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Special Educator of the Year: Joan Reese ('09)
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Middle School - John O'Connor (2003), Michelle Carvalho (2009)
High School - Bryan K. Lane (2004), Michael Jette (2010), David Ryan (2012)
Up The Ladder (the degree placed in parentheses means the degree is in progress):
Todd Allen (Ed.S.) was selected as the Assistant Superintendent for the Oyster River Cooperative School District.
Elizabeth Birnam, CAGS offered a seminar entitled Comprehension Strategies for Struggling Readers (K-6) through the University of New Hampshire Office of Professional Development & Training in August of 2015.
Greg Brown, M.Ed. accepted the position of Assistant Principal/Dean of Students at Woodman Park Elementary, Dover, New Hampshire.
Mary Buese, CAGS, was selected as the 2015 recipient of the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce "Educator of the Year" award.
William Carozza, M.Ed., received the EDies 2015 NHSTE Susan Janosz Technology Award
Jessica Clark, CAGS became a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) and now serves as the Administrator for Teacher Training and Professional Development in New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine for the New England Center for children.
Joe Crawford, M.Ed., teaches school law for Southern New Hampshire University.
• He and Justin Krieger, CAGS are starting their third year as co-directors of the Next Charter School in Derry and will graduate their first crop of students this year.
Robert Dawson, Ed.S. accepted the position of principal of Windham High School in Windham, NH.
Paula DiNardo, CAGS (Ph.D.) is part of a panel presentation, "Can 'Study Away' Achieve the Same Outcomes as Study Abroad?", at the ACPA: College Student Educators, International conference in Montreal, Canada
Carolyn Eastman, Ed.S. accepted consulting positions working with Michigan Department of Education on a state wide longitudinal study on teacher perception and student achievement, and the Wisconsin Center for Education providing assistance on the opportunities to learn, the enacted curriculum, and the common core.
Carla Evans (Ph.D.) completed a summer internship with Center for Assessment in Dover, NH working on performance assessment in a competency-based education model.
Josh Evans, M.Ed. is a Project Manager for Math & Science at Heinemann Publishing, Portsmouth, NH.
Michael Flynn, CAGS accepted the position of Assistant Principal of Timberlane Middle School.
Jerry Frew, M.Ed., was selected as the 2015 Superintendent of the Year (SAU #65).
David Goldsmith, CAGS is in his second year as the Assistant Principal of Stratham Memorial School (PreK-5).
Michael Harris, Ph.D. accepted the position of Interim, Part-Time superintendent of the Rivendell Interstate School District, in addition to being the part-time superintendent of the Lyme School District.
Nicole Heimarck, M.Ed., joined the NH State Department of Education as their Bureau Administrator for Educator Preparation.
• Nicole received the 2015 Edie Award from the New Hampshire School Administrators Association's Outstanding Service Award.
Antonio Henley, Ph.D., was named Dean, University College at Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, N.C,
Gavin Henning, Ph.D. has started his fifth year at New England College as an Associate Professor of Higher Education & Director of Doctorate of Education and Masters of Higher Education Administration degrees.
Douglas J. Gagnon, Ph.D., currently serves as a Research Associate with the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire.
Mark Joyce, M. Ed., Ed.D. received the Bradley F. Kidder Award presented by the New Hampshire Council for School Attorneys for excellence in school law.
Michael Jette, Ph.D., assistant superintendent of the Bedford School District has agreed to serve on Justin Bene's dissertation committee at the University of New Hampshire.
Ryan Kaplan, Ed.S., accepted a position as the Upper School Assistant Principal at the American School in Milan, Italy.
Steve Kossakoski, M.Ed., Ph.D., presented, SL-Student-Centered Learning: Paradign Shift or Incremental Change?, at the 2015 Christa McAuliffe Technology Confernce.
Justin Krieger, CAGS was elected as Director to the Board of The Upper Room, a non-profit family resource center serving youth and adults.
Ginger Lever, CAGS, Ed.D. accepted a position as Professor and Director of Programs with the New Hampshire Bureau of Education and Training.
Chris Martin, M.Ed., CAGS, Ed.D. was selected as the Assistant Superintendent for Elementary Education in the Manchester School District.
Michael McCann, CAGS was appointed Interim Principal of Oyster River High School.
Lauren McGrath, CAGS, was selected as Assistant Principal at the Cooperative Middle School in Stratham, NH.
Valerie McKinney, M.Ed. accepted the position of Superintendent of Schools, Epping School District, Epping, NH
Dan Mitchell, M.Ed., was named a Union Leader 40 Under Forty and is the assistant principal at Peter Woodbury School in Bedford, New Hampshire
Laura Nelson, M.Ed., J.D. teaches school law for Southern New Hampshire University.
• She co-presented, Transforming Professional Learning for NH Leaders, at the 2015 Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference
Martha Parker-Magagna, Ph.D., is serving a second term as Project Administrator for the Governor's Task Force on STEM K-12 Education, which is charged with developing and implementing recommendations to modernize STEM secondary education in the state. The Task Force is a consortium of educators, business leaders and private citizens from throughout NH. Their initial report is available on the Governor's website.
Anna Parrill, CAGS, received the 2015 New Hampshire Elementary School Principal of the year award.
• Anna transferred to Barron Elementary School in the Salem School District.
Paul Roberts, M.Ed., is in his second year as a history teacher at the Seoul International School in Seoul, South Korea.
David Ryan, CAGS, published a case study, "Careful What You Wish For", in Leila Sadeghi & Kathe Callanans (Eds.) Leadership in Action: A Casebook for Aspiring Educational Leaders.
