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After serving over a quarter-century as an assistant football coach at two different area high schools, Bill Corrente welcomed the opportunity to become a head coach.
Corrente, 48, received that opportunity Monday night, when he got a unanimous 8-0 vote of approval by the Central Cambria School Board to become the Red Devils' new head football coach.
Corrente, who teaches history at the Central Cambria Middle School, brings a wealth of football coaching experience to the new appointment.
He was an assistant coach, and later, a defensive coordinator, for the past 11 years at Portage High School, after previously serving 15 years as an assistant coach, including nine years as an offensive coordinator, at Central Cambria.
Central Cambria opened its head varsity football coaching position after the 2012 season. The Red Devils were 2-8 in both of previous coach Sam Shutty's two seasons at the helm.
"I'm itching to get moving,'' Corrente said in a telephone interview Monday night. "I have a huge, huge task ahead of me, and I'm just taking the approach of trying to get better each day. This is a super opportunity, and I'm thankful that I got such good support from the school board, the administration, and the athletic director.''
Corrente was one of five applicants for the position. Central Cambria athletic director Ron Stempka is impressed with Corrente's work ethic in both the classroom and on the football field.
"Bill is a really good teacher in the classroom, and this will easily carry over to the football field,'' Stempka said. "He's a hard worker who is a very good motivator, and he works well with the students. We're very pleased with his appointment as the new head coach.''
Corrente is a 1983 graduate of Portage Area High School and a 1987 graduate of Slippery Rock University. He played quarterback with the football programs during his days at both schools.
Corrente is grateful for having had the experience of having coached in solid football programs at both Portage and Central Cambria.
"I've been in a wonderful program with Coach [Gary] Gouse at Portage, and the same thing at Central Cambria,'' Corrente said. "Being part of two good programs like these has shown me what it takes to build a strong program, and has helped me plan for what I'm doing.''
Corrente plans to hit the ground running, and will begin supervising an offseason weight-training program for the players on the 2013 team this week.
"It will be a learning curve for me, but I'm excited,'' Corrente said. "The first thing I'm going to do is to meet with the athletic director [today], and meet with the staff to find out who is on board from the programs in the lower grades right up through the varsity level. Then, I'll jump right into the weight room on Wednesday.''


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Khoan and Corey were into a heavy game of bumdarts last night. I can tell because they are both walking funny
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Its time to pull out your safari hat for Cypress Gardens annual Swamp Safari.
This years event is 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16. All Swamp Safari activities are free with regular paid admission to Cypress Gardens ($10 for adults, $9 for seniors, and $5 for child ages 6 to 12 years old). Berkeley County residents are admitted free from 9 a.m. until noon.
This year features exciting presentations and exhibits highlighting Lowcountry swamp life, said Heather Graham, manager of Cypress Gardens. From reptiles and rabbits to butterflies and birds, there is a little something for everyone.
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TRUCKEE, Calif. — Among the local races of importance on the June 5 primary ballot is a seat on the Nevada County Superior Court bench between Sacramento County Deputy District Attorney George Smyrnos and incumbent Judge Tom Anderson.Smyrnos — a Grass Valley resident and former Nevada County prosecutor — is running on a tough-on-crime platform, based on his dissatisfaction with what he perceives to be lenient sentencing on the part of Anderson."The bench serves the public, and people have the right to complain," said Smyrnos in a phone interview last week. "If the conscience of our community gets offended by a light sentence, the judge has to be held accountable to the community.""Hundreds of cases are decided every year," countered Anderson, also in a phone interview. "When all the facts that had to be considered under the law were factored in to that decision, my sentence was the appropriate sentence. It doesn't matter what a judge thinks or feels, you have to go with the laws that are in place."The sentencing in question was that of convicted child molester, Kenneth Alan Byrnes, 64, who plead no contest to continual sexual abuse of a child after being arrested in August 2010..According to reports in The Union, the Sierra Sun's sister newspaper serving western Nevada County, Byrnes initially was charged with lewd and lascivious acts with a child under the age of 14, oral copulation with a child under 10, continual sexual abuse of a child and preventing a victim from reporting a crime.Byrnes' plea agreement called for as much as 16 years in prison, but the victim and her family argued strongly for probation."You probably deserve state prison," Anderson told Byrnes during sentencing. "This is a very generous sentence. But this sentence is not for you, this is for those around you."Anderson sentenced Byrnes to 12 years of supervised probation and no additional jail time, beyond the 16 months he had spent in custody. Byrnes' probation terms included registration as a sex offender, two years in a counseling program and a stay-away order from the victim, as well as no contact with children younger than 18 unless in the presence of another adult.
Smyrnos currently works as the Deputy District Attorney in Sacramento, where he prosecutes narcotics cases involving drug-endangered children. He has been working as a prosecutor since 1986, and he worked in the Nevada County District Attorney's Office from October 1990 to 1996.Anderson was elected in November 2006 and was sworn in as a Superior Court Judge on January 7, 2007.As judge, Anderson participates in a variety of legal programs which seek to reduced recidivism and resolve cases using the community's support systems such as counseling and mediation services. He feels, he said, that being a judge requires him to maintain a sense of balance and perspective."Being a judge is more of a lifestyle," Anderson said.Recent polls by the Nevada County Bar Association and the Tahoe-Truckee Bar Association deemed Anderson "best qualified" of the two candidates. The Grass Valley Police Officer's Association and the Nevada County Deputy Sheriff's Association are among entities endorsing Smyrnos.More information and a complete list of candidate supporters can be found on each candidate's website: www.judgetomanderson.com and www.smyrnosforjudge.com.


