking Daniel Mayora. That may have been the catalyst he needed. Atkins (1-0) recorded the final out in the first, then faced the minimum the rest of the day.
The lone man to reach base against the 2004 seventh-round pick after the opening inning was Scott Schebler, who got to first on a wild pitch for strike three. Even there, Atkins had an answer by picking off Schebler.
Back in Double-A after going 1-3 with a 4.72 ERA in 11 appearances for Triple-A Gwinnett, Atkins has acquitted himself well through his first two Southern League outings. After yielding two runs over five innings in his first start five days ago, he lowered his ERA to 1.64 and his opponents' batting average to .083.
"I started off a little rough this year," Atkins said, "and then I guess you just try to find out what works, try to look back on your good starts and figure out what's working for you. Maybe I figured something out tonight, so I'm going to try to keep it going, no matter where I am this year."
Mississippi gave Atkins breathing room in the third and fourth. Gustavo Nunez singled home Barrett Kleinknecht with the game's first run and the Braves broke out in a seven-run fourth, highlighted by Cedric Hunter's bases-loaded triple.
"Our team jumped out to a pretty big lead and I just settled in, and they never got back in the game," Atkins said.
"You should never change your mind-set on how to attack hitters [with a lead], just try to go one pitch at a time and not let the game dictate how you're feeling or fast you're throwing. You try to keep it in perspective depending on what's going on around you."
The Lookouts finally broke up the no-no against reliever Jorge Reyes on a one-out single by Mayora, who plated their lone run with a ninth-inning sacrifice fly.
Chattanooga's Matt Shelton (2-1) gave up six runs -- three earned -- on three hits and a walk while striking out three in 3 2/3 innings.
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The purpose of the Quality Enhancement Plan at the University of Louisiana at Monroe is to increase student learning through course redesign. The identification of the topic resulted from a bottom-up process that included cross-campus constituencies and interested parties from off campus. The final topic formulation demonstrates an iterative process that had broad support, especially important given the goal of increased active learning within the Core Curriculum.
The purpose of the Quality Enhancement Plan at the University of Louisiana at Monroe
is to increase active learning through course redesign of a cross section of the Core
Curriculum. The ULM Common Core Curriculum was "established to serve to long term
educational needs of ULM students" and "to provide a broader, stronger educational
foundation that was created and adapted from the general education requirements of
the Louisiana Board of Regents General education requirements" (Undergraduate Catalog,
2010-11, page 85 and
The redesign of courses within the Core Curriculum will enhance active learning, "ensur[ing] that ULM's students will be intellectually well-equipped to complete their chosen programs of study, as well as to find a meaningful place in today's rapid-paced, integrated world" (Undergraduate Catalog, 2010-11, page 85). The identification of the topic resulted from a bottom-up process that included cross-campus constituencies and interested parties from off campus. The final topic formulation demonstrates an iterative process that had broad support, especially important given the goal of increased active learning within the Core Curriculum.
The student learning outcomes to which the QEP is committed:
At present, all courses in the Core Curriculum have learning outcomes and performance measures that analyze student achievement in specific Core courses. The measures themselves are various. They include:
The results of these assessments have been decidedly mixed with some programs reporting acceptably high pass rates (over 70%) and others producing much lower rates (under 50%). These results suggest the need to revisit pedagogical practices in an attempt to maintain or elevate scores across the Core Curriculum, as well as to redesign courses so that any newly implemented practices have a maximum effect on student success. Moreover, a concerted institutional effort to embrace new pedagogies reinforces Goal 3 of the University's Strategic Plan, which speaks of "enhancing the academic learning environment" by "encourag[ing] experimentation with new learning modalities while supporting proven methodologies" (www.ulm.edu/strategicplanning/goal3.html).
Consequently, the discussions about student learning throughout the QEP process centered on the students' understanding of course content, as well as on the delivery mechanisms that would most effectively address student learning needs. Thus, the Quality Enhancement Plan stresses embedding pedagogical methods in course redesign that emphasize "student-centered learning," which is the focus of the University's Vision Statement (www.ulm.edu/strategicplanning/statements.html). The traditional "sage on the stage" model, which often fosters passivity among students, must give way to a more hybrid model, which incorporates many kinds of active learning strategies into the instructional design process. In 1987, Good and Brophy published their classic research results identifying "Five Key Behaviors Contributing to Effective Teaching." Among those behaviors that they identify, student interest in the learning process is one of the most powerful in predicting achievement. Without a broad range of pedagogical strategies that promote active learning, the overall success of the course may be much more limited, particularly for students whose basic skills are on the margins.