John Shea, CAGS, published (September & October 2015) three op/ed pieces in the Portsmouth Herald, Portsmouth, NH. He is currently the principal of the International School of Panama.
Emily Squibb (Special Education Administration Certification Program), accepted the position of assistant Professor and Special education coordinator at Hillsboro Deering Middle School.
Amy Tarallo, CAGS, Ed.D. accepted the position as District Director of Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment at SAU #70.
Thomas Waldron (Ed.S.) accepted the position of Assistant Principal of Central School (K-8) in Alton, NH.


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Unusually edited meditation on family, class, life cycles and politics.
A recently paralyzed young man learns to release some of his anger thanks to the ministrations of a male nurse in the always intriguing, occasionally perplexing "Mundane History." Despite what it sounds like, there's no gay subtext here; rather, the pic is an unusually edited meditation on family, class, life cycles and politics. Debuting helmer Anocha Suwitchakornpong and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's regular editor, Lee Chatametikool, play with temporal shifts meant to favor rhythm over linearity, but while the experiment creates some nice qualities, it does become overcalculated. Fest exposure will continue following a Tiger win at Rotterdam.
It will take some viewers a while to get used to the regular temporal interruptions in the film, which jumps back at several points to recover earlier moments. An accident has paralyzed Ake (Phakpoom Surapongsanurak) from the waist down, and nurse Pun (Arkaney Cherkham) arrives to live in Ake's wealthy household, observing the tensions between Ake and his father, Thanin (Paramej Noieam), as well as the circumscribed roles accorded the servants. As Pun tells his mother on the phone, the house is beautiful but everyone inside is soulless.
With time, Pun cracks Ake's petulance, and the two develop a rapport. Pun takes Ake to a planetarium, where a spectacularly psychedelic CGI rendition of a supernova is accompanied by the music of Malaysian band Furniture. The sudden visual shift signals an awakening and proves rather effective.
Subsequent scenes continue along unexpected lines, with news shots of a political rally followed by an extended sequence featuring a C-section birth. The metaphors aren't hard to grasp, and the political message uncovers the helmer's subtext that the relationships within the house have a larger societal meaning. However, viewers without a reasonably deep knowledge of Thai life may find themselves stumped.
Some of the pic feels both a bit green and overambitious for a first feature, but Suwitchakornpong delivers a work that holds attention even when certain pieces don't always fit together. She's certainly a director to watch.
Calling the film "Mundane History" is meant to draw attention to life's quotidian tasks, partly repeated through the shifts in time. But the helmer is wise enough not to push the concept too far. More of the father-son relationship would have helped, but the presence of the servants, who are allotted ample screen time, adds nice layers.
Pic was shot on a tiny budget with post-production support from the Hubert Bals Fund, and the visuals, until the CGI supernova, fit with the low-key approach. Unlike many in the new generation of Southeast Asian helmers, Suwitchakornpong doesn't go in for distancing; instead, she uses intimate behavior to gain sympathy for her accessible protags.


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STATE COLLEGE -- The Penn State Board of Trustees officially named Eric Barron as the university's new president at a special meeting Monday afternoon.
Barron has served as the president of Florida State University since 2010 and was previously at Penn State for 20 years in a variety of roles, including serving as dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.
Barron said he was "more than pleased" to take on the presidency.
"It is truly a dream come true to be here," Barron said.
Barron's tenure is slated to begin May 12, though he could take office earlier. He will serve in a president-elect role until then to ease the the university's transition from the tenure of current president Rodney Erickson.
Barron's term will end on June 30, 2019. He will make an $800,000 a year base salary as president.
Officials involved in the search process praised his dedication to academics and leadership.
Brenton Yarnal, chairman of the University Presidential Search and Screen Committee, said Barron's past as member of the faculty make him well-suited to the presidency.
"Penn State can expect him to guide our university to an even high level of research success," Yarnal said.
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YOUNGSTOWN - Stanley "Toby" Kosinski Sr., 85, of the city's North Side, passed away late Monday morning, Nov. 19, 2012, at St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown.
Stanley, who was known to all as "Toby," was born Aug. 20, 1927, in Youngstown, the son of the late John and Stella Stefanko Kosinski, and was a lifelong area resident.
He attended The Rayen School and served in the U.S. Army in Korea after World War II. Mr. Kosinski was a driver/salesman for 50 years, beginning at the Star Bottling Co. He subsequently worked for Tri-County Distributing and retired in 1989 from the R.L. Lipton Co.
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Toby was a member of St. Columba Cathedral and a former active member of St. Casimir Church. He was a longtime member of PLAV Post No. 87, where he had served as post commander and treasurer, and was also a member of the Knights of Columbus All Saints Council.
Mr. Kosinski leaves his wife, Marion McNicholas Kosinski, whom he married May 30, 1968; his son, Stanley Jr. (Theresa) Kosinski of Youngstown; his daughter, Marly Kosinski at home; five grandchildren, Kayla (fiance Ryan Weston), Jena, Madison, Jordan and Erin Kosinski; a sister, Dorothy (Al) Protopapa of Youngstown; a brother, Robert (Mary Lou) Kosinski of Niles; and many nieces and nephews.
Toby will be truly missed by all who loved him.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, John and Ed Kosinski; and by two sisters, Alice Chizmar and Jane Rudy.
Family and friends may call from 9:15 to 10:15 a.m. Saturday at St. Columba Cathedral on West Wood Street near downtown Youngstown, where a Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m.
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Smith's Rustic Social Hall opened last summer in Montgomery. Owner Barry Smith thinks the vast room, attached to Smith's Home Improvement Center, 80 Thomas Ave., serves a local need for more gathering places, especially for live music.
