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| 41 area teachers get Golden Apples |
Forty-one area educators, one from each public and private school in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, were honored Monday with Golden Apple Awards.
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Happy Deadline Day!
CavDog's dressed up for the big day!
The countdown has begun. I know a lot of schools have a January 1st deadline, so some of you will inevitably be putting the finishing touches on multiple applications right up until 11:59 PM.
Keep in mind...
We can't fix Common App website problems.
Submit a help request on their website if you have any trouble.
Also, today is your deadline. Your counselors and teachers have until January 10th to submit school forms, transcripts, and recommendations. We prefer online submission, but you won't be penalized if these items are sent by snail mail .
If you want to chat with other applicants to relieve a little stress, check out the Class of 2014 Facebook page . We set this page up so you'd have a place to congregate online. Obviously, the membership evolves in the spring as students commit to schools.
The group I created for last year's applicants is now the Class of 2013's page. I turned over administration to students and now the Class Council uses the group to publicize events (though we have an internal networking system that they use, too).
Good luck, everyone! If you have general questions, feel free to post them. Be sure to read the "after you apply" part of the application instructions on our website . It's really important to understand the timing at work here. In the wee hours of the morning, Common App's system will transmit all applications submitted today. It will take a few days for our system to process the applications and send our confirmation emails with your Student Information System login information.
EDIT: I've repeated this a few times today on College Confidential, so I'll post it here:
Don't be alarmed by your to-do list at this time.
Read this if you're worried.
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nowhere near playlist 7.14.10
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"Swastika Girls (Pt. 1)" - Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting [EG: 1973]"Live Till You Die" - Emitt Rhodes - Emitt Rhodes [One Way: 1970]"Hall (The One AM Radio Remix)" - Baths - Baths Remixes [2010]"Summer, Silver Lake" - Golden Hotel - The Silver Wilderne...
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Remembering my father’s birthday
Today is my dad's birthday; he would have been 86 today. David Richardson died five years ago. My dad loved the sea and loved sailing. He had skippered various small ships in World War II, and after the war he captained a sea-going tugboat between San Francisco and Pearl Harbor.
Even after he left the Navy and went into the business world, he kept his love of the sea all his life. When I was young, he and I spent countless hours sailing on San Francisco Bay.
In later years he brushed up on his seamanship, took an exam and got a Coast Guard license so he could hire out skippering yachts for those who owned them but did not know what to do with them on the water. Mostly he worked the Pacific coast, but he and I once piloted a large yacht down the Hudson River, past Manhattan, and out to its summer mooring in Connecticut Sound (he the skipper, I the crew).
The photo at right of my father was taken by a U.S. Navy photographer in 1944 while he was on a patrol searching for downed American fliers along the coast of New Guinea (sadly, none were found). The sailing photo below is from the day we took my father's ashes out to San Francisco Bay and scattered them at the Golden Gate. Our friend Karen sent this poem a few years ago, and I always think of my dad when I read it. To Alexander Graham by W. S. Graham
Lying asleep walking
Last night I met my father
Who seemed pleased to see me.
He wanted to speak. I saw
His mouth saying something
But the dream had no sound.
We were surrounded by
Laid-up paddle steamers
In The Old Quay in Greenock .
I smelt the tar and the ropes.
It seemed that I was standing
Beside the big iron cannon
The tugs used to tie up to
When I was a boy. I turned
To see Dad standing just
Across the causeway under
That one lamp they keep on.
He recognised me immediately.
I could see that. He was
The handsome, same age
With his good brows as when
He would take me on Sundays
Saying we’ll go for a walk.
Dad, what am I doing here?
What is it I am doing now?
Are you proud of me?
Going away, I knew
You wanted to tell me something.
You stopped and almost turned back
To say something. My father,
I try to be the best
In you you give me always.
Lying asleep turning
Round in the quay-lit dark
It was my father standing
As real as life. I smelt
The quay’s tar and the ropes.
I think he wanted to speak.
But the dream had no sound.
I think I must have loved him.
The Monday Funnies will be taking a break for a few weeks during General Convention.
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Possibly Fix an Intermittent Left Mouse Button Problem
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Periodically, and for no apparent reason, the left mouse button would quit working on my USB Mighty Mouse. Unplug and plug, still inoperative. So I tried another non-Apple mouse, still inoperative. When this happens, the right mouse button works and could activate menus, but I couldn’t click on things (I used a right-click and the [...]
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Move the Help Window from One Space to Another
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For whatever reason, Apple decided that the Leopard Help window needed to be a floating window. Among other things, this means that you cannot drag it across Spaces.If you switch spaces while you open the Help window and accidentally open it in the wrong space, you may feel that you have to reload the whole [...]
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Area educators receive Apples
Forty-one area educators, one from each public and private school in Char-lottesville and Albemarle County, were honored Wednesday with Golden Apple Awards.
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