For the QEP to encourage active learning, it must support models for course redesign in which active learning strategies increase the effectiveness of both teaching and learning processes. According to Bowles (2006), active learning strategies promote critical thinking through engagement and imagination, and imaginative activities stimulate creativity in both teacher and students. Fink (2007) summarize three tenets of active learning:
The skills nurtured by active learning strategies include communication, constructive controversy and conflict management, interpersonal problem solving, leadership, joint decision making, and perspective taking. Traditional teaching methods, which principally include reading textbooks, listening to lectures, working individually on assignments, and outperforming classmates on examinations are not as effective as active learning strategies, which not only prepare students for success inside the classroom, but life outside of it.
While the principles of the National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT) and their pertinence for course redesign in the Core Curriculum at ULM are discussed below, it is important to visualize how active learning strategies support course content. Again, as Fink (2007) argues, successful instructional design includes three basic elements: learning goals, teaching and learning activities, and feedback and assessment.
Learning Goals | Teaching and Learning Activities | Feedback and Assessment |
What do we want students to learn in our classroms? | What strategies should we use to involve students in their own learning? | How should we gauge the success of our strategies? |
Do the students have a significant learning experience? |
As this chart indicates, the learning process has three stages, at the end of which students will have been involved in a "significant learning experience." This result is not possible, of course, without the elements of foundational knowledge, application, integration, and learning how to learn. With proper course redesign, and with the embedding of multiple pedagogical methods, which may include new technologies, we hope that the students will be active participants in a transformational experience in their Core Curriculum courses. Active learning serves to strengthen and stimulate students' performance by consolidating new knowledge, integrating basic skills, and synthesizing information. Through course redesign, the QEP promises to achieve these ends.
To accomplish these objectives, the QEP phases in the redesign of the selected pieces of the Core Curriculum. At the conclusion of the five-year plan, a substantial percentage of the Core courses will be redesigned so that the questions Fink asks are answered and the various redesigns are implemented. Using the current data as the baseline for the performance measures of each course, programs will:
The assessment results for each redesigned course will be evaluated against the baseline data for the course prior to the redesign, and course syllabi will be scrutinized for the alignment between content (as measured by the student learning outcomes) and pedagogy (as measured by the delivery mechanisms that convey and inculcate course materials). The details of this process of evaluation are described in Section VIII of the plan.
Furthermore, the plan will use an electronic data management system to collect, aggregate and disseminate data from the various courses within the Core Curriculum. It will also gather data from indirect measures, such as surveys from students and faculty, whose perceptions will be important to measure if there is to be true institutional buy-in for the wide-ranging redesign of selected course in the Core Curriculum that the QEP envisions.
First, the system will allow the University to collect scores from rubric evaluation, test scores, and other means of assessment used to measure student outcomes in the selected Core Curriculum courses. In addition, the University will also use the system as a document and program evaluation-reporting database. Documents such as course syllabi (before and after redesign) will be stored in our system, and qualitative content analysis of syllabi (both current and redesigned) will address issues pertaining to active learning, as well as new pedagogies and technologies. This will allow the QEP Steering Committee to conduct a content analysis of what significant changes were made to the course through the redesign process.
For some of the indirect measures, perception surveys about the vitality and success of active learning in redesigned courses will be distributed. Questions will include perceptions of how courses are taught and how students are assessed (e.g. What percentage of class time is devoted to lecture, discussion, group work, review of previous content, or debates? What percentage of the grade for this course is determined by written exams, attendance and participation in class, written essays or reports, individual projects, oral presentations, or research papers?). The surveys would be administered to both faculty and students.
Using such a centralized management system will allow an efficient and streamlined method of collecting the data from the various programs. Data will be aggregated on a yearly basis and stored in the system. Moreover, using a centralized system allows various faculty members teaching Core Curriculum courses to assess the data and to collaborate on possible changes. Finally, the system will allow faculty members from various programs to collaborate with each other to improve the Core Curriculum based on aggregated data. An electronic data management system (such as Task Stream) will allow both individual programs that oversee particular Core courses and the QEP Steering Committee to collect data every year and evaluate the progress of the redesigned courses.