Smith's holds live open mic nights at 8 p.m. each Friday.
"You wouldn't believe how many people love (playing live)," Smith said. "You don't have to be the best to come out and play and have a good time, as long as you're not terrible."
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Smith's Rustic Social Hall opened last summer in Montgomery and is located at 80 Thomas Ave., in the same building as Smith's Home Improvement Center. Open mic nights are held in the new entertainment spot at 8 p.m. each Friday.
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Smith's Rustic Social Hall opened last summer in Montgomery and is located at 80 Thomas Ave., in the same building as Smith's Home Improvement Center. Open mic nights are held in the new entertainment spot at 8 p.m. each Friday.
Musicians should bring their instruments to the open mic, but there's not a whole lot of setting up to do: Smith supplies audio equipment, including a PA with four microphones, a drumset, and a tuned piano - though amplifying the piano properly is still a work in progress.
"I got the drumset for Christmas as a present from my kids," Smith said. "I've been playing a few months, so I get up there sometimes, but we get a lot of good ones out to play."
"All the guys playing here have never been in a band, they always just played at home," said George Nash, a local drummer, one Friday night while a four-piece was jamming on a Led Zeppelin tune. "It's not like the fancy places over in Williamsport, but it's got that nice country and western look."
The room's look truly is 'rustic,' an aesthetic that serves its acoustics well. High-raftered ceilings, brick walls between the tall glass windows and wooden floors make for lively sound when the music's going full blast. Signs from the former La Grande Subs and Pizza in Montgomery liven up the decor, and handmade tables and chairs line the walls.
"There was an old farmhouse in Turbotville that was just about firewood," Smith said. "We said 'let's just do something with this, and we got some furniture out of it."
Smith and friends tore out rows of paint booths from the room, formerly the Rochelle Furniture plant. They needed hatchets to chop out two inches of lacquer that covered the hardwood floors. The renovation work took about a month. The current seating arrangement can hold 135 people, and that's with much of the floor open.
"There's another unrenovated section of the same size on the property, so we'll see how it goes," Smith said.
So far, the local response has been good. The Social Hall is booked twice in November and twice in December, and the union from the State Correctional Institute at Muncy, where Smith works the graveyard shift, holds its meetings there.
"We've had 15 different people come in to take a look," Smith said. "Every day we've been getting calls about this place, people who are thinking about booking it."
For the kids, a projector screen is available to hook up videos or game consoles, and an air hockey table sits up near the band pit. For the adults, everything is bring your own donations, for now.
Smith and his family moved to Montgomery from Williamsport 22 years ago. They opened up the hardware store about two years ago.
"When we first moved down here this town had everything within walking distance," Smith said. "There wasn't a hardware town for almost 20 years when we opened up - there's not a lot of businesses in town. Anything we can do to bring people into town, you better do it. It took a lot of hard work to get here - we want to build it a little at a time."


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Lindsay Lohan may have been the last person seen wearing $400,000 worth of missing Dior jewels.
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]]>Still, Scotland Yard may need to talk to the actress in their ongoing investigating into the mysterious disappearance of some diamond earrings and a necklace used in a June 6 Elle magazine shoot. The jewels were were reported missing on June 8.
A Scotland Yard spokesman told People: "Inquiries are continuing and no arrests have been made. As far as who we will be interviewing – we will be speaking to a number of people in connection with the inquiry and don't discuss the identity of the people we are planning to interview."
"We inquired and everyone from the shoot is being questioned," Lohan's rep tells People. "Hair, makeup, stylist … even photographers. Lindsay hopes they find the jewels. She's happy to cooperate."
Elle UK has already released a statement exonerating LIndsay. Sort of.
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Well I have been playing NSMW for about 2 weeks now. I have played NS Underground for the PC. From what I have been playing it seems that maybe from feed back that they have changed some of the game play. For instance in NSMW you no longer lose points for hitting cars. Nor do you get points for near misses either. But for me there is something that I do like for instances you don't need to compete in a drift contest. Now I didn't have it on a console so it might have played differently than it does for the PC. But it seemed to me that on the PC the races were a lot more harder. It seemed that the AI would jump all over anytime you make a mistake and you would lose the race. These are just my thoughts right now I'll need to play it somemore to see if this changes.
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The Rhododendron occidentale is one of two NW native Rhododendron species (the other being our Washington State Flower, Rhododendron macrophyllum).
Commonly called Western Azalea or Honeysuckle Shrub, it is found along the Pacific Coast from lower Washington to central California. This species shrub is tolerant of wet soils and can be found in wetlands and along creeks in its native environment.
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John Muir encountered the shrub in the Yosemite region & said of it, "It is very showy & fragrant, & everybody must like it not only for itself but for the shady alders & willows, ferny meadows, & living water associated with it."
Our UW Botanic Gardens' Free Weekends Walks for the month of April will feature Rhododendron species and cultivars during their their peak bloom time. Please join us any Sunday at 1:00pm at the Graham Visitors Center to learn more.
It's Rhododendron seasonApril 5th, 2014 by Catherine Nelson, Adult Tours Program Assistant
The Rhododendron occidentale is one of two NW native Rhododendron species (the other being our Washington State Flower, Rhododendron macrophyllum).
Pacific Connections Update: Cascadia Bog DevelopmentJuly 21st, 2011 by Jennifer Youngman, Program Coordinator
When the Cascadia section of the Pacific Connections Garden was under construction, a natural depression appeared. Recognizing the potential for this poorly-draining area, Jason Henry of the Berger Partnership incorporated a Cascadian bog into the design. Pacific Connections Gardener Kyle Henegar explains, "Creating the bog is a long-term process as the soil conditions mature, the plants are phased in, and as Roy Farrow and I continue to procure and stage snags and rocks to create a more realistic-looking garden. I suggest visitors come visit the bog frequently to see how it ages over time and develops the beautiful patina of a native bog."
