text: Culture 9 September 2010 Tamara Drewe (15) The art of Posy Simmonds does not adapt well to the screen. Sign up for our weekly email * Tamara Drewe (15)dir: Stephen Frears There's nothing inherently ignoble about classic literature being given a modern sprucing up. Forbidden Planet (The Tempest in space), Cruel Intentions (a teenage, trust-fund Dangerous Liaisons) and Clueless (Emma 90210) were affectionate interrogations of their source texts as well as vivid works in their own right. Now a makeover job has been attempted on Far From the Madding Crowd, but all you can think as you watch Tamara Drewe is: "Doesn't Thomas Hardy deserve better than this?" Stephen Frears's broad and baggy comedy is an adaptation of an adaptation, taking off as it does from Posy Simmonds's Guardian cartoon strip, which followed the contours of Hardy's novel. In Bathsheba Everdene's stead there is the journalist Tamara (Gemma Arterton), who returns to the Dorset village of her youth following her mother's death. Saddled in her teenage years with a bookend nose and an overdeveloped sense of entitlement, she now at least has her proboscis in check. Everyone is interested in the new-look Tamara, from the compulsively shirtless gardener Andy Cobb (Luke Evans) to the pompous novelist Nicholas Hardiment (Roger Allam) and Ben Sergeant (Dominic Cooper), elfin drummer in a rock band. Tamara gets engaged to Ben after interviewing him for the Independent on Sunday - a turn of events that will exasperate those of us who really have interviewed musicians for the Independent on Sunday and never so much as played footsie with one. The desire directed towards Tamara by the male villagers is understandable, so it's odd that, with all those perspectives to choose from, Frears should show her snug behind in a close-up that doesn't represent any character's point of view. He might at least have shown some decorum and pretended he was examining her curves through someone else's eyes. The film is partial to these disruptive short-circuits in continuity, which tend to suggest no clear editorial voice. Another one occurs shortly after Nicholas's wife, Beth (Tamsin Greig), learns of his affair with a researcher. Beth has a thought-bubble moment in which she summons the image of her rival in love, which is strange because she has never clapped eyes on the woman. Tamara Drewe has bigger problems than these. Much of Moira Buffini's screenplay amounts merely to moving surrogates around on a grid mapped out by Hardy. Instead of exploring the source material, as an insightful adaptation should do, there is the sensation of a script adhering to predetermined co-ordinates. At least the composer Alexandre Desplat does his best to lend the film some spontaneity. His jaunty score hints that there is magic in the air. (There is: it's called sex.) What fresh, unencumbered moments there are in the film take place in and around the cottage where the Hardiments hold a writers' retreat. (A missing apostrophe on-screen tellingly turns that idyll into a command.) Allam has a ball playing Nicholas, whose real-life fictions (that he is a devoted husband and self-deprecating author) are as pitiful as his literary ones. The capper on his ghastliness is that he can't even be bothered to believe his own lies. When Beth confronts him about his infidelities, he explains himself away with a simile about compasses that has to be heard to be scoffed at. There's a curdled joy in his eyes at his own effrontery. Convincing his poor wife is beside the point - daring to come out with such poppycock gives him pleasure enough. Beth is the force behind the monster; she might have been born in a pinafore, brandishing a plate of scones and wearing her brave, excuse-my-husband grimace. Such a person would normally be called long-suffering, but Greig will patently not permit such a reading. Her performance is complex and gently formidable, and it is so successful in making Beth resistant to our pity that she transforms the character into the subject of the movie. From the early scene in which Beth savages Nicholas in front of their fawning house guests, who try to shrink into the background, it's clear that this is Greig's show. It can only be bothersome copyright reasons that stopped the film's title being switched at the eleventh hour to Beth Hardiment. Ryan Gilbey is the New Statesman's film critic. He is also the author of It Don't Worry Me (Faber), about 1970s US cinema, and a study of Groundhog Day in the "Modern Classics" series (BFI Publishing). He was named reviewer of the year in the 2007 Press Gazette awards. Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 13 September 2010 issue of the New Statesman, France turns right More


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Straight Talking with Pete Johnson
The creative mind behind Tatuaje tells Cigar Aficionado what drives him forward
David Savona
From the Print Edition:
The Brains Behind Homeland, May/June 2012
Pete Johnson has grown up in the cigar industry. The 41-year-old puffed his first premium cigar two decades ago while playing in a band, and soon his love of the leaf eclipsed his love for music. He quickly immersed himself in the cigar industry, forged friendships with major cigar makers and in 2003 created a cigar brand that he named Tatuaje, the Spanish word for tattoo. (Anyone who has seen his arms will instantly get the reference.)