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Rory wrote:This is going to be kind of an unusual Channel 9 interview...
hahaha all the grumpy old men have come out of hiding.
Give the guy a break; he was trying to be modest while telling us something amazing about his childhood.
crappy wrote:Well... The interview guy basically sounds to me similar to this:
"So I'm like you know, shucks, whatever, like, you know? Like, yea, and he's like wow, and you know?"
It's quite annoying, as if listening to a 13 year old girl on a caffeine overdose.
buggy123 wrote:I think you lost the adult audience with this interviewing guy, but I'm sure kids 2-6 will enjoy his antics. It's great you're thinking about the children as well.
OMG he met Steve Jobs! He met Steve Jobs! He was his best buddy, OMG OMG!!!
Massif wrote:Well, you can't please everyone. I found it interesting, although (obviously) not related in any way to programming.
CRPietschmann wrote:Cool interview! I look forward to more interviews with the team.
One thing I would like to know is how did Jesse end up at Microsoft?
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Troll, troll, troll.
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pspidey wrote:Wow. Apparently honest feedback is not allowed on this site, and is replaced with 'troll, troll, troll'.
pspidey wrote:You are only confirming a juvenile nature when you petulantly delete criticism.
pspidey wrote:If you are a professional, you should be able to take criticism.
Rory- good interview!
I think it is very interesting to see and hear what people, especially those with backgrounds as varied as Jesse's, are doing at Microsoft... makes me feel like I may have a shot after all someday.
I may be in the minority, but I for one would like to see more videos on some of the others on the teams we know - whom come to Microsoft with these mixed and sometimes odd backgrounds.
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I haven't played too much lacrosse over the past few weeks due to a nagging hamstring injury. Missing the second, third and forth games of the Major League Lacrosse season were not how I envisioned beginning my new season with my new team THE Denver Outlaws. Nothing to sulk about, it's not major - my placement on the IR will give me time to rehabilitate and heal. I can't wait to play in my first game back against the Toronto Nationals. I'll "tee off" on winter time Stealth teammates; Jeff Zywicki and Colin Doyle – they will be running scared.
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Ho ho ho....Hobbit? Yes, dwarf lovers, it's here. Just in time for the movie-going holiday season, we have the first installment of what will be three lengthy episodes in Peter Jackson's latest effort to bring J.R.R. Tolkien to the masses: a film adaptation of "The Hobbit."
Part one of the trilogy, "An Unexpected Journey," opens today.
When theaters darken, and images of Orcs and dragons fill the screen, you'll almost imagine you hear the delighted chuckling and popcorn-munching of the Inklings – Oxford professor Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, maybe a few others – in the front row.
Because this first step in Bilbo Baggins' epic journey makes for a very entertaining show.
Although, perhaps one not for children so much as adults. Jackson's film does not stint on violence or grotesquery, and some graphically rendered battle scenes (a king is beheaded; trolls are petrified; Orcs are maimed) will be far too much for young eyes. That, and a wizard's porcupine dies.
"The Hobbit" tells the journey of a small group of friends and adventurers – including the reluctant Bilbo – on a quest to reclaim a kingdom and find treasure.
Leaving aside questions of literary purity and faithfulness to the tone and plot of the original work, Jackson's new take on the beloved 1937 tale ultimately makes for a more entertaining ride than the film version of Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" did a few years ago. (And that comes from someone who wrote a senior college thesis on Lewis and Narnia, and secretly always favors the Narnian landscape.)
There will no doubt be squawking from a few corners, as is always the case with re-creations of treasured books one first read in childhood, about the story of the film, which pulls in material from other writings of Tolkien to supplement the story of Bilbo Baggins' adventure.
But here is what "The Hobbit" – which we saw in 3-D (more about that later) – has going for it.
First, the performances in the film are uniformly good. Martin Freeman, clad in velvet smoking jackets and quilted bathrobes, carries off the central role of Bilbo, recruited to be the "burglar" of the band, with aplomb, conveying the humble hobbit's struggle to look worldly and competent while longing fiercely for home and hearth.
"I would have doubted me too," says Bilbo, at one point, to the dwarves. "I'm a worrier. Not a burglar."
Thorin Oakenshield is played by Richard Armitage, who has to do a lot of skeptical glances and portentous frowns, but carries them off with style. (Provocative, to consider the differing views of dwarves in Lewis and Tolkien. Lewis, who by some accounts didn't find "The Hobbit" as enjoyable or successful a book as the "Rings" volumes by his friend and fellow academic, didn't find dwarves at all trustworthy.)
Cate Blanchett glows as Galadriel; a companion and Tolkien fan at the film called her beauty "angular," and he wasn't far off. Tolkien trouper Sir Ian McKellen reprises his role as Gandalf the Grey, conveying more with his blue eyes than most actors do with whole speeches.
"True courage," he tells Bilbo at one point, his gravelly voice somber, "is knowing not only when to take a life – but when to spare one."
As for the second big thing the movie has going for it, it is this: It is a detail-packed visual treat for anybody who has ever spent long hours of reading time with dwarves and goblins, witches and elves, trolls and wizards. In Tolkien, in Lewis, in fairy or folk tales.