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On November 29, Canonical published details about Lynx vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
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The ISO images for Linux Mint 14 "Nadia" were updated and labelled "14.1″. All the links were updated on the website and in the announcements to point to the new ISOs. If you're already running Linux Mint 14, you don't need to reinstall. The new ISO images provide fixes for the following issues: High CPU […]
Nmap or Network Mapper, an open source tool for network exploration and security auditing, designed to rapidly scan large networks and single hosts, is now at version 6.25.
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It's the holidays, and if your Android smartphone is feeling a bit neglected, I've got the perfect gift for it. Forget automating your life with remote-controlled garage door openers, motorized big-screen TV mounts, and electrically driven drapes — that's all so last-century. Controlling your phone with a wave of your hand is where it's at this holiday, in my opinion.
The stable branch of Google Chrome, a browser built on the WebKit layout engine that aims to be minimalistic and versatile at the same time, is now at version 23.0.1271.95.
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PHILADELPHIA At a meeting full of new business on everything from banning e-cigarettes to building a skyscraper, City Council on Thursday wrapped up an old debate from the two-year-old rewrite of the zoning code.
This was actually the second time Council had changed the rules for "registered community organizations," the neighborhood and interest groups that must be notified and consulted on building projects launched on their turf.
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The makeshift March 15 trade deadline is approaching fast, given the blur the season has been. Soon players who signed contracts over the summer will be eligible to include in deals, which should spark some trade activity.
There are many out there that feel ideally the San Antonio Spurs should acquire a fifth big man to add to the rotation, preferably one that can usurp Matt Bonner or DeJuan Blair in the rotation (which one depends on whether you like your defensive deficiencies too short or too slow).
While adding a fifth big man to the rotation would be a nice luxury, the Spurs success this season does not hinge on their ability to do so. Nor should they compromise any of their strengths to find one.
As is, the roster created by general manager RC Buford and developed by head coach Gregg Popovich features a championship quality supporting cast. Carry this roster back to 2008 or 2009, alongside Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili, and a still All-NBA version of Tim Duncan, and I have every bit of confidence the Spurs are right there with Los Angeles and Boston.
It is a supporting cast that does not want for shooting, wing defense, rebounding, or athleticism. Another plus defender beyond Tiago Splitter in the front court would be nice, but just a few years ago Duncan would have been more than capable of covering whatever deficiencies Blair or Bonner might have while augmenting their strengths.
To get to my point, if the San Antonio Spurs do not have a successful or extended playoff run, it will not be because the front office did not surround it with good enough players. It will be because the core of Duncan, Ginobili, and Parker were injured or simply aged out of the capability of doing so.
- Adding some credibility to my opening thoughts is a piece from Jeff McDonald of the San Antonio Express-News praising the surprising effectiveness of the Spurs bench. Should Manu Ginobili return to the starting lineup, McDonald writes, it will be simply because he is no longer needed to keep the bench effective.
- If the Spurs do prove incapable of contending for a title despite its upgraded supporting cast, it does not mean it's my personal preference to burn this thing down and start over. I would simply suggest, as our own Andrew McNeill did yesterday, to enjoy Duncan, Ginobili, and Parker playing at a high level while you can.
- How deep is the Spurs bench? James Anderson, who many pegged as a future valuable contributor when the Spurs drafted him, was the odd man out of the rotation before Manu Ginobili returned. Still, from the looks of his interview with Jeff Garcia of Project Spurs, the Spurs found another talent with quality character. He might be struggling now, but he need only look to Danny Green (cut last year), Gary Neal (opportunity came when Anderson got injured) and Tiago Splitter (out of the rotation last year) for examples of what perseverance can mean on this team.
- Another season, another column suggesting a team use the San Antonio Spurs as a blueprint for building their franchise, this one penned by Ryan Wolstat of the Sudbury Star regarding the Toronto Raptors.
- A brief story on Cory Joseph on his return to his native Canada. Of note, Joseph talks about the value of his time in Austin. Just as valuable as the playing time in Austin are the lost practices. In Austin, Joseph could be learning the finer points of the Spurs system in ways the film and shootarounds don't allow during this condensed season.


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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - The two men spoke loudly enough in the ninth-floor hallway so everyone could hear. A day's worth of trade rumors at these winter meetings spiraled around the Phillies, and team executives found them humorous. They planned a skit.
"We can't trade Cole," Ruben Amaro Jr. said to Scott Proefrock, his top lieutenant. They both smirked.
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The Phillies do not possess many tradeable assets in their quest to remedy a 73-win team; Cole Hamels and Cliff Lee are two of the game's best lefthanded pitchers and would interest many teams. Hamels and Lee surfaced in Tuesday morning rumors from various national outlets, who spoke to rival executives.


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IF HE'D LIVED, Seann Campbell would be 40 years old. His mom, Bonnie Youngers, believes he'd be in some kind of law-enforcement job, even though he'd been leaning toward architectural engineering when he was murdered at 20.
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The first pitch Jimmy Rollins saw Wednesday was an 88-m.p.h. sinker, and he golfed it into the right-field stands for his 40th career leadoff home run.
"He hits a lot of fly balls," manager Charlie Manuel said. "He'll swing under the ball. Jimmy has a tremendous swing when he's right."
