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We were not certain where or what we wanted to buy and Robin was extremely accommodating and patient with us. We looked in Stapleton, North Park Hill, West Colfax, RiNo and then Robin directed us to the MCM community I never knew existed in Harvey Park. She was our advocate and helped convince the listing agent to hold off on offers until we were able to see the house that is now our amazing home. It was a great experience because of Robin! We found a neighborhood that is so wonderful and because she opened us up to parts of Denver we never knew about!
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Robin is the most understanding and patient agent we could have hoped for, and more. She has tirelessly answered our e-mails, text messages and phone messages as questions and issues have come up during our home buying process. Robin taught us a lot about the home buying process in today's home buying market. She really cared enough to sit down with us and discover what our family is all about, and as a result, found us several homes that easily fit our lifestyle and budget. Robin also has a wonderful office staff that coordinates the required documentation via electronic signature which made the whole process efficient and worry free. We are on schedule to close on our new home purchase next week. We will definitely keep Robin's contact information so we can recommend her to our friends and family for years to come.
Robin is truly fantastic!!! She genuinely cares for her clients and demonstrates it. Back in 2012 she helped me search for my first home to purchase. I thought the search would never end as we all know how tough the market is to find the perfect home at the right price. Low and behold, 8 offers later and 6 long months, the right one finally came along. Robin was so patient and understanding as we looked and looked and looked... In November of 2014 she helped me sell the same home! She was very strategic and helped me get top dollar! Hands down I would recommend Robin to anyone in need of an agent!
My husband and I recently purchased our first home with Robin's help, and I could not recommend her more highly. Though the process is inherently nerve-wracking, she took us from start to finish with a cheerful and competent composure.
1) She worked herself into our schedule, rather than the other way around. The housing market is very volatile right now, so when we found a house that we wanted to look at, she would make herself (and a viewing time) available to us within a day.
2) She helped us get into the right house, rather than the first house. Rather than trying sell us on each house to try and unload us and make money as quickly as possible, she pointed out possible pitfalls of the houses we were viewing (as well as their positive points) to make sure we got a complete picture of each house. Each time a house turned out to not be the house for us, she patiently reassured us that it was completely fine and normal, that the right house was waiting out there for us somewhere, and that she would be with us for however long it took us to find it.
3) She negotiated a great deal for us. We got the house we wanted for under the asking price, with extras thrown in (a couple of large home appliances and some very nice furniture). Her instincts with regards to how far to push the negotiation -- and when to stop pushing -- are impeccable.
4) Even now, though the closing is complete and we are settling into our new house, she is still going above and beyond for us. She is continuing to be responsive and helpful to my questions with regards to a pesky home security system the former owners had installed that hasn't been disconnected yet, and with regards to finding good contractors to do various jobs around the house.
If you have the opportunity to make use of Robin's expertise, please do. You will not regret it.
Robin acted as a transactional broker for us to buy the house we were renting. Robin helped both parties through the process and was very helpful and responsive.
Robin helped us purchase a home in 2012. We didn't have much time to find somewhere, and had some unusuall demands. We were buying the house for three people who lived out of state at the time, and we had to find a home to fit their needs, close to us, and in a price range we could afford. Robin was fantastic and helped us find and purchase the perfect home.
Robin recently helped me and my husband sell two homes and purchase our dream home. Throughout the process, Robin was such a joy to work with! Her positive attitude, honesty and negotiation skills were invaluable through the ups and downs. Our homes sold for more than we thought we could get and on time to close on our new build. Robin truly is a hard worker! We would not hesitate to work with Robin again and highly recommend her services.
Robin cares a great deal for her clients and works hard to find them their desired home. She stays in constant contact and is willing to put a great deal of time and energy into assisting them. She works well with the seller as well as the buyer to set up a satisfactory transaction. She makes the process both efficient and fun.
Robin was an amazing asset to my family's home search. My husband and I were first time home buyers and she was so patient with us. The most important quality about Robin that stood out to us was how incredibly respectful she was of our concerns as first time home buyers. She was patient with us and our kids, who still ask to see her today, a year after we purchased our wonderful house. What a great woman to have on your team, and as soon as we are ready for our next home, Robin will be the first call we make!
