text:
Program Overview
Program Overview
Program Name
Spanish Language & Culture
Host University
Universidad de Salamanca
The Universidad de Salamanca (USAL), founded in 1218, is the oldest university in Spain. It is world-renowned for its specialization in the teaching of the Spanish language, making it ideal for study abroad students. The university buildings are spread amidst the golden sandstone cathedrals and cobblestone streets of Salamanca--a quaint, walkable, college town. Some of the greatest names in Spanish literature and humanism appear on USAL's list of past students and professors, including Miguel de Cervantes, Antonio de Nebrija, and Miguel de Unamuno.
USAL's Cursos Internacionales department, established in 1929, has a large offering of Spanish language and culture courses for foreign students. ISA students in Salamanca can take courses in English and Spanish with other international students through Cursos Internacionales or with local students in regular degree programs at the university. USAL is fully accredited and recognized by the Spanish Ministry of Education (Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia).
September: September 2020
Program Dates
Aug 31, 2020 - Oct 01, 2020
Program Length
Intensive Month
Application Deadline
Jul 15, 2020
Forms and Payment Deadline
Aug 01, 2020
80 - 100 Contact Hours
2.50 Minimum GPA*
- Apply Now
Study Abroad Program Description
Open to students of all language levels, you will rapidly improve your Spanish language abilities in this focused, intensive program. Beginning level courses focus solely on language acquisition while intermediate, advanced, and superior level courses expand on Spanish culture in addition to grammar. All students are required to take a Spanish language placement exam upon arrival in Salamanca. This exam will determine your language level and course selections are not confirmed until the results are available. Classmates are international students from all over the world. All classes are taught by Universidad de Salamanca faculty in the Cursos Internacionales department.
Students can participate in an Intensive Month program before this program begins for an extra cost. Please contact ISA for more details.
A Spanish student visa is required for programs over 90 days and obtaining one may require out of state travel. Please contact your Site Specialist for more information pertaining to the process of acquiring a Spanish student visa.
Visa Information
A Spanish student visa is required for U.S. students participating in academic programs in Spain lasting 91 days or more. For non-U.S. citizens, you should contact your consulate to verify specific entry requirements. Please click on the "Spanish Visa Support" icon on the "What's Included" tab of this page to learn more about visa requirements and and the optional Spain Visa Service.
Students must have a minimum grade point average of 2.50.
There is no language prerequisite for this program.
What's Included
Comprehensive Advising and Support
24-Hour Emergency
Comprehensive Health, Safety, and Security Support
Tuition at the Host University
Meals and Laundry Service
Internet Access
Official Transcript from the Host University
Professional Development Toolbox
Full-Time Resident Staff
On-Site ISA Offices
Spanish Visa Support
Contact Hours
80 - 100
Recommended U.S. Semester Credits
5 - 6
Recommended U.S. Quarter Units
8 - 10
Academic Information
Course Selection
Beginning students take all four beginning-level courses listed below.
Intermediate, advanced and superior students take a required Spanish language course, plus two to three courses selected from the list below, each from a different category.
Estimated Language Level
Please use the following only as a guideline to determine what your language level may be. Your language level will ultimately be determined by a placement exam that you take on site. Each semester/quarter is of COLLEGE-LEVEL Spanish or the equivalent:
Beginning = 0-1 semesters/0-2 quarters
Intermediate = 2-3 semesters/3-5 quarters
Advanced = 4-5 semesters/6-8 quarters
Superior = 6+ semesters/9+ quarters
select allclear all
Course Disclaimer
- Courses and course hours of instruction are subject to change.
Support & Funding
U.S. Team
Carmen Abanades Cruz
Resident Director, Spain
Beatriz de Miguel Martin
Student Services Coordinator, Spain
Juan Eguiluz Pacheco
ISA Academic Director, Spain
Roberto de la Calzada Cuesta
Student Services, Spain
Rodrigo de Francisco Benito
Housing Coordinator , Spain
Funding Your ISA Program
As an ISA participant, you have the opportunity to apply for scholarships and grants that can be applied directly to assist with your study abroad programs. ISA offers over $1,000,000 in scholarships and grants each year. To see what opportunities are available, you may visit the Scholarships and Grants page. Please note that some programs, including remote learning opportunities, are not eligible for scholarships.View all Funding Options
Living in ISA housing will give you the opportunity to experience aspects of the Spanish lifestyle that are inaccessible to the average visitor. Uncovering the uniqueness of your neighborhood and the surrounding areas will help you to feel right at home. No matter which type of housing you choose, you will have a short commute to class. Travel times to the various university buildings generally range between 15 and 40 minutes depending on housing and class locations. With an open and adaptable mind the experience of living in another culture can be highly rewarding.
We strive to match your housing preferences with our available accommodations. However, housing preference requests cannot be guaranteed.
Homestays are best if you are seeking full linguistic and cultural immersion during your time abroad. Each host family has been carefully selected by ISA's resident staff in order to best accommodate your needs and to ensure a comfortable living situation. Homestays provide three meals a day (except on ISA excursion days) and laundry service once a week. You will typically share a room with another ISA student of the same gender. Single rooms may be available for an additional fee.
Student Residence
The student residence (residencia in Spanish) is similar to a small dorm and is assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. The residencia houses Spanish and international students, giving you the opportunity to meet Spaniards and practice your language skills. Three meals per day are included, as well as laundry service once per week. Students will share a room with another ISA student but have the option of paying extra to secure an individual room. A $500 housing deposit is required from students choosing this option. ISA may retain some, or all, of the housing deposit in the case of damage to property.
Independent Housing
You may opt to secure housing independently. If you select this option, you will receive a discount equal to the housing portion of the program price. By choosing to opt out of ISA housing, you are responsible for researching and reserving housing, and paying all fees, deposits, and rent directly to the housing facility that you choose.


text:
Just for You
Admission Process
Other Sites
On May 11, 2007 President Emerita Dr. Sydow signed the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment. The agreement pledges Onondaga's commitment to reduce and eventually eliminate emissions, and to accelerate the educational efforts to equip society to re-stabilize the earth's climate.
Since then the College has moved to action many projects and initiatives in pursuit of this goal. A major driving force behind this is the dedicated effort of employees to initiate change and spread this new culture.
Onondaga Community College
Central New York's partner in education for success.
4585 West Seneca TurnpikeSyracuse, NY 13215315.498.2000[email protected]
Live Chat
Install Adobe Acrobat Reader to view PDF files

subset: commoncrawl


text:
We've detected that you're located in United Kingdom. You can choose to view this site in a different language by clicking here.Close
For its best all-round performance this year, Gripple has been named The Employee Owned Business of the Year by The Employee Ownership Association (EOA) in its 2015 awards scheme.
A group of employees from Gripple, the world-leading wire joiner and fastener manufacturer, were presented with the top accolade in the sector by the BBC presenter, Martine Croxall at the glittering gala dinner held during the EOA's annual conference.
An independent group of judges, drawn from the employee owned sector, highlighted Gripple's best ever performing year, with before tax profits up 157%, 13 new products launched and a new commitment to bringing employee ownership to life throughout the business through enhanced employee engagement and decision making.
Andy Davies, director and chairman of GLIDE, the in-house company representing all employees, said: "We are all so proud to have received this important tribute. The employee ownership culture has always been pivotal at Gripple. Indeed, it has always been extremely close to the heart of our chairman, Hugh Facey who believes it continues to be fundamental in all staff pulling in the same direction in the company's and their own interests."
Sponsored by employee ownership specialists Baxendale and managed by the EOA, the UK Employee Ownership Awards - formerly the Philip Baxendale Awards - are in five categories. Gripple's award was open to well-established employee owned businesses, focusing on performance, with the key criteria outstanding achievements relating to services or products plus overall performance.
Deb Oxley, EOA chief executive said: "Gripple's award as the Employee Owned Business of the Year is the culmination of a phenomenal story of success for the entire business. And, as one of the most vocal champions of employee ownership, it is great for the sector as a whole too.
"This well regarded and well known company has quite deservedly been recognised by the sector in what has been its most successful year to date."
Posted 01/12/2015.


text:
Their job was to generate opportunities for sponsors to interact with the audience, creating videos that featured the best-dressed people and interviews with candidates for a VJ contest. The content was posted online, where people could vote, watch the videos and share them.
"We saw it could bring to the table tools to engage people more than just coming to an event and seeing a show," said Jackson, a Brooklyn resident. "I think of what we did as the prelude to YouTube for companies."
Jackson recalls an instance in which he asked a concertgoer in New York to describe Seagram's gin and the respondent compared the product to Viagra.
"It was getting the kind of advertising you can't buy because it was coming from the consumers and it was genuine," said Jackson with a laugh.
The company was recently renamed RDZ Media Group because the company now does so much more than video. In addition to using traditional media (television, print), RDZ also specializes in new media (YouTube, blogging), social networking (Facebook, Twitter), and private label social media (online communities for companies).
RDZ also works with local non-profit organizations and union groups, including the unions that represent traffic enforcement agents and NYC sanitation enforcement agents.
"Our client base really keeps us on our toes. They require us to be ahead of the curve so we can help them fulfill their goals and missions," he said, particularly via social networking.
Jackson pointed to the power of social media, particularly Twitter, in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. For example, just that morning he read that the Harlem Brunch Club was collecting clothing to send to Haiti, something he'd never have known about without Twitter.
"Watching something on TV, we feel very helpless. When we're on social media, we're exchanging information, and social media does it so fast," said Jackson. "Instead of watching and feeling helpess, we're able to help, and that's empowering."