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There are numerous reasons I am fortunate to have my career in Downtown SLO but one in particular stands out to me quite often. There are a lot of amazing people down here and they gladly share their wisdom with me. This month's interview was with a woman who I admire and respect due to her success and the way she has become successful. Kannyn January is the owner of Ambiance in Downtown SLO and Paso Robles; she recently launched her latest shop named Branded, in Mill Valley. She is also the current Board President for the San Luis Obispo Downtown Association, committee chairwoman for our Downtown SLO Farmers' Market and heavily involved in the community. To say that Kannyn is a busy woman who enjoys the success afforded by her strong work ethic and keen business sense is an understatement. For that reason I knew I had to interview her for my Downtown Perspective series. I really wanted to interview a dynamic female business owner who represents independent businesses, not only in Downtown SLO, but across America. Read More
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Bus-Crash Driver Larry Mahoney: Some Say It Could Have Been Anyone
Nor could you easily imagine this Larry Mahoney as the focus of a nation's rage, the man who is accused of recklessly driving his pickup into a bus on a Kentucky highway, killing 27. He is charged with being drunk at the time. But was he what we know as "a drinker"? In the old days, friends admit, he would occasionally put away "quite a bit." Then, in recent months, he had cut back to almost nothing because of stomach problems. "He didn't drink every day or nothing like that," says his uncle, Coleman Mahoney. Put it this way: Larry's drinking was nothing out of the ordinary. Perhaps that is the real lesson behind the disaster that befell him on a Saturday night.
It happened on May 14. While millions of other Americans were getting home safely after a drink or two, or just a few more, Larry drove his pickup in the wrong direction down Interstate 71, where he crashed head-on into a school bus full of teenagers coming home from an amusement park. The bus burst into flames, and when Mahoney, 35, was lifted from the truck with a hole in his knee and a collapsed lung, his blood alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit.
The next day, as state troopers waited downstairs to question him and prosecutors prepared to charge him with murder, Larry's two sisters came to his hospital bed to tell him what he'd done. "Judy got on one side of the bed and I got on the other," said his younger sister, Debbie Daugherty, "and I told him, 'You know, Larry, you was in an accident, and 27's been killed.' He looked at me. The tube was in his mouth, and he tried to shake his head. He just squinted up his face, and a tear came outside his eye." Adds older sister Judy O'Donovan: "Tears were running down his cheek. He couldn't grasp it. He couldn't remember anything." When Mahoney did finally comprehend the enormity of his sisters' news, he had to be sedated: 27 people, mostly teenagers, had died because of Larry Mahoney, as nice a man as you would ever want to meet. Consider some statistics: In 1986, 23,987 people were killed in the United States in alcohol-related traffic accidents; that same year, in Kentucky, there were 44,484 arrests for driving while intoxicated and 359 alcohol-related traffic fatalities. But it was left to quiet Larry Mahoney to set a gruesome record as the deadliest good ole boy ever to pound back some beer and climb into a pickup. Mahoney is charged with causing the worst drunk-driving accident in the nation's history. The killings plunged this corner of rural Kentucky into the profoundest grief—not only for the 27 who died in the accident but also for the man who is charged with being responsible.
Five days after the accident, Larry Mahoney was taken to the Carroll County Courthouse. Police had told him they were driving him to another hospital, and as he hobbled unsteadily into court, his wrists and ankles shackled, Mahoney looked dazed, like an animal caught in a trap. There was a bandage on his arm and a cut on his face; he appeared to be in pain and his shoes were missing. Larry's mother, Mary, took one look at her son and burst into tears. Earlier that week, Mary had gone out and bought new clothes for Larry's court appearance: two new pairs of jeans, two shirts, two pairs of socks and a pair of tennis shoes. But somehow the shoes had been misplaced at the hospital. Seeing him in his stocking feet "just tore my mom to pieces," says Judy.
Seated near his court-appointed attorney, Mahoney pleaded not guilty to 27 counts of murder, for which the prosecutor, groping for some adequate expression of the state's shock and grief, had already demanded the death penalty. Outside the courtroom, there was a surprising show of support for Mahoney. "We're with you, Larry," came the shouts from a crowd of about 50 onlookers; the beginning of a smile crossed Mahoney's face.
In fact, this small north-central Kentucky community, 80 miles from Radcliff, where most of the crash victims lived, seemed all too quick to forgive, apparently because of a feeling that what happened to Larry Mahoney could happen to anyone. To condemn him, it may have seemed to the people of Worthville, would be to condemn some part of themselves. "Let he who is without sin," said Mahoney's friend Tom Butcher, "cast the first stone."
The second of four children of Mary and John Noble Mahoney, Larry grew up in a small, well-kept white house on a gravel road, high on a ridge overlooking the Kentucky River. Like most folks in the area, his parents made a living growing tobacco on contract. Larry's father, "Nobe," is amiable and hard-working. His mother, Mary, says a friend, is "as straight an arrow as God ever shot out of his bow." It was a close family and still is. Mary's good food and good humor have always made her house a gathering place, says Larry's younger brother, Charlie, 29, and even the married children find their way there several times a month.
A good-natured boy, Larry was never a scholar; his grades were poor, though he got A's for conduct. After his freshman year at high school, he dropped out, like many other local boys. Also, like many of the boys, he married young. Larry was only 19 when he married Janice King in 1972, just four months before their son, Tony, was born. In 1979 they divorced. Three years later Larry married Betty Davis, a teacher's aide, again after being told she was pregnant-proof, friends say, that Larry tries to "do the right thing."
Fate was harsh to Larry and Betty. Their daughter, Shawna, was born with spina bifida, a crippling spinal malformation, and had to be hospitalized five times during her first four months. Larry was a loving father to the child, and when the baby would wake up fretting, Betty recalls, he was the only one who could calm her. Though Betty and Larry divorced in 1987, he still manages to see the wheelchair-bound child at least once a week.