Take one example: Bilbo's "Hobbit-hole," as rendered here, is a feast for the eyes. The oak moldings and wainscoting, the circular passages, the larder well-stuffed with foodstuffs and wines, the round front door (true to the book) – it's a place some of us will leave the theater wanting to live in, at least a bit longer. Think that's going too far? Tolkien started his story with an emphasis not only on Bilbo but on his lodgings: "In a hole in the ground," the book begins, "there lived a hobbit." The movie's early scenes, in which Bilbo fries a fish for his supper, in a pre-questing moment of domesticity, are peaceful and satisfying.
A third major asset of the film – and here's where the method of viewing comes in – is the outdoor scenery. Much of Jackson's film was shot on location in New Zealand. The gloriousness of the landscape – and take it from someone who has been there, it does really look like that – becomes one of the main reasons to watch the film, especially toward the end.
The camera swoops and glides over the green lushness of rolling landscape, and it strikes the viewer that New Zealand may not have been created to serve as Tolkien's universe – but it sure can seem that way.
Now about the 3-D viewing. It didn't seem to me – and a companion, of the brotherly sort – that the 3-D element added very much to the film. Insects and birds flew at and out of the screen, some sparks drifted outward, the scenes of battles and underground caverns used the technology to show scope and depth – but, in the end, the effect was a bit dizzying and we agreed we would have preferred to see the picture in regular format.
The movie – which doesn't feel at all like its nearly three-hour length – spirals inward to a scene that becomes the core of the story: Bilbo's encounter with Gollum, deep underground.
The duel of wits between the hobbit and the lithe, pale Gollum (Andy Serkis) becomes the emotional center of the film. They throw riddles at one another, fighting for the upper hand. Serkis makes Gollum a flexible-faced vision of pathos and vulnerability, as well as rage.
When Bilbo leaves with Gollum's prized ring, we cheer him on – with a twinge of regret.
Just as the film makes free with the pace and linearality of Bilbo's story, it injects aspects of humor that strike a modern, 21st-century tone.
"Try it – just a mouthful," wheedles one dwarf to another, trying to convince him to taste a piece of lettuce when nothing else is available at one point on the trip.
"I don't like green food."
"Have they got any chips?" another dwarf asks petulantly.
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Though John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was undoubtedly British, and though his story was of creatures that are other than human, there remains something in "The Hobbit" that is decidedly human – even, truly American.
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In this film, we can find – entertainingly – a few of them.
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Running time: 169 minutes
Rating: PG-13 for extended sequences of intense fantasy action violence and frightening images.
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Tiffin City Schools is closing one chapter and opening another.
Doug Hartenstein, principal of Lincoln Elementary School, said people have an opportunity to create a new era and beginning for the district. What makes a school, he said, is people.
"The building's the symbol," he said.
Tiffin City Board of Education opted to reconfigure its elementary building structure in light of financial issues.
Next school year, it is to use three elementary buildings - Washington would hold kindergarten and first grade, Krout grades 2-3 and Noble grades 4-5 - instead of five. Clinton Elementary School, 2036 E. TR 122, and Lincoln Elementary School, 124 Ohio Ave., are to close.
Superintendent Donald Coletta said officials have been transitioning for a year to make sure they provide a smooth transition into the new configuration. It is important to them that they respect the rich tradition of educational excellence that has occurred and Clinton and Lincoln, he said.
"We are looking forward to the new configuration in the fall. ... I believe people will be very happy with the services that the new configuration will provide their children," he said.
Clinton's history
Joanne Sigler, a Tiffin resident who taught at Clinton for 20 years, said it was a unique school. She said it was interesting that people who had gone to Clinton were eager to have their children go there as well, and children who left usually did well in the higher grades.
"It was small," she said.
Sigler said she thought the school being in the country was good because children spent time outside, and there always was a child in the class who could fix an electrical problem or who had a father who could make a windmill.
"It was a very close-knit school. ... Oftentimes, we had just one class of one grade," she said.
Sigler said she wasn't surprised to hear the school would be closed because she knows the district's financial problems, but she thought it was a shame to close a school that had been so successful.
"I was very disappointed (to hear about it closing)," she said.
Rick Van Mooy, a North Baltimore resident who taught at Clinton until about 1980 and also served as the acting principal, said he mostly remembers the children and occasionally still meets alumni.
"I have a million memories of Clinton," he said.
Van Mooy, who said he had a huge classroom converted from a kitchen, had his students launch helium balloons with notes during a study of prevailing wind. Most of them ended up in eastern Ohio and Pennsylvania, he said.
"People would mail back the tags," he said.
In 1976, Van Mooy's students buried a time capsule as a bicentennial project, and he said the capsule, which was a plastic trash can with duct tape, was part of a bicentennial registry. Clinton students gathered on the school's front lawn April 19 to watch the time capsule being removed from the ground.
"I'm glad they found it. ... That was a cool project," Van Mooy said.
Tom Anway, director of operations, attended Clinton and has a son there. He assisted with unearthing the time capsule and said opening it brought back a lot of memories.
Anway said closing Clinton is hard because relationships were built at the school. It is tough for the community and township, and there is no easy way to do what administrators have to do. They have to do what is best for the entire district, he said.
"(There are) decisions that have to be made sometimes," he said.