AMAZING! Wow! I cannot say enough about my experience with the selling of my house with Robin along with her assistant Ray. They are the most effecient and timely professionals I have ever worked with. Their knowledge and willingness to walk you through any part of the selling process is to be commended! They are kind and so generous of their time! I would highly reccomend Robin and her team to anyone who would like to have a quick and stress free selling experience! Really amazing! Gina Brighton, Colorado


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This summer, I had the opportunity to intern with Knowbility. I've learned so much about web-accessibility, from what standards developers are supposed to implement, to when and how to choose which web-browser and screen-reader is most useful in a particular situation.
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I spent a lot of time with different screen readers, too, checking out how NVDA versus JAWS, versus VoiceOver interact with web browsers and content. One of the things I discovered is that NVDA is able to operate combo boxes with Firefox, whereas JAWS on Firefox doesn't recognize there being anything there at all. And on IE, JAWS sees the combo boxes but can't operate them. VoiceOver generally operates websites pretty well, except for screen sizing issues on the iPhone as I mentioned before.
At the beginning of the summer, WCAG was just another four letter acronym. Now I can say I've learned what it means on a broad level and I have a way to evaluate and present information in an organized fashion about web accessibility. With this newfound knowledge, I can better explain why certain web sites are accessible and why others are not. In short, hopefully this knowledge will help to make a difference at school for me and other students as well.
I would like to thank Knowbility for their generosity in selecting me for this internship. There's a lot about accessibility I could have sought out and tried to figure out, but with Jeanine's and Sharron's technical knowledge, I was able to learn and work, use my new knowledge. Plus, lunchtime is always enjoyable with a wide range of conversations had between the team. Now, who knows what I can learn on my own.
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Thank you!
First. I want to say "Thank you." Heartfelt thanks to the 83 funders who stepped up to support a great notion. You believe as we do that the world sorely needs a credible and fully accessible teaching and learning platform to share knowledge and experience about digital accessibility. Our funders are listed at the end of the post (except of course, for those who prefer to remain anonymous) and I am grateful beyond words to each and every one of you.
Thanks to Bill Corrigan, the volunteer who started the effort and did so much to foster it and to Brian Sullivan who jumped right in to endorse and help shape the campaign. Thanks to Shawn Lauriat for being our very first donor and to Jim Thatcher whose remarkable $1K donation early in the campaign was so tremendously validating . Thanks to Mike Gifford and the Drupal community. Thanks to the tireless accessibility advocates in the UX community. Thanks to board members Hazel Sanchez and Rich Schwerdtfeger who donated and then blogged in these pages about the importance of the project. And a super shout-out to Jeffrey Zeldman whose contribution and post about the campaign gave us a great boost in the last week.
Thanks as well to those who did not donate but who provided tremendously useful feedback about the unanswered questions that led to their own reluctance to invest. The rest of this post will address those questions and look at what's next.
What you told us
Lesson 1: affirmation of the goal
I won't dwell here on the praise and encouragement we received other than to say it was significant and gave us a sense that we are on the right track.
Lesson 2: Don't publish an accessibility initiative on an inaccessible platform
The lack of accessibility and usability of the IndieGoGo platform was remarked upon by many. When Mike Gifford posted a supporting blog entry, the lack of accessibility was noted in the comments. I responded to the commenter, "We know and we're sorry" and spoke of the lack of an existing accessible crowd funding platform. The critic was gracious but clearly weary of hearing "We know, we're sorry." Some, like Thatcher said "This is proof of why this resource is so badly needed." Others said the bad design kept them from contributing at all.
Lesson 3: It's the detail, stupid
We heard that the message was not sufficiently clear about the goals and the process for developing the teaching and learning modules. Some objected to Rich Schwertdfeger's supporting blog post because he mentioned specific tools by name rather than maintaining strict tool neutrality. People wanted to know more about who would build the platform, and how would it be made available to the accessibility community to share expertise. "Is there a connection to IAAP? are certifications to be offered? what will the cost structure look like?…and more. Some things have yet to be determined but the next phase will be more detailed.
Lesson 4: Social media alone is not enough
After the project end date inevitably rolled around, we heard from too many, like Nicholas Steenhout "Hey, I didn't even know this was happening." Clearly we need a better communications strategy.