Today, Tatuaje is one of the hottest cigar brands in America, with numerous scores of 90 points and higher. Johnson recently sat down over cigars and rum with senior editor David Savona for a long discussion about how he broke into the business and created such a memorable brand, as well as his plans for the future.
Cigar Aficionado: You're from Maine.
Johnson: Born and raised in Maine. Moved to Los Angeles when I was 18 to do music.
Q: You were a bassist?
A: Yeah, bass guitar. I didn't have a band. I just knew I needed to be in Los Angeles for the style of music I liked, which was Sunset Strip rock and roll. I was very green to L.A. Within a month I found a flyer for a band going on a small tour. We went on a short tour that got squashed after the first few shows. I think the tour manager ran out of money. We were getting kicked out of a lot of hotels. Later we played all the famous clubs, the Whisky, the Roxy. That was during the days when glam was really in. Grunge killed us all—that's when the Sunset Strip died. I think half the city of L.A. tried to move up to Seattle.
Q: Is that when you took up cigars?
A: I was smoking and playing on stage. I started carrying around my kit—I had my empty cigar box, my lighter, my cutter, and at band practice I would smoke.
Q: Do you remember your first cigar?
A: Premium? It was a Pleiades petit corona. I remember calling my girlfriend at the time and apologizing because I spent $2.50 on a cigar. That was a good cigar, creamy, sweet, smooth.
Q: Can you tell me about your first job in the cigar business?
A: You want the real story?
Q: Yeah.
A: I was working as a bouncer in a strip club. I had no money. I was shopping at Gus's Smoke Shop. I loved the whole feel of the industry and I really loved cigars. This guy named Dennis Spike recommended me [to owner Jimmy Hurwitz] in late 1993. They needed a part-time guy for Sundays to help in the humidor and mix pipe tobacco. Sundays turned into a full-time job within six months, and I became their chief cigar buyer. I would study the humidor. I managed to take that humidor and take it from very few facings into a lot of facings, because I figured out this tray system. I think I smoked everything. I would go through the humidor and smell every cigar so I could get the sense of what was Dominican, what was Nicaraguan, what was Honduran. I collected books, I had memorabilia up the wazoo. I have the two different versions of the original Cigar Aficionado, and I still have every issue. I found that I did cigars way better than music anyways. Everyone was really friendly to me, and people took to me. It was a very welcoming feeling. If you showed your enthusiasm toward this industry, people would say, "Hey c'mon kid, let's go."
Q: What came next?
A: I had left Gus's and stayed out of the retail business for six months. I visited cigar shops, factories. I actually tried to make a cigar back then, but it was impossible to find somebody who could make the brand.
Q: This was 1996?
A: Yes. Finally I said "I need a job." And The Big Easy picked me up. I was there about a year and a half. Then The Grand Havana Room was having an issue with their humidor. I got into a conversation with the owner, Stan Shuster. He told me he had this plan to open stores. He brought me in.
Q: How long were you with Grand Havana?
A: I started my brand in 2003, but I actually stayed on and worked both jobs until 2006.
Q: You were still at Grand Havana when you started Tatuaje?
A: It wasn't like I was printing money back then. It was a nice slow start. But after you guys did the Top 25 the second year, I was No. 4. Well, that year at the trade show, I couldn't move.
Q: Let's go back to the start of Tatuaje. How long was it in the back of your mind to make your own cigar brand?
A: I always wanted to do it. A friend of mine in the business, Ben Gehrman, had started working for Tropical. He said, "We got a guy who might be able to make you a cigar." The first samples they sent me I thought were horrible. They showed up in Los Angeles in April 2003, and some guy named José Garcia, who they called Pepin, was there. He asked me in Spanish what I liked, and I said make me something on the stronger side. I still didn't like them. We started a conversation about what he knew about Cuba, where he was from and that turned into me going to get a Cuban cigar out of my stash that I knew was smoking good at the time. He looked at me and he said, "You want one like this?" I said, "Do what you do best."
Q: Did he make one on the spot?
A: Yeah. And it was great. He understood Cuban cigars better than what other people were making outside of Cuba. As soon as he tasted that Cuban he said, "This one's easy."
Q: How long did it take to go from that first meeting with Pepin to getting a product on the shelf?
A: They started rolling them right away. They were in a small space in another person's warehouse. And the first dates on my boxes were May.