text:
By Lady Mary of Montevale
Features Reporter
The annual Children's Fete, held in the barn on Wednesday afternoon, was its usual great deal of noise, lines for the most popular activities, and volunteer staff having almost as much fun as the children…but only almost.
There were virtually no lines for registration, however. Thanks to the addition of more volunteers on troll and a pre-registration procedure earlier in the day, no one had to wait in a line instead of just getting right in there to begin having fun. By 3 PM about 300 children had been signed in and more were still arriving for the last hour of the fete.
Many of the day's activities were repeats from previous years such as the boffer fighting against adult fighters, including knights and royalty. His Highness Duke Cuan of Atlantia was on the "list field," facing a young lad in a green and yellow tunic who wasted no time in landing a veritable storm of blows around His Highness's head and shoulders. The next opponent was a slender blond fellow who could have been dubbed the "black knight" from his outfit. He quickly scored a blow to Cuan's chest and grinned widely before taking a very light tap to his own front and turning it into a "death" scene worthy of an Oscar. The score in their bout was Black Knight 3, Prince 1 when I moved on to see some of the other activities that filled the barn from one end to another.
Once again this year, Baronessa Anna Bella di Cherubin (East) donated all the materials for up to 400 youths to paint heraldic designs on muslin tote bags that could be taken home once they were dry. Assisting her was Baroness Ellesbeth Donofrey (also East) who had created many of the designs which are pre-printed on bags for a children to fill in with bright colors of fabric paint. Ellesbeth pointed out to me when I admired three of the designs that they were new this year and Byzantine in origin because the Queen of the East is Byzantine.
At the Henna Station, Anabel de Berchlai (Middle) was applying a traditional floral design to the hand of Marissa, age 14 (East). This young lady had not yet decided whether to move on to the other end of the station where Kenzie, a volunteer from the Midrealm, was "frosting" the freshly applied henna with colored glitter for those who wanted it. She told me that pink and red were the most popular colors. Later at other activities, I also saw a number of young gentlemen who sported serpentine henna designs glittered with blue.
The two origami tables were having to fight a bit with the gusty winds to keep from losing their supplies of paper and some sample projects. I was shown a penguin made from light green paper with a floral design, two pelicans—one solid red and the other a blue and yellow print—and a raspberry colored Big Fat Rabbit. Linette, age 10 (Æthelmearc), made a jumping frog and a paper crane.
Her sister Giselle, age 11, had been to the face painting area in order to be transformed into a princess before moving on to the longest, slowest line of the day (the one for balloon creations) where she intended to acquire a tiara.
One of the many face painting volunteers asked if I would like something drawn on my cheek. As she set to work on copying my device from a sticker on my reporter's flash drive, I heard the next painter over say to Ethan, age 7 (Middle), "Now you know how it feels for girls when they have makeup put on." Ethan was being transformed into a pirate, complete with a black eye patch around his left eye.
Countess Adelicia and other members of the Barony of Tir-y-don (Atlantia) were once again handling the bead necklace table, a project that has been theirs for four years or so. They donate the beads and string, get together to make the "fiddly bits," and then staff the activity at the fete. The Countess told me there were supplies for 100 to 150 children to make necklaces. One of the young jewelers I saw hard at work selecting beads was Madeline, age 5, from my own shire. She finally settled on a selection of blues, greens, gold, and white. Mom helped her string them while Dad, still in his armor, stood patiently by with the "goody" basket which already contained a pinwheel that Madeline has made earlier.
Morwenna, the Chirurgeon for the Children's Fete who has served in the position since her first Pennsic five years ago, pointed out to me how many sets of parents both make time in their busy War Week schedule to attend this event with their children. She ascribed the success of this annual event, which is such an important part of so many children's Pennsic experience, to the generosity of so many volunteers who give of their time and effort as well as donating the supplies for it.
One such group is the Barony of Sacred Stone (Atlantia) which donates all the refreshments every year. Countess Brianna, who was in charge of this aspect of the fete this year, has worked in some aspect for every Children's Fete since the first one in AS XXVI because she was in the same household as Duchess Arielle.
In case you do not already know, the Children's Fete was the brainchild of Her Grace (who had no children herself), and she had always been its guiding force and inspiration. Sadly, two years ago right before the War, Arielle lost a long and courageous battle against breast cancer. This lovely, brave woman is still very much in the minds of her many friends and the other volunteers, some of whom continued this year to wear pink garb in her memory. All volunteer name tags were printed with the familiar breast cancer pink ribbon again at Pennsic XL as the Children's Event continues to be held, and to grow, in honor of Her Grace's memory.
Eastern Archer Champions shoot the Friend-Foe challenge at Wednesday's Archer Champions
shoot. Complete details will be published in Friday's paper


text: Screenshot 2017-10-03 20.16.17 By Christina Chiba Posted October 4, 2017 In 0 0 Christina Chiba Exploring the amazing world of life. Living in love and in happiness. Helping people find their bliss! Recent PostsMenswear: What's Cool for Summer 2018Pretty Things – A Guide to Sustainable & Ethical Lingerie BrandsAfter the glitter fadesHow Biofabrication Is Changing The Future Of Fabrics Leave a Comment Cancel reply


text:
"Everest" Leading Wheat Variety
KSCB News - February 21, 2014 8:06 am
A new report ranks the popularity of winter wheat varieties in Kansas.
The National Agricultural Statistics Service said Thursday that "Everest" continued to be the leading wheat variety seeded in Kansas. It accounts for 14.3 percent of the planted acres for 2014, the same percent as the previous year.
Developed by Kansas State University, Everest topped the list in the eastern two-thirds of the state.
A wheat variety called TAM 111 is the second most popular variety with 11.6 percent of the acreage. It is the leading variety planted in western Kansas.
In third place was the variety called T 158, with 5 percent of the planted acreage.
The wheat variety report is funded by the Kansas Wheat Commission.


