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GRAND PRAIRIE — One of North Texas's last holdouts on banning smoking in most public places could change course Tuesday.
Grand Prairie City Council members are expected to vote on a proposed ordinance that would prohibit smoking in restaurants, sports arenas and city-owned or -operated facilities.
The city's current ordinance was one of the first in a major Texas city and was considered progressive in 1986, said Jim Cummings, the city's environmental services director. But it hasn't been updated since.
"It has fallen out of date as far as public health data about smoking," Cummings said. "This ordinance brings Grand Prairie up to where other cities in the metroplex are," including Dallas and Fort Worth.
The city's current ordinance bans smoking in public areas of health care facilities, hospitals, any place owned or operated by the city where public business is conducted, public schools, retail and service establishments, and any area with a "no smoking" sign.
Smoking is allowed inside restaurants as long as an enclosed area deemed non-smoking is provided.
The proposed ordinance would ban smoking inside most public places, including hospitals or health care facilities, restaurants, sports arenas, and city-owned or -operated facilities.
Smoking would be allowed in bars, nightclubs, billiard halls, hookah lounges and tobacco stores, as well as Lone Star Park.
Robert Lau, owner of Theo's Grill and Bar, said if the ordinance is passed, it's possible he may lose customers to places that still allow smoking.
"We have to go with the times," Lau said. "Whatever the city thinks is best, we will do that."
Changing the smoking ordinance was among Mayor Ron Jensen's campaign issues. He took office in May 2013, succeeding Charles England, who did not seek re-election after serving 21 years.
"Smoking doesn't only affect the smoker; it affects everyone around them," Jensen said in a written statement. "We surveyed our citizens and talked to our restaurants, and by far the majority preferred no smoking in restaurants, which is what we are doing."
Just before taking office in May, Jensen told The Dallas Morning News his first step to limiting smoking in public places would be to ban smoking in the mayor's office.
Although the proposed ordinance is more restrictive than the current one, American Heart Association officials said they had hoped for something stronger.
"While this is a giant step for the city of Grand Prairie, why not take the step to protect all residents and all employees and strengthen the ordinance more?" said Joel Romo, senior director of governmental relations.
Romo was hoping the ban would extend to bars and places of private employment.
Cummings says those are issues the city will study in the future.
"When you are trying to take an ordinance from 1986 and update it, it's hard to go all the way to cutting edge without a few bumps along the way," he said.
AT A GLANCE: Proposed ordinance
City Council will vote on the proposed ordinance Tuesday evening at 6:30 p.m. in Council Chambers inside City Hall at 317 College St. in Grand Prairie.
Under the proposed ordinance, smoking would be prohibited in:
Any facility owned or operated by a public or private primary or secondary school
Buildings of a hospital or health care facility
Child care and adult care facilities
Elevators in buildings generally used by and open to the public
Public restrooms
Service lines
Theaters — except when smoking is part of a performance
All means of public transit
Libraries, museums, galleries
Any common area of multi-unit residential developments, such as apartments
Retail and service establishments
Sports arenas
Any outdoor sports arena, stadium and amphitheater
Bingo parlors
Within 25 feet of an entrance, open window or ventilation system of an enclosed area where smoking is prohibited
Areas available to the general public in businesses — including but not limited to banks, coin-operated laundries, professional offices and retail service establishments
Any other public place
Any city-owned or -operated facilities, grounds vehicles and work sites
Smoking would still be allowed in:
Tobacco retail shops
Billiard halls
Hookah lounges
Private residences, as long as they are not used as a child care, adult day care, group home or health care facility
Private clubs
Hotel and motel rooms designated as smoking rooms
Lone Star Park
Outdoor dining areas or patios that are more than 25 feet from the primary entrance
Bowling centers, as long as there is no smoking when junior bowling leagues are in the building and adjacent to the bowling lanes