Q: That was quick.
A: I remember going down to the warehouse. It was Pepin, Jaime [Pepin's son], Janny [Pepin's daughter], Pepin's wife Maria, and Jaime's wife Danny. It was all family. But Jaime was also in charge of making sure the packing was right.
Q: So what do you do with those first cigars?
A: I had 50 boxes of each size. Originally I wasn't going to put a band on it, but people said name recognition is everything. So I came out with that thin, ugly brown band. I didn't want to take away from what was beautiful, the cigar itself. I didn't know where I was going to sell them. Thanks to Stan Shuster, I was able to sell them in the [Grand Havana] clubs. That was June.
Q: How was the reception?
A: It was different. People dug the unique character of it. And when I went to the trade show I borrowed space from Cyril Brizard. I put my price list on top of a humidor and I walked away, 'cause I had to do my job for Grand Havana. And as I was walking around I would see friends who were running stores, and I would say, "Try this cigar and tell me what you think." I think I left the show with five orders.
Q: We have to talk about the name Tatuaje.
A: The name came about because Robby Levin, Carlos Fuente, Wayne Suarez, they all gave me the name "Tattoo Pete." I had tattoos, but my OpusX tattoo really stood out. I kept on looking at different brand names, then I thought "let's try Tatuaje." People said you can't pronounce the word, but I think it worked to my advantage. People would say, "do you have those Tats? Do you have those tattoo cigars?" My first rating was the following trade show and I got a 90. That was a big deal for me. Every week I would pick up a new account, slowly, slowly, slowly, and I walked into the trade show in 2006 with 125 accounts, and I walked out with 350.
Q: That was a result of your excellent showing in the Top 25?
A: That really killed it for me. I could not move. I was stuck in my booth. I was stuck against the table the whole day. I didn't have enough product. There were times, early on, when the factory [in Miami] would call me and say, "Pete, we need you to order some more cigars." I said, "Be patient." But after the whole craze of the ratings and everything I would call the factory every week—I need more of this and more of this and more of this.
Q: When did you realize you could make a full-time business out of your cigar brand?
A: In 2003 it was a hobby. In 2004 it started to become a business. In 2006 I said I should do this full time, or I shouldn't do it at all. I realized I had something.
Q: Your first cigars all came from Pepin's factory in Miami. Can you talk about the expansion into Nicaragua?
A: I knew I needed to do something different. I couldn't get away with the seven [Tatuaje sizes] and the four Cabaiguans I had in Miami. It wasn't enough. I knew I had to do something with the Tatuaje line because that's what people wanted. But I didn't want to just take the brown label [the original Tatuaje] and have that made in another country. So Tatuaje Havana VI [the red label, made in Nicaragua] had to prove itself.
Q: Did it take some time?
A: Everybody wanted the Miami cigars. But it's funny. I love the rollers in Miami, but I feel like some of the rollers down in Nicaragua are making better cigars. The Garcias are down in Nicaragua every week, and some of the rollers there are just amazing. Miami will still hold a soft spot, and Pepin told me, "I'll never stop making cigars in Miami, because this is the birthplace of Pepin Garcia."
Q: Let's talk about your relationship with the Garcias.
A: They're like family. We kind of grew up with each other. We really made a life for ourselves by doing something together. They give me credit all the time and it's a two-way street. I praise what they do. I think they're phenomenal cigarmakers, and they take the time to teach me. They took the time to actually explain the history of what they did, and why they roll the way they roll. That's why I made a commitment to work with them only.
Q: Tatuaje is a huge success. It was named the hottest brand in America in 2009 by Cigar Insider. And you're selling more cigars than you used to. How many cigars are you making now?
A: Worldwide? Just under two million.
Tatuaje is the majority. I do just under 400,000 in Miami, with the small amount of rollers they have there. All the rest is Nicaragua. And surprisingly enough we do it with three people in the office: one guy on the computer, two packing and me on the road. I increase 12 to 15 percent every year, comfortably. I like slow growth.
Q: Some would say 12 to 15 percent growth isn't that slow.
A: (Laughs) Yeah, I know. It's a comfortable growth level though.
Q: How big do you see this getting in the foreseeable future?
A: I don't know. I don't think I want to make over three million cigars. That seems a lot for what I want to do. I'm on the road a lot. Retail events. There's so many people coming out with new brands and there's a lot of great ones coming out. Even now I have to step up my game to make sure my brand stays viable. That's probably also the reason why I have so many brands. I wanted to build not just a Tatuaje book, I wanted to build a portfolio of old brands, and I've been lucky to get a lot of old brands that weren't registered, and I've been able to snatch them up and get the artwork. El Triunfador is an old brand, La Riqueza, Fausto. Most of them were chinchalle brands. I try to pay tribute to what they might have been back in the old days.