text:
Opening this weekend, in limited release, is writer/director J.C. Chandor's Margin Call. Starring Kevin Spacey, Demi Moore, Paul Bettany, Zachary Quinto, Penn Badgley and Simon Baker, Margin Call is a very smart economic thriller that revolves around the key people at an investment bank during the 24-hour period before the 2008 financial crisis. As the film unfolds, we learn who knew what and when, and what lines people are willing to cross to stay ahead. While Hollywood often glamorizes or exaggerates real events, Margin Call makes you feel like a fly on the wall and it never feels forced. Definitely recommended. For more on the film, watch the trailer here.
A few days ago I did a phone interview with Simon Baker. During our extended conversation, Baker talked about making Margin Call, his thoughts on Occupy Wall Street, and what's coming up on his very popular CBS show The Mentalist. In addition, he talked about his favorite actors and his favorite films, if more people know him from The Mentalist or The Devil Wears Prada, and I asked him his thoughts on comic book movies as I've seen some online folks saying he'd be a good Doctor Strange. Hit the jump for more.
Here are some highlights of things we learned during the interview:
- Margin Call was shot very quickly. The whole movie was filmed in 17 days.
- They shot the film on the 42nd floor at 110th Plaza. The whole production took place there, and their changing rooms were offices from a defunct hedge fund bank.
- Baker knows whether the Red John storyline in The Mentalist will wrap up by the end of this season, or if it will continue through the entire run of the show, but he won't reveal the answer.
- He's contracted for three more years on The Mentalist (7 seasons).
- He just finished directing another episode for the series.
- Reveals that Robin Tunney often pranks him on the set of The Mentalist by getting guest actors to ask him for a photo by saying it's for their grandmother.
- He hasn't heard anything about Doctor Strange casting rumors and he's not familiar with the character.
If you'd like to listen to the interview, here's the audio. Otherwise the full transcript is below. Margin Call opens tomorrow.
Collider: What are some of your favorite films that when you bump into them on TV you just can't shut them off because they mean that much to you?
Simon Baker: I'm a big fan of Alan J. Pakula's films like All the President's Men, The Parallax View, and Klute. I'm a big fan of those movies. I really like The Conversation. That is one of my favorites. I also like Being There and I think The Graduate is great and phenomenal. I could keep going on.
Who is the first actor that you remember just loving?
Baker: The first guy I really liked and was kind of obsessed with and had to seek out and find more of his films was Jean-Paul Belmondo. He was the main guy that I was obsessed with. I became slightly obsessed with Marcello Mastroianni as well.
Do more people want to talk to you about The Mentalist or The Devil Wears Prada?
Baker: The Mentalist.
I was figuring that it was maybe The Devil Wears Prada because it is still an important thing among women.
Baker: Yeah. For a while it was that. It is funny because I sort of have a range….Devil Wears Prada hit a certain audience and African-American woman really responded to a movie I did called Something New, which is an interracial love story. I always get a bit of a giggle whenever I am down at the supermarket and I am at the queue when an African-American woman goes, "I saw you in that movie!" That's always cute. The Mentalist is on television, free to air, and it is in people's living rooms. It's also in 30 something countries in the world. So a lot of time I get recognized for that.
Jumping into Margin Call, this film could not be timelier with everything that is going on with Occupy Wall Street.
Baker: How do you feel about Occupy Wall Street?
I try not to put myself in interviews, but I definitely think that there is a discrepancy between the amount of people that work and can not get ahead and the amount of very wealthy people that keep on getting richer.
Baker: Yeah. Do you think that is called capitalism?
Yes. But I personally do think that the capitalistic system has been skewed a little bit where it is not allowing that many people to move ahead while the richest people do seem to get even richer.
Baker: The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard. At the moment, there is a lot of debate as to what they want. First of all, they just want to be involved in the discussion. That is what they are fighting for at the moment – to actually be considered in the discussion. They want to have a conversation and to start a dialogue. Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected. I think that the Occupy Wall Street thing, as long as it is tasteful, is very important. I think that it is important to have people get a sense of their own power and to be able to stand up and voice their opinions.
You guys came out with this film at Sundance and it might not have worked coming out in October, but there is still a lot of economic turmoil. Everything that was going on when you guys were at Sundance is still going on, and it might even be worse. So it seems as if the film is coming out at just the right time since it talks about things that are still going on.
Baker: Yeah, maybe. It may also work against us. I'm not sure. Movies are an interesting thing. It was like…during the war in Iraq there were a number of films that came out and none of them were very successful because people didn't really want to know about what was in the news constantly. This film may be the same kind of thing. I don't want it to be and I think this is an interesting take on what went on in 2008. It certainly gives you a view. The reason why I did it was because I was interested in learning how this stuff actually went down behind closed doors in the workplace. I think most people can identify with the hierarchy of the workplace. We all know what the fallout was. We all know that things went south and in a big way. They haven't sorted themselves out yet and they probably won't for some time. But how did these people arrive at this decision to do what they did do to precipitate the crash? I was interested enough to want to do it. I hope that audiences are interested and will look into it.
I certainly enjoyed the movie and your performance. Something that I found interesting about the movie is that you guys shot it in a very short time. It was almost like a TV schedule. I could be wrong, but wasn't an 8 or 9 day shoot?
Baker: Well, a TV schedule is…in my show we shoot 8 days for one episode. On this film, we shot 17 days for the whole film. It is a 2-hour movie and it was a pretty tight schedule. I like to work fast and I think that it sort of helps with this one because we are all on the floor. We were all on the 42nd floor at 110th plaza. That is where our production took place. All of our change rooms were offices from a defunct hedge fund bank.
I definitely want to ask you about working with Kevin Spacey. If I am not mistaken, the last time you worked with him was on a little small movie called L.A. Confidential.
Baker: Yeah, that was the last time I worked with him.
I believe your career has taken a pretty big turn since then.
Baker: Yeah. It has been a few years under the bridge since. Yeah, I have a TV show that is pretty successful. He is one of my favorite actors. He is great to watch and he always brings so much sort of baggage with each character. It is all there. Even with just a look, there is so much going on with him all of the time. The cast on this film was pretty extraordinary. Even the young guy, Penn Badgley, did a great job.
I think the cast is one of the reasons why your film might get a larger turnout than say some of the other financial films.
Baker: Maybe. I hope so.
I definitely want to ask about your very popular TV show. You guys are in your 4th season right now. Is it sort of like a smooth running machine at this point or do you still have hiccups along the way?
Baker: We still have hiccups. I think hiccups are good because in a television show you are going to do 24 episodes a year. You want a smooth running machine so you work towards it being that, but what comes with a smooth running machine sometimes is complacency. With complacency you end up with a bit of mediocrity. So I think it's important that every now and then there are a couple of hiccups, which we still have. It is a challenge every now and then and we say, "Hang on a second. Can we do this better?" just to keep the bar raised.
You guys have had the Red John storyline, which is obviously an integral part of your character and the show. Do you see foresee that storyline wrapping before the end of the show where there would be another arch or do you think the storyline will be with you throughout the entire run of the show?
Baker: It is hard to ask me that question because I kind of know the answer and I don't want to tell you. [laughs]
So, in other words, Bruno [Heller] has told you the answer?
Baker: We have discussed it a number of times at length. It's not something that I can really start to talk about without giving things away.
There have been some shows like The X-Files that, in my opinion, ran a storyline for far too long. I think that it would've been better to mix in a new storyline. But you guys have done a good thing with the Red John storyline. It has been interesting and the show has been able to balance the mythology with stand alone episodes. Can you talk about that?
Baker: I think it is important to have the balance of the idea of the mythology and still not hang your hat completely on that. If you are hanging your hat completely on the Red John concept, it is going to move very quickly and you have to move it along very quickly. If you dance around it a bit, touch on it here and there, keep it alive, and keep the show entertaining in its stand alone procedural beats then it sort of balances into two worlds. For me, it is important to have a balance of comedy and drama in a show. You have to have the stakes, but you also have to have a brevity and lightness. Otherwise, it could become a little heavy and get weighed down by the melodrama.
I don't know how familiar you are with comic book movies, but Marvel is developing a Doctor Strange movie. There has been a lot of online chatter and a lot of people might want to see you play Doctor Strange. Is this something that you have heard about?
Baker: No.
Are you a fan of comic book movies?
Baker: I do like comic book movies, but only the ones that I read as a kid. I thought that the Batman stuff was really good and I thought that Iron Man was fantastic. That was a very well made movie. I thought Captain America fell short. Thor…not so much. I actually did like The Hulk. I liked them both, actually. I thought they were interesting. I am interested in seeing The Avengers. Doctor Strange…I don't know. I am not familiar with that one.
There is a lot of talk that Marvel is going to try and go for 2013 and are trying to make two movies a year. You are working on a 24 episodes a year show and I am assuming that you are under contract for another year or another three years. I imagine that your hiatus is a delicate balance between your family and deciding to do something that you are very passionate about. Could you see yourself on this upcoming hiatus wanting to do a big Hollywood movie? Are you already thinking about that?
Baker: I have been thinking about it. Films like Margin Call are fantastic because they give me a break and I also do something that I think is interesting, challenging, and very different. I'm also developing a couple of different things myself. There are also a couple of things out there that are kind of looming. It is a balance. As it stands, with the success of my show at this point….when I am 85 and I am going to buy diapers for myself in the supermarket and people don't associate me with The Mentalist. For me, it is important to fight against that and do other things as well.
Saying that, are there certain things that you are thinking about for next year's hiatus? Would you like to do a dark R-rated movie or ss there something that maybe your agents are pitching you on?
Baker: I've done two dark movies. Margin Call is a pretty bleak kind of character. Then Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me is a film that I did before that. It was a very dark film. I would like to do something a bit lighter. I would like to do something that is just a bit more….I don't know, broader maybe. I am not sure. I'll look at them all and assess how I feel at that time. I'm also very, very tired by the time that I get to my hiatus.
I was actually going to ask you about that. The actors that I have spoken with who are on very successful TV shows who are doing 24 episodes a year and there is almost…you burn pretty bright. At some point, you can't play the character anymore because you have done it for so long. You guys are in your 4th year. Do you see…
Baker: We are in our fourth year, but I think my character is unlike most characters on TV. My character has so many facets. So if I put my mind to it, I can still make the character entertaining for me to play. I can still challenge myself a little bit with the character.
I'm a fan of the series and of your work, but do you see yourself going for 8 or 9 years? Or is that so far ahead that you can really only look at it as a one year at a time thing?
Baker: I am contracted for another 3 years. Whether or not the show will go that long, I'm not sure. But if it does, I will be there unless they replace me.
I don't see that happening. You have directed a few episodes. Will you be directing more in the future?
Baker: I actually just finished one. I just locked the picture on Friday. I'm really happy about it and I just got a text from Bruno, who saw it and reckons that it is the best episode that we have done. I was pretty happy with that little text.
Do you get to cherry pick the scripts or do you put your name in the rotation?
Baker: I am in the rotation. What I do is that I get the script early and work on it pretty hard. Did you see the one that I directed last year?
I have seen all of your shows so yes.
Baker: So you saw the one that I directed last year? It was the one about the guy who is on fire.
Yes. I do remember that one.
Baker: So with that one…I just work the scripts a little bit harder than probably most of the directors do because I get the script earlier than they do.
A lot of TV directors that I have spoken to obviously want to stay within the format of the show, but they always try to add a shot or two that are new or interesting. Are you on set looking around and analyzing what is an angle that you haven't shot? For example, was there a shot or two that you have been saving for the episode that you just locked?
Baker: Sort of, but not really. A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story. I think that you first and foremost have to get your story right, and then you create the shots. I am a pretty visual director. I do like to move the camera around and I do like to see a refreshing take on stuff, but if it takes you out of the story then I am not interested in using it. That often does happen when people go for a really fun, tricky shot. In my episode, we did some amazing shots. The last shot of my episode is pretty incredible.
I want to ask you about pranks on set. Have you ever been a part of a great prank or have you ever had a great prank played on you?
Baker: Robin Tunney has done it a couple of times when we have guest actresses. She always tells them to say, "My grandmother loves the show. I need to get a photo of you for my grandmother." It's just a gag that she does for some reason. We have a really cute girl working on the show and she comes in to the guest actor and always says, "Can I take a photo of you for my grandmother?" I always say, "It's always the grandmother…" but I didn't realize that Robin would put them up to it. But pranks I don't really have that much time for. There is enough stuff that happens by accident that I don't need to actually put the effort into making things happen.
You obviously have a lot of dialogue that you have to work with and you mentioned the 8 day shooting schedule. Do you take it home with you and work on it at night or are you working on it in your trailer? Can you talk about your work process on the show?
Baker: Constantly. It's just constant. It never stops. On the way to work, on the way home from work, in the car, at home, in the trailer, on set – it is constant. I always sort of feel like I am behind the apple.
Can you talk about the dialogue? You have played a character for 4 years now and I am sure you are very familiar with your character's mannerisms and how you inhabit the character. How much changes now when you get a script in terms of tweaking the dialogue?
Baler: I don't like to mess around. I mess a little bit with the dialogue here and there, but I don't like to mess around too much. Bruno has always given me enough rope to play around with and in some cases to hang myself with, but he has always been very lenient with that stuff.