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Click on 'Rods', to choose a Cuisenaire rod and then drag it onto the squared background. More rods can be added in a similar way and aligned as you wish. A rod can be rotated by $90^\circ$ by clicking any key whilst dragging. The background squares can be altered (for example increasing/decreasing their size) using the 'View' menu.
You could use this environment for all sorts of purposes - perhaps to explore addition and subtraction, factors and multiples or ideas about fractions.
For more ideas, look at the
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This interactive environment can be used with children, perhaps on an interactive whiteboard, for many different purposes. These might include, for example, exploring ideas associated with factors and multiples or addition and subtraction. It is also an ideal context in which to investigate fractions and ratio, or to look at finding combinations. You can also explore number patterns. By asking different questions, the environment can be put to all sorts of uses.
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Nintendo has revealed the controller for the Revolution. Get ready for a surprise.
Nintendo has revealed the controller for the Revolution. Get ready for a surprise.
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Wow thats crazy. Although it's just a remote broken into two parts. Still though it seems weird, I still like the classic control pad from the 8 bit days.
The first 2 look like items you might find in an Adam & Eve catalogue.
And here I was thinking the right side of the controller looked like something to raise and lower your Craftmatic II adjustable bed.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
*shakes head in disgust*
Why on earth would they do that? As if it isn't hard enough keeping a single controller cable from getting tangled up you now have to contend with TWO. I don't like the idea even remotely (no pun intended). That looks incredibly akward and ungangly to use. I won't bother buying a Revolution so I doubt I'll ever get the chance to use the controller and you know what? I won't feel like I'm missing out on anything either.
Up, up, and OKAAAAY!!!
What bothers me most is that when I use a controller's d-pad or joystick, I use one hand to steady the controller and the other is dedicated more to moving the stick, but here you cannot steady the controller with another hand, making a 3rd thing each hand has to do (1 - move stick or pad; 2 - hit buttons on face or shoulder; 3 - steady pad). Honestly, this thing looks like another Nintendo gimmick that tested well with Japanese consumers because it's weird and different and new, but will burn out fast in both markets due to its inherent flaws and gimmicky nature.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
I heard Nintendo wanted to do something new for the controller on the Revolution, but... I don't get it. This could very well end up right next to the Virtual Boy system in the video game Hall of Shame.
Maybe a 3rd party company will make a more sensible controller if these things don't work out. Possibly something retro-nintendo since they said you can download games from the SNES, N64, and NES.
Yo momma. That's right, I said "yo momma".
I was going to post more of IGN's details as to how this controller works last night but my college's internet connection crapped out. So forgive me for leaving you hang.
The controller is essentially a wireless, square remote that works something like a computer mouse would in 3D space. Imagine sticking your hand into a virtual box and having your TV understand how it's moving in there. Now you're getting the idea - sort of.
Main Controller Features
- 3D Pointing. Sensors understand up, down, left, right, forward and backward.
- Tilt Sensitive. Controller can be rotated or rolled from side-to-side.
- Buttons Included. Has a trigger on its backside, face buttons, and a D-Pad.
- Multifunctional. Has an expansion port which can be used with different types of controller peripherals. Analog stick with two trigger buttons planned for left hand.
- Wireless. Totally wire-free. Currently there are no details on the max distance, source or power, or otherwise.
- Rumble Built-in. Included as a standard in all the controllers.
To show off its features, Nintendo designed a series of crude gameplay demos. None of them ran on the Revolution graphics hardware. They were strictly to demonstrate certain features of the controller.
Demo #1: Point and Shoot
Like a laser pointer, the main controller was used to move a simple cursor on the TV screen and shoot square blocks for points. It was simple, merely colored lines in 2D, but effective. It was easy to get a feel for just how sensitive the device is -- it responded to all the movements quickly and smoothly. We did feel the need to use two hands, however, to steady it and improve accuracy, but that only lends to the idea of just how sensitive it is.
Demo #2: Fishing
Much more advanced than just a simple cursor, this revealed how the controller can navigate a 3D space, moving an object on the TV screen not only left, right, up, and down, but also forward and backwards with depth. Users simply use the hand cursor on the screen to pick up a fishing pole and dip its line into a pond full of fish. Like nearly all of the demos, this was very crude, so don't go imaging even fishing on the Ocarina of Time level -- this was like a coloring book with flat fish in the water. The visual medium wasn't the point, though. It was pretty intuitive to just reach forward with our virtual hand, pick up the rod, and then dip the hook into the pond and dangle it there. When a fish finally bit, the remote rumbled, which was the cue to tug back on the controller to catch it. As it was only a prototype controller, it was wired because rumble was not in the wireless versions yet.
