The Major in Spanish is offered in the day curriculum only. Students majoring in Spanish will take an exit exam consisting of language, literature of both Spain and Latin America, and Culture and Civilization of Spain and Latin America in the last semester of their senior year. Date, place and time will be determined by the Department Chair.
Students who have had Spanish prior to enrolling at Methodist University may take the Modern Languages and Literature Department placement exam. This will place the student in the appropriate level but will not give credit for prior levels of study unless the student takes the CLEP or Challenge exams. Students who are true native speakers of Spanish cannot enroll in SPA 3010/3050, nor receive credit for it without permission of the Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literature. Please see the Chair for guidelines and for other course offerings to replace these courses.
Minor in Spanish (3000-4000 levels) - Students will demonstrate ability to comprehend and communicate verbally and in writing in target language at intermediate high-level based on proficiency guidelines of the American Council on Teaching Foreign Languages.
Students will demonstrate speaking and listening skills. They will comprehend, in reading and in writing, general texts of moderate difficulty and write clear descriptions, messages, summaries, and short papers with limited vocabulary at an advanced level.
Major in Spanish (300-400 levels) - Students will demonstrate ability to comprehend oral and written language and communicate (speaking and writing accurately) the target language at an Intermediate High to Advanced Level based on proficiency guidelines of ACTFL.
Students will meet entrance exam requirements for graduate study in target language and/or be able to study or work successfully in countries where the target language is spoken.
24 s.h. of 3000 and 4000 level Spanish courses (some of both), of which 9 s.h. should be Literature courses. Also includes SPA 3010 and 3050 or substitute approved by the Department Chair in the case of demonstrated proficiency, SPA 3100 or 3200, and 4020. All upper level classes taught in Spanish.
12 s.h. of 3000 and 4000 level Spanish courses (some of both), including SPA 3010 and 3050 or substitute approved by the Department Chair in the case of demonstrated proficiency. All upper level classes taught in Spanish.
18 s.h. of Spanish courses, including SPA 3010 and 3050 or substitute approved by the Department Chair in the case of demonstrated proficiency.


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Dan Friday
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Evan Battey
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Colorado beats Brown 54-52 for fourth place at Paradise Jam
ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands (AP) — Evan Battey scored 16 points, Jabari Walker had 10 points and 11 rebounds, and Colorado beat Brown 54-52 on Monday for fourth place at the Paradise Jam.
Battey, off a nice assist from Keeshawn Barthelemy, made an open shot in the lane with 1:05 left for a 51-50 lead. After a Walker steal, Barthelemy added a basket for a three-point lead.
Paxson Wojcik made two free throws with three seconds left to pull Brown within 53-52, but Colorado was able to get the ball to Barthelemy, who hit 1 of 2 free throws.
Nique Clifford added nine rebounds for Colorado (5-1), which hosts Stanford on Sunday. Walker secured his third double-double of the season. The Buffaloes made 40% of their shots, including just 1 of 9 from distance.
Colorado trailed 30-24 at halftime.
Wojcik scored nine of his 14 points in the first half for Brown (4-3). Dan Friday added 13 points. The Bears were 4 of 22 from 3-point range and 16 of 23 at the free-throw line.
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Choose the right septa for your analysis. Although a wide variety of septa is available, chemical compatibility and temperature are the most critical to the analysis. Temperature applies not only to the vial, but also to the temperature of the instrument's needle used for pressurization and sample transfer, which is heated to prevent condensation. A needle temperature higher than the vial temperature setting can decompose the septum material. PTFE coated silicone and aluminum-coated silicone offer the highest temperature operating limits.