text:
Find The Best Architects, Artists and Designers to Work With Online
Find The Perfect Architect, Artist or Designer to Pour Creativity Into Your Grand Projects
Its easy, or maybe it is not because when searching for designers, artists and architects online you have usually two choices, you can either find the most famous people or you could alternatively find the cheapest people. Catching the designers in between is like searching for a mythical creature that avoids your grasp, it is really difficult to find someone good yet affordable because of clustering and information spread.Basically, the famous designers are quite easy to find, and there are websites like popular designers (popdes.com) where you can see a list, but there are also many online publications and design magazines. There is a difference between the name of designers you could find at list of popular designers at popdes.com since popdes.com only lists award winning designers that have truly proven their worth.So at popdes.com you can actually find a good designer, artist or architect that is an award winner, creative who have proven his or her worth, while at online publications you will find fashionable names that are trendy but could be rather very expensive, the price difference could result between working with a celebrity designer and famous designers listed at popdes.com would be really high, thus working with designers listed at popdes.com would provide a more price effective result. If you search the very best yet affordable designers in a sense that there would be no crazy pricing, you should check the DesignClassifications.com instead, unlike the popdes.com which lists the rather popular designers around the world, the DesignClassifications.com lists the very best designers, artists and architects within a specific design field so that you could find that one special designer.At the DesignClassifications.com you will find a list of all different design disciplines, together with the very best names in these design fields, you could for example get in touch with best architects, artists, interior designers, photographers, or user interface developers. There are over hundred disciplines with many good designers listed for each. The DesignClassifications.com ranking is merit based, so higher the ranking the better the skill.Another interesting platform to look at when searching for the very best designers is the DesignerRankings.com the Designer Rankings website is platform or design field independent, you can see the best designers among all design fields and that could be a really cool place to start if you are searching for consultancy. You could find the best of the best by checking the top design rankings.Finally, there is the WorldDesignRankings.com which lists the best designers, artists and architects for a specific country, now that is really useful if you need a designer from your own country, all of the websites above have links to the portfolios of the designers, showing the award winning works so you could see the work of the designers, artists and architects in advance even before you could start negotiations.Furthermore, another alternative for finding good designers is working with the Design Mediatiors – DesignMediators.com , now their service is different, and they would find you the very best designers themselves, usually based on these rankings as well as their private leads and databases. Working with Design Mediators could be cost effective as they could help you get in touch with the correct designer for the correct price.If you are looking for even more cost effective and savings you should consult to BuySellDesign.com the Buy Sell Design website does exactly as their name implies and more; they buy and sell design as well as help you organize tenders of design and architecture so that you could find designers, they too work with award winning designers as well as some other designers who are in their networks.What if you are searching for truly grand names or multinational design teams? Then you must consult to one of two addresses, first the World Design Consortium – WorldDesignConsortium.com where you could find their really really big team of about thousand architects and designers that have won thousands of awards. The WDC is probably the place to look for architects and designers for really big and important projects.Furthermore, you could also consult to IAD, the International Association of Designers, and they have a website at iaod.net where you could access their members list. The IAD is grand, there are members from almost all countries, and you could find both very good designers as well as budget design opportunities, so that is definitely a place to look at when searching for good and great designers to work with.So, which option is the best for you when finding designers? I would visit the Design Classifications platform for finding the right person, however if you need local or country specific solutions visit Design Mediators or IAD. If you need to find big designers, you need to visit the World Design Consortium. Furthermore, an alternative I forgot to mention would be contacting a design award organizer to see if they could help you.Is it better to find a designer online or consult a local chapter of your design association? What are the differences or benefits of working with designers found online? Designers found online are more likely to be merit based instead of results you could acquire through nepotism or suggestion of your peers, the online space is vast and the competition is better so you could expect to get a better designer for the same perhaps less price. What to consider when choosing the best designer? Is the portfolio relevant? The portfolio is relevant, try to work with a designer that is excellent at whatever you want to do, while of course design is all about creativity, it is also equally about wisdom, thus instead of asking an architect to do product packaging (which he could definitely do very well), consult a packaging designer instead for economically efficient and perhaps way better results.Do design awards matter when finding the best designers? The design awards do matter, an award winning designer is not just a good or great designer, it means that the designer who have won the design awards have a good understanding of what is public relations and how to deal with it. This all means that if you work with an award winning designer, you could potentially expect more publicity for your products, more advertisement means reaching more buyers, more profits for you. How to approach the designers you found online? You need to be precise about what you want, what you want could be very vague such as ideas, but how you want it could be precise, do you need a report, a working prototype or do you need the designer to follow some corporate guidelines during the design, are there any possibilities or opportunities or technologies invented by you that the designer could use? Contact Design Mediators if you are not sure about how to start.What are some of the mechanics when working with designers in general? What do you know about royalty based payments and fixed fees? If you visited SaloneDelDesigner.com which lists many designs from many designers for sale, you will notice one important thing, there are two types of payments, fixed and for royalty. Fixed means you pay once, royalty means you pay forever, like a lease. Many celebrity level designers will ask payments forever, based on percentage of sales, so be smart and consult to the Design Mediators. Is the name of a designer truly matters? Or is it the design rather than the designers' name that sells the product? As you could guess both could be relevant, but you must understand that it is the design quality not the name that sells the product, because when you want to sell to masses, or for large projects, the population is much like you, do not know the famous names outside their own knowledge domain, so go for designers who would deliver the best idea instead of famous ones.For the aspect above it means the DesignClassifications.com would be more useful, if you wish to work with a designer that has shown his or her merit. Do not get blinded by shiny names, remember that by working with a less famous but better designer, you can first of all save from expensive royalties or reduce costs, then you can potentially sell more products or units since the design would be more good.Also you should know that when you work with celebrity level designers, they do not do the design in most cases, they would take your million dollars for your mega project and give it to senior designers which have just graduated or perhaps did not even yet gradate from a bachelors degree. Thus, it is your best interest to work with ranked designers as almost all of these rankings are based on the quality of work.Exerpt:Its easy, or maybe it is not because when searching for designers, artists and architects online you have usually two choices, you can either find the most famous people or you could alternatively find the cheapest people. Catching the designers in between is like searching for a mythical creature that avoids your grasp, it is really difficult to find someone good yet affordable because of clustering and information spread.Basically, the famous designers are quite easy to find, and there are web..
Find The Best Architects, Artists and Designers to Work With Online Images:
End of the article, click here to go back to previous page, or alternatively go back to Design Convention Magazine homepage.


text:
Starters: "Best" can have so many connotations. So let us not digress and simply condemn that word as "his opinion". The first thing about Mathura is the wait. It isn't that bad nowadays. But in the 90s, the head-waiter would take down your name and usher you into their huge balcony overlooking mount road. Sometimes a trip to Mathura is worth for the time spent waiting in that terrace-like balcony. A place like that in mount road is simply unimaginable. Once you get a seat, the first thing that strikes you is their interior design. Especially the glass-like pillars and lighting. Now it isn't a big thing but many years ago it was really cool. Tomato soup in Mathura is always special. It has a life of its own. It tickles every part of your food pipe before going down. I've never ordered any other soup there so have no clue how they taste. I don't know what balance they strike to get the soup so right. But that kind of soup, I've only ever had in Panagal-park Hot Chips. Masala Pappad, Spring rolls, and Gobhi 65 are other starters that are very tasty here. Many people sing praises of HSB's sambhar vadai. However, one has to concede that Mathura is equal if not better than HSB in this category. Both have taken the art of putting 'optimum' quantity of jaggery in Sambhar to a scientific precision. It is disgusting when some over do the jaggery.
N. Indian Food: Mathura's strength is its variety/taste of North Indian food inspite of Mathura being a S. Indian restaurant. While it is besides-the-point, they do have non-Indian food that is very good. NRI type people sampling the non-Indian food - beware! What is out there is the Indianized version of pastas and augratins. Don't expect the authentic (whatever that means) versions of these items. These items are tasty stand-alone. Period. However, Mathura's strength, as I said before, lies in making the regular S/I Indian food tasty. Although they do have a lot of exotic items in their menu, that is not the reason why people go there. My favorite among their breads are; Masala Kulcha and Aloo Paratha. They do have all the usual breads. There is only so much you can do to spoil the breads. Among the 'special' type breads - Kashmiri Naan is always preferred by people who like Mathura.
They have about 30 side-dishes for these breads. Some of them fall under the category called "Esoteric Dishes". That is how their Menu Card classifies them. Baron's "Word List" jokes apart - esoteric it is, as only a chosen few find it awesome. Vegetable Imperial in this category is my favorite dish. The waiter always warns that it is not spicy but sweet (they do this for every 'sweet' based side-dish). It is a milk based dish and so throws off most people. However, I recommend people try it at least once before condemning it. Their Navarathna Kurma used to be good, once upon a time. Nowadays the Navarathan has increased and Kurma is nowhere to be seen. Most of the other regular dishes, they hit the nail on the head. I wish they reduced the size of their paneers in paneer butter masala. It is almost as if they wrote Paneer is font size 120, butter in font size 30 and masala in size 2. Where is the masala dude?
South Indian: Just eat their Paper Masala Dosai. It speaks for itself. I would rate them as better than HSB in every dosai category. As it has been mentioned repeatedly, Mathura's sambhar has to be tasted for one to believe its awesomeness. Note: 'Raayars Mess' type old people will always pick a fight on this issue.
Rice Varieties: Their simple vegetable biryani is tasty, filling, and more than adequate for one "normal" person. The thing about Mathura is their consistency. All their rice varieties Fried Rice, Mixed Rice etc are so good. I have always baulked at the Kashmiri Rice varities, which has so many nuts, fruits and other such gaudy things. I have heard from people who have eaten this that Mathura is really good at this rice. So if you are that type then hey..
Dessert: Basundhi. I'll leave it at that.
Disclaimer: There is a popular opinion, not without merit, that the quality here is decreasing. While many called me back and said they liked the recommendation, a few came back deflated and underwhelmed. I'll leave it to the reader to judge that.