Anway said the positive thing is Clinton is a building, and the same teachers who excelled in the building are going to excel in the rest of the district for children. Officials are aware it is a close-knit community, he said.
Changes had to be made because of financial concerns, and change always is difficult for everyone, no matter what position they're in, he said.
"The building, unfortunately, because of the location requires so much additional busing to get kids to it," he said.
Lincoln's history
Kathy Wetta, interim principal at Northrop Elementary School, which is part of Medina City Schools, got her start as a principal while serving at Lincoln about 24 years ago. She said Lincoln was a small school building, and she has fond memories of it.
"You could really get to know the families and the staff as well. ... That was really a great place to start," she said.
Wetta, a Tiffin native, said she thinks every experience a person has, especially as a new principal, gives him or her more confidence in handling the next situation that arises. She said being the principal at Lincoln was a good learning experience.
"I still stay in touch with a number of the staff there, and ... it just was a great, great building to start at," she said.
Wetta recalled the school had a campaign to come up with the school's mascot. Children submitted designs for a flag, and "Lincoln Lions, the pride of Tiffin" was selected as the theme.
"I sewed a flag that we put up in the cafeteria," she said.
She also remembers the smell of potato chips from Ballreich's, which is located down the street from the school. She said field days always were a lot of fun, and the school had water balloon tosses at the end of the school year.
"Kids always wanted to soak me," she said.
Wetta said the school was the center of the neighborhood.
She remembers how involved a number of families were in some of the activities the school had. She said she got the sense it was a true neighborhood school, where people lived close-by and children walked and rode bicycles to school.
"They played at school after hours," she said.
Hartenstein said Lincoln has served Tiffin City Schools and the students in the neighborhood well. People know and appreciate all that Lincoln has been able to accomplish. They would like it to continue but are excited about the new opportunities ahead, he said.
"It's played a big role in Tiffin City Schools. ... There's a lot of pride involved," he said.
Saying farewell
People are to have an opportunity to visit Clinton and Lincoln before they close.
Clinton's celebration is 1-3 p.m. Saturday. Principal Michael Newlove said he hopes the open house attracts people who will reminisce about what the building has meant to them.
"There's been thousands (of students go through) at this point," he said.
Lincoln's celebration is May 11, with an open house 5-6 p.m. and games, prizes, raffles and food 6-8 p.m.
"Hopefully, we get a good turnout," Hartenstein said.
One of the purposes of the open house is to thank students, families and staff. Hartenstein said people who live near the school can visit it.
"They've been good neighbors to us," he said.
Future of buildings
Anway said administrators would like to sell Clinton to a community-minded group that wants to carry on the school's athletic programs and that can use it for the community. They have had conversations with groups and are searching for a person or group to step forward, he said.
"Our intent is to sell it," he said.
Anway said the district is going to keep Lincoln, and it would be the perfect building if the district needed to implement a preschool program. It is looking at groups to rent or lease the building for now, he said.
"Nothing has been finalized," he said.
Lincoln could house a possible latchkey program, which could offer mentoring, activities and a snack.
"The community task force is looking at a program that would assist with before- and after-school child care, in a latchkey-type program, to assist families who need child care and have children at multiple schools," said Pat DeMonte, executive director of Tiffin-Seneca United Way.
Officials have looked at using Lincoln because it already is configured for children's use, she said.
"It has the gymnasium area. It has the classroom area," she said. "It would be a good spot for busing pick-up (and) drop-off."
DeMonte said she is not sure whether Tiffin is going to have a need for a latchkey program, and she would like to hear from the community about it.
Starting anew
Tiffin City Schools is to have open houses at what will be known as Washington K-1, Krout 2-3 and Noble 4-5 in the spring, along with orientations there in late summer.
Anway said the goal of the open houses is for parents and children to feel comfortable about the buildings they're entering next school year.
"The children are invited to attend," he said.
Anway said all open houses are to include a casual walk around the buildings 6:30-7:30 p.m., with a question-and-answer session with building principals 7:30-8 p.m. in multi-purpose rooms.
Staff members and transportation eligibility maps are to be at the events, which are May 7 for Washington K-1, May 8 for Krout 2-3 and May 10 for Noble 4-5. A bus and driver also are to be at each open house.
"Many kids in town have never ridden a school bus before. ... We will not have exact pick-up times and exact locations for the students yet. It's just too soon. We can't get everything put together, however, we will have eligibility at that point in time," Anway said.
Hartenstein said transitions are taking place for next school year's new configuration. Parent-teacher organizations started working together last year, Newlove said.
Staff members have been meeting, planning and getting organized in preparation for the new configuration.
"We're excited," Hartenstein said. "We're excited to get things going."


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Perl is renowned for being a language where you can express complicated commands in a very small amount of space.
We'll start with the simplest of programs, which simply reads in characters from the keyboard and repeats them back to the console. In Perl you might write this like so:
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You may think that this program is already as short as it can be, but through using Perl's special variables, we can make it shorter:
The default scalar variable: $_
Perl has a number of special variables that are automatically assigned in the general course of a program, they can be used to access information about the program itself, such as the name or process id, the command line arguments, or the results of the last regular expression. The most general, and maybe the most useful of these special variables is $_, the default variable. The default variable is where the results of some Perl constructs and functions are put if you don't specify an assignment, and is used as the argument to certain functions if none is given. This sounds vague and can be confusing until you're familiar with it, but it can also be powerful. We can use $_ to eliminate the need for the variable $line in our program:
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This is fine if we just want to mirror STDIN to STDOUT, but what if we'd like our program to act more like the Unix filter cat, which can open and print files as well. Now we could check the command line arguments and test to see if they're valid files, open and print them in order, but since this is such a common thing to do Perl has an easier (and shorter!) way.