Summer in Italy is a time for festivals. Up and down the peninsula, the sun brings communities out of their houses to join together in celebration of the many fine things Italian culture has to offer. How and what they celebrate is as varied as Italian cuisine, and just as regional. In the south of Italy, many of the festivals centre around the church, with saintly statues carried carefully through the streets to ancient music, usually culminating in massive firework displays. The streets themselves become like churches, filled with flowers, brocades, and more statues, bringing the inside out in an expression of faith.
Festivals in the north, tend to be more focussed around music and dancing, the young converging in the town and village squares to court in the old fashion under the wistful gaze of the nonne, grandmothers reliving their past as their grandmothers did before them. Many country marriages still have their origins in the village festa, a lifetime together starting with a dance under the stars.
Waiting for the pageant to start.
As always, Tuscany has its own way of doing things. Here there are many festivals featuring a medieval sport, accompanied by ancient ritual and high-camp pagentry in which the noise of drums and trumpets bounce off the ancient facades of the historic town centres. Florence, for example, features a no-holds-barred football match in which teams of men in renaissance trousers break each other's noses and worse, for the prize of a pure-white chianina cow. Arezzo has a joust on horseback in which the target swings round and can hit the rider on the back of the head, while Sansepolcro's crossbow tournament draws crowds paying a small fortune for prime seats in the square.
The most famous of these competitions is the biannual Palio di Siena, a horse race around the city's piazza in which the prize is a small pennant, or palio. Here the teams comprise the contrada, the seventeen geographical divisions of the city to which the Sienese have a lifelong and all consuming attachment, even once they have moved away.
Our local town of Anghiari, population 5, 672, has its very own palio, celebrated every 29 June—the date of a battle in 1440 for which the town is famous. Every year, about thirty men will compete in a foot race from the battlefield, to the town square—a horizontal distance of 1440m but the second half of which rises 400m uphill. In recent years, this challenge has become popular with serious runners from all over the Valtiberina.
Some of this year's contestants.
As with all the other Tuscan sports, the Palio della Vittoria is accompanied by pagentry in theatrical medieval costumes. In fact, the town bands of Arezzo, Sansepolcro, and Florence, set up for their own festivals, are all invited and take part. The mayors of all the neighbouring communi are also invited as they will all have runners in the race.
The event kicks off at 18.30. Or 18.45, or as last night, 18.50. This is Italy after all. There then follows a parade in the town square that includes one of the most unique and traditional elements of Tuscan pagentry: sbandieratori or flag throwers. These groups have their origins in the corps of signallers who would use huge flags to send messages across the medieval battlefields. Over the years this turned into an art of acrobatics as huge silk flags in rainbow colours are manipulated and often tossed metres into the air only to be caught again in a display of skill and elegance.
Flags up in the air.
After the show, the runners, wearing not much more than a pair of shorts and running shoes are presented to the crowd and then are taken down the hill to the start line. About half an hour later, they run into the square, accompanied by 'knights' on horseback, the winner collapsing with exhaustion in the evening heat, but victory assured for one of the local communi.
Runners waiting to be led to the starting line.
The Palio della Vittoria was instituted in 1441 and was run every year until 1827, when it was banned because of repeated fighting between the youth of Anghiari and neighbouring Sansepolcro, whose role in the original battle was equivocal at best. The first of these fights, about ten years after the battle, resulted in the men from Sansepolcro stealing the bolt from one of the gates of Anghiari, which was returned to the town a few years ago. The tradition (of the palio, not the fights) was revived about thirteen years ago but has now become one of the most popular events in the area.
The winner! Matteo Giorni from Anghiari.
These photos are from yesterday's enactment, which was by Matteo Giorni, a local boy from Anghiari. I am sure you can imagine how pleased the crowd were. If you are ever in Anghiari on 29 June, it's well worth a visit.


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Q: Android: OnKeyListener implemented Service onKey not being called So as the title says, I have a Service which Implements OnKeyListener to receive keys in the background to increment some values in my achievement database.
My problem is onKey isn't being called (the service is being created and started and everything)
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Am I going about this the wrong way?

A: Android services are unable to respond to Key Listeners because they have no visible manifestation, they run in the background. If you want more information, have a look at this post:
Is it possible to create an Android Service that listens for hardware key presses?

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Secretary for Small Business, Rebecca White, helped connect business and community leaders together to discuss the small business impacts and opportunities related to carbon pricing at last week's Business in the Carbon Economy event in Devonport.
Ms White said the purpose of the event was to share information on carbon pricing and increase awareness of business activities that can help reduce business and household costs.
"It is important the State Government continues to communicate with our small business and community sectors to share information about the Australian Government's carbon pricing package. While these sectors do not have direct liability under the carbon price, there are many opportunities for them to reduce overheads and become more sustainable. For most small businesses, managing the carbon price is about managing increasing energy usage and costs, " Ms White said.
Ms White believes there are now more business opportunities in areas such as low-carbon production, renewable energy and low-emissions technology.
"The State Government continues to work with business in order to help ensure the carbon pricing scheme achieves real emission reductions as efficiently and fairly as possible, while mitigating any adverse effects," Ms White said.
During the forum, Ms White described the Business Ready workshops, one of the key programs of the Department of Economic Development, Tourism and the Arts' Small Business Strategy.
"Through the Economic Development Plan and the Small Business Strategy, the State Government is working towards making environmental sustainability a key goal for individual enterprises. The plan encourages business effort to build sustainability, capitalise on our natural resource advantages and provide marketing support for Tasmanian products. It will also assist Tasmanian businesses adjust to and thrive within our national economic transition to a clean energy future," Ms White added.


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Q: Windsor IOC in a non-Http WCF application - error initialising IOC kernel I have a problem trying to initialise my IOC container in a WCF application. The application is non HTTP based using WAS.
When I start the application I get this error message...
Kernel was null, did you forgot to call DefaultServiceHostFactory.RegisterContainer
I have seen other answers to this solution which say to do the following...

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Factory="Castle.Facilities.WcfIntegration.DefaultServiceHostFactory, Castle.Facilities.WcfIntegration"

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*Create a class in th App_Code folder with a static method called AppInitialize(). This method should then automatically be called and you can use it to register your container.

I have done this but my AppInitialize method is not called and I am still getting the error above.
Thanks.