text:
Pledge to stop wildlife crime and ensure a future for people and vulnerable wildlife on our planet
Supporters are now helping to
Campaign closed
Rangers on the Frontlines of Conservation They serve under various titles—rangers, forest guards, eco guard and field enforcement officers—but these men and women on the frontlines of conservation are perhaps the most important protectors of the world's natural and cultural treasures. Rangers work tirelessly to protect some of the world's most endangered species like tigers, elephants and…
African and Asian countries are reeling under a poaching crisis. Ruthless criminal networks are plundering the wild to supply skyrocketing demand for illegal ivory, rhino horn and tiger parts. As a WWF supporter, you know that wildlife crime is the most immediate threat to wild elephants, tigers and rhinos. WWF is urging governments—particularly those of demand countries such as China,…
Last year, more than 30,000 elephants were slaughtered for their tusks, which are illegally sold as trinkets and carvings. And more than 1,000 rhinos were killed in South Africa so their horns could be ground up and illegally sold as fake miracle cures and ineffective fad drugs. As the global poaching crisis worsens, these animals are being pushed to brink of extinction. You can help stop…
Inspired 1 donation, 7 signatures, 24 pledges
Viewed 4,192 times


text:
- Surveillance Isn't The Solution To America's College Woes - May 29, 2015
- The Civil Disobedience Charles Murray Wants Has Already Arrived - May 26, 2015
- Ted Cruz Gets Common Core Way Better Than ThinkProgress Does - March 27, 2015
Schoolyards are getting as regulated as the U.S. economy. A Colorado school, like many others, recently banned the game of "tag." When kids run away from each other, they may trip, fall, and hurt themselves. A New York school banned kids from using balls during recess, but not during sports events, because "unstructured play with hardballs" is dangerous, school leaders said.
While U.S. schools respond to the minority of lawsuit-happy parents by restricting everyone else's freedom and fun, other countries are deregulating recess and finding it improves school climate and kids' character. Here are five reasons they've found for relaxing the recess rules.
1. Less bullying. You wouldn't know it from the media frenzy, but school bullying actually has seen a steep decline. Several New Zealand schools found removing recess rules eliminated bullying almost entirely. A university experiment conducted in conjunction with the recess changes found active play kept kids so busy they stayed out of trouble. Eventually, Swanson Primary School in Auckland was able to eliminate its timeout corner and reduce the number of grown-ups on playground patrol.
2. More exercise. How sensible is it for nanny-statists to complain about how fat kids are these days while axing one of the main ways kids can burn off energy and calories? Not sensible at all. No extra government programs are needed to revive this built-in, natural exercise program for kids. If little kids aren't able to run around and scream for fun, something's wrong.
3. Kids learn how to handle risk. If adults handled transportation the way schools regulate playgrounds, cars would be outlawed. Parents may not like to acknowledge this, but there is no way to eliminate danger from this world. As Hanna Rosin recently wrote in The Atlantic Monthly, despite a huge increase in kid cocooning, the number of playground injuries and deaths per capita has hardly budged. A better way to handle danger is to let kids gradually learn to manage it on their own. "If too many controls are placed on play, there is less learning," Swanson Principal Bruce McLachlan told School Reform News. "It is better for a boy to test himself at eight, up a tree or on a scooter, than behind the wheel of a car at 18."
4. Kids learn creativity. The United States has long been a nation of inventors, tinkerers, and re-mixers, but you wouldn't think so to look at our playgrounds, even though 58 percent of Americans think schools should foster kids' creativity, according to a 2013 Gallup/PKD poll. Rosin tells of a play area in Wales called The Land, where kids start and dowse fires, roll tires around, build and reconfigure forts with discarded wood, and slosh through a pond. In a 2010 book, Anthony Esolen designates raising kids indoors as one of Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child. Sanitized playgrounds, with no re-mixable parts and with rubber floors instead of dirt, essentially extend the indoors. To exercise their imaginations, kids need tools and freedom.
5. Fostering confident self-governance. The United States is designed to be a self-governing republic. That means little citizens need to learn how to govern themselves before they become eligible to vote. What better way than to develop this capacity organically, through play? As the New Zealand researchers found, when kids are given freedom within very basic rules, such as "do whatever you want as long as you don't hurt other people," they learn to regulate themselves. That's a good lesson for kids and for society at large.
Kids' lives are regulated enough. We can afford to give them a few minutes of freedom on the playground each day.


text:
Uplifting, clean and fresh with surprising tenacity. Creamy-foam showergel with a quantifiable, lasting moisturising effect. Wheat proteins form a protective film on the skin, maintaining its natural moisture level. Active Aloe, rich in vitamin C, vitamin E, zinc and antioxidant enzymes, enhances the immune system of the skin.
(including VAT 23%)


text:
Authorized Payers
Authorized Payers are individuals other than the student that need to have access to the student account, billing statements and to make payments online.
To set up an Authorized Payer please follow these steps:
- Log onto the MyRU portal using any computer or device with internet access
- Click on "Finances"
- Under the Office of the Bursar section select "View my Student Account Charges"
- Then select "Authorize Payers" on the left hand side of the screen in the newly opened window.
- Click on "Add New"
- If the Authorized Payer is already an existing Authorized Payer on another student's account, please choose a different login name than the one previously setup.
- Once completed, the Authorized Payer will receive an e-mail with their login name. Password information must be obtained from the student.
Authorized Payers making payments:
- Log in to QuikPAY with the Login name and Password set up by your student
- Change your default password if prompted
- From the menu on the left, select "View & Pay Accounts"
- Enter the amount you want to pay on your student account charges.
- Select the payment method (e-Check or credit card). Then click "Continue".
- If using a credit card, please verify that your credit card information is correct, then click "Confirm".
- Your payment receipt will appear; please print this receipt for your records
In compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), your educational records and student account information may not be released to a third party (e.g. your spouse, parents, sponsor, etc.) without your written permission. By creating an authorized payer you are giving written consent for that individual to view your student account history and to make payments to your account.


text:
Their selection of designer kids wear is out of this world. Everything from Mini Marc Jacobs to D&G Junior, Gaultier Junior and Paul Smith. Here are a few faves from the Boys 2-3T selection...
D&G Junior
Hackett Vest
Paul Smith striped cardigan
Gaultier Junior Striped knit
D&G Junior gloves
Oh and when I went to the girls tab, this is one of the first items that came up
blush colored children's Chloe sunglasses. Can you even imagine?
I can't even get started on the girl stuff...way too much cuteness to choose from!


text:
The Jane Austen Society of North America celebrated its 30th anniversary recently with a Regency Ball at Chicago's Westin Hotel.
In addition, the Janeites paraded (in costume) down the Magnificent Mile, banqueted, and attended seminars with names like "Jane Austen and Global Warming" and " "Blogging Jane; or, Blog Snarkily and Carry a Big a Big Cluebat." Unsurprisingly, the event swings distaff: At the ball, "women are partnering women for the most part, though here and there one sees a male specimen in knee breeches, long coat, and curled wig sashaying happily amid the beribboned throng." And although the serious-minded event is far from a mere reenactment, one can't image that at just any academic conference you'd hear a woman murmur, "'She would do well to sew a little lace over the bodice'" of a colleague's decolletage. [The Smart Set]


text:
Wimbledon Daze: Upsets
Posted by gauloises1 on June 23, 2010
Stick with me while I attempt to catch up on everything that I missed at Wimbledon while I was there. (And yes, I know I may be stretching the definition of 'upset' somewhat with some of these …) This is who we've lost so far that we wouldn't have expected to …
Sam Stosur and Francesca Schiavone crashed out to Kaia Kanepi and Vera Dushevina respectively. That's an entire French Open final gone right there. You'd almost think it was played on a different surface or something.
Verdasco lost to Fognini in five. And still needs a haircut.
Damn Croatians. You're supposed to be the reliable one, Marin! Although why anyone thinks that, I don't know. Anyway, I watched this match. It made me sad.
Oh, Boss.
Please don't let that be your last Wimbledon, OK?
Grass is not Shahar's best ever surface, it must be said. She lost to Angelique Kerber in three. Still, I've been vaguely touting Kerber as a thing-in-waiting, so there's that.
Big win for bronzed god Daniel Brands, who took out Kolya in straights. Kolya is another one who doesn't thrive on the grass at all, though. Plus that whole fractured wrist thing.
If a result doesn't upset anyone, is it still an upset? I've decided that this qualifies on the basis that Robin Haase did the upsetting, which means he actually won a match. Shock face.
Not sure what's the bigger not-really-a surprise, Mel losing in the second round or the fact that she made it.
And how about a big hand for our upsetters …
What depth.
4 Responses to "Wimbledon Daze: Upsets"
June 24, 2010 at 12:52 am
Did you see Boss at Wimbletimes, Gaul? Or was he playing at the same time as Marin?
June 24, 2010 at 1:18 am
Daniel Brands appears to be constructed entirely out of Heaven. really Heaven.
June 24, 2010 at 1:19 am
also… I want the number of Haase's dentist
June 24, 2010 at 2:08 am
1-800-Dentures ?
- June 24, 2010 at 2:08 am


text:
Table tennis in Forest Row
08/04/2021 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
£2 – £10
|Recurring Event (See all)
An event every week that begins at 7:30 pm on Wednesday and Thursday, repeating indefinitely
We play Table Tennis twice every week in the Forest Row Village Club (Station Road by the Fire Station). On Wednesdays and Thursdays from 7.30 to 9.30pm. Our members are a mix of regular players and those returning after some years away. Its competitive, social and friendly. We have coaching on Wednesdays on one of our 3 tables, and play a match for those who want more competitive play on Thursdays. You can just play socially if you prefer on the other 2 tables.