"They [the media] have painted him so cold, so hard, so very black, and he's not like that," said Betty, who is clearly still fond of her ex. "He loves his kids dearly and they love him." Betty also insists that Larry was not a heavy drinker. "In the 10 years I've known him, I don't think I've ever seen him drunk," she says.
But Betty does admit that Larry tended to "keep things to himself." And court records show that there were times when Larry was not nice or quiet. In 1980, three months after his divorce from Janice, he pleaded guilty to a disorderly conduct charge. His ex-wife had found a new boyfriend, and Larry, according to Janice, had stood outside her apartment threatening the two of them with a pocketknife.
Two years later Larry got into a fight in a pizza parlor. He again pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was fined $100. Then, in 1984, Mahoney was arrested for driving under the influence. He paid a fine and was ordered to attend an alcohol education program. He rode motorcycles for a while, and the photo on his 1984 driver's license shows him wearing a Harley-Davidson cap bearing the logo Ride Hard, Die Hard. Larry apparently reconsidered that homely philosophy when a close friend was killed in a motorcycle accident two years ago; after that, Mahoney usually left his bike in his parents' yard.
By all accounts, Larry had settled down considerably in the last few years. He was living with his first wife, Janice, and friends say they were thinking of getting married again. He hadn't been seen much around Tubby's Tavern, the local hangout, perhaps because of his ulcers.
But on the afternoon of May 14, a few hours after coming off a 12-hour, all-night shift at the chemical plant, Larry did stop off at Tubby's. Owner Joann Osborne says he sat by himself, had one beer and left. Around dinner time he dropped in on his friend Dennis Mefford. He shared a pizza and a six-pack with Dennis and another friend and helped them install a truck radio. Mahoney was in a good mood, Mefford said: The boss had praised his work at the plant, and he was looking forward to hunting season.
Mahoney then drove over to another friend's, where several men were working on a bus and drinking beer. It was warm. It was spring. It was Saturday night. No one kept tabs on how much Larry was drinking. But it must have been a lot, because at one point, one of his buddies took Mahoney's keys away. But he gave them back sometime around 10, when Larry promised he would drive straight to his house, a short distance away. When Mahoney climbed alone into the cab of his '87 Toyota pickup—in which police would later find a still-cold 12-pack of Miller Lite with a few cans missing—"he wasn't feeling any pain," says one of the guys. About an hour later Larry was seen erratically driving northbound in 1-71's southbound lanes, some five miles from his house. The Toyota apparently swiped a Cadillac, then smashed into the school bus, which became an instant inferno. "It was terrible," says a witness. "I heard the screams of the children as they were burning and dying. I can't get it out of my mind."
Nor, of course, can the people of Radcliff. One man lost his entire family in the crash. A woman who lost her son told a reporter just after the accident that she wanted Mahoney to live so that "he can go through what I'm going through. Every morning I'm going to wake up looking for my baby, and every night I'm going to go to bed crying for him."
Larry's bed, for now, is a concrete bunk with a thin foam mattress in the psychiatric facility of the Kentucky State Reformatory at LaGrange-where he has been sent to determine his psychological fitness to stand trial. Sleeping is difficult because of the pain from his injured lung and the constant chatter of other patients, who aimlessly wander the ward.
Quietly, shyly, Mahoney talks about his incarceration. "It bothers me," he says. "I've always been an outside person. But I kind of more or less stay in my room now." He talks, too, about life before the accident and about his coon hounds. "I don't know how to explain it," he says, "but I have a love for those dogs. I like to just sit back there and pet on 'em. Just set with 'em and talk to 'em. I love being around 'em."
He talks, unprompted, about the questions he knows are on everybody's mind. "I've never had a problem with anybody," he says. "You could ask anybody that you want to. And I never had any problem with drinking. I was not an alcoholic or nothing like that." What would he say were he to meet the families of the victims? "It would be hard for me to face them," he says after a pause. "Maybe in time.
"I think about the accident," he continues, "and I just don't know how to say it. I would have never meant for it to happen. I would just give anything if it hadn't. I hate it, I really hate it. And it's sure that I'm going to have to live with it the rest of my life."
Meanwhile, the friends so ready to forgive Larry must also decide how quickly to forgive themselves. "If we could have seen the future," said Phil Downey, who was with Larry just before the accident, "we never would have let him leave." But they did, of course, because people still refuse to see the future until it happens-because, after all, it never happens to people you know. Not to someone like Larry Mahoney.
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I wish to inform you that the International Volunteer Day was celebrated in Kibuye province on 05 December 2005. Volunteers from all over the country, local volunteer associations, Red Cross volunteers, scouts and guides, UN Volunteers and the population and the authorities of the City and province of Kibuye joined in commemorating the day.
Activities planned for the day included planting of trees on a nearby mountain, the visit and donation of food items to people in the hospital of Kibuye, support to widows of the association Igihozo by a donation of a goat per family (the first-born of each goat will be given to another family that did not receive a goat), and a visit to the youth centre of Rubengera where young people were sensitised on reproductive health and HIV/AIDS.
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The biggest mystery facing Sherlock Holmes: how come he was so ho-hum at the box office this weekend? 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows' was the weekend's top movie, with an estimated $40 million opening, but its performance was underwhelming considering it was expected to score as much as $60 million. Similarly, 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked' disappointed despite an estimated $23.5 million, second-place debut, since it was expected to gross well over $30 million. On the other hand, the unusual, IMAX-exclusive opening of 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol' outperformed modest expectations and premiered with an estimated $13 million on just 425 screens, good enough for third place.