Q: One of the things your success has allowed you to do is push the boundaries of tradition. Talk about what you've done with cigars like La Vérité.
A: La Vérité was really my way of not trying to bullshit people. That's why it's called "the truth." I wanted to see if it could be done. It's one farm, one year, truest form of a puro, and it's really to see how tobacco will age. The key is fermentation. Simple. If you don't have good fermentation or you just didn't finish the fermentation, you're not going to be able to put that tobacco in a cigar and really have it taste right. Or age right. There are some people who take tobacco and age it for years before they start using it, but as long as you have that first fermentation, you can start using it immediately. So my point with Vérité was the tobacco is ready, it's clean, there's nothing bad left in it that's going to make it taste wet or grassy or whatever, or filled with ammonia, let's put it in the cigar and let it age gracefully in the cigar, and it will hold the strength levels longer.
Q: You have great cigars, you've built a huge success—is there something you haven't done that you want to do in the future?
A: In cigars, I don't think I have much more to offer. You can't come out with something new now. I don't think there are more tricks that no one has seen before. But I also want to do wine one day. I'm doing my own wine in Bordeaux right now—just a barrel. I started with 2011, which isn't a great year.
Q: You're working with a winery?
A: It's a small château, you can pick the grapes, be part of the whole process if you get in early. I'm in late, so I'm adopting juice and going there in April to do my blend of three parcels in St. Emilion. It's a personal project for me, it's so I can see if I know what a good wine is. One day, I actually want to have a vineyard. That's the one thing I'm really curious about.
Q: Why St. Emilion?
A: I go there every year. That's vacation for me. I have good friends in the industry. I like that style more than I do left bank. I like right bank wines. I decided to work with those grapes first.
Q: So 10 years from now we might see the debut of Tatuaje wine?
A: Yeah. One day. I've been very fortunate. One of my keys to success in this industry is I had good people who taught me. I had good mentors. I think it's a privilege, and working with these great people has taught me great lessons in this industry.
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Hasta luego compañero.
La Casa del Habano Luxemburgo.
Twice now at two different IPCPR conventions, we visited his sales booth, with a third party salesman. We didn't just present ourselves and expect to be recognized. We were acknowledged with a dis-concerning smile and a wave. After we stood there for several minutes and were completely ignored, the four of us left without ordering. Mind you, at that time, we already stocked Tatuaje Cigars.
It's very busy at IPCPR and so with many other vendors to see and many other appointments to keep, we decided to go to another company and at least be appreciated.
Pete Johnson couldn't give us the time of day. I was very unimpressed. With three locations to stock, two of which are Cigar Lounges, everyone lost. He lost one very significant order, we lost profit and my customers have to search elsewhere. That was 2010 at N.O. We no longer stock those boutique cigars.
Sorry Pete, but first impressions are sometimes the the most important part of any type of sales. My impression is the Tatuaje cigars are huge but it would appear so is one persons ego. Oh well. Maybe next time.
As a cigar enthusiast and fan of Tatuaje I have to say that I have had several opportunities to meet and talk with Pete. Every time I walked away with a huge appreciation of how he conducts himself and doesn't treat the end user of his product as a number and/or dollar sign. Pete clearly loves cigars and provides us with some of the best out there. My bet is that had this situation been addressed with Pete directly and not published for the world to see, it would have been handled with utmost professionalism by Pete himself.
Congrats to John for being the first person I have ever heard utter a negative word about Pete or Tatuaje.
Keep up the good work Pete! I'll take whatever John decided not to order.
I'm a little confused. I'm not familiar with any stores in Lakeside California. Maybe because I have never visited that area. I don't recall your situation as that happens at every show where I never have enough time to visit with everyone. I'm not even sure what sales rep other than the broker I use would have brought you to my booth. I'm sorry if I didn't have time to talk with you but I was probably already in a conversation with another client.
If you are at the show in Orlando, I would like to talk with you as this all sounds a little strange.
Pete Johnson
I think what you had was an odd-ball experience, maybe even a fluke. Meeting Pete myself, and having the experience to talk to him, having him share his story with myself, my brother, and my dad, really made me enjoy his presence. Everywhere I go ( cigar bars, shops, forums, etc. ) everyone has said how Pete is one of the most genuine guys in the industry. I understand you had an unpleasant first impression, but please give him another shot, and he'll prove you wrong.