The special file handle: <>
Like the default variable, the special file handle -- written as <> is a short cut in the language added to make programs easier to write. The special file handle treats all command line arguments as file names, and opens each in turn. If there are no command line arguments then it opens and reads from STDIN. As per the UNIX convention, if "-" is given as a command line argument it opens STDIN in place of a file. So if we wanted to write a version of the above program that could support files given on the command line it would be as simple as:
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Counting Line Numbers
If we want to process the lines of the input individually then it's not enough to just link the file handle to print, let's take a look at a simple program to add line numbers to the lines of input:
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Even with these simple programs, it's easy to see how using special variables can make your programs smaller and faster to write. If you're interested, information about all of Perl's special variables can be found in the perlvar section of the Perl manual (http://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar.html).
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For most of the cases you can use the variable $.
So the code would come:
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To that end, as a service to our applicants (and for those who might not even be considering Hamilton), our Director of Admission Lora Schilder has been offering College Essay Writing Workshops for more than 20 years. Feel free to invite Lora to join your AP English class with this goal in mind, and she'll check her calendar to see if she or one of our associate deans can join you. But knowing that Lora can't be everywhere, and in our ongoing quest to fill this space with useful information for our guidance counselor friends and their advisees, we decided to include some of Lora's writing tips in this year's newsletter. Enjoy.


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Hi, I am a newbie in the field of computer science. I was hoping to get more external help instead of from limited time constraint of professors. I am relatively new at the whole concept of programming, so any tips and advice will be very appreciated.
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Welcome to the field of computers and programming.
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Deep Ellum is spotted a couple of squares East of Downtown Dallas. It lies specifically East of Highway 75 and North of I-30. It's the revamped warehouse/industrial locale and home of numerous stylish creative shops and studios. You will discover numerous venues that offer unrecorded music running from jazz, elective, shake, and soul. There are additionally various Theaters, Art Galleries, Restaurants, and Bars that have developed in fame in the course of the most recent not many years to truly begin resuscitating the territory. A fascination that is a city top choice is the astounding Dallas Farmers Market, which is placed on the edge of Deep Ellum. Ranch new prepare has been sold there since around 1900 and you can discover a tremendous exhibit of products of the soil, and in addition crisp dairy and meat.
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Apartments in Deep Ellum generally comprise of space style apartments. You can lease anyplace from a modern space with uncovered block and ventilation work to a 3 room customary apartment. Rent costs range from $450-$2700 for every month. Neighborhoods characteristics can incorporate a swimming pool, valet waste administration, access entryways, fitness focus, stopping carport or gated stopping, and substantially more. Apartment unit insides can incorporate civilities, for example, stone counters, stainless apparatuses, washer/dryer associations or furnished, wood or cement carpets, and stroll in wardrobes
It is a mixed segment of Dallas that has numerous craftsmen, musical artists, and camera people. Lofts in Deep Ellum are plentiful and numerous individuals utilize these extensive open spaces as studio and work spaces notwithstanding living space. Many notable warehouse lofts sprinkle the territory. notwithstanding the extraordinary lofts accessible in Deep Ellum, there are numerous venues for music, restaurants, bars, and retail inside An expansive number of lands FOR SALE or FOR RENT exist in the Deep Ellum and other urban territories of Dallas. From condominiums, upscale Town Homes, and elevated structures, to recently built urban Apartments, or revamped Apartments which are accessible with outlines going from Traditional to Contemporary. Some are at present available.
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Found only three squares from downtown Dallas, Deep Ellum is Dallas' most occurrence scene. It is currently a flourishing, vibrant urban neighborhood where individuals live, work, consume, drink, shop and are entertained and edified.
When surrendered warehouses and memorable edifices have been changed into electric shops, bars, restaurants, displays, and lofts. These Deep Ellum lofts have a harder edge of either cement development, or "factory" development of uncovered block and unique wood post, shafts and floors, and for the most part roofs over feet high.
Moreover, the zone holds various live theater and verse venues. Paintings and graffiti add to the range's beautiful air. Night life in Deep Ellum is dependably an experience, where the precise best in present music might be found. From people to soul, jazz, rock and reggae to rockabilly, in addition to bleeding edge elective.
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Motivated and uplifting electronic music with build up and good synth pad sound.This track gives images of the journey, future, successful.
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Brandy McDougall's presentation, "Gathering in the Dark and Putting Down Roots: Kaona References in Contemporary Kanaka Maoli Literature," examines the compositional practice of kaona, or "hidden meaning," and how kaona continues in contemporary Kanaka Maoli literature. By focussing on the work of Haunani-Kay Trask, Māhealani Perez-Wendt, Victoria Nālani Kneubuhl, and other writers, she examines contemporary kaona references to Papahānaumoku, Wākea, and Hāloanaka, and how their employed kaona emphasizes the genealogical relationship Kānaka Maoli have to the land, implicit political and cultural claims to sovereignty, and the filial responsibility Kānaka Maoli have to enact these claims.