Despite questions, criticism, weariness, and total ignorance, I am so encouraged by the overwhelming support we heard for the goal. Call me a foolish optimist (you won't be the first) but when folks heard about the project and understood what we are trying do, I heard clear affirmation of the fact that we need and must have more readily available, modularized, up-to-date accessibility training on an accessible open source platform. Training is needed for people who occupy all of the many roles that relate to the creation of digital communications. We must build resources that are focused, highly interactive, practical, relevant, current, and fully accessible. We must build an online venue that – like AccessU – provides a forum for people from different sectors, different consulting companies, and different countries to share knowledge and skills at a reasonable cost to students of all abilities.
How to do it – you tell us!
With that goal, we are regrouping. First we will fulfill the perks that were promised to the donors and add a bonus for being such brave pioneers – Tshirts anyone? Then we will ask you to tell us more.
I will huddle next week with my board of directors, with Phase 1 architects Bill and Brian, and with the advisors who have stepped up to help shape the next round. I am thrilled that Sina Bahram of Prime Access Consulting, Elle Waters of Simply Accessible, and Denis Boudreau of Deque Systems are going to help us craft a stronger message and cast a wider net as we launch Phase 2 of this campaign. Using Phase 1 funds to seed the next initiative, we will launch again very soon.
Please jump in to help us shape the next phase – we are all brainstorming here – and be encouraged to be wildly creative in your expressions. Is your idea of a great perk getting to attend AccessU in Austin in May?" …to have me and Jim Thatcher sing happy birthday at your kids party? …getting to preview the system before it is public?
- What perks would encourage YOU to give?
- What questions would you want to have answered to raise your motivation to invest?
- How else would you be likely to participate in shaping the effort?
- How can we spread the word beyond the accessibility community?
Bring it, folks, we are ready listen to your ideas – by comment below, by email, by tweet or by carrier pigeon. We want this campaign to be as important to you as it is to us and has it is to these fine folks listed below.
Our founding funders
Brenda Adrian, Lucia Athens, Austin Mayor's Committee on People with Disabilities, Rogier Barendregt, Dean Birkett, Denis Boudreau, Cathy Carleton, Robbi Cooper, Bill Corrigan, KristinaCorrigan, Jayne Cravens, Melanie Davis, VirginiaDeBolt, Joshua Denny, Anna Dresner, Pat East, Deborah Edwards-Onoro, Samira Emelie, Angi English, JeremyFields, Hugh Forrest, Eric Fruin, Jason Garber, Sandi Gauder, Becky Gibson, Mike Gifford, Susan Grossman, Vicki Haddix, David Hark, Paula Helene, Ron Hicks, Christopher Kelly, Joyce Klemperer, S Koester, Preety Kumar, Shawn Lauriat, Sherry Lawry, Kim Leno, Jeanine Lineback, Candice Moore, Sanjay Nasta, Joseph Karr O'Connor, Devon Persing, Lewis Phillips, Melanie Pienknagura, Josh Piper, Carolyn Purcell, Brad Richardson, Adrian Roselli, Addie Rush, Sharron Rush, Hazel Sanchez, Jayne Schurick, Rich Schwertdfeger, SimplyAccessible, Kel Smith, Claudia Snell, Simon St Laurent, Brian Sullivan, Suzanne Taylor, Jim Thatcher, Natalie Tucker, Mario Vasquez, Elle Waters, Nick Weynand, WhistlingKettle Pete, Jaap Willem, Jeffrey Zeldman and 12 anonymous donors – thank you!
Thanks again to all who engaged – as volunteers, as spread-the-word supporters, as constructive critics, and especially as donors who committed with us to make this happen. Stay tuned, the best is yet to come!
Help us improve accessibility skills worldwide
The success of this crowdfunding campaign through Indie-Go-Go depends on you.
The donations obtained from this campaign will provide seed funding for an ambitious online training initiative. Knowbility proposes to build an online community of accessibility teaching and learning – so that ultimately, online information can be fully accessible to all. The initial goal is $50,000 and Knowbility will receive matching funds (times 3) when it reaches the $50,000 goal.
The campaign can be found at http://igg.me/at/knowbility
The success of this campaign will improve accessibility skills and awareness worldwide. As developers understand how to make sites and apps accessible, that will improve the lives of 55 million Americans and 750 million people worldwide with disabilities who will then be more able to do the things and make the connections online that others without disabilities take for granted.
Who is Knowbility?