Just my .02
I just ordered some leaves to roll my own cigars, thinking I could save some money and get the taste I want. Well, I got neither, but it is fun rolling cigars. I wished I knew where to get the really good tobacco from! I'm currently buying from the only place that sells online to the general public.
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Jan 19, 2011
Chief executive officers from Microsoft Corp. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will be among the corporate leaders the Obama administration is bringing together today for a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao aimed at expanding U.S. business interests in China.
CEOs Steve Ballmer of Microsoft and Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman will be joined by General Electric Co.'s Jeffrey Immelt, Jim McNerney of Boeing Co. and 10 other U.S. business leaders for the meeting, the administration announced.
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The Drama League and its friends held a special cocktail reception for "Mr. Broadway" himself, Stewart F. Lane as he discussed producing for today's theatre. The event was followed by a signing of Mr. Lane's new DVD titled "Let's Put on a Show!" which is an informed and witty guide on producing which covers everything from raising money to creating an audience.
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Alcoholics Anonymous, closed discussion, 6:30 a.m., Pioneer Club; closed discussion, noon, Pioneer Club; Grapevine open discussion, 12:30 p.m., Dry Haven, Fostoria; open book, 5:30 p.m., Seventh-Day Adventist Church; open discussion, 7 p.m., 111 Grove St., Bluffton; open lead, 8 p.m., Howard United Methodist Church; closed discussion, 8 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Church annex.
Hancock Historical Museum, 422 W. Sandusky St., monthly brown bag lecture, noon, speaker: Robert Tong; topic: Findlay glass.
Putnam County Chapter of Public Employees Retirement, Inc., meeting, noon, Dick's Steak House, Kalida.
TRIAD, meeting, 1:30 p.m., Senior Center, speaker: Tim Saltzman, Hancock County Sheriffs's Department, topic: Project Lifesaver International.
Millstream Wood Carvers, open carving, 6-9 p.m., 2230 Blanchard Ave.
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Established in 1808, Thomas Cook is now one of the UK's leading travel companies.
Thomas Cook is the probably the world's best-known name in travel, thanks to the
inspiration and dedication of a single man. Thomas Cook began his international travel company
in 1841, with a successful one-day rail excursion at a shilling a head from Leicester to
Loughborough. This has now developed into the second largest Travel Group in Europe.
Thomas Cook Airlines is the second biggest
Leisure Airline in the UK and has been named as 'Best-performing airline' for two years running
(Source: Holiday Which?). Thomas Cook is the UK's market leader in holidays to Turkey, Cuba, Portugal,
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In addition, Thomas Cook has more than ten tour operating brands including: Thomas Cook, JMC,
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Featuring C. Boyden Gray, Ronald M. Levin, Peter J. Wallison, Arthur E. Wilmarth, Carlos T. Bea
November 19, 2010
November 19, 2010
Financial Services Panel: The Constitutionality of the Dodd-Frank Financial Services Reform Act
12:00 noon – 2:00 p.m.
- Hon. C. Boyden Gray, Gray & Schmitz LLP, and former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union
- Prof. Ronald M. Levin, Henry Hitchcock Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
- Hon. Peter J. Wallison, Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
- Prof. Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr., Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
- Moderator: Hon. Carlos T. Bea, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
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Watch scary raw video of a hot air balloon hitting power lines
Every year there's a hot air balloon festival where I live. This video of a hot air balooon striking power lines and bursting into flames is why I do not attend. Call me crazy or paranoid, but I think I'm just fine down here on the ground.
Witnesses told the Worcester Telegram that they were horrified when they saw the balloon drifting near the lines, realizing that the pilot would not be able to clear the looming hazard.
"I saw the guy was trying to get it up," Elvin Liciaga, who lives nearby, told the paper. "I just heard him trying to hit the flare for it to go up."
At least five people were injured and the 10 year-old inside me is trying REALLY hard not to make a he "was trying to get it up" joke right now out of respect to the injured because that looked scary as hell.


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The lover that you are, daring, unafraid of fear, bountiful and generous like the tidal oceans?
In love with the warm electric heat of your skin, the sensuous salt taste of your lovers sweat and saliva? A contented animal, cherishing the earth smell of your beloveds cum.
Safe that you will let them know now, what, when without reserve,
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The lover doesn't use a partner to satisfy an itch.
The lover meets their partner in the healing field of sexual love, recognizing each others souls among all others, bringing their finest treasures.