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My stance on the matter is that despite the venom that surrounds some of his work (Gigli), I genuinely like Ben Affleck both as an actor and as someone who is clearly a comic-book fan themselves. I've been admittedly blessed in that I've thus far avoided the horrors of his back catalogue (Armageddon, Paycheck, Gigli - was he any good in that one Jack Ryan film he was in?) but as a fan of Kevin Smith's 'View Askewniverse' (read: Jay and Silent Bob) films, I feel like I've been following him from the humble beginnings of his career up until now. While he's certainly not my first choice (my first choice would be no choice - I don't want more Batman films just yet, but more on that later), it truly feels like the man who has taken the torch from Christian Bale is not only a movie star, but a fan just like us. Not to mention an enormously successful Academy Award-winner in his own right.
At this point in time, I should probably mention the film that seems to be on everyone's lips when discussing this recent casting kerfuffle - 'Daredevil', the 2003 film that seemed to only exist in order to cash-in on the recent might of Sam Raimi's first Spider-Man film.
Can I be honest? I liked Daredevil. Admittedly I was 14 when the film was released, but after the colourful psychedelia of Joel Schumacher's view of Gotham City, it was actually refreshing to be back in the world of an urban vigilante dealing not only with society's woes but his own demons. Affleck was a large part of why that film worked for me. Certainly watching the film now reveals that an awful lot of it is a cheddar-ridden disaster (the playground battle scene has justifiably fallen victim to the 'Hank and Marie Watch' meme), but I would lay the blame squarely at the film's ridiculous action (why can Daredevil leap entire city blocks?!) and its nauseatingly adolescent screenplay ("I didn't kill your father, Elektra!" "Liar!"). None of the actors are too blame. It's still worth a watch for fans of the genre, especially the Director's Cut which is largely a completely different film.
Outside of Affleck's writing and directing credentials however, another large part of why I'm excited to see Ben-the-Bat is to see how he might try and recall his highly publicised fall from grace - possibly (??) exhibited in the above J-Lo video - in his performance. Robert Downey Jr. has explained on occasion that some of the electrified eccentricity he brings to Tony Stark is rooted in his wild days of abuse (there's even an in-joke in the first Iron Man involving a cheeseburger). Well in 2003, the tabloids were painting Ben Affleck in much the same way as they do Bruce Wayne in the Batman films - a partymad layabout. We've since learned that there's quite a bit more to Affleck than meets the eye, primarily in the films he's written and directed. My hope is that perhaps he'll inject some of that initial perception into his scenes as 'public' Bruce Wayne to give us something truly interesting and unlike what we saw from Christian Bale in that regard (who remained suave and debonair in scenes where he was playing the insufferable bastard).
As for the cape-and-cowl portion of Affleck's new occupation, one need look no further than his oft-mentioned directorial efforts. In both 'The Town' and 'Argo' (and in Daredevil for that matter) he plays a character who has become exhausted, haunted and even a bit broken by that which he excels at. So many of Batman's stories show us the toll that years of crimefighting have taken on Bruce Wayne's body and soul - his very ability to be happy has been taken away from him.
And yet, I'd be lying if I said I was wholeheartedly excited about the film Affleck is appearing in.
After 'Man of Steel' didn't quite wow critics or audiences as the studio hoped it might have, Warner Bros, in their infinite wisdom decided to shoe-horn the Caped Crusader into Clark Kent's neck of the woods for a film that appears to be titled 'Batman vs Superman' to be released in 2015. They even used a quote that confusingly recalled a scene in the seminal Frank Miller graphic novel "The Dark Knight Returns".
Where to start with the problems: First of all, 'Man of Steel' despite the bursting shell of hope and expectation I had for the film - was absolutely a disappointment. Zack Snyder and David Goyer recklessly squandered their stellar cast and the limitless potential of a story about Superman in the cynical age of information, for the sake of a ho-hum sci-fi 'grimdark' grudge match that in no way believed in Superman. Despite repeated claims to the contrary, it was a film that was too dark, too juvenile and too dull to truly capture the magic and the might of the Man of Steel, constantly apologising for the character's greatest inner strengths. For me it was neither a crushing failure nor was it a bombastic, runaway success (various corners of the Internet have set their tents in either camp) - it was agonisingly adequate; a disturbing indication that perhaps the golden age of superhero movies is coming to an end and that we may be entering an era where cynical studio formulas reign supreme.
With this in mind, the news that a 'Worlds Finest' film was on the way for release a mere two years later, how could I possibly be excited? In what way was the insertion of Batman going to suddenly legitimise this new Superman's agency and environment? Was Bruce Wayne going to make Perry White and the rest of the Daily Planet crew more interesting?
I doubt it.
In addition to this, the film will be coming a mere three years after the end of The Dark Knight Trilogy. While the end of 'The Dark Knight Rises' polarised some, it was undoubtedly an epic conclusion to one of the most definitive interpretations of Batman there has ever been. The fact that Warner Bros are churning out yet another vision of Batman so soon, rather than allowing the franchise to rest for a few years is further indication that the superhero genre has reached its creative nadir and its industrial peak - every character will ultimately be dusted off and restocked within a few years, no matter how conclusive their last adventure was.
Finally we come to the perplexing use of 'The Dark Knight Returns' as a means of marketing the upcoming film. We've been told that Ben Affleck's Batman will be 'weary' and 'seasoned' (as he should be) and that the script will draw upon elements of 'The Dark Knight Returns', which sees an ageing Batman return to crimefighting after fifteen years retirement. Sound familiar? That's because it is: 'The Dark Knight Rises' also drew heavily on the story's material, featuring an out-of-action Batman returning to Gotham with many specific references to the story's scenes, as well as its overall themes and concepts.
The only thing 'Rises' left out was the epic battle with Superman - which Hack Snyder is unsurprisingly interested in.
Since the original graphic novel's release, writers and artists have often experimented with how Batman might physically engage with Superman (should one of the two heroes turn evil, steal the other's girlfriend, eat the slice of toast etc). The idea that Batman, ostensibly a normal human being - albeit an incredibly resourceful, physically fit example - should be able to do battle with a Sun-God from outer space has intrigued the comic book world for decades after 'Returns' to the point that every big comic-book event seems to have to feature the same tired battle between the characters (almost every time Jim Lee has drawn the two character together, they've fought each other).
Almost every time this happens, Batman uses some kind of gadget that either enhances his strength or neutralises Superman's (a kryptonite ring, an Iron Man-esque suit of armour, etc) and the battle always ends in Batman's favour. While this is certainly acceptable in the comics, doing this in a film series not only recklessly stretches audience credibility, it also once again doesn't do Superman's image any favours. It's a really questionable tactic for a series of films that is trying to make Superman truly popular again in the eyes of filmgoers. It's truly saddening that Superman's chances at a high-quality contemporary film series to rival that of Batman, Spider-Man or Iron Man may have been dashed once again by poor decisions.
While it's not fair to jump to conclusions (I haven't seen the film and they haven't made it yet) it's just hard to be excited. I firmly believe Superman and Batman to be the best and most individually interesting superheroes in existence and their respective worlds and agencies work perfectly fine without the inclusion of the other. Admittedly great stories have been told that feature the two bouncing off each other (intellectually as well as physically) but the time is not ripe for such a story to be realised cinematically. Batman needs to rest and Superman needs to grow.
Bizarrely, it's Ben Affleck that I'm most looking forward to moving forward in the supposed DC Comics Cinematic Universe. His involvement in this project is the only thing that in any way assures me that there's some level of care, commitment and cinematic ambition going into these films. If there's any chance that he may contribute to the writing or directing of any of these films (particularly future Batman films or a Justice League film), then I could actually become truly excited again. In an era of uncertainty regarding these characters, I think it'll be him who surprises people and delivers a performance worthy of the Dark Knight.

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Pretty self explanatory.. it's a gun vector pack! This gun vector set is my third vector pack. Although this isn't all that great I hope you find it useful. I know that guns is an overdone object for vectoring, but I decided to throw in some new gun vector files, guns people haven't seen in the vector packs.
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Last week I spent a huge amount of time getting the general interface of the relationship editor working: adding, removing, and changing relationships, along with the associated dialogs to do this.
Nothing can be submitted yet, but that's what I'm focusing on this week.
The UI in general took quite a bit longer than expected, because there were so many problems that occurred when an entity or relationship appeared more than once on the release. For example, some releases have duplicate recordings; even more have different recordings of the same work. When the user changes a relationship attached to one of these entities, it should change everywhere else it appears on the page.
These changes must also remain persistent if the user submits the form, but there are errors that they must correct. This is also something I'm working on this week. As it turns out, this isn't as difficult as I once thought: it's fairly trivial to embed the submitted CGI params in the page, and re-construct everything using JavaScript. I'm already halfway towards this goal.
The obvious missing features right now are batch relationship-adding/editing, batch work-creation, and release relationships.
The current progress is viewable at http://bitmap.mbsandbox.org/ - I try to keep this server running at all times, but keep in mind it's my development server, so it may not always work. The relationship editor is accesible from the the "Edit Relationships" tab on any release page.


text: We have a 2001 A3 TDI. A few days ago when the car was opened up first thing in the morning instead of the red mileage etc displays coming on they would flash on and off. If we tried to start the car this would persist and the tacho and other needles would jump up and downa nd make a clicking sound. this would continue for a few seconds and then everything would go as normal. The car would then be fine for the rest of the day as if once warmed up the problem was fixed. One morning I opened the door and the lights started to flash so I just closed it again locked it, re-opened ot and it was fine but that only worked the once. Today things are worse, no red display at all, lights for the radio/heater display but not the headlamp switch, dimmer doesn't work, no instrument illumination but the needles are lit up continually, even with the doors locked, keys out etc. Did this most of the day ten suddenly on the way home everything sprung into life. I have checked fuses and relay connections and at times convinced myself i was getting somwhere but I am now sure I was dilluded. I also thought it may have been a low battery as I experienced somthing similar with another care but the battery and alternator have checked out OK. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? I would appreciate any advice you can offer otherwise i think it's goodbye principles and probably a large wedge of cash and hello dealer /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/swear.gif Thanks in advance Vorshprungdork


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(Due to high demand the Ladies Open on the 27th June 2017 and the Seniors Team Event on the 11th September 2017 are FULL)