Born and raised on Maui, Brandy Nālani McDougall, is of Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiʻi, Maui, Oʻahu and Kauaʻi lineages), Chinese and Scottish descent. She is the author of a poetry collection, The Salt-Wind, Ka Makani Paʻakai (Kuleana ʻŌiwi Press 2008), the co-founder of Ala Press and Kahuaomānoa Press, and the co-star of an amplified poetry album, Undercurrent (Hawaiʻi Dub Machine 2011). In 2012 she was awarded the national College Composition and Composition Convention Richard Braddock Award for a critical article on Kaona and Hawaiian Rhetoric that she co-wrote with Georganne Nordstrom. Her scholarship and poems have been published in journals and anthologies throughout Hawaiʻi, the Pacific and Turtle Island. She is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies in the American Studies Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
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The Great Lakes Center at Buffalo State College has received a five-year, $1.1 million state grant to set up an office for invasive species management in the eight counties of Western New York.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation is funding the new office, known as Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management.
"The office will serve as a clearinghouse for all information pertaining to invasive species in Western New York," said Christopher Pennuto, a research scientist with the Great Lakes Center and director of the new Buffalo office.
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Alas, I have never been on a date before a day in my life. I seemed to always just hang out with someone and then boom, "I like you, lets be together".
I have a date coming up on Saturday and do not know what the hell to watch out for and look for (subtle notes that is. Big flaming red flags I can notice)
I'm much to shamed to ask my mama, sisters, or friends IRL, so the next best thing are internet strangers.
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Source: Microsoft
quote: Very true. It also is not indicative of adoption either as downgrade rights exist.
quote: OEM versions of Windows 8 eligible for downgradeWindows 8 Pro includes downgrade rights to:•Windows 7 Professional•Windows Vista Business
quote: When they couldn't compete with Netscape on sales, Microsoft gave their product away free and put Netscape out of business. Friendly competition? Or anti-competitive monopoly? You decide.
quote: Actually, Windows 8 profits are way down compared to Windows 7.


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Seniors, please RSVP via the email invitation you received or in Campus Life any time. Keep in mind that space is limited and some events need an RSVP to attend.
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6 Amazing Movie Crossovers Hollywood Should Be Making Now
Everyone loves a good "vs." movie because you don't have to think hard to get your brain around the plot. You can be drunk and suffering substantial blood loss and you'll still be reasonably sure about how the movie will end. Godzilla vs. Mothra, Freddy vs. Jason, D Cup Debbie vs. The Dildonic Duo ... they're all classics. But there are plenty of other versus films we've never had a chance to see, and that's sad.
I will now take this opportunity, before any panties get bunched, to tell you that this is not an article about movies that were almost made. This isn't Pinhead vs. Ash. If you want to know about those movies, take your cafe mocha and vodka and a copy of Variety and go masturbate in a gloomy fashion while talking to your despised agent on a Bluetooth headset. This here is highbrow speculation. This is art. This is me making culture more cultured. Like right now, if culture wears Adidas and eats at Chili's, when I'm done it will wear shoes from Florsheim and eat at that Wolfgang Puck place in the airport. They have seats there!
#6. Jareth the Goblin King vs. Gorkil the Goblin King
Reprising his epic codpieced role from Labyrinth, a 66-year-old David Bowie returns as Jareth the Goblin King. After losing his kingdom thanks to a bunch of shitty Muppets and a pre-hot-boobs and pre-pre-losing-those-boobs Jennifer Connelly, Jareth has traveled beyond the Labyrinth, a small misfit band of loyal goblins at his heels, as he attempts to rebuild the empire he lost, and maybe get revenge on that asshole Hoggle, who was also probably a compulsive masturbator. Like if any Muppet had an issue with masturbation, it would probably be Hoggle, right? Him or Gonzo.
In a far-off land, Jareth and his crew run afoul of a band of something or other. What are there a lot of in Muppet lands? Sentient chickens? Fizzgigs? Something like that. So they take cover in a cave. But the cave leads into a series of passages through a mountain that take them to a massive city of goblins.
The goblins attack, but Jareth's powers sway them, and he easily bends them to his will. Until he's brought before their leader, the flabtastic Gorkil, whose powers equal those of Jareth. The two are able to command and counter-command the goblins, with the exception of Jareth's loyal Muppets, who seem immune to Gorkil's will (because they're Muppets and you need to be like Jason Segel or Jack Black or whatever if you want to boss them around, not some tubby bitch in a cave town).
Eventually Jareth bids a skillful retreat, sensing an opportunity to gain a massive army and kingdom for himself, and in doing so discovers that his purloined goblin troops turn to stone in sunlight. And while he loses some of his forces, he gains valuable insight and begins to form a plan. A plan that will presumably require the boobs of Jennifer Connelly to pull off. As all plans should.
#5. Terminator vs. Rambo
A 65-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to the role that made him famous that isn't Conan, while a 66-year-old Sylvester Stallone once again puts on the headband of his iconic solo warrior, as two worlds collide in a way that literally could not hope to make sense. But don't worry, it doesn't need to!
Skynet, being a supercomputer, doesn't actually spend all day every day trying to kill Christnickward Balnortstahl. It's a sentient program that exists in all kinds of machines -- it can probably process a billion thoughts a second. So while it's sending machines back in time and totally cheating at FreeCell, it also has other targets it needs to eliminate, and chief among them is John Rambo.