Pundits predicted that the 'Sherlock Holmes' sequel would open in the ballpark of the original, which debuted with $62.3 million two years ago. But that opened on Christmas weekend, while this one opened earlier and against stiffer competition. Reviews have been just so-so, though that shouldn't really matter with this franchise. Also, there's the notion that audiences in recent months have been suffering from sequel fatigue, especially if the sequel brings nothing new to the table, though this one does introduce Holmes' nemesis, Professor Moriarty.
Sequel fatigue also seemed to affect the third 'Alvin and the Chipmunks' movie, which had been predicted to open between $30 and $38 million. The reviews were mostly scathing, but this franchise is also review-proof. Plus, there was no other kiddie competition this weekend. And the rude humor of the first two PG-rated installments was toned down to earn a G rating this time, so that should have drawn even more tykes. So it comes back to sequelitis, which has hit family movies especially hard this year, from 'Happy Feet Two,' to such seemingly unassailable titles as 'Cars 2' and 'Kung Fu Panda 2.'
Yet here's 'Mission: Impossible,' offering up its fourth installment, with a long-in-the-tooth star who's not the domestic box office draw he used to be, and it scores a stunning $30,588 per venue. (Compare that to $10,807 for 'Sherlock Holmes' and $6,312 for 'Chipwrecked.') What's the aging series' secret weapon? No, it wasn't Tom Cruise, nor the six-minute prologue for the even more eagerly-awated Bat-sequel 'The Dark Knight Rises' that accompanied 'Ghost Protocol' on just about 10 percent of its screens; it was the IMAX surcharge, which runs as high as $19 per ticket in Manhattan. Considering that predictions were in the $9 million range, the $13 million opening bodes very well for when the film expands into wide release over the next few weeks. Internationally, 'Ghost Protocol' grabbed almost $70 million.
Rounding out the top five were last week's champ, 'New Year's Eve,' which fell 43 percent (about what was expected) to take in an estimated $7.4 million, and 'The Sitter,' which had an even steeper second-week drop of 55 percent, to an estimated $4.4 million. In 10 days, 'New Year's Eve' has earned $24.8 million, while 'The Sitter' has earned $17.7 million over the same period.
Some pundits expected Charlize Theron's'Young Adult' to crack the top five, as it expanded onto nearly 1,000 screens (after opening on just eight last weekend), with a possible take of $5 to $6 million. But it, too, underwhelmed, taking in just $3.7 million, according to estimates, finishing at No. 7. Also on the limited-release front, Oscar-hopeful 'Carnage' opened on just five screens but pulled an estimated $17,140 on each of them, for a total of $85,700.
In all, box office has been dismal this month, down a full 39 percent from the same period last December. Barring some unexpectedly huge blockbuster numbers for such upcoming wide releases as 'The Adventures of Tintin' and 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,' it seems unlikely that 2011's total box office will close the gap of more than 3 percent (about $330 million) between this year's earnings and last year's.
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2. 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked,' $23.5 million (3,723), new release
3. 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol,' $13.0 million (425), new release
4. 'New Year's Eve,' $13.7 million (3,505), $24.8 million total
5. 'The Sitter,' $4.4 million (2,752), $17.7 million
6. 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1,' $4.3 million (2,958), $266.4 million
7. 'Young Adult,' $3.65 million (986), $4.1 million
8. 'Hugo,' $3.63 million (2,532) $39.1 million
9. 'Arthur Christmas,' $3.60 million (2,929), $38.5 million
10. 'The Muppets,' $3.5 million (2,808), $70.9 million
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St. Joseph's Catholic Church is opening its doors once again so the community can partake of its famous Swedish meatballs, ham, turkey and other goodies at the 48th annual smorgasbord Sunday.
The feast will be from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in St. Joseph's School gymnasium, 4118 S. Bonham St. Adult admission is $6.50 in advance, $7 at the door; children ages 5 to 11 are $3.50 and children younger than 5 are admitted free.
Takeout dinners also will be available.
The all-you-can-eat smorgasbord is St. Joseph's largest fund-raiser of the year and is sponsored by the St. Joseph's Christian Mothers Altar Society.
St. Veronica's Circle will run its country store, offering an array of homemade baked goods, include breads, cakes, pies, cookies and brownies. St. Veronica's also will sponsor a drawing for a homemade queen-size quilt.
An extra added attraction this year will be a silent auction featuring 10 packages, including a ski trip to Taos, N.M., a weekend bed-and-breakfast getaway to Canadian; a night out on the town, featuring overnight accommodations at the Ambassador Hotel, dinner at Bourbon Street Cafe and movie tickets; a family entertainment package that contains tickets to Amarillo Little Theatre's production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" and dinner at Texas Roadhouse; a car-care package that includes car wash, oil and filter change and detailing; a car-wash package; a photography package that offers a scrapbook, picture frames, a Family Photo gift certificate and a camera; a new mom's package; a beauty package; and a religious package.
All proceeds will benefit St. Joseph's Church, including funding the purchase of sacramental wine, altar breads and vestments for the parish altar; church furnishings; projects within the community; the maintenance of the adoration chapel; and the funding of three scholarships - one each for a graduating Montessori student, a student graduating from fifth grade to middle school, and a senior high student.