text:
27 January 2012
Glimpses of joy
Our children are the most important reason why we're building a new home. A home where they not only can grow up in, but also bring their own families back to visit.
We moved back to this wonderful small town, because this is where our children are happiest. We tried a bigger city, and the difference in our children in one year is striking.
Little Boy has gained so much confidence, and rocketed from reading a few words to reading whole books. A gentleman in our community noticed Little Boy's spunk, and invited him to participate in a slam dunk contest during half time at a high school basketball game.
Big Brother is having his best school year ever. He's excelled in his course work, and recently completed his Webelos Badge and received his Arrow of Light award.
He has been a HUGE help with the house. Whether it's helping to lift a wall, or bring a tool to his dad, and especially the not so fun part of cleaning up every day, he doesn't complain.
Dolly just enjoys every minute. A couple months ago she discovered this tiny ladybug in the house.
Here she is at the end of a long day. One of the few times the kitten tolerates Dolly...most of the time her affection is just a tad too exuberant.
Then there is Big Sister. She has grown into such a capable, talented young lady. She is in the thick of everything at school, whether it's playing Max in her class's version of the Grinch,
or working on her own embroidery projects for the class market. She even made this little felt mouse. It's the award for whichever child is most quiet in church.
I am infinitely blessed by these little people in my life. They are true sources of joy. We want to make the best home and world we can for them. That is why we're working so hard to build a new home. And it is worth every sacrifice.
17 happy thoughts:
- Unknown said...
Such a sweet picture of your girl and the kitten :)
- 27 January, 2012 12:27
- Unknown said...
your children are so sweet and talented, Chris. I'd say you're lucky but I don't think luck has anything to do with it. You guys are great parents and this is your reward: great kids.
- 27 January, 2012 13:30
- Design Esquire said...
With a mother like you, I'm not surprised how wondeful your children are! I'm glad to hear they are thriving.
- 27 January, 2012 14:22
- Melissa said...
What a lovely post...really - there are no other words for it.
- 27 January, 2012 14:59
- KJ@letsgoflyakite said...
Beautiful photos. I think it is so wonderful that you have found where you want to be and build a home from scratch. It is so important that children feel a sense of connection to their surroundings and community.
PS embroidery for a market, wow! she will be starting her own sewing blog soon :)
- 27 January, 2012 16:39
- Impera Magna said...
The best of reasons to build a new home... and you're creating a lot of wonderful memories while you're doing it!
- 27 January, 2012 17:12
- Unknown said...
Beautiful, Chris. You all deserve that new home and it's wonderful that big brother has his hand in the build. I think he deserves his own plaque by the front door. :) I can't believe your daughter made that little mouse!. How sweet that she's taking after her mama! Love to you.
- 27 January, 2012 17:19
- Busy Bucharoo said...
Thank you for sharing with us. It is heartwarming to see a family working together towards a common goal. Kudos to you all.
- 29 January, 2012 18:27
- The Mother Huddle said...
Love love this post Chris. And the kitty with your little girl...makes my heart melt!
What a good momma you are. Keep your chin up!
- 29 January, 2012 22:50
- Gwen @ Gwenny Penny said...
Well said, Chris. And they are very lucky to have you :)
- 29 January, 2012 23:26
- Sarah @ Modern Country Style said...
Hi lovely girl,
You are doing SUCH a brilliant job. Your family sound GORGEOUS! That mouse is so cute - what a clever girl you have!
- 30 January, 2012 04:39
- Tasha said...
So beautifully said. You are one amazing mother. I am grateful to know you and watch you and your family's wonderful journey.
- 30 January, 2012 10:13
- chris said...
@bucharooThank you! Life is sweet. It really is.
- 31 January, 2012 06:40
- chris said...
@The Mother HuddleThanks, Destri. We're getting there. ♥
- 31 January, 2012 06:41
- Stephanie said...
Oh, I just loved this post. Sitting back and seeing what you really have in front of you is so eye opening. Your children are so talented in their own ways, you are a lucky mom!
- 31 January, 2012 08:39
- Sarah @ Modern Country Style said...
By the way, I forgot to add that we moved from a biiiiig town to a little one seven years ago and have never looked back!!
- 01 February, 2012 05:55
- Tiffany said...
Sweet sweet post. I'm a city girl and there are some things about my area now that I would never give up. Not even sure my kids would make it in the city. But my neighbor once said as parents we mostly want to give our kids a little more and I find it so true. I grew up surrounded by family and it made such a difference in my life, we don't have all our family close so we rely on each other a bit more and I love that too. Our own bond.
- 09 February, 2012 16:09


text:
Hello and a Happy Saturday to you! I hope that you are having a great weekend so far! Last Saturday I shared about how I woke up to find my daughter cutting up my cardstock and wanting to keep it all, well yesterday I woke up to her quite upset she had accidentally pulled down my standing drawer bin that's full of my crafty items! A lot of my papers and random crafty items were all over the floor! She was scared that I was upset but really I don't want her to get hurt! She was in the drawers digging and later asking me if she could have this? She is going through my stash my friends! Luckily I do have a lot of things that I don't use anymore.
I am here a bit late with my Wee Memories Scrappy Saturday post. We had a garage sale today and we have been so busy getting ready for it. I am so glad that it's over! We did better than we thought so that is really nice! This week our sponsor is May Arts! I love May Arts ribbon as I am sure many of you do too! >
Our challenge this week is Etsy or Pinterest Inspired! I don't have a Pinterest account but I went to look on there and found an inspirational photo. I've really been feeling at a loss for crafting lately and my mojo just hasn't been there. But when I found this photo that I really liked it all just came together. I was inspired, I wanted to create and my idea came so quick! Here is what got me back:
I love the colors, I love the cleanness and I was inspired to make this:
I used all the colors but left out the beige! I stamped the stem and the flower with pigment inks and than clear embossed them and put a doily behind it. Added some green ruffled ribbon as "grass" it was harder to ruffle it with a thinner ribbon I found! After no mojo lately I am really pleased with this card. And now understanding why everyone loves Pinterst so much!
I really hope you will join us this week and play! Our Top Hoot will win a May Arts prize pack! And to make it even more fun for you a random winner wins a Wee Memories prize! Please check out the Wee Memories blog for more info and to see the talented Design Team's creations!


text:
The built-in Class D DSC provides additional safety at sea. The built-in DSC watch function monitors Ch 70 (DSC channel) activity, even while you are receiving another channel. Distress, individual, group, all ships, position request/reply, polling request/reply and DSC test calls can be sent. DSC messages can be received and automatically stored in the message memory.
When connected to Icom's MA-500TR Class B AIS transponder, you can make an individual DSC call without having to manually input a MMSI number.
The IC-M12 can withstand submersion in 1m of water for up to 30 minutes (except cables). The supplied microphone also has submersible protection.
The large backlit LCD (23.5 (H) × 64 (W) mm; 15⁄16 × 2 17 ⁄ 32 in) shows a full sized channel number. A 10 character scrolling message shows the channel name and can show position, time and DSC messages.
When connected to an external GPS receiver, current position and time are shown on the IC-M412's display. When receiving position information from another vessel, the IC-M412 can transfer it to a navigational device via NMEA 0183 connectivity.
The IC-M412 has 0.22μV (typical at 12dB SINAD) superior sensitivity for class-leading receiver performance. The front facing speaker offers 4.5W (typical) of loud, clear reception.


text:
The Catalog contains information about the various degrees, certificates and courses available at CBC, along with descriptions of College departments and services available at the time of publication.
This Catalog is published for informational purposes only. Every effort is made to ensure accuracy at the time of printing. However, CBC reserves the right to change any provision or requirement at any time. This Catalog does not constitute a contract between CBC and prospective or enrolled students. Up-to-date information can be found using the Courses & Programs List.
Current Catalog:
Catalog Archives:
Home | Campus Safety | Catalog | Campus Map | Parking Information
2600 N. 20th Ave., Pasco, WA 99301 | PHONE 509.547.0511 | FAX Directory
© 2014 Columbia Basin College. All Rights Reserved. | Website Created by Vision Internet.
Sitemap | Non-discrimination & Disability Statement | Privacy Policy | Disclaimer


text:
guard(redirected from guardlike)
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia.
a protective device.
mouth guard any of various removable intraoral appliances that protect the teeth and sometimes the lips and cheeks during contact sports.
1. To watch over so as to protect or maintain control.
2. A person or thing performing such a function.
A device for protecting something (e.g., a mouth guard or a face guard).
occlusal guard
A removable dental appliance that covers one or both arches and is designed to minimize the damaging effects of bruxism, jaw and head trauma during contact sports, or any detrimental occlusal habits.See: nightguard; mouth guard