Knowbility started as a local non-profit in Austin fifteen years ago, but now it reaches people worldwide. Our mission is to improve digital accessibility for those with disabilities – equal access to technology for those who need it most. Accessible technology improves employment and educational opportunities for people with disabilities, and affects just about every aspect of their lives. Think about how often you turn to the internet to research an issue, find a doctor, obtain information about your medical coverage or claims, deal with your bank, pay bills, obtain information about your child's grades or homework assignments, search for a job, and make connections with others. Interactions that most can easily accomplish. But for those with disabilities, if technology is not built to be accessible, they remain severely limited in what they can do.
Knowbility is dedicated to making technology barrier-free – supporting the independence of children and adults with disabilities. Your support in this campaign will help make it possible for people with disabilities to learn, to find work, and to live independently.
You can help millions of people with disabilities worldwide, by joining this campaign and by sharing this message with your social networks, encouraging them to give and make a difference.
Thank you for your help! We at Knowbility appreciate all that you do!
Hazel A. Sanchez
Board Member
Accessibility in the Classroom
Progress on Learning Apps Still Needed – Observations from an 11th Grader
I am a blind student about to go into eleventh grade. For the past few years, a number of my teachers have started to use partially inaccessible websites. While being inaccessible to my screen-reader, these websites make the life of the teacher much easier. As a result, I am the one who has to find a way to complete my work successfully and turn it in on time.
I have had to use a few websites including Edmodo, Duolingo, and Sapling Learning. For both Sapling Learning and Duolingo, much of each website is accessible. On Duolingo there were inaccessible pictures (no text alternatives to tell me what was in them) in addition to certain features, such as the translate function, being only accessible by mouse (which I can't use.)
On Sapling Learning, there were many symbols and diagrams that were just pictures, and therefore could not be accessed with a screen-reader. As a result, the best option for completing assignments on these two websites was to have a human reader read the questions aloud and then have me tell them which answer to put in. I really don't like that because I would much rather interact directly and independently.
I was able to create my user account on Edmodo, but after the initial set-up, Edmodo becomes very hard to use on Windows systems. The website has links, buttons, etc. that when clicked on, bring up a list with inaccessible links or with no apparent effect. The website also has various edit boxes with no apparent functions. However, because Edmodo has an app for the iPhone, I was able to use Edmodo just as effectively as my peers on that platform. The much simplified app still does everything required of it, including turning in assignments, and sending and receiving notes with teachers.
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HOUSTON, TX—Sceptre Hospitality Resources has unveiled its new Internet Booking Engine (IBE), which will be released to the industry in April 2014.
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BEIJING — Charismatic preacher Gong Shengliang led a popular Christian group that spiraled into violence under persecution by Chinese authorities and the temptations of power.
Now Mr. Gong has suffered an apparent stroke in prison, and his family members are calling for his release.
In an emotional open letter that calls for prayers, family members of Gong Shengliang said prison authorities rebuffed a request that he be given medical parole that they raised after seeing his condition.
Mr. Gong had to be helped by two people to walk to a seat in the prison visiting room in the central city of Wuhan, and "his face was flushed. He drooled and couldn't talk and move his left side," says the letter, dated Dec. 11, the day after the visit.
"I asked him if his spirits were good. He could only say, 'Good, good,'" his sister Gong Shuzhen said last week in Beijing. She, the 60-year-old pastor's two adult daughters and two other followers had come there to petition the Supreme Court and national legislature. "I told him, 'The God we believe in will save you.'"
Prison authorities in Wuhan either declined to comment or did not respond to telephone inquiries on Mr. Gong's case.
His condition marks the latest twist for an energetic preacher whose rise and fall serve as a cautionary example of the rapid spread of Christianity over the past 30 years and the authoritarian government's efforts to stifle it.
An impassioned speaker and effective organizer, Mr. Gong built the following of his South China Church to an estimated 100,000 across the small corn and rice farms of central China before the government closed in.
Its popularity, along with its refusal to join the state-backed Christian church with its ban on proselytizing, brought the South China Church into conflict with the government, which labeled the group a cult in 1995.
As police searches, arrests and other harassment grew more frequent, acolytes attacked believers-turned-informants, committing 16 revenge beatings in all, two involving sulfuric acid being thrown on the victims.
Arrested in 2001, Mr. Gong was convicted of encouraging the beatings, in the very least, and of raping at least two followers.
He denied the charges, though he and other church leaders later acknowledged that some followers had made mistakes. His life sentence was reduced later to 19 years.