Demo #3: Shock Stick
Like the first, this was to show how you can point and move something. It was a bit like the board game Operation, only instead of navigating tweezers you navigated a rotating stick through a two-dimensional cave. The skill was to keep a steady hand, collect coins, and don't hit the walls. Small springboards on the side would change the direction of the spin of the stick, which aided in creating a strategy for navigating around things.
Demo #4: Air Hockey
This blended basic pointing with something new: twisting. As you might imagine, players hit a puck back and forth by maneuvering their "hockey sticks" with the controller. The catch was that by twisting your wrist, left or right, you could angle the stick to send the puck in another direction. Twisting, in addition to hitting was actually pretty difficult in this demo. It worked to a point, but it also lacked the intuitiveness that a real table would have. It seemed mainly aimed at familiarizing us with the notion of twisting the remote to turn things.
Demo #5: Basketball
Again, this focused on laser pointer style controls. The game was to simply move a basketball around on the court, not by bouncing it, but instead dragging it by pressing the B-trigger in back of the remote to create an indent. The ball rolled into the crevice, and you could drag it towards the hoops. Then, with the A-button, you could reverse the indent, creating a hill and pop the ball upwards toward the hoop. It was a simple two-player game, but worked to show off the sensitivity of the cursor and how it was interacting with another player in the same space. Surprisingly, it was easy to keep track of where you were on the court, allowing for blocks and steals.
Demo #6: Toy Plane
Set in the watery hub of Mario Sunshine, this demonstrated that not all controls are created equal. The remote could be held like a toy airplane, fingertips support its base, which allowed the player to tilt it forwards to dip down, back to gain elevation, and twisted left or right turn. The objective was just to steer the plane through rings in the sky. Of course the first thing that came to mind was Pilotwings, so it's easy to see how these simple applications of the controller could be grown into something more complex. It was pretty intuitive to pull off dips and quick turns. Miyamoto joked that you could have a controller peripheral shaped like a toy plane to really make it interesting.
Demo #7: Where's Pikachu?
One of the crudest demos, the screen displayed a flat map with many Pokemon characters crowded together on it. It was a spoof on Where's Waldo, the famous find-the-needle-in-the-haystack illustrated book. The controller lent the ability to look left and right by just pointing the cursor across the map, but also zooming in by moving towards the screen (or zooming back out by moving away). One can imagine how a sniper rifle in a first-person shooter might take advantage of those kinds of controls.
Demo 8: First Person Shooting
So, we lied -- not all of the demonstrations were completely crude graphics. For the final demo, the one that most represented how a game might feel with the Revolution controller, Nintendo displayed what was apparently a test by the team at Retro Studios for what they could do with Metroid Prime 3. They stressed it was just a test, quickly thrown together in just a few weeks. For this, the analog control stick peripheral was used. We held it in our left hand to control the forwards, backwards, and side-strafing motions, as well as having access to triggers in back for scanning; meanwhile, the right hand used the main Revolution remote control to behave just like a mouse on a personal computer. It was a very natural application and felt pretty smooth, but since it wasn't a polished game it did feel a bit awkward at times, making us wonder what kind of things a developer could do to calibrate these kinds of controls for users. Nonetheless, the potential is huge for the FPS genre.
This concluded the demonstrations. At which point a mix of excitement and confusion set in. This is a bold step for Nintendo. It will seemingly exclude the Revolution from a lot of third-party release. They'll all have to be tweaked if they hope to work well at all. So, this creates a rather large uphill battle for supporting the system with a consistent flow of content. However, the exciting part is that most games that are actually made for Revolution will be very unique and that's what Nintendo is aiming for. Unfortunately, as the DS has proven, unique doesn't always equal better gameplay. Nintendo will have a lot to prove when it finally chooses to reveal real, polished software that's supposed to represent how Revolution will play. That is going to be the crux of Revolution entirely, because without a consistently fluid experience, this could also easily be a flash in the pan or something altogether frustrating. We have to wonder how it might be holding your arm in the air for an hour or more, and if that will cause any frustration.