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Traverse City Events: 2013 Traverse City Film Festival Line Up
Cockneys vs Zombies
2012 | UK | NR | 88 min.
With local London police otherwise engaged in a little thing called the zombie invasion, a gang of bank robbers on a mission to save their grandfather's home from redevelopment get more than they bargained for when they stumble upon ground zero of the zombie-apocalypse. Meanwhile, their grandfather mounts an army of fellow pensioners to defend against the undead and prove that elderly Eastenders are still tough as nails. This clever, classic zombie flick is a riotous and blood-spattered horror comedy.
Thu 12 midnight State Theatre
The History of Furture Folk
2012 | USA | NR | 86 min.
This lo-fi sci-fi film tells the (possibly exaggerated) true story of two aliens who are sent to Earth to exterminate the human race, only to abandon their missions after discovering Earth's incredible invention of something called "music." Future Folk comes in peace as the universe's first Hondonian bluegrass duo, but their days of playing in a small Brooklyn bar come to a halt when their fellow Hondonians return. It's up to our bumbling heroes to prevent an intergalactic takeover in this quirky and absurd tale with an outstanding soundtrack that will win you over with its warmth, charm, and outright hilarity.
Sat 12 midnight Old Town Playhouse
Journey to the West
2013 | China | NR | 110 min.
From the brilliantly warped mind of Hong Kong legend Stephen Chow ("Shaolin Soccer," "Kung Fu Hustle") comes an offbeat take on a timeless Chinese tale that fuses elements of classic monster movies with romantic comedy and martial arts. Hot on the trail of a series of mythical demons, the wisecracking Tang Sanzang–a wannabe demon hunter whose weapon of choice is singing nursery rhymes–undergoes a transformative journey chock full of jaw-dropping kung fu kick-assery. With gut-wrenching violence, plenty of laughs and elaborately constructed action set pieces that would make Rube Goldberg blush, this spectacular epic smashed Chinese box-office records on its way to Traverse City.
Sat 12 midnight State Theatre
Unhung Hero
2013 | USA | NR | 84 min.
When Patrick Moote's girlfriend rejected his marriage proposal on a Jumbotron and footage of his humiliation went viral online, he thought he could sink no lower – until his (now ex-)girlfriend revealed the reason for her refusal was the inadequate size of his member. Bound and determined to put the embarrassment behind him once and for all, Patrick embarked on a global journey to consult experts about his size issue (with advice ranging from surgery to pumps and pills to, er, weight training). A hilarious, personal and humble film about a man's quest to be comfortable in his own skin, "UnHung Hero" asks the question: does size really matter?
Wed 12 midnight State Theatre | Sat 9 pm Old Town Playhouse
The Shining
1980 | UK | R | 142 min.
Stanley Kubrick meets Stephen King in this bravura vision of a descent into madness that took the horror genre to new heights. Writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as the caretaker in a resort hotel and moves his family high into the Colorado mountains. As the only residents of the hotel for the winter, what starts as a nice, quiet place to get some writing done takes a very sinister turn after his psychic son Danny begins to see gruesome images of the ghosts who inhabit the hotel, and a dark force gains influence over Jack. Required viewing for cinephiles, the film's iconic imagery has inspired legions of impassioned fans to deconstruct the film, as explored in "Room 237." Catch it before the show; you'll never see "The Shining" the same way again.
Fri 12 midnight State Theatre
Shorts for Midnight
Brimming with twisted humor and tales of terror, this year's collection of midnight shorts is worth staying up for. Nick Moran stars in "82" as a postman who's been casing his neighborhood, but his suburb isn't all it seems; a twisted hsitory (and dystopian future) for the pand bear is envisioned in the animated "Pandas;" an elementary school class plays an April Fool's joke that goes horribly, horribly wrong in "Fool's Day;" and a quaint 1950s dentist hides a horrible secret from his patients in "The Root of the Problem"
82 2012 | UK | 6 min.
The Captain 2013 | Australia | 6 min
Dance Till You Drop 2013 | USA | 4 min.
Fool's Day 2013 | USA | 19 min.
Oh Sheep! 2012 | Germany | 7 min.
Pandas (Pandy) 2012 | Czech Republic | 13 min.
Root 2012 | USA | 12 min.
The Root of the Problem 2013 | USA | 14 min.
Yardbird 2012 | Australia | 13 min.
Fri 12 midnight Old Town Playhouse


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Photochick says:
Wow! Impressive – I can never catch those creatures! Kinda like hummingbirds in that they're so fast, but at least with the birds, they seem to sit still when they're at the feeder!
You did a wonderful job of capturing this colorful insect of summer!
August 7th, 2008 at 7:56 am
BeingParents says:
Great picture. Nature is amazing !
August 7th, 2008 at 8:23 am
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August 7th, 2008 at 8:24 am
Kelly says:
Another great shot. Now I just need to move where there is actual wildlife and I might be able to learn how to do that. Sigh.
August 7th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Antique Mommy says:
I think what I like best about this photo is the shadow of the dragonfly.
August 7th, 2008 at 10:21 am
La says:
I would love to know what kind of camera you use. The pictures you post are always so beautiful and clear and just dang good! My camera is on the blink (or it could be me) and I am in the market for a new one.
August 7th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Vern says:
You take awesome pictures…great blog too!
August 7th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Lisa @ put-it-on-the-list says:
Beautiful shot, AM! You must spend much less time fumbling the camera around than I do. Sigh.
August 7th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Kathy says:
You did a nice job framing this one too. The juxtaposition between the upper left flowery background and the lower right unfinished wood is really pretty. It also shows off different aspects of the dragonfly; against the flowers, you can see the veining of the insect's wings, and they take on a golden cast. The wood background really makes the colors on its body stand out. I like the shadows too. This picture would work as wall art.
I think the secret to taking good pictures is to always have a camera ready to go, and to take a million shots so that you stand a decent chance of getting some good ones in there.
August 7th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Karen {simply a musing blog} says:
Wow. Great shot! I'm not a technical person, so I don't know all the "photo lingo"…but I like it anyway. 🙂
(ps. Don't let Michelle from Scribbit see it – she's terrified of Dragonflies!) 🙂
August 7th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Krista says:
Funny I was just editing some pictures last night and came across some old ones of a dragonfly. They are such fascinating creatures!
August 7th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Jim says:
Hmmmmmm…..wonder where they got the name Dragonfly?
August 7th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Beck says:
Very pretty! And I also think its French name – libellule – is lovely, too.
August 7th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Baker Watson says:
Good capture. I'm with Kathy, I like he varied background. So many dragonfly/damselfly photo's are just of the creature itself. While this is good for admiring the detail of the dragonfly, it sometimes lets us forget they are a part of our real world surroundings. I try to get some decent close-up detailed photo's, but I also like to try to get some that show some personality when I can.
Good job.
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Veteran producer Shelley Lewis is joining WNET to EP the new PBS program "Need to Know."
The show is a "cross-media current affairs magazine" that operates online during the week and culminates with a one-hour, weekly broadcast. It launches May 7th.
Lewis has been an executive producer on CNN's "American Morning with Paula Zahn" and "Greenfield at Large" as well as ABC News' "Good Morning America" and "World News Now."
Press release after the jump.
WNET.ORG Appoints Shelley Lewis Executive Producer for Need To Know on PBS
New Weekly Public Media Project To Launch On-Air and Online May 7, 2010 on PBS
New York, NY – February 25, 2010 – WNET.ORG announced today the appointment of Shelley Lewis as Executive Producer for Need To Know – a new cross-media current affairs magazine to be produced by Creative News Group (CNG) for WNET.ORG, the premier public media provider for the New York Metropolitan area and parent company to public broadcast outlets THIRTEEN and WLIW21. Need To Know is slated to premiere Friday, May 7 at 8:30 pm on PBS.
With more than 25 years of experience, Lewis will lead the production team to aggregate and create original news content for Need To Know's broadcast and web site.
First announced by PBS in January 2010, Need To Know will engage a wide community of producers, journalists and citizen reporters to offer audiences the latest and in-depth coverage of five primary beats: the Economy; the Environment and Energy; Health; Security; and Culture. Each week's one-hour broadcast will feature documentary-style field reports, tailored to a national and local audience. The weekly series will be one of many THIRTEEN and WLIW21-produced programs to be produced at WNET.ORG's new flagship studio at Lincoln Center.
"Need To Know continues WNET.ORG's long-standing tradition of offering in-depth, accurate and relevant news and public affairs programming to PBS viewers," said Neal Shapiro, President and CEO of WNET.ORG. "Shelley's extensive news broadcast experience provides a fresh, creative perspective to catapult Need To Know to the forefront of innovative broadcast and online news reporting."
Prior to joining WNET.ORG, Lewis served as executive producer of CNN's American Morning with Paula Zahn and Greenfield at Large. Previously, Lewis was executive producer for ABC News Productions, where she developed, launched and produced a number of ABC News programs, including Good Morning America, World News Now and Lifetime Live, among others.
Most recently, Lewis was the co-creator and chief programming officer of Howdini.com, a how-to video website for women offering videos and advice on a variety of lifestyle topics. Lewis was the co-creator and senior vice president of programming for Air America Radio. She is also the author of "Five lessons I didn't Learn From Breast Cancer (And One Big One I Did)" (Nal, May 2008).