As it was in Mr. Gong's heyday, China remains fertile ground for spiritual groups, with decades of fast-paced free-market reforms having discredited communist ideology, loosened social bonds and seen hundreds of millions of people move from country to city.
Though Buddhism and folk religions are the biggest draws, Christianity has grown so quickly that there are not enough well-trained preachers.
Meanwhile, police pressure has left some groups feeling besieged, forcing them deeper underground, where they are out of reach of established churches and more likely to deviate from accepted teachings.
State media reported last week that police detained more than 1,000 members of the heretical sect Eastern Lightning in several provinces and warned that the group has been preaching and leafleting about an impending apocalypse.
The group believes that Christ has been reborn, this time as a woman in China. The Huashang website reported that in Shaanxi province, the group is urging followers to "exterminate the great red dragon" -- a reference to the Communist Party -- "and found a country under the rule of Almighty God."
Mr. Gong's South China Church was rooted more firmly in the evangelical tradition that took off in the United States over the past 100 years and has spread worldwide. His grandmother was converted by Christian missionaries. Gong Dali started preaching as a teenager, taking the name Shengliang, which means "holy light."
Key to his South China Church's success was Mr. Gong's effectiveness in training a corps of preachers to attract more converts. Followers built halls large enough to hold 500 people, conspicuous structures for a forbidden group.
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If I'd spent the weekend with a girl...hell a guy for that matter, I would surely not wait for three days to have ANY kind of response "hey it was great", "let's do that again" or something like that..it's called basic politeness..And if it doesn't happen, at least I'd have a decent answer for if the girl is coming back at me first..
Looks to me like the guy doesn't really know what he wants and/or very insecure (the whole couch thing doesn't mean...he's still a guy, but okay maybe he was too shy or even too respectful indeed towards you...*then*). I guess we all make mistakes but I'd wait it out (if you're interested in this guy) to see how he's approaching you the following days, but I would not show too much interest from your side at first.
If he's shy, he'll be shy enough to in time show you he like to keep in touch
If he's uninterested, he'll keep doing this for a couple of times just for the sake of the "hunting" part that we guys have..which makes me think it's better to keep a (small) distance from him to see how he reacts..
He had told me to text him when I got home, so I did. We sent a few texts back and forth, but nothing like our usual. Two or three days later I sent him a casual "Hey, I haven't really heard from you.." sort of text. He said he had been really busy. Then a few days later he im'ed me and we talked for like 2 mins. That was the last I heard from him til this week. To me it seems like I wasn't that interesting/important to not talk to for 3 months. Or that I was second rate.
Okay I may have been to extreme maybe earlier sorry bout that.
Like you said though, it was nothing like the usual - now if that was the first real live meeting, that is pretty normal. Both you and he had to redraw their virtual picture of the other no matter how many pix are out there.Possibly he's rather sensitive and it may have blown him off a bit? I wouldn't go too far therefore yet to say you're not interesting, but if you think he's shy, tell him you're confused. And wait for a reaction


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In actual fact, I've been nowhere. It's just that a combination of freshers' week, the start of teaching, preparing my Cheltenham Literature Festival gig and contracting a particularly debilitating dose of Repetitive Strain Injury means that I've barely had a chance to put sore fingers to keyboard. Even though I'm a cyclist and a fencer, I think it was editing photographs that brought on the inflammation. That and extreme old age and a dissipated, dissolute lifestyle. Some nights I'm out so late I miss The One Show. Crazy times, man, crazy times.
Blessed by a paper-thin pseudonym, I can just about afford to be completely honest about my students, but there's no need for puffery anyway this year: both the returners and the new students are a delight. We had a social event last week which was a huge success: friendly, funny and really enjoyable. Despite my witty colleagues directing students with a burning desire to learn Anglo-Saxon in my direction - a few weeks tuition in 1994 is hardly a qualification. So anyway, institutional 'challenges' notwithstanding, I'm full of optimism about teaching this year. This feeling will last until 5 p.m. on October 19th, which is when the first batch of marking comes in.