On the flipside, though, the demos set our minds abuzz. It's easy to imagine why Nintendo is so heavily invested in the idea. There is such great potential to do so many unique things. Playing a real-time strategy game like Starcraft would be extremely fluid and intuitive. Mario Party, we're sure you can guess, will finally be a completely new experience. What of Zelda or Mario? No word yet, but imagine swinging your sword in Zelda instead of pressing buttons. Or, in Mario, imagine having to grab blocks and build platforms. Also, since the controller flips on its side to work very much like a NES pad, it would be interesting to mix up gameplay and throw in an old-school challenge.
This doesn't even explore the possibility of accessories. Nintendo wasn't making any announcement, but as an example Miyamoto commented you could hook it up to bongo drums or something else. Everyone agreed a Samba de Amigo would be perfect as well, to which Miyamoto-san confirmed, "Mr. Naka [at Sega] really likes this controller." What if you could use two controllers at once for Fight Night or a new Punch Out? How about if Namco release a gun peripheral for a new Time Crisis, where you moved with the left analog and lifted, aimed, and reloaded your gun as if it was real? The list could go on and on, but we're sure you're already starting to gather your own ideas.
Finally, you'll want to take some time to examine the main remote. We got to handle this prototype, which Nintendo says is pretty close to the final design. It feels very comfortable and, as you can see, looks sleek too. Nintendo was unwilling to comment on what the "Home" button does, but it's likely a place to manage classic games you've downloaded, online games, and hopefully much more. Also, if you're wondering, there's no set limit on the distance one can use the remote yet, but Nintendo has tested it on up to 80"-100" screens and says it works fantastically. It can be used on tubes, LCDs, plasma, projection or any kind of screen because the sensor is connected like a flat antenna under the display. They are still working on the details of what kinds of options users will have for placement. So, there's also no reason HDTV wouldn't work with this technology -- here's hoping Nintendo decides to support it in the final system.
It's all about real games, though. Nintendo itself has always said that it's the software that's most important. We'll take the optimistic side and assume that Nintendo has really nailed the technology. If it has, playing Revolution should be unlike anything else out there. Mario will never be the same. But it's going to be up to these real games -- like Super Smash Bros. -- to prove why this is a revolutionary step and not just a way of being different. At the very least, starting right now, the development community is going to have a lot to think about. Whatever games are on Revolution, they are basically guaranteed to provide a totally different experience. And for that, we're beaming with anticipation.
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uuuhhhhhh???????.....uuhhhhhh!!!!..... (stands speechless with confused look on face)
uuuhhhh??.....Will my Wavebird work on it?
Theoretically the Wavebird should work. The Revolution (in standing vertical postion) has a designed flip top lid exposing GCN controller ports and GCN memory card ports. I guess it just depends on whether or not the Wavebird's signal can reach the plug in part with it being on top of the system. This also opens up another potential possibility for 3rd parties porting games and the NES/SNES/N64 backwards compatibility. I imagine there isn't anything stopping them from programming the games to work with a standard GCN controller (which is close to par with the PS3 and X-360 controller), over say the more unique revolution controller.
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Name: CABRERA, SAUL BENJAMIN
Gender: Male
Race: H
Birth date: 10/07/1989
Height: 6′ 0″ (1.83 m)
Weight: 210 lb (95 kg)
Hair Color: BLK
Eye Color: BRO
InmateID: 1190303
Home Address: 7517 E 88TH ST #304
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State: OK
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Four Levels Of Existence- "Metamorphic" S/T 1976
First Chips- "Mind and Soul" Clay Pidgeon Volume One 1972
Chico Magnetic Band- "Girls Of Ocean" (1972) Disques 45
John Drendall, BA Thrower & Friends- "Black River Lady" Papa Never Let Me Sing The Blues 1972
Wildfire- "Stars In The Sky" Smokin' 1970
Stray- "Only What You Make It" S/T 1970
Smack- "Sunshine Of Your Love" S/T 1968
Hye Stars- "Whole Lotta Love" '70-'74 1974
Barbara- "Song For The Unborn" Sings For Life 1973
Serpent Power- "Endless Tunnel" S/T 1968
Thee Midniters- "Jump, Jive & Harmonize" (1967) 45 Singles Collection
Daily Flash- "Queen Jane Approximately" (Live, 1966) I Flash Daily
Green- "Green" S/T 1969
Design- "Marguaretta" S/T 1971
Flower Travellin Band- "21st Century Schizoid Man" Anywhere 1970
Father Patrick Berkerey- "Chalice" Prayers For A Noonday Church 1969
Rodd Keith- "Beat of the Traps" (197?) Ecstasy To Frenzy
Vyto B- "Rocket Park" Tricentennial 2076 1976
Mike Rep & the Quotas- "Rocket to Nowhere" Rocket To Nowhere/Quasar 7" 1975
Bear Mountain Band- "Crotch Crickets" One More Day 1971
Sapat- "Baal's Balls" Mortise & Tenon 2007
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Oooh, I love "Ecstasy to Frenzy"! "Is the world a cube, a tunnel, or a tube?"