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It's time for a report on something nobody asked about but maybe someone kind of wondered: playing Mari0 with the Nintendo Switch's Joy-Cons! (insert ® and ™ as needed)
For the unaware, the new controllers for the Switch are PC-compatible out of the box, no need for drivers. You just connect them via Bluetooth and they're good to go without any other setup. They interface through DirectInput, which is an older standard, so they don't work with every game. However, Löve2D recognizes DirectInput, so they work in Mari0!
...Kind of.
The first setup I thought to try was to put the Joy-Cons together as one standard controller, and play with two sticks. Even though they're technically recognized as two separate controllers, there's nothing stopping one player from using two controller inputs. Curiously, though, the control sticks are recognized as "hats" (like a d-pad) rather than axes, and Mari0 only recognizes axes for aiming the portal gun.
This screenshot was unfortunately not taken with the new capture button.
In other words, this idea was pretty short-lived. You can play like this if you have a platforming-centric mappack (read: doesn't use the portal gun at all), but it's not exactly the best experience out there - especially since, in my testing, the right Joy-Con often had input lag of up to half a second. It was pretty excruciating to say the least, although that's probably just my Bluetooth driver not playing nice. (It's kinda amusing, though, since everyone else is having problems with their left Joy-Con.) If you're just going to platform, using just one on its side is your best bet.
This still leaves us with one other option, however: one Joy-Con in one hand, and the mouse in the other.
This picture, on the other hand, was taken with the capture button. The one on my phone.
The problem with playing like this, however, is the button layout. There's not really a comfortable way to map even just run and jump. You could use SL and SR (the side shoulder buttons), but those are hard to press when holding it like this. You could use L and ZL (the back shoulder buttons), which works pretty decently; however, you have to hold the controller in a claw grip, which I can't imagine doing for more than five minutes - and I have small hands! You could press the stick for one of them, but that's hard to do when you're constantly moving it. Any other buttons require removing your thumb from the control stick, which is no bueno for platforming controls. And just imagine a left-hander trying to play with the right Joy-Con!
In sum, it works, but with plenty of caveats. Final verdict: 2/10, just wait until Super Mario Maker: We Finally Added Slopes Edition comes out.
Let me know if you have other suggestions or opinions, I'm curious to try different configurations.


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A RETIRED lorry driver who went to a Hampshire hospital for a routine heart procedure died a week later after an operation went wrong, an inquest heard.
Michael Gough suffered a minor heart attack at his home in Park Gate and was taken to Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth.
Doctors opted to perform primary angioplasty and inserted three stents to widen two diseased arteries in the grandfather's heart.
But one of the meshed tubes became stuck in the passage and the insertion wire snapped inside his heart when a doctor tried to remove it.
He died a week later despite emergency surgery at neighbouring Southampton General Hospital.
At a two-day hearing in Southampton the inquest heard how the 72-year-old, of Middle Road, who suffered from the muscle wasting condition Kennedy's Disease and diabetes, was rushed to the Portsmouth hospital on July 24 last year.
One of his main arteries and a blood vessel branching from it were severely narrowed, the inquest heard.
Cardiologist Dr Ali Dana weighed up the choices of conducting angioplasty, heart bypass surgery or managing the condition with drugs.
He told the inquest he chose the first option because he feared drugs would not ease his problems sufficiently, while by-pass surgery would be risky due to the pensioner's pre-existing conditions But he said the third stent got "completely stuck" after passing though the first stent, while the tube used to insert it fractured when he tried to pull it out.
He told the inquest it was an "infrequent" occurrence and said: "The whole team did what we believe was in his best interests.
"It was a very unfortunate and extremely rare complication of a routine procedure."
A decision was made to transfer Mr Gough to Southampton General Hospital, which was hampered by the pensioner suffering a bleed.
Southampton cardiac surgeon Szabolcs Miskolczi performed an emergency bypass surgery as part of a seven hour operation to stabilise him. He removed the wire but was unable to dislodge the stent and pointed out a drain inserted by the Portsmouth hospital narrowly missed his liver.
The pensioner died later in hospital on August 2.
Daughter Zena, of Fareham, questioned whether he should have been sent to Southampton first as he lived on the border of both hospitals and asked what other options could have been taken.
Mr Miskolczi suggested that the pensioner could have lived for at least months or years if offered drugs. He also said that stenting the bigger artery could have been sufficient and told the inquest: "Leaving the other artery un-stented wouldn't have made a significant disadvantage to Mr Gough."
His other daughter, Janine, 37, from Birmingham, accused the Portsmouth hospital of failing to sufficiently liaise with them about his condition during the first operation.
She told the inquest: "I had to make the journey down from Birmingham not knowing whether he was alive or not."
But Dr Ali said they were halfway through the procedure at the time and said: "The priority was Mr Gough."
Pathologist Dr Adrian Bateman put the cause of death down to heart failure followed by Kennedy's Disease and diabetes.
Queen Alexandra Hospital declined to comment until after the coroner had recorded his verdict.


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Obama did not go on federal spending binge. Pace of increase now lowest it has been in decades
Government spending under Obama, including the
stimulus bill, is rising at a 1.4% annualized pace—
slower than at any time in nearly 60 years. But when
inflation is included, spending is falling.The standard view is that President Obama has been spending taxpayers' money wildly, like no other president before him. Rex Nutting has put the kibosh on that. In fact, growth in federal spending is the lowest it's been since half a decade before Obama was born:
As would-be president Mitt Romney tells it: "I will lead us out of this debt and spending inferno."
Almost everyone believes that Obama has presided over a massive increase in federal spending, an "inferno" of spending that threatens our jobs, our businesses and our children's future. Even Democrats seem to think it's true.
But it didn't happen. Although there was a big stimulus bill under Obama, federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since Dwight Eisenhower brought the Korean War to an end in the 1950s.
A key aspect of budgeting often ignored for political conveniency is the fact that the federal fiscal year begins Oct. 1. So by the time Obama stepped into the Oval Office, the budget for fiscal 2009 was already nearly one-third spent and expenditures for the rest of the year locked in. He added about $140 billion to the spending in 2009 through the stimulus plan.
The big surge in federal spending happened in fiscal
2009, before Obama took office.For the four budget years Obama has had a direct hand in shaping, federal spending is on track to go from $3.52 trillion to $3.58 trillion. On an annual basis, that's 0.4 percent. When those dollars are inflation-adjusted, federal spending will actually have fallen during Obama's first four budgets at an average rate of 1.4 percent. That, Nutting says, is the first real decline since Richard Nixon pulled hundreds of thousands of the U.S. troops out of Vietnam 40 years ago.
What's also true, of course, is that revenue hasn't kept up with spending. This is partly due to tax cuts pushed through by George Bush, two wars rushed into by George Bush and a record-busting recession that began on George Bush's watch. The impact of the last includes millions of Americans out of work or working fewer hours, thereby reducing income tax revenues and putting immense pressure on expenditures for food stamps and unemployment insurance benefits.
In per capita terms, Nutting writes, real spending will fall from $11,450 per person in 2009 to $10,900 in 2013 (as gauged with 2009 dollars). That's a 5 percent drop.
It can be argued, and obviously has been from the president's left, that he should have sought more spending to quickly reduce unemployment and take advantage of low borrowing rates to improve America's crumbling infrastructure. That he should have gone on a short-term spending binge as an investment in the future. But those who say he actually did do so are not eager for anyone to look at the data and pop their propaganda balloon.