The major event was the Cheltenham Festival gig. Back in January I had to go to Swindon for a workshop and pitch day run by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, neither of which nouns I had any taste or aptitude for. In the morning we shared our ideas with the other applicants and discussed how to improve them. In the afternoon we sat silently in an anteroom as one by one, we were called to present our big idea to a panel in three minutes. The prize was a slot at the Festival and my pitch was to discuss the history, character and context of the hundreds of politicians' novels, poems and plays which exist. Amazingly, although there are excellent books about politics in novels, nobody's written so much as a journal article about work by politicians. Instead you occasionally get newspaper pieces about why they're all so rubbish. My colleague and I reckon there are some interesting things to say about them, including whether the fact that the vast majority are murder thrillers implies that even politicians have lost faith in the boring, quotidian advance of democracy. Though I must admit that being in the same room as Jeremy Hunt would make me fantasise about murder too.
Somehow I managed to win (it was either my witty and topical jokes about Winston Churchill's novel or their overdeveloped sense of pity) and my writing partner and I were passed over to the Festival people to plan our session. They picked a panel for us (Robbie Millen, Literary Editor of the Times, Michael Dobbs (Tory lord, author of House of Cards) and Anne McElvoy (The Economist and Evening Standard) as the chair.
Come the day and we arrived, as did a charabanc load of friends and family (the cringeworthy highlight of my day was discussing the nipple count in Widdecombe's novels in front of my mother, aunts and young cousin). Our fellow panellists hadn't read any of the politicians' work which gave us at least the upper hand. It was also our first taste of being 'the talent', if only for an hour or two. Sitting in the hospitality tent we observed the way each entrant would pause in the doorway, scan everybody to see if they were worthy of an air-kiss, and pass quickly over those of us deemed insufficiently famous. We sat quite close to Salman Rushdie, which looking back might not have been the safest berth on the ship. Thank heavens the Russians are keeping ISIS and co busy at the moment.
The event went – I think – quite well. Michael Dobbs was as patrician as you'd expect ('you're a very naughty girl' he told my colleague afterwards, which is rather toe-curling), and said many interesting things from the author's point of view. We managed to get some of the serious points in without detracting from the light-hearted tone, and I swallowed the unpleasant partisan jokes I'd lined up.
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The questions from the floor were good and McElvoy was such a good chair - nobody got talked over or ignored. The room was full and I hope they got their £8 worth. Afterwards I went off for tea and chat with my relatives and a few friends, while the coach load from work hit a speakeasy for multiple gins.
Going back to ordinary lectures today was a struggle. No Salman. No flowers and sound engineers. No applause. Back to reality… And now we have to produce the research.


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Steve Megargee
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It's getting to be a yearly tradition at Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) St. Thomas Aquinas.
Contend for a state championship in the fall. Watch a couple of former players get drafted in the spring.
The growing fraternity of St. Thomas Aquinas alumni in the pro ranks added a couple of members last week when the Baltimore Ravens selected South Carolina State safety Christian Thompson in the fourth round and the Green Bay Packers picked Florida State offensive tackle Andrew Datko in the seventh round.
A total of eight St. Thomas Aquinas players have been drafted over the last five years. No other high school in the country had more than five players selected during that same stretch.
"I think some of those guys have carried on some of that stuff to college," said St. Thomas Aquinas athletic director George Smith, who ended his 34-year tenure as the school's football coach in Feburary 2011. "I know some of these kids have turned out to be great leaders."
They've also turned developed into great winners.
St. Thomas Aquinas captured state championships in 1992, 1997, 1999, 2007, 2008 and 2010. The 2008 team finished atop the RivalsHigh national rankings. That makes St. Thomas Aquinas arguably the best football program in perhaps the best state for producing future pros.
Although this wasn't a good draft for Florida's major college powers, a look at the high school backgrounds of every player drafted over the last five years reveals that the Sunshine State remains a hotbed for pro football talent.
One of the major storylines in this year's draft was the lack of elite players from Florida, Florida State and Miami. This marked the first time since 1980 that all three of those schools failed to produce a first-round pick. For the first time since 1977, no player from either Florida or Florida State was taken in the first three rounds.
But the top Florida high school programs - particularly in the southern part of the state - remain as productive as ever.
Nine high schools have collected at least four draft picks over the last five years. Five of them are from Florida: St. Thomas Aquinas (7), Miami Northwestern (5), Lakeland (4), Pahokee (4) and Pompano Beach Ely (4). Charlotte (N.C.) Independence, Chino (Calif.) High, Cleveland (Ohio) Glenville and Stone Mountain (Ga.) Stephenson also each had four players drafted over the last five years.