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Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne says he's reached an agreement in principal on changes to a new Bisbee, Ariz., civil-union ordinance. The Arizona Republic
Same-sex couples still get official recognition, but law will not be as groundbreaking.
PHOENIX — Arizona's attorney general withdrew his threat Monday to sue the small city of Bisbee, Ariz., after its lawyers agreed to rewrite a controversial ordinance recognizing same-sex couples to remove rights that he said were reserved for married couples under state law.
Bisbee, a former mining town about 5 miles from the Mexican border that has become a haven for artists and retirees, still will grant same-sex couples official recognition under the agreement, but its civil-union ordinance will not be as groundbreaking as first envisioned.
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Three state lawmakers, Attorney General Tom Horne and a conservative advocacy group had said they would sue the city over the ordinance, and The Center for Arizona Policy had said such an effort would bankrupt the 5,600-resident city about 185 miles southwest of Phoenix.
The new language in the ordinance, which the Attorney General's Office will help oversee, could provide a blueprint for other Arizona cities to confer some legal status on same-sex partnerships.
The City Council in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe, population 165,000, had sought legal clarification on civil unions following Bisbee's historic vote earlier this month. Other municipal attorneys who sat in on the meeting with Horne, including representatives from Phoenix suburb Peoria, population 157,000; and Tucson suburb Marana, 35,000, said their municipalities had no immediate plans to follow suit.
"There's some details to be worked out, but on principle, we reached complete agreement," Horne said. "Getting 12 lawyers in the room, getting emotions out of it and dealing with what people really need to see happen, we were able to find that we were in agreement, and I think that's a very good result."
Bisbee City Council passed the ordinance April 2. It would have allowed the city clerk to issue civil-union certificates, making it the first city in the state to legally recognize same-sex partnerships. Horne argued that the ordinance appeared to confer to gay couples the benefits and responsibilities afforded to married couples under Arizona law.
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Since 1996, Arizona law has defined marriage as between one man and one woman. In 2008, voters approved adding the limited definition of marriage to the state Constitution. It says that "only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state."
Bisbee's ordinance was intended to grant rights only in areas that the city controlled, but it also said couples in a civil union would be considered "spouses" and mentioned legal rights in areas typically outside a city's jurisdiction such as property, inheritance, adoption and guardianship. In a letter Horne sent to the city after its council vote, he said he believed that the city attempted to go beyond what it can legally do.
"We were concerned if the ordinance were to be enacted as written, it would be misleading," Horne said. "People can inherit by wills, and people can enter into contracts with each other, which are binding under current law. Our fear was that people would refrain from doing that, thinking they were covered by civil unions."
He wanted the ordinance to be clear that a civil-union contract could not confer rights covered in state law. Bisbee officials have said they intend to vote again and put the new version of the ordinance into effect later this summer. The original ordinance would have become effective in May.
Lawyers for Lambda Legal, a national legal organization that fights for civil rights for the gay community and is providing technical advice to city officials, said they also have suggested that Bisbee remove any future confusion over the same-sex ordinance by replacing the phrase "civil union" with something like "registered partnership" or "family partnership."
"There's no dispute that the goal here is to have an ordinance that takes some new, creative steps to provide recognition for families in Bisbee and to provide some additional protections that the city has the ability to provide, perhaps in some new ways by allowing a public record for agreements that couples can make and official designations that any individual can make," said Jennifer Pizer, law and policy project director for Lambda Legal. "These can be practical tools for families, and I think none of that is controversial."
Pizer said unmarried couples can have good intentions of making arrangements to provide for children and each other but often don't follow through, sometimes with devastating effects. Pizer represented same-sex partners and children of 9/11 victims and worked to win financial compensation with mixed results.
"The city of Bisbee has recognized they can help by having an ordinance that identifies the types of agreements that are useful to have and creating a way to make a public record of the fact that a couple has done that," Pizer said.
Contributing: Alia Beard Rau, The Arizona Republic