After determining that Rambo seems to be incapable of dying or properly aging, instead suffering from a curious sort of vascular swelling that increases with age, Skynet has targeted him for destruction. The threat he poses is too damn high, and in the future, as little more than a bundle of bulgy veins held tight beneath jerky-like flesh and armed with multiple firearms, he is the closest thing to a biological Skynet in existence.
In order to preserve itself, Skynet once again sends a T-800 back in time to the Laotian jungle where Rambo just kind of hangs out and whittles and shit. Maybe he eats dumplings in a surly way.
But no one can take John Rambo by surprise because, like the web of a spider, Rambo's effulgent system of veins and arteries is set a-quiver at the slightest jostle in the jungle. Soon the battle is joined as man and machine square off and destroy acres of pristine jungle, as well as the homes and lives of lots of people who aren't white and aren't given identities.
There's probably a subplot with a girl, because that seems to be popular, but she'll die by the end and make Rambo more morose and vascular as a result. One of his veins will shudder in her honor.
#4. Star Wars vs. Aliens
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a finger-vagina-butt with a tail latched onto Yoda's brother's face and impregnated his chest cavity with a ravenous xenomorph embryo. The resulting spawn was a short green bitey thing that had piss-poor grammar and ravaged the entire planet.
Yoda and scant few others of his species escaped the planet but vowed to return and save their world from the alien scourge. Of course, when you are under 3 feet tall and barely have elbows, this is easier said than done. Skills need to be honed. Badass skills. Jedi skills. Maybe even skillz.
Now, totally in CG, with no actors, animatronics, real locations, or soul, Master Yoda returns to the world of his birth to kick some acid-dribbling ass. This issue has never been addressed in previous Aliens films, but it's a good bet that, at least some of the time, aliens poop acid.
With only a light saber and inconsistent speech patterns, Yoda must work his way in semi-gory fashion through an excessive amount of alien drones before finding the queen, just like in every Alien movie except the first one. You may be thinking Alien 3, but remember, Ripley had a queen inside of her. And it's possible there was no queen in Aliens vs. Predator 2, but of course no one even saw that movie, so no one can say either way. Please don't take this opportunity to note in the comments that you did see the movie, because it will just out you as a liar.


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Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Last year it was the Summer of Monopoly a golf shirt the color of every street on a Monopoly board.
In 2009 it was the year of the Hawaiian shirt, whatever I could pilfer off the rack at Walmart.
The three years in between I didnt venture outside because it was too hot.
This year, Im opting for flip flops and shorts.
While Im still sporting the Monopoly colored golf shirts, Im adding in really wild colors like Road Crew Lime Green and Cheap Key West Coral.
The shorts and flip flops, though, are a definite fashion statement for me as I really have a problem with feet.
I dont do feet.
Women throw these beach shots up on Facebook where they are reclining in a chaise lounge with the ocean literally at their feet. There is nothing that brings up my breakfast faster than ten freshly painted, sand-encrusted hammer toes.
Ive long contemplated the origins about my aversion to feet and the best I came up with is some form of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder caused by a repressed childhood memory. Im remembering as a four-year old being asked to change my grandmas corn pads.
Flip flops are uncomfortable. They even sound uncomfortable, Flip flop, flip flop.
They feel like a massive toe wedgy.
I just dont like feet, beginning and ending with my own.
I love legs though, and I love legs right down to the ankles accentuated by a nice gold anklet. If the feet are included with the whole leg package, Im good.
My feet are particularly disturbing.
I have half a toenail missing from my left big toe because of a chronic case of ingrown toenails caused by years of baseball pitching.
This was the toe that for years looked like an Italian chef had stuck a giant raw meatball on my left foot.
This was the toe that sent a student nurse to a new vocation. I told her I was there about my ingrown toe and that I wanted to see the doctor now.
Not before I get a look at that big toe first, Mister Grumpy Pants, she replied.
Suit yourself, I said and removed my shoe.
I found out what one looks like when one recoils in horror.
This was a woman who dotted her Is with smiley faces. She had this one coming.
I do not feel guilty.
The rest of my toes are almost as bad as the biggun.
I snapped my left ring toe like a dry twig on a tent stake when I was 12, and the right pinky toe I bent back in the opposite direction after stubbing it on a cherry wood table leg.
To get it back in place I had to send the little piggies to the market and made that last little piggy go wee-wee-wee all the way home.
They had to scrape me off the ceiling with a spatula.
So thats why I hate feet.
My feet are big and ugly.
Imagine what it would look like if Wolverine met Bozo.
And I havent even started on the shorts yet.
Lets just say I used to have good looking legs.Then I got fat.
My legs havent seen the light of day in more than 30 years. Some things are not meant to be seen.
So if you are blinded by a flash of bright white from beyond the far horizon this weekend, you know I stepped outside in a pair of shorts.
Or took off my shirt.
And you dont even want to know what that looks like.
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Lord Charles Sheridan has launched an investigation into a jockey's recent (and mysterious) death-while his wife, Kate, puzzles over the long-ago theft of an actress's jewels. But soon the Sheridans can't help wondering if the two strange events are, somehow, connected.
"A neatly plotted tale of mayhem among the racing set." —Publishers Weekly
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Great post thank you.