The fact that St. Thomas Aquinas and Miami Northwestern top the chart shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
St. Thomas Aquinas topped the RivalsHigh national rankings in 2008 and finished second in the 2010 RivalsHigh poll. Miami Northwestern was named Rivals' 2007 national title with a team that featured four players who were drafted last week.
"Those really were two teams with star-studded players that won national championships almost hands down," RivalsHigh national analyst Dallas Jackson said of the 2007 Northwestern team and the 2008 St. Thomas Aquinas squad. "Miami Northwestern [in 2007] was one of the better high school football teams I've seen in the last five or six years. They had talent galore."
While four of Northwestern's five draftees over the last five years came from one class, St. Thomas Aquinas' talent has been more spread out.
The Baltimore Ravens selected former St. Thomas Aquinas linebacker Tavares Gooden out of Miami in the third round of the 2008 draft. Three St. Thomas Aquinas alums were drafted in 2010, as the Chicago Bears took Florida safety Major Wright in the third round, the Cincinnati Bengals chose Georgia defensive tackle Geno Atkins in the fourth and the Dallas Cowboys selected Notre Dame offensive tackle Sam Young in the seventh. In last year's draft, the Pittsburgh Steelers used a second-round pick on Florida offensive tackle Marcus Gilbert and the Washington Redskins chose Miami wide receiver Leonard Hankerson in the third.
All those guys had helped make St. Thomas Aquinas one of the nation's most consistently successful high school programs. Smith retired as the school's football coach in February 2011 after posting a 361-66 record in 34 seasons.
That consistency in the coaching staff continues to this day.
St. Thomas Aquinas' staff has featured occasional star power. Cris Carter, an eight-time Pro Bowl receiver who played in the NFL from 1987-2002, is a former St. Thomas Aquinas assistant. Casullo's staff this season will include two-time Pro Bowl cornerback Al Harris and former Pro Bowl safety Darryl Williams as well as former Minnesota Vikings safety Darrell Fullington.
"The Al Harrises and those guys offer so much about what life is if you're trying to be successful," Smith said.
But the most obvious example of the continuity at St. Thomas Aquinas comes from offensive line coach Jay Connolly, who has been on the coaching staff for over 35 years. Connolly helped develop Young, Gilbert and Datko into pro prospects.
"He's a technician," Casullo said. "He's fundamentally sound. When he teaches, the kids understand it. He simplifies everything. And he's got a mean streak in him like all offensive line coaches need to have. There are some days I can hear his voice in my head at 9 o'clock at night. When it's one of those days, it's tough for those guys. But he has such a passion. He cares so much about the kids. He's also an English teacher here, so he does have a soft side, believe it or not.
"The kids really love him. He has a great way of teaching, not only on the football field, but in the classroom."
Connolly isn't the only veteran on the coaching staff. Defensive line coach Jim Gazzillo and special teams coach Dave Shepherd have been at St. Thomas Aquinas for about two decades. Many of the younger assistant coaches are former St. Thomas Aquinas players.
"It's not about all the pro guys who are with us and helping us," Smith said. "It's about our other guys, too, who have been here forever and are regular high school coaches."
Those guys should help St. Thomas Aquinas send even more players to the NFL in short order.
North Carolina running back Giovani Bernard and Florida State safety Lamarcus Joyner are two St. Thomas Aquinas alums who earned all-ACC honors last season, with Bernard making the first team and Joyner appearing on the second team. Wisconsin running back James White was the Big Ten freshman of the year in 2010.
Florida cornerback Marcus Roberson, Florida State wide receiver Rashad Greene and Florida State offensive tackle Bobby Hart all made big contributions last season as true freshmen after starring for the Raiders.
St. Thomas Aquinas defensive end Jelani Hamilton signed with Miami in February as the No. 106 overall prospect in the 2012 class. Other FBS recruits from St. Thomas Aquinas in the 2012 class included three-star running back Dami Ayoola (Illinois) and three-star defensive end Bryan Cox Jr. (Florida).
Joey Bosa, a St. Thomas Aquinas junior defensive end who recently committed to Ohio State, is the No. 14 recruit in the 2013 class.
Here's a rundown of high school programs across the nation that have produced at least three draft picks over the last five years. For the purpose of this project, we only took into account the last high school where a prospect played. For instance, if a player spent his freshman and sophomore seasons at one school before transferring to another school, we considered the second school his alma mater.
Steve Megargee is the national college columnist for Rivals.com. He can be reached at email@example.com, and you can click here to follow him on Twitter.
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