text:
Build 2012 Microsoft has officially launched the software development kit (SDK) for Windows Phone 8, delivering the final piece of what the company says is a common programming model across all of its latest OS platforms and devices.
"As you can see, we're combining an array of hardware, tools, and technology to deliver a fundamentally reimagined Windows platform," Kevin Gallo, Microsoft's director of program management for Windows Phone, said during his Tuesday keynote at the company's annual Build developer conference in Redmond.
Previously, Redmond had been unusually secretive about the developer tools for its latest smartphone platform, offering the kit only to a limited group of established developers as part of a closed preview program.
Microsoft had justified its clandestine approach by explaining that not all of WP8's features had been publicly announced when the preview SDK became available. Now that Phone 8 has been officially launched, however, there was presumably little reason to conceal the tools from the wider developer community any longer.
Gallo said that along the way, Microsoft asked for input on what coders wanted to see in the Windows Phone development platform. With the public release of the SDK, he said, Redmond has delivered at least 90 per cent of what they asked for.
The SDK, which was made available on Tuesday, is roughly a 1.6GB download, and it requires a 64-bit version of Windows 8 to run. It bundles a version of Microsoft's free Visual Studio Express 2012 IDE tailored specifically for WP8, plus a free version of the Blend 2012 UI design tool, though it can also integrate with tools from the full Visual Studio 2012 Professional Suite.
The kit also includes a selection of Windows Phone emulators based on Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization technology. To use these components, however, developers will need machines based on processors that support Second Level Address Translation (SLAT), which generally means AMD Opteron and Intel Core processors released in 2007 or later.
Developers don't strictly need the emulators to build apps using the SDK, but without them, the only way to deploy and test their apps will be to use an actual Windows Phone.
During his keynote presentation, Gallo explained that in addition to the much-discussed HTML5/JavaScript and XAML/C# app development models, the WP8 SDK also supports native C++ code and Direct3D-based hardware acceleration for high-performance applications – games, in particular.
"Over 75 per cent of the top-grossing apps are games," Gallo said. "With Windows Phone 8, Microsoft now has a common gaming platform across the entire Windows family."
Gallo explained that the common development platform Redmond has built across its various properties makes it easy to reuse code originally written for other platforms in apps for Windows Phone 8.
To demonstrate, he showed off an app built using code from a years-old third-party C++ library. The app package consisted of three Visual Studio projects. Two were frontend UIs; one for Windows 8 and one for Windows Phone 8. The third was a shared code library that contained the code for all the essential functions of the app, and that could be used to build a version for either platform.
As a further incentive to get developers on board, Gallo said Microsoft is slashing the fee for individual developers to register a Windows Phone Dev Center account from $99 to $8 for the next eight days only.
Whether the new SDK and the reduced fee will be enough to entice mobile developers to jump ship from other platforms is questionable, however. In many ways, Windows Phone 8 is the riskiest piece in Microsoft's new, more unified OS push, with earlier versions of the Windows Phone platform having failed to win many converts.
Still, in his own Build keynote on Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was adamant that the latest incarnation of the company's smartphone OS wouldn't stumble in the market the way earlier versions had, owing to its close ties to Windows 8.
"If you want the best experience with your new Windows computer – the best experience – you'll own a Windows Phone," Ballmer said. "If you want the experience that is most personal, you will buy a Windows Phone." ®


text:
Allison Park father killed in head-on crash in Clinton County
Thomas Zierenberg's van collides with car on Route 220
An Allison Park father was killed Tuesday afternoon in a head-on crash in Clinton County.
Police said Thomas Zierenberg was driving a Ford Taurus that crossed the center line on Route 220 in Lamar Township and struck a van just after 4 p.m.
Zierenberg and the driver of the van, identified as Courtney Rebuck, of Loganton, were killed in the collision.
Microbac Laboratories issued a statement to Channel 4 Action News saying Zierenberg was a longtime employee who most recently served as a national sales representative.
"He was significantly involved in the food safety industry, as well as the laboratory industry for many years. Tom was a big part of the growth and history of the company and he will be missed tremendously," the company said.
Rebuck's two children -- a 13-year-old daughter and an 8-year-old son -- and a 4-year-old girl she was babysitting were also injured in the crash. Their conditions were not immediately released.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.


text:
|Return to ToDo.html CVS log
|Up to [mozdev] / annozilla / www
End list correctly

Annozilla 'to do' list

Preferences

Preference wizard for easy first-time setup. (Now pretty much working I think, except, if Annozilla sidebar is open, the server settings don't seem to be used until after a restart - seems a bit of an edge case). Update: don't auto-open window, as it's an annoyance after installing multiple extensions. See http://blog.fligtar.com/2008/10/16/responsible-first-run-usage/.
Remove server as default post server if that server is deleted from the list
"Basic" server prefs - is there any way we can set the data up only on "OK"?
In the Server Options panel, display "Local Server" not "urn:localserver"

Loading

Get the 'finished' notification too soon (after receiving all responses but before resolving the individual annotations).
I think the 'Stop Loading' menu item is removed slightly too late

UI

Don't write to window.status?
Make replies visible in annotation window (for users not using the sidebar)
Use XBL language binding everywhere Now expecting to remove the language options from the UI
Use nsIPromptService, not window.alert (looks more professional)
Accessibility
Add top-level menu. (Menu is present; only "load annotations is present", "stop loading" and "options" are present)
User isn't informed of errors from servers (eg 'check replies'). (This might be hard to implement if there are multiple servers.)

Errors

Annozilla fails with "error loading annotations" during loading of annotations if there is an annotation that has no context property. (This property is not a requirement for annotations, I think.)
iconClick->openEditorWindow->doesn't get fragment to add temporary icon Error: [Exception... "'openEditorWindow requires either a fragment or an existing annotation' when calling method: [nsIDOMEventListener::handleEvent]" nsresult: "0x8057001e (NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_STRING)" location: "<unknown> data: no]. (Does it need it? The condition in the code doesn't seem to match the error message.) Updated code, some errors now reported to console.
When creating an annotation, an icon is supposed to be inserted into the document, but this fails.
Invoke "load annotation" twice - get annotations appearing twice in sidebar

Others

Implement Reply/Check for Replies for LocalServer. (Harder than it looks!)
No reason for there to be (internally) two buttons for Save on the editor window.
Test cases
Unit tests

Fixed issues

"Check for replies" as available as a context menu option, even on a reply
"test " turned into "test " when saving local annotation. Update: seems to have started working in beta 3?
Show annotation title (not text of annotated region) in sidebar
User-editable annotation titles
In beta 3, editor shows XML error, because of changes to textcontext.dtd. Resulting changes make the code incompatible with beta 1/2 and earlier.
In beta 3, the "Annozilla" text disappears from the Sidebar menu (although the menu option is present and works). The "Bookmarks" text also vanishes! (Don't know why.)
Improved behavior for tabbed browsing (autoload for multiple tabs at once etc.) This works well now. The sidebar throbber doesn't always get updated correctly though, and some methods don't care about the "target" parameter when they probably should.
After opening an annotation in a window, "delete" works but doesn't close the window when finished. Update: removing this functionality (auto-close of window) anyway.
Replies don't properly consider "threadRoot".
Load a page in a new tab and create annotation: get ERROR currentAnnotations is null. Update: set model.js to auto-create an empty object as required. Fixed now I think.
"Delete" from an open editor window confuses things a bit: no status indicator in open editor window, get error "undefined" when the deletion completes, sidebar starts saying "Waiting for -1 servers"
Can't see replies to replies (created in Amaya)
Format dates sensibly Fixed (in sidebar)
It shouldn't be possible to change server when replying. Fixed.
"Check for Replies" only seems to add one item to the sidebar
When opening an annotation window, makeUpdate() gets called to create a function, but it looks like it gets called at startup as well as after the success or failure of an operation. Is it supposed to? Update: YES.
Change from Local to Remote server and load annotations: old annotation icons and highlighting are not removed. (They are removed from the sidebar list correctly.) Fixed in CVS.
"Basic" server prefs - got the following setting up a remote server:
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsIRDFService.GetResource]" nsresult: "0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://annozilla/content/prefs/pref-annozilla-servers.js :: setBasicServer :: line 429" data: no]
 Fixed in CVS.
After changing server types and trying to select an annotation icon, get the error "Unable to delete the selected annotation due to an internal error. Try reloading the annotations for the page." - but I was only attempting to open the annotation, not delete it. (These errors are not properly localised anyway.) Fixed in CVS.
Move 'Server prefs' and 'Edit Site List' back into the main panel on Firefox (fixed in CVS)
Rename "Post"/"Update" to "Save" (fixed in CVS)
Fix memory leaks (3 objects leaked per window) fixed in CVS
Get "Stylesheet annotations.css not found: using chrome://annozilla/content/annotations.css" in error console. Update: this is intended behaviour, however I have removed the logging to the console.
Autoloading for tabbed browsing? Implemented by CGH.
From an empty sidebar (showing "No annotations loaded"), create an annotation without first loading the annotations for the page. The new annotation is added for the list but "No annotations loaded" is still present. Fixed, but other scenarios exist where this could be problematic.
Remove extra nodes from DOM when a highlight is deleted. (At the moment we just remove the highlighting.)
Open annotation window by double-clicking on icon opens window at unreasonably small size. Or sometimes get "Sorry, couldn't download the annotation body." - fixed by allowing multiple annotation windows
Integrate Firefox 2 built-in spelling checker. fixed in CVS
No animation when deleting annotation. Update: fixed for delete, but the sidebar ends up saying "Annotations loaded OK".
When loading up an editor window, the buttons shouldn't be enabled until the document has finished loading. Pretty much works I think. But if you post a new annotation, then "Save" should effectively be an update, not a new Post
After saving an annotation, "delete" should be available. (But after "delete", you shouldn't be able to save).
nsIAnnotationMetadata doesn't deal with multiple values, eg multiple types Fixed for types only.
"When listing the replies in the sidebar, the annotated region is determined based on the wrong document (the main browser page instead of the annotation).
On sidebar load with no servers, make it easier to load the Server options panel There's an "Options" menu item now.
XBL for annotation icons and/or highlights Doesn't seem to be possible because we can't bind to arbitrary text nodes
Warn if deleting an unsaved annotation
Remove username/password handling from Annozilla
Move multiple server support into an 'Advanced' panel.
Annotation passed to postAnnotationOnSuccess from remote server doesn't have proper annotation type; need to reload to get it and sometimes author is something like "rdf#mjAmH". (We send RDF to the server and get back an annotation to indicate success; however the annotation data is incomplete and so we try to supplement it with the data we originally passed. The test on 'creator' goes wrong, because we pass it as a literal and get it back as a resource. We fail to overwrite the more "specific" type of "Comment" because the "Annotation" type is already present.)
It would be better if annozilla tried to continue the loading of annotations if one annotation is "malformed".
Fixed since 0.4.0.a.5/0.7.0.a.6 release