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Shain Stodt is the founder of Informed About Sex and the founder/moderator of the Facebook page Radical Women Talk Sex. A Sex Educator (IASHS), author, and community activist, Shain became involved in sex education with the New York Women's Center, where she worked with the pioneering Abortion and Birth Control Outreach project and lectured on sex education in the public school system. Shain also developed sexuality workshops for the Women's Center and other feminist organizations, and hosted a local cable program on sexual issues in New York City. She lives in North Carolina. Shain can be contacted about professional engagements at: email@example.com.
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Topeka Attorneys defending David Wittig and another former Westar Energy Inc. executive will face restrictions on their behavior during a second criminal trial, imposed by a federal judge who rejected their request she remove herself from the case.
U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson issued a 47-page order, laying the ground rules for courtroom conduct by attorneys for Wittig and Douglas Lake. Robinson also declined to move the May 9 trial out of state, returning the case to Kansas City, Kan.
During the second trial, Robinson will limit bench conferences with attorneys, restrict arguments during the raising of objections and place federal marshals in the gallery to report misbehavior. She also admonished attorneys to refrain from making gestures, facial expressions or audible comments in response to court rulings.
Wittig, of Topeka, and Lake, of New Canaan, Conn., face 40 counts of fraud related to their tenure at Westar, which ended late in 2002.
Prosecutors are retrying both men, again accusing them of trying to loot the state's largest electric utility before leaving the company. The first trial ended in December when Robinson was forced to declare a mistrial after the jury failed to reach a verdict on more than half of the charges.
Robinson's decision limits which attorneys can appear in her courtroom and even where one attorney must sit. She said her actions were based on "the court's observations after the fact of defense counsel's allegedly offensive conduct."
She cited examples of snickering, rolling of eyes and use of profanity by defense attorneys in response to her rulings from the bench, prompting her to note on the 11th day of trial that she was not a "playground monitor."
The behavior began during the selection of jurors, she said.
"Indeed, this behavior was so egregious that it moved a potential juror to write a letter about the conduct, citing his or her concerns that 'such conduct might prejudice what (the jury) hears from witnesses,"' Robinson wrote in her order.
During a hearing Monday, defense attorneys argued they were following their oath to be zealous defenders of their clients and said Robinson crossed the line by imposing sanctions after Wittig and Lake's first trial last year.
Edward Little, Lake's lead attorney, declined comment Wednesday. Calls to Adam Hoffinger, Wittig's lead attorney, were not immediately returned.
Robinson also rejected the defense attorneys' reliance on an article in The Kansas City Star about a Jan. 4 post-trial hearing, which described her reprimand of defense attorneys as a "45-minute verbal fusillade."
"No spectator, such as a reporter, could possibly be fully informed," she wrote.
Prosecutors said Wittig and Lake used company planes for personal travel; pushed Westar to invest in or buy companies in which they had personal interests; manipulated a proposed merger with another utility to bring themselves millions of dollars; abused an executive relocation program; and conferred with Westar's outside legal counsel to remove members of the board critical of their compensation.
Prosecutors want to force Wittig and Lake to surrender all compensation they received while at Westar: $27.9 million for Wittig and $9.4 million for Lake.
Defense attorneys argued during the first trial the charges arose from efforts by Westar to avoid paying Wittig and Lake millions of dollars in compensation owed to them under severance agreements. The two men and the company are in arbitration over those agreements.
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Paris Hilton Premieres Her Latest Waste of Celluloid
Paris is never more content than when she's got some microphones and cameras jammed into her face and she looks about happy as a clam here at the premiere for her most recent movie, "The Hottie and the Nottie." The film premiered in Dallas, Texas and since everything's bigger in Texas, I'm guessing the movie was an even bigger stinker for it.
However, according to Paris Hilton's MySpace blog, "the response was incredible." Dammit. I hope everyone was drunk. Or Jessica Simpson. I do have to say, though, that I like her hair and make-up in these pictures and as much as I know that she's about as useful as a thumb on my butt, it's hard to hate too much when she looks so damn happy. If the red carpet would never have been invented, this poor woman would be roaming the sidewalks aimlessly, gravitating toward strobe lights in electronic store windows, believing them to be the paparazzi's flashes of light she so needs to survive.
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This is a difficult subject to discuss.
However, for survivors of someone killed on the job it is an important topic.
I understand the pain, having too lost my father to a death on the job when he was only 34, I was 6. My family never got a lawyer. My mother had to raise 3 children with no financial help from his employer.