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3D Systems Corporation (Rock Hill, SC) recently announced its plans to introduce a compact office modeler, the V-Flash desktop modeler, this summer. The V-Flash will be able to build ready-to-use 3D models in offices, the classroom, or in home offices.
The 25 in. X 26 in. X 27 in. V-Flash will weigh about 100 pounds and have a maximum build volume of 7 in. X 9 in. X 8 in. It will have standard power requirements and a plug-and-play set-up.
The V-Flash desktop modeler will be priced at $9,900. For more information, please visit modelin3d.com.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Rob Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg and New York Yankees Manager Joe Torre will voice the cartoon "Yankee Irving," directed by the late Christopher Reeve.
Toronto's IDT Entertainment Animation is shooting for a 2006 release of the film about a boy who goes cross-country to return Babe Ruth's bat to the star before the 1932 World Series finale, the Hollywood Reporter says.
The title character will be voiced by Jake Syzmanski of Nickelodeon's "Go, Diego, Go." Other stars on board include Brian Dennehy, William H. Macy, Mandy Patinkin, Robert Wagner, Richard Kind and Reeve's wife, Dana.
Reeve was co-directing the film with Dan St. Pierre and Colin Brady when he died last October, the Reporter said.


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International Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 791490, 3 pages
Parental Involvement in the Preoperative Surgical Safety Checklist Is Welcomed by Both Parents and Staff
1Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, Dublin 12, Ireland
2Paediatric Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin 2, Ireland
3King Hamad University Hospital, Busaiteen, P.O. Box 24343, Bahrain
4Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, RCSI Medical University of Bahrain, Al Sayh, Bahrain
Received 29 December 2013; Accepted 16 March 2014; Published 13 April 2014
Academic Editor: Samuel Menahem
Copyright © 2014 Martin T. Corbally and Eamon Tierney. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
We involved the parents of paediatric patients in the first part of the three-stage WHO Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) process. Forty-two parents took part in the study. They came to the theatre suite with their child and into the induction room. Immediately before induction of anaesthesia they were present at, and took part in, the first stage of the three-stage SSC process, confirming with staff the identity of their child, the procedure to be performed, the operating site, and the consent being adequately obtained and recorded. We asked parents and theatre staff later whether they thought that parental involvement in the SSC was beneficial to patient safety. Both parents and staff welcomed parental involvement in the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist and felt that it improved patient safety.


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I didn't care too much for this. I do like it when people make fun of "Full House". I think the joke about the evil Olsen twins has been done a bit too many times before. I am impressed by the high score on this. Of course, you might have just voted on that yourself. The format reminded me of BEEBO, a better cartoon.
I liked seeing the raw footage of "Santa Claus Conquers The Martians". I've only seen the MST3K version. I am not interested in seeing the rest of the raw footage. I guess it's nice I saw this around Halloween. That's probably why it has such a high score.
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mheheheheeeehehehehe. i always found them horribly creepy. except on occasion.
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tbh i only clicked your profile because i saw a girl thumbnail which instinctivly makes me click.
As i got a long reading your profile i noticed she actually creates movies!
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i laughed during the movie though...
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Highlights for Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7" 8 GB Tablet Computer - 1 GHz - Titanium Silver
- Screen Size:7"
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Selfishness and Altruism in the Distribution of Travel Time and Income
Most economic models assume that individuals act out their preferences based on their own self interest. However there have also been other paradigms in the economics literature that have tried to capture alternative manifestations of human behavior that include fairness. This study examines people's preferences when it comes to their travel time and their income and what type of trade offs they are willing to make to live in a society where the distributions of travel time and income are fairer. Using a stated preference experiment we find that when it comes to travel time, individuals are more concerned with societal average travel time, followed by their own travel time and finally by large inequalities in the society, while in the case of income they are more concerned with their own income, followed by societal average and finally by inequality.
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- Dirk Engelmann & Martin Strobel, 2004.
"Inequality Aversion, Efficiency, and Maximin Preferences in Simple Distribution Experiments,"
American Economic Review,
American Economic Association, vol. 94(4), pages 857-869, September.
- Engelmann Dirk & Strobel Martin, 2002. "Inequality Aversion, Efficiency, and Maximin Preferences in Simple Distribution Experiments," Research Memorandum 015, Maastricht University, Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
- Kahneman, Daniel & Knetsch, Jack L & Thaler, Richard H, 1986. "Fairness and the Assumptions of Economics," The Journal of Business, University of Chicago Press, vol. 59(4), pages 285-300, October.
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Album Rating: 4.0Very good compilation. Ozzy may always be the voice of Sabbath but Dio rocked hard too.
Digging: Travelin Jack - Commencing Countdown
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound OffThe Sign of the Southern Cross misses here. New songs are average, as well as Dehumanizer songs.
" It does not matter if Dio's a douche or not"
Wasn't Ozzy the douche and Dio the good guy with good personality n' stuff?
Album Rating: 4.0The Devil Cried and Shadow Of The Wind are so awesome.
"" It does not matter if Dio's a douche or not""
Dio was most def not a douche, think you're confusing him with Ozzy
Album Rating: 4.0No 'Computer God'?????? What!?!?!?
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Offman no sign of southern cross thats a sin
Yeah thats the second best Dio era song
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Offyeah probably
Album Rating: 4.0Why is Sign of the Southern Cross not on this? Who makes these decisions....
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By all accounts, Facebook is rolling out an email service. It's pretty much the most-leaked Facebook announcement I've ever seen, actually, so I'd be shocked if that wasn't the case. Not sure what they'll call it yet.
There's a bit of speculation that since Facebook bought up the domain fb.com, that will be how it works (email@example.com). (UPDATE: Facebook employees will be the ones using the new @fb.com address, while Facebook users get access to @facebook.com.)
Regardless, it's a pretty big move. As we've been saying on this subject, it puts Facebook at the center of your web experience. Now instead of checking your email and your Facebook first thing in the morning, you can just go to one spot and stay there.
What about the "walled garden"
It's a bit like AOL circa 1995 with the concept of a walled garden but whereas AOL wanted to you to stay with them and never go out into the web, Facebook wants to be your unshakable Sherpa as you explore the web and tell it everything you see and how you feel about it.
Speaking of the garden of AOL, the company today announced Project Phoenix, the long-awaited overhaul of its email service.
*Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a special event announcing a new Facebook email messaging system at the St. Regis Hotel on November 15, 2010 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) *
Facebook unveils "social inbox"
At a press conference today streamed live over the Internet, Facebook Product Manager Andrew Bosworth led reporters through a presentation of the new email and messaging platform at today's event, simply dubbed "Messaging" and formerly known under the code-name "Titan."
The messaging platform focuses on three main elements: what it calls the "social inbox," message history, and "seamless messaging," smart technology that routs a user over various platforms including instant messaging, an email inbox, or Facebook.
The social inbox is a tool that sorts messages based on priority. If an incoming message is from one of your existing Facebook friends, it gets sorted differently than messages from non-friends, essentially making your Facebook friends list go double-duty as a spam filter.
Facebook email vs. Gmail
When asked by reporters about how the email service will compete with Google's gmail, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted that the company was not trying to invent a Gmail killer.
"I think Gmail is a really good product." Zuckerberg said. "In reality, I think that they [Google] have a great product." But he added that Facebook's social-centric platform is a "simple kind of messaging" aimed at the changing way in which people communicate online.
Bosworth added: "It works fine with Gmail users."
On advertising
During a question-answer segment with reporters, Zuckerberg responded to a question about how the system will integrate with its advertising business.
"The advertising works the same way as it does on the rest of Facebook," Zuckerberg said. "In general, our ad system is based on what the user puts in."
He noted that it doesn't use targeted ads based on tracking your Internet behavior, but rather based on your Facebook behavior.
But will it work?
Even as the announcement was taking place on stage - even as it just started - there was a new term already entering the web lexicon: "Facebook Wave". That, of course, is a reference to Google Wave, the last hugely ambitious program started by a big company that promised to be the next breakthrough step in messaging.
Wave purported to be a lot like what email would be if email were to be invented today. But Google Wave proved to be both confusing and unnecessary and Google scrapped the whole idea. Now Facebook unveils something that they call the evolved form of email but it's already reminding the twittering classes of the Wave that crashed.