Changing the annotation title when updating an annotation has no effect
Make all sidebar options available via menu (not just context menu)
Doing "CheckForReplies" seems to check for all servers - shouldn't it only check the server on which the reply is saved? Also, the count of servers which we're waiting to hear from isn't decremented if a server returns failure when getting replies.
After creating a reply - or presumably after all other post/updates - all open windows get their status updated to say "SUCCESS".
Reinstate "Stop" (and add to top-level menu)
Rework classes using model/view/controller terminology. (Underway as part of the tabbed browsing support. All annotations are stored in a 'model' class; the sidebar and icon manager have been modified to act as a view.)
(Editor) Don't enable Save until "type" is populated Now a very short time delay
Convert "annotationLookups" into some kind of RDF thing which users could install more types to
IconManager trouble getting body from server? due to asynchronous body load: see loadBodyOnSuccess  Can't see problem any more
Don't want to load annotation bodies during annotation loading Can't see problem any more (in general case - OK for local server)


text:
Academic excellence and innovation are natural partners. At Governors State University you'll find an abundance of both. Our professors are full of big ideas.
They are both talented educators and researchers – often working with undergraduates as research team members. They are also mentors with ideas to share as you look forward to the next step in your career.Each of our colleges includes both majors and minors to prepare you for a great career--or to continue your education. Whether you come to GSU as a freshman, a transfer student, a candidate for a master's or doctor's degree, or a Dual Degree Program student, whether you come in search of a certificate or you want to continue your education, you'll find your fit here.


text:
RPR (rapid plasma reagin) is a screening test for syphilis. It looks for antibodies that are present in the blood of people who have the disease.
The test is similar to the venereal disease research laboratory (VDRL) test.
Rapid plasma reagin test; Syphilis screening test
A blood sample is needed. For information on how this is done, see: Venipuncture
No special preparation is usually needed.
When the needle is inserted to draw blood, you may feel moderate pain, or only a prick or stinging sensation. Afterward, you may feel some throbbing.
The RPR test can be used to diagnose syphilis. It is used to screen people who have symptoms of sexually transmitted infections and is routinely used to screen pregnant women for the disease.
Several states also require that couples be screened for syphilis before getting a marriage license.
The test is also used to see how treatment for syphilis is working. After treatment with antibiotics, the levels of syphilis antibodies should fall. These levels can be monitored with another RPR test. Unchanged or rising levels can mean a persistent infection.
A negative test result is considered normal. However, the body does not always produce antibodies specifically in response to the syphilis bacteria, so the test is not always accurate. False-negatives may occur in persons with early- and late-stage syphilis. More testing may be needed before ruling out syphilis.
A positive test result may mean that you have syphilis. If the screening test is positive, the next step is to confirm the diagnosis with a more specific test for syphilis, such as FTA-ABS. The FTA-ABS test will help distinguish between syphilis and other infections.
How well the RPR test can detect syphilis depends on the stage of the infection. The test is most sensitive -- almost 100% -- during the middle stages of syphilis. It is less sensitive during the earlier and later stages of the infection.
Some conditions may cause a false positive test, including:
There is very little risk involved with having your blood taken. Veins and arteries vary in size from one patient to another and from one side of the body to the other. Taking blood from some people may be more difficult than from others.
Other risks associated with having blood drawn are slight but may include:
Tramont EC. Treponema pallidum (syphilis). In: Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R, eds. Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2009:chap 238.
Workowski KA, Berman S; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Sexually transmitted diseases treatment guidelines, 2010. MMWR Recomm Rep. 2010;59(RR-12):1-110.
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Screening for syphilis infection in pregnancy: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force reaffirmation recommendation statement. Ann Intern Med. 2009;150:705-709.
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Screening for syphilis infection. Topic Page. July 2004. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. Acccessed 7/14/2012.
Hook EW III. Syphilis. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 327
Review Date: 8/14/2012
The information provided herein should not be used during any medical emergency or for the diagnosis or treatment of any medical condition. A licensed physician should be consulted for diagnosis and treatment of any and all medical conditions. Call 911 for all medical emergencies. Links to other sites are provided for information only -- they do not constitute endorsements of those other sites. Copyright ©2003 A.D.A.M., Inc., as modified by University of California San Francisco. Any duplication or distribution of the information contained herein is strictly prohibited.
Information developed by A.D.A.M., Inc. regarding tests and test results may not directly correspond with information provided by UCSF Medical Center. Please discuss with your doctor any questions or concerns you may have.


text:
- The Ultimate tool for all of your DFS research and lineup building
- Everything you need to build competitive PGA lineups - ALL IN ONE PLACE!
- Streamline your lineup building process
RotoGrinders members won over 35% of all prize pools on DraftKings and FanDuel. That's over $150,000,000 in payouts! If you're looking to earn more, RG Premium can help.
On average, RotoGrinders Premium members won 21% more per entry than Non-Premium members.
Thanks to BigT44DFS and the RotoGrinders crew for the game plans every day. Have learned a ton this year in bases with you guys. Much appreciated.
Many thanks to Notorious and the Rotogrinders community for helping me take down the single entry tournament.
Thanks RotoGrinders for all the info. The new lineupHQ is badass. Tons of info in one spot. All the premium info from RG_Notorious and stlcardinals84 throughout the season.


text:
Real Or Scripted? Drunk Redneck In A Skyjack! "Don't Fxck Up My Beer Now.. Maybe Ill Come Down.. Maybe I Wont"
Skyjack DUI
Please click the "Report" button below if the video on this page is not working properly.
Comments will only be displayed by verified emails. No Spamming or Racism.


text:
1. The freight. Here is some basic info you might hear over the next few days. Davidson has the nation's longest winning streak at 22 games. The Wildcats won the Southern Conference for the third year in a row, have won their past 36 conference games and 46 of the past 47.
That 36-game streak over two seasons encompasses the collegiate career of Stephen Curry. Stephen Curry is good. He was fifth in the nation with 25.1 points a game. He is the son of former NBA sharpshooter Dell Curry. He already is the 10th-leading all-time scorer in Davidson history. He is only a sophomore. This is not insignificant as Davidson had some big-time studs back in the day - like the 1960s and 70s.
Point guard Jason Richards led the nation in assists at 8.0 a game during the regular season. Richards also was the team's second-leading scorer, which is a little unusual. Coach Bob McKillop loves intelligent, feisty point guards who are virtual coaches on the floor. He finds a guy he likes and lets him start for three or four years and really take command of the team. But these point guards pass first, defend second, direct the team third and, if they have any energy left over, try to score. This will become a bigger deal for the Wildcats next season when Richards graduates and they move Curry over to point guard. Curry is a pure scorer and whether he can handle the additional demands of point guard could determine how his final two seasons go. But that is next year's problem.
2. Excitement. Back in my day there, Davidson was a small school in a quaint, sleepy little town of the same name about a half-hour north of Charlotte, a city not quite ready for prime time. And Belk Arena was a nice small-college gym. You could cram about 6,000 people in there if you had to, but there never was any reason to.
Charlotte's urban sprawl has enveloped Davidson, and that gym was packed most of the season. Sections of seats were sold out. People camped out (yes, really) to get tickets. The Wildcats took on top 10 teams North Carolina, Duke and UCLA. They led each of them and lost those three games by a total of 22 points. Early- and late-season top 25 rankings mean this has not been the typical under-the-radar season for this mid-major program. People are noticing, and people are caring. Our long-standing refraining about not getting respect does not ring so true this year.
3. The time. I am an unabashed Davidson fan and have been ever since I enrolled in 1992. The school has had its share of athletic success in other sports, but nothing compares to the potential of the men's basketball team doing well, making an impact in the NCAA tournament. My most heartbreaking collegiate sports memory is of the Wildcats losing to a far inferior Western Carolina team during my senior year in 1996. I will carry this memory with me forever because, as I have written before and will write again, I went through school with that senior-laden team and that conference tournament, and the NCAA tournament to follow, was supposed to be our moment.
That moment was denied. Subsequent potential moments have been denied. Davidson lost to Michigan in the NCAA tournament in 1998, to Ohio State in 2002 and 2006 and to Maryland last year. The Wildcats have not won an NCAA tournament game since Lefty Driesell left as coach in 1969. (In 1964, Davidson was Sports Illustrated's preseason No. 1 team.) This week is the moment now for this team, and we long-waiting fans, students and alumni would dread having another such moment denied.
I have two friends from college who both had their first children born on December 28. And Davidson has not lost since. One said, "Coincidence? I think not." I have no idea what that has to do with anything. Those kids do not realize their fathers' school has not lost in their short lifetime. So, I guess, it's win one for the kids? — Matt Pitzer