Jubilant fans greet Super Eagles as team returns from South Africa with third continental title.
Thousands of football fans in Nigeria's capital have welcomed home the new Africa Cup of Nations champions.
The Super Eagles, as the national side is known, returned from South Africa with their third continental title.
Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege reports from Abuja, Nigeria.


Do you have a little one who is obsessed with 'DUMP TRUCKS & DIGGERS'?
If you answered YES, then a 'Construction Party' is the perfect theme for their next birthday and today I am sharing all the details of my son's Construction Party we had last year, celebrating his 2nd Birthday. Better late than never right?
Would you believe me if I told you I WON all of the items above for $21 in an auction on TradeMe? It's TRUE!! I did! I couldn't believe it either. I placed my bid on a Thursday and completely forgot about it until I received an email, on the following Saturday, from the seller - congratulating me on winning her auction. I was super excited.
Everything I needed, plus MORE, to decorate a pretty cool Construction themed party for only $21!
I stored everything in a 40L container until the day - it was literally a 'PARTY IN A BOX'. I was thrilled and I thanked the seller many times.
I ordered my son's birthday invitation from Etsy member DesignsbyCarrieLee, however she is no longer active on Etsy, so I have found this one by Etsy member 'Villa Custom Creations' who has created the same invitation.
I printed these invitations at Warehouse Stationery on 6x4 photo paper, and hand delivered them a couple of weeks prior to the party. I also created an event on Facebook, so I could keep track of who was coming.
We hired our Playcentre for the day, because it was more spacious and there was more room for the kids to play, not to mention the big sandpit, perfect for a construction site.
There was CAUTION/DANGER tape EVERYWHERE - the Playcentre was starting to resemble a construction site. It looked great - all the decorations were used in one way or another. We had the food and drink tables set up, plus a table for presents.
The sandpit was definitely the focal point of the party. The barricade netting was a great backdrop, and the sand pit was filled with cones, spades and construction vehicles (some from home, a couple from the centre and I borrowed a couple from my son's home-based carer).
The bunting, 'Happy Birthday' banner and construction site posters & prints added a pop of colour to the centre, which really set the theme of the party. I also had a SITE ACCESS sign on our front gate, and a few balloons.
Every month I took a photo of my son on his trike, and created this birthday bunting (like how I did for his first birthday) - it's so cool looking back and seeing how much he has grown over the year. I'm hoping to do something similar for this 3rd birthday, which is only a week away.
I made the jelly shots (pictured below) and also asked our friends to bring along a plate of food to share. They were more than happy to do this, and it's something we all do each year for our kids birthdays. It saves a lot of time, money and prep work. We had a good variety of savoury and sweet things, plus a Fruit Traffic Light, which was very popular. We supplied the drinks - soft drinks, orange juice and plenty of water, plus hot drinks for adults. 'Drinks' sign - free download printable from Lime & Mortar.
How cute are these jelly shots with the 'road work signs'! A must-have at any construction party! Free Printable download via Lime & Mortar .
For my son's first birthday, I got everyone to write a little message in A Little Golden Book, so for his second birthday I wanted to do something similar. I bought two hard hats from a local dollar store and a couple of sharpies and had our friends and family sign the hats. They are now displayed on the shelf in his room.
When I bought the invitations, it came with a free 5x3 'Thank You For Loads of Fun' printable which I used for our party favours. I found a tub of 'Halloween' M&M's' at The Clearance Shed for $5. I got my daughter and niece to sort them into bags and I stapled the printable on each bag. Just a little something for our friends thanking them for coming to celebrate our son's birthday.
I like to keep my kids birthday cakes simple, yet specific to the theme of the party. I bought a Goofy Chocolate slab cake from BidVest Foodservice for under $30 (to cater our guests).
Fun Fact: I used to be Telemarketer at BidVest before I started my teaching career and these slab cakes are delicious!
I bought a new packet of CAT Mini Workers for $9 from KMart, cleaned them and popped them on the cake with a variety of chocolates (Flake, Maltesters & Crunchie) to represent the rubble and rocks. I also used a few mini road signs, which were a FREE download from Lime & Mortar.
To complete the cake, I wrapped some CAUTION tape around the base and added a '2' candle. Master M's face lit up when he saw the diggers, loader and dump truck! He was very happy with his cake.
Master M wore his 'DIG FOR FUN' t-shirt and denim shorts. He loves his dump trucks and diggers (and still does, a year later) - he spent most of the party in the sandpit with his friends, playing with the construction vehicles.
It was such a great party! The kids had 'truck loads' of fun. We finished the day with a BBQ dinner back at home with our family, oh and had more cake - one for Master M and one for Miss B (they're birthdays are 3 days apart).
Road Work, Dig In and Drinks Printable: Lime & Mortar.
What a perfect party for a 2 year old boy!
That looks like loads of fun - I think you've missed your vocation in event planning and management. Everything looks awesome - I can't wait to see the party theme for this year!