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You already know that Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America on January 20th at noon, but what you might not know is that Barack Obama loves his beer. According to Truemors not only does he love beer but he was hoping to have his favorite beer served at the Inauguration party, InaugurAle, brewed by Piece Brewery and Pizzeria in Chicago. Barack Obama might soon be the leader of the free world, but even he wasn't able to actually make it happen. Piece kegs their beer, but shortly before the inauguration they were told they needed to provide the beer in bottles, but there's not enough time to bottle the beer before the 20th, so Barack's going to have to drink something else. Don't worry, if you want to try InaugurAle and you're somewhere near Chicago, Piece Brewery and Pizzeria will be having an inauguration celebration on January 20th and they'll be serving InaugurAle. Read the full story at ChicagoBusiness.com.
If you're not near Chicago there are a few other Barack Obama Inauguration themed beers available. Homebrewer Sam Chapple-Sokol has been working on his Audacity of Hops InaugurAle beer, named after Obama's second book The Audacity of Hope. Dale's Pale Ale has also been using the Audacity of Hops name to advertise their beer using a poster styled after Barack Obama's Audacity of Hope poster. The Pageant in St. Louis, Mo is brewing a Presidential Porter for their Inauguration party on the 20th.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, in Kenya, where homemade alcohol is commonly mixed with battery acid or formaldehyde to increase potency, Obama Beer is taking the country by storm and saving lives. Actually called Senator beer, it's been dubbed Obama Beer ever since he was elected Senater back in 2004.
Of course, if you're not in Chicago, St. Louis, Kenya, or friends with a homebrewer in DC check your local bars, they might have their own version of InaugurAle. If all else fails you can join President-elect Obama in a nice cool Pabst Blue Ribbon.


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Complaint Review: Cedar Point
- Cedar Point
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Sandusky, Ohio
United States of America
- Phone: 419-627-2197
- Web: www.cedarpoint.com
- Category: Amusement & Theme Parks
Cedar Point Cedar Point misled me! Sandusky, Ohio
In January, 2010, I filed for Unemployment Compensation Benefits, but was denied because Cedar Point said that I had quit while work was still available. After several phone calls, a lady from Human Resources told me that she hadn't realized I'd worked a full season. I thought it seemed kind of weird, but; we all make mistakes.
This year, I was delayed in returning to work for medical reasons. When I was finally able to report for my first night of work in July, I thought things were going to work out ok after all. However, toward the first part of September, I received a phone call from my boss, Sergeant Rob Majoy, in which he stated that they were going to be closing down the gate where I'd been working, and that I should go ahead and process out. Shortly after that call, but before I processed out, I got suspicious and decided to casusally drive by Hotel Gate. Lo and behold, there was the first shift security officer standing in the guard shack (I will not mention his name). We talked for a few minutes, and I learned that they had not closed that gate at all.
After moving back home, I collected one final paycheck, and then attempted to file for more Unemployment Compensation Benefits. However, a road block came up when Cedar Point objected to my being paid Unemployment Compensation, claiming that I had "Quit for personal reasons", which I had not done. I processed out, not on my own initiative, but because Sgt. Majoy had told me to go ahead and do so.
When I was a kid growing up, I thought Cedar Point was one of the greatest places in the world. During the first four or five years, I thought it was a great place to take my cousins.
To all the employees who I refused to let drive past my gate, I am very sorry. Cedar Point had been very pleased with the way I did my job, so at the time, I thought I was doing the right thing. But after having read a complaint filed by one of the employees who worked there in 2005 and wound up with a bad infection in their foot, I don't think I did the right thing. I'm sorry for any part I may have played in causing you to have a bad experience as a Cedar Point employee.
Somebody once told me that my job as a police officer was to help people, but that I hadn't helped them at all. In hindsight, I believe they hit the nail on the head. I tended to be a n**i sometimes, and I'm not usually like that outside of work; nor should I have been that way at work! If I had the last few years to do over again, I'd be a lot more sympathetic to people who told me they had difficulty walking.
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Kh Saad Rafique - the sh!t cleaner of Nawas SHarif!
Wah Kashif saab, Aaj toh Ahliya ko bula liya show mein.Good Move.
Mr and Mrs kashif abbasi on fire
Mehr Bokhari is talking nonsense. Seems she's trying to "find" biases in everything the court does. If the court gives an order, it HAS to be implemented. If this doesn't happen, this will be the biggest disaster for our nascent democracy because a very bad precedent will be set. Furthermore, it is CRYSTAL clear what the real issue is here: Zardari's (and maybe BB's) money stashed away in Switzerland and the ways to protect it. If they have nothing to fear, why don't they write the letter and be done with it. It will clear their name in the public and in the world.
But their behavior shows the money is there, it's Zardari's and cannot be accounted for. All legal mumbo-jumbo is just a cover for this underlying problem for Zardari. Mehr Bokhari does a disservice to her viewers by sugar coating the issue into issues of history and perceived biases.