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Holy Trinity Primary School in Darwen
We are very proud of our school with the vibrant and stimulating learning environment. We are determined to make every child's life here a rich and rewarding experience so they so leave with a love of learning, high self-esteem, pride in their success and ready to enjoy the challenges of life. We pay great attention to our children having a clear and distinct voice in our school. We have Peer Mentors who wear purple sweatshirts; these children are highly trained and are now an important part of the fabric of our school. Followed closely by Reading Rangers and Ambassadors (embroidered black sweatshirt and polo). Children join us on staff training days and, have begun to join in whole school staff meetings, where their voice and opinion is valued and they are treated as equals. Their role this year is being coordinated by Miss Duff; who has already organised training on updating the school website; how they can elevate their profile within school and the wider community.
Watch the website for the Ambassadors' own page soon.
Every child is valued and their unique qualities are recognised, nurtured and celebrated. The relationships we develop with our children, their families, our community and the wider world, enable us to create a warm, caring, happy ethos were everyone is welcome.
We are a church school and as such we celebrate the life of Jesus and we express throughout our school his message of love, tolerance and acceptance.
We place a great deal of emphasis on Values for life; those of honesty, courage, forgiveness, love, hope, compassion, truthfulness and friendship. we talk regularly about love, love for our neighbour and love for each other in the fullness of our special community.
Please come and visit us to give you a flavour of life at our school. Our children are articulate and confident children and that happens because we have a very special ethos which permeates throughout the school. We have the latest technology in school, finger touch interactive whiteboards, like your ipad. Plus around thirty five ipads, promethean workstation table, laptops and netbooks. We have a state of the art sensory room, with every conceivable device to stimulate and soothe the senses. We have superb nurture provision with staff trained to the highest possible degree, to ensure children are treated appropriately within that structure.
We have superb outside provision complete with an allotment, chickens, tree-house, fire-pit, and forest school provision. We have on the staff, Miss Carter, who is developing our forest school approach and capability to learning. We are committed to experiential learning and the benefits that this approach brings, to enhancing learning and life skills.
We are about learning.
We are unusual in that.
So much time and energy in schools is spent on pursuing teaching, standards, SATs, league table positions etc. that, in reality, little time is left for learning. Unfortunately these things are also disguised as a pursuit of learning. The first thing that you will need to do is really think about learning and about how much you know about it, about how often the term 'learning' has been used when 'teaching' or 'work' or 'performance' is what is really being discussed.
We do know quite a lot about learning as a community. We achieved this by making it the focus of all we do, by consulting with the foremost experts in the subject, by reading and by thinking. We soon discovered that understanding the theory does not mean that behaviour changes. A teacher can know that after only a short length of time, the children will not be listening to them; this knowledge does not stop the teacher continuing to talk at a class. Our passion is to put into practice what we know about learning.
Here you will see the teacher handing responsibility to the learners. In all areas of the school you will be able to visit classrooms where individual teachers are putting into practice their own understanding of the learning agenda. We want you to join them.
We want you to know more. We will create opportunities for you to debate, argue, listen and observe. In the end, each person must do the learning about learning for themselves. We encourage children to use their Critical skills understanding to incorporate seven aptitudes: Learning Relationships, Changing and Learning, Critical Curiosity, Creativity, Strategic Awareness, Resilience and Making Meaning. Each learner is familiarising themselves with these concepts and trying to use them to reflect on their own learning. We would like you to use them too.
We are proud of our relationships in school. This is something that must not be taken for granted. You will play a vital role in this. If young people feel respected, taken seriously and that they have a role to play in their learning, they feel they are a member of the same community as you. Staff have built excellent relationships with learners and this is why we can implement our learning policy in partnership with our young people.
So we will look to protect you as far as we are able from the madness that can stop schools doing what matters and we would ask, if you join us, that you focus your efforts on learning for yourself. . Planning for learning is much more frightening than planning for teaching! It is also much more rewarding.


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Sometimes what goes around really does come around. Eliot Spitzer, we're looking at you. In 2010, two years after resigning in disgrace as Client No. 9 in a prostitution scandal, Spitzer dissed Kirsten Gillibrand, who was appointed to the Senate to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton. According to Spitzer, Gillibrand's "views on issues are either wrong or too malleable."
Payback came Monday when Gillibrand endorsed Scott Stringer, Spitzer's opponent in the race for New York City comptroller. Stringer, she said, "has the temperament and judgment to be extraordinarily successful."
Graffiti vandal Richard Whitefield of Buffalo began serving his sentence of community service this week for plastering the city with his BCUZ tag. At the rate of two hours a day removing graffiti, he'll be at it for another 82 weeks.
But for a would-be street artist, the unkindest blow has probably been the reviews of his work. A Buffalo News story called him one of the city's most active but least artistically talented vandals. Samuel Lunetta, coordinator of the Regional Anti-Graffiti Task Force of Buffalo, said, "He's probably the worst tagger in the city; his style is so bad."
Here's the thing about former President George H.W. Bush: Everyone, even his political opponents, knew he was a good man. Here's how good: Earlier this week at his summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine, the 89-year-old ex-president shaved his head in support of the 2-year-old son of a Secret Service agent.
The toddler is undergoing treatment for leukemia and is losing his hair as a result. For Bush, it's personal: He and his wife, Barbara, lost their second child, Robin, to leukemia almost 60 years ago.
Bush 41, of course, is a member of the nation's most exclusive club, and he deserves support from his fellow members. Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush: You know what you have to do.
"What a drag it is getting old," sang Mick Jagger in a song written and recorded by the Rolling Stones 48 years ago. But you wouldn't know it from Jagger's performances in the Stones' recent 50 & Counting tour, celebrating – and massively profiting from – the band's 50 years together.
The singer turned 70 (!) Friday, and if his face comes close to betraying his age, nothing else does. His voice is undiminished and he is impossibly lean, an on-stage dervish of perpetual motion. Time, perhaps, to rewrite that song.