Love seeing classy guys like Toews, Suter and White voicing their understandable frustrations with mr. Midget and his BFF Jacobs.
A deal can get done soon but the NHL has to start being realistic!
Fehr is a great leader and the PA is not going to put up with all the crap, the NHL is trying (paid off idiots like Cox, focus groups or fanboy posters on some hockey forums).
But whatever the NHL is not going to recover easily this time, second lockout in seven years is hardly acceptable
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Ohhhh but no one from the other side can say anything???? Sort of how this forum is now. Seems like we were just warned about complaining how others are posting but it seems like some can get away with it....oh well.
The only crying I see are the people crying about bettman and the players. or should I say "buttman" so you guys understand who i'm talking about.
Turn coats....give me a break.
"how dare my boss make more than me...thats just stupid and soxors.....MOMMY!!!! THE PEOPLE THAT PAY FOR ME TO PLAY IN THIS GREAT LEAGUE WONT GIVE ME MORE THAN WHAT THEY MAKE!!!!......hahaha Yeah Whites childish comments made the nhl go back to the table. hahaha
Ya, get in your pen cattle.
How dare you have an opinion on your boss not letting you make a living.
You are a product and not a person.
You are under contract, that needs to be respected along with the man who signed it.
Sounds like the only crying is from the turncoats on these boards and the PR boys running TSN right now.
A two week break was proposed, how is that negotiating???
Ian spoke up and threw Bettman under the bus, saying what all of us have said or thought at one point.
And what happened???
They got their asses back to the table, way to go and thank you Mr. White.
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it can't sue
its rival smartphone makers out of existence, it appears that
Apple plans to at least catch up to them.According
to AppleInsider,
Apple will finally be bringing a "full-on solution" to
multi-tasking with iPhone OS 4.0 which is set to debut this summer.
Presumably that means that third-party apps will finally be allowed
to run in the background on the phone. The sources were scant
on details about how it would remedy performance, battery life, and
security issues, but they did say that the multi-tasking would use an
interface similar to that in the Mac versions of OS X.Apple's
iPhone is among the best-selling smartphones and is second
in market volume only to the incredible successful
Blackberries from Research in Motion. Apple's massive developer
community and gigantic collection of apps make a phone that would
otherwise be seen as just beneath top hardware offerings seem like
the top of the pack.However, Apple has slipped behind the
bleeding edge of the competition, even as its app offerings have
flourished. Its competitors -- Palm, Symbian, Research in
Motion, and Google (makers of Android OS) – all support
multi-tasking in their smartphone operating systems. Apple's OS
X distribution on the iPhone artificially prevents third-party
application backgrounding (multi-tasking), only allowing push
notifications as of iPhone OS 3.0.There have been a few major
exceptions. Currently, the iPhone's phone, SMS, email, iPod,
voice recorder, Nike+ apps and a handful of others can run in the
background. This means, for example, that you can use apps and
play music at the same time (but only using Apple's built in music
player).Apple has previously stated that backgrounding apps
represents a security risk. The iPhone's OS kills apps when you
accept calls or return to the home screen, rather than sending them
to the background. That makes it harder for spyware, adware, or
viruses to run on the phone without the user's knowledge.The
security comes at a cost though -- third-party apps that are
available at all times (run in the background) like instant
messaging, location-aware apps, internet radio, etc. are not able to
be supported unless you "jailbreak" your iPhone, running
software to hack the OS and remove Apple's restrictions.One
of the big problems is that multi-tasking could hurt gaming on the
iPhone if resource management isn't implemented perfectly.
Currently the iPhone rivals
the PSP Go and Nintendo DSi as a mobile gaming platform.
Its smartphone rivals though have been unable to muster much gaming
success -- titles tend to be limited by either inefficient
multi-tasking and/or by requiring the apps to be run by abstraction
layers, such as Adobe Flash/Flash Lite, Microsoft Silverlight, or Sun
Java/Android Dalvik runtimes.Despite these shortcomings, many
iPhone users have demanded multi-tasking. Multi-tasking was
rumored to be coming both in iPhone OS 2.0 and iPhone OS 3.0, but
never came in full form. Thus its reasonable to be wary about
whether iPhone OS 4.0 will truly bring multi-tasking to the table at
quote: And there was me thinking the success of the iPhone stems from all the choice and alternatives in the app store
quote: Probably not user friendly enough, otherwise why would they prohibit it?
quote: One simple open standard/open source based browser like Safari is more than enough and it makes platform more simple and hence more user friendly.
quote: Opera is probably not worth the trouble because its pros do not outweigh its cons as an iPhone browser.
quote: There's a huge principal difference between Big Brother and Apple's App Store policy. While Big Brother watched you and decided what you should or should not do depending on what HE, the Big Brother, deemed necessary, Apple only deals with customer or client complaints. Apple is not the Big Brother in sense that they don't care what people run UNLESS people start complaining about some app. Then Apple may remove it. See the difference?
quote: It is extremely user friendly, looks fantastic and is a joy to use
quote: by your logic Internet Explorer is also more than enough as it makes Windows more simple hence more user friendly?
quote: What was all of this about then?
quote: Apple IS big brother when it comes to the App Store
quote: s IE open source? No?
quote: It is based on an Open Source engine
quote: Apple claims to be a freedom loving company
quote: Neither is Safari. It is based on an Open Source engine. Rather than me putting links, you can google yourself.