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I think it's fair to say that few vendors spend time actively thinking about ways to lie about what their products do. Rather, there's a fundamental tension between your needs and theirs: Vendors need to grow their companies and you need to run IT operations as efficiently as possible. This tension often leads to products that either don't do what the vendor claims, or that do things you really don't need or want.
I recall reading that if Cisco Systems grew during the second seven years of its life at the same rate it expanded during the first seven, every person on the planet would be working for Cisco. Although not even Cisco would set itself a strategy like that, it does point out the tremendous pressure that Cisco's management has felt to grow. When tech companies are young, they can achieve incredible growth simply by delivering exactly what the customer wants. But eventually, everyone who wants one has a good 10/100 switch at the network edge, some powerful core switches, and routers out to the Internet. These products don't wear out, so Cisco and its ilk need to find ways to convince us to upgrade.
Once raw performance is no longer the driver, maintaining an upgrade cycle gets dicey. We've all realized that gigabit-to-the-desktop is a silly waste. So what, wonder the networking vendors, could the network do for customers that it doesn't do already? If it could provide phone service, then all the edge switches will need to be upgraded. Once the network is doing that (or supporting some other new capability), we're sold NAC, and again all the edge switches need an upgrade to support it. The strategy for rolling out these technologies is built more around the vendor's need to grow than its need to satisfy customers. But don't blame Cisco. It's happened with all mature tech companies, and will happen again with the newest generation too. Google will find it hard not to be "evil" when its markets are mature and double-digit growth becomes elusive.
Art Wittmann is editor in chief of Network Computing. Write to him at email@example.com.


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The San Diego, CA crew known as Slightly Stoopid is riding "high" on the warm reception from their latest full-length release, "Top of the World," which hit stores in August.
The 8-man band garnered nearly immediate radio play as a result the album's early buzz.
To accompany the title track, the reggae-roots-punk-hip-hop-funk-metal group has released a simple, yet effective video for telling the story behind "Top of the World." When you're on top, everyone wants a piece, when you're down and out, no one comes around.
When you're down and out
Nobody opens their mouth
No-one ever come around your way
When you're on top of the world
Every man and every girl
Wanna come and get some s**t for free
When you're sittin on the corner
No one ever gonna pay you any mind that day
You're just sittin' outside gettin' colder
Top of the World is available now.
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Nottinghamshire registrars have a carried out 46 same sex marriages since the change in law in March.
In line with the national trend, more women in same sex relationships have taken advantage of the change locally as 32 of the couples who tied the knot were female compared to 14 male couples.
Eighteen of the couples are from Mansfield, with seven coming from Ashfield.
Same sex couples in a civil partnership can convert this to a marriage at a Council register office or approved premise from 10th December this year.
Councillor Glynn Gilfoyle, Chair of Nottinghamshire County Council's Community Safety Committee, said: "Many of the same sex couples we have married so far booked up well in advance of the change in law and we have a further 27 booked up after August.
"Couples can choose to have their ceremony at one of our register offices or at one of our approved venues in the county, which include a pumping station, stately homes, hotels and even a sports stadium.
"We work with couples to make sure their ceremony is special and unique to them and look forward to being able to offer ceremonies for couples wanting to convert their civil partnership into a marriage."
For more info on the County Council's Registration Service, including a list of approved wedding venues, visit www.celebrateinnottinghamshire.co.uk or phone 0300 500 80 80.


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If the NHL's goal, in creating a schedule overloaded with conference and divisional games, was to foster animosity and rivalries, it's working - there is bad blood brewing all across the league.
The latest hot spots are Phoenix-Anaheim where Ducks' enforcer Todd Fedoruk received a three-game suspension for his blindside charge on Petr Nedved, and Nashville-Los Angeles, where things got ugly after Darcy Hordichuk jumped Sean (The Turtle) Avery.
In both cases, situations escalated when agitators ran and hid after dishing out dangerous hits. Denis Gauthier wouldn't answer for a kill shot that injured Joffrey Lupul, so Fedoruk exacted his revenge on Petr Nedved instead.
In Nashville, Avery hit Paul Kariya from behind, then dropped into the fetal position when Hordichuk came calling, so Hordichuk pounded on his kidney another King jumped in.
It's all well and good that teams are getting a hate on for each other, but by cultivating that environment, and then letting agitators hide behind the instigator penalty, the NHL is setting itself up for another Bertuzzi incident.
"We definitely need fighting,'' said San Jose's Scott Thornton. "Not staged events, like it had become, but fights that happen out of situations on the ice, like it was in the old days. We need it as a way to police things. It keeps things safer and cleaner for all of us and that's important.''
After the game Avery told post-game reporters that "(Hordichuk) is an embarrassment to the league.''
This is the same Sean Avery who ripped Europeans and French Canadians, then chickened out of challenges from French Canadians Gauthier and Ian Laperriere, was fined $1,000 for diving, another $1,000 for ripping the league and may or may not have called Georges Laraque a monkey.
And he's calling Hordichuk an embarrassment?
Meanwhile, Fedoruk's three-game suspension ends Wednesday when, guess what, Anaheim hosts Phoenix.
"Nobody's going to forget what happened,'' vowed Gauthier.
What's he going to do? Hide even harder next time?
Two very different views on NHL shootouts. Sharks goalie Evgeni Nabokov, after losing in one to Edmonton: "Yeah, I am a big fan. I'm 0-3 in them, so I love every second of it. Nothing seems to go right. I guess the good thing is we don't have this crap in the playoffs.''
Ales Hemsky, who scored on his shot: "It's fun for the people, and if the people like it, that's why you play the game.''
The Oilers aren't the only team with question marks in their net. Half the league is having trouble. Colorado is said to be in the market for help after David Aebischer's extended slump. They thought backup Peter Budaj could take over, but he collapsed against the Wings on Wednesday, allowing six goals on 28 shots.
In St. Louis, Patrick Lalime has been terrible, so they gave the job to youngster Curtis Sanford. Then he allowed five goals on 27 shots against the Kings.
Prior to last Saturday's game in Minnesota between the Wild and Predators, both teams paid tribute to the late Sergei Zholtok, who played for both clubs, as well as the Edmonton Oilers.
Zholtok died last November, while playing in latvia during the lockout, of heart failure.
In addition to a display on the concourse at X-Cel Energy Centre, they played a video tribute and both clubs wore SZ stickers on their helmets.
Zholtok's wife, Anna, and his sons, Edgar and Nikita, still live in Minnesota. Sixteen-year-old Edgar wiped away tears to drop the ceremonial first puck.
Anaheim continues to lean on its underachieving stars. Sandis Ozolinsh was benched for the third period in Dallas Tuesday and made a healthy scratch the next night ... Ed Johnston is seldom far from greatness: He played with Bobby Orr, coached Wayne Gretzky in the World Cup, drafted Mario Lemieux and is now an assistant GM in Pittsburgh, where Sidney Crosby is taking flight ... In a 3-2 shootout loss to Montreal, the Thrashers, third best power play in the NHL, went an amazing 0-for-13 with the man advantage.
Because they're running into cap trouble and they don't want his salary counting against them on off days, the Canucks have demoted and recalled Josh Green from Manitoba four times this season ... When San Jose called up Spruce Grove's Grant Stevenson for their game in Calgary, 17 of his relatives drove in for the game. Included among them were his grandfather, Hall of Fame netminder Glenn Hall.
Oft-injured Eric Daze only played 19 games in 2003-04 and has played all of 11 minutes this season. He's had three surgeries on herniated disks in the last five years and GM Dale Tallon isn't sure if he'll play again.
"That''s a $1 million question,'' he said. "I can't give an answer.''
After Sidney Crosby hit the ice from a Derian Hatcher hack, Flyers GM Bob Clarke went on a rant about diving: "It's an awful thing to do to the game,'' said Bill Barber's former teammate. "It's a lack of respect for the game, going down easy.''
They forgot to put it in the CBA, but there should be a rule that any team with Peter Forsberg on it is not allowed to cry about diving.
Pens goalie Marc-Andre Fleury negotiated a sweetheart contract under the old CBA, and it's costing him big time.
Despite the best save percentage and GAA on the team, he's been to the minors twice, the last time after making 45 saves in a 3-2 win over Pittsburgh. Problem is, he has about $3 million in achievable bonuses in his deal if he becomes an NHL regular.
Ty Conklin should keep his head up if he plays the Kings again. Luc Robitaille traded punches with Preds goalie Tomas Vokoun when the Nashville goalie got a little too possessive about his crease. "I just spent two weeks out after a goaltender (Conklin) slashed me in the leg,'' said Robitaille. "I'm not going to let that happen again.''... The Bruins have signed Natick native Dan LaCouture to a two-way deal for the remainder of the season. LaCouture, 28, had been playing for Joe Thornton's old club in Davos this year.
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Capitals at Rangers: Jaromir Jagr versus Alexander Ovechkin in Madison Square Garden.
Canucks at Avalanche: Tensions are always high when Bertuzzi visits his division rival in Denver.
Canadiens at Senators: A couple of Canadian powerhouses square off for first in the Northeast.
Coyotes at Ducks: Todd Fedoruk will be back from his suspension in time for the rematch.


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Discussion in 'Amps and Cabs [BG]' started by tinkindy, Dec 17, 2012.
Does anyone else use a musicman tube bass head?
Tin Kindy,
Well, I don't own one, but we recently played them at a local music store. I thought it sounded absolutely fantastic. Evidently they are tricky to repair because they have a solid state preamp
Music Man amps are hybrids, the power amp uses tubes. So they are a "reverse hybrid" of the current amps like the Genz Benz Streamliner's.
I once saw Johnny Winter blow my head off at a 2000 seat club with two MusicMan combos the size of Fender Twins. Saw Devo a couple times and their guitarists were using them as well. Never played their amps for either guitar or bass, but all of their amps were hybrids that way and they always sounded killer to me.
I own a Music Man HD150 head. It's 150 watts, weighs around 45 lbs. Power tubes ( 4 6L6's ), and an SS preamp. Very sweet, warm round tone, that's loud enough for a smallish, Blues band setting, with no PA support. You can get alot more info on the old Music Man stuff here : www.musicmanamps.com
I also sport an HD150 head, wonderful amp!! Very warm, full sound. It's not the best for an "overdriven" sound because of the SS preamp, but I have other amps for that....
The earlier versions did had a tube pre.
I had one, the earlier version with the 12AX7 PI and 6CA7/EL34 tubes. It was monstrously loud but very clean. A lot of tube amp aficionados consider them the worst of both worlds - heavy tube output stage, clean sterile pre-amp. I don't know if I'd go that far, but they certainly aren't the warmest of tube amps.
Count me in! I have a HD150. Power tube punch and texture. Sound great. Have seen some good deals on these of late ($400 or so).
Not really. The preamp was all solid state, but the earliest version of the 65 and 130 series had a single 12AX7 as a driver tube- but it was wall after the tone-shaping and didn't really impart any "tube-ness" to the pre as it wasn't in any of the gain stages.
I had an HD-130 from late '77 (got it new for my birthday) until about 2000. This one had the 12AX7 driver, and the power amp was a quartet of 6CA7/EL34. I gigged it exclusively until about 1985. I really liked it as a beefier Bassman sort of sound- and I was a Fender dealer at the time... the MM just sounded better and was arguably a better built amp too.
It sounded best with my Music Man 212RH cabinet and my '79 StingRay, but it worked great with an old Fender (small) 212 Bassman cabinet and a box I had made from EV's Thiele/Small plans with an EV 15"- the only 15" speaker rig I ever played through and liked.
Quite correct, people saw the 12AX7 and assumed it was a preamp tube....
I bought one a few years back along with a matching 2x12 cabinet but I never really warmed up to it. In hindsight it had quite a lot of competition at the time as it was competing against my B15, Orange AD200 and a SVT Classic. The Music Man and SVT were sold. The Orange is up for sale. I'm sticking to the B15 and gigging with my TCE 450 Classic.
I didnt know that, a feller learns somthing everday. See its already paying off in joining this site. Like most of you I really like mine.
Saw the same tour. Couldn't believe how killer that Music Man sounded. Didn't realize they had a bass amp.
The same for me. I gigged my HD130 and 212RH from 78 to the early 90's with my Stingray and 64 Jazz. I still have it. I liked it a lot. Hmmm... I feel a resurrection coming on!
Brother JTE is a smart fellow.
I think the only difference between the HD 150 bass head, and the guitar version, was, the guitar model had a reverb.
According to an x MM employee: Leo had nothing to do with the amp design. He kept to the instrument side of Music Man and the amp design was the VP's baby. The HD 130 is a class B amp. It's design was used by the military in WW 2. I've been rocking mine with 2 2x12 cabs and I have no problem keeping up with loud guitars and drummers.
From www.musicmanamps.com
In 1971, Leo Fender, Forrest White and Tom Walker formed a new musical instrument company they called "Tri-Sonics, Inc.". Leo and Tom started to layout the scheme for the amplifiers while Forrest worked on a new design for their guitars and bases that would not be confused with the Fender instruments.
By 1973, the company name had been changed to "Musitek, Inc." (short for "Music Technology"). By January, 1974 the company underwent their final name change to "Music Man". All during this time, Leo Fender was being cautious not to take an active roll in the company because his 10-year "non-compete" clause with CBS (due to the sale of Fender Musical Instrument Company to CBS in 1965) hadn't yet legally expired. In 1975 Leo came out from behind the curtain and announced he had been elected president of Music Man, Inc.
In 1974, production of the amplifiers had started. These were the earliest versions of the "Sixty Five" series with the 12AX7 phase splitter and a pair of Sylvania 6CA7 output tubes. Production of these amps as well as their 130-watt bretheren continued into 1979 with few changes (except for the change to a solid-state phase splitter design). In August of 1979, Leo's wife of 45 years, Esther, passed away after a long illness. Esther was no doubt the "woman behind the man" that created the Fender music legend.
New models were introduced in late 1979 into 1980, mainly upgrades to the power output, the addition of the RD (Reverb/Distortion) and RP (Reverb/Phasor) models and a new corporate identity which consisted mainly of reversing the color scheme of the logo plates!
Throughout the early 80's, new models (including the smallest amps such as the RD/RP50 and the uprated RD/RP100 series) and cosmetics continued to be introduced. It was during this time period that the rare white tolex and white "pinwhal" (a sort of vinyl cordouroy) coverings were introduced. By 1982 the writing was on the wall, and Leo Fender formed his new guitar company... G&L guitars.
Due to internal mismanagement and ownership squabbles, the company went downhill financially. After considering several offers, Music Man was sold to Ernie Ball on March 7, 1984. Music Man's remaining physical assets were sold on June 1, 1984. A sad end to an amazing decade in musical instrument amplifiers!
I have two 6L6 tubes?
I'm rockin' an RD100 into a custom 2x15 and it it seriously cool! I got the hulk off Craigslist a couple of years back and had it rebuilt. A very loud 100 watts! Get's uber-dubby with the deep switch engaged. Nice tubey, wooly bottom and airy highs. Like it a bunch.


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Another picture taken in Dallas Texas at the location of JFK's assassination.
I took this photograph on the top of a small hill at Dealey Plaza. I like the effect of the light bouncing off the old picket fence and the incorporation of the trees that cast shade on the grass.
Taken with a panasonic lumix fz35
any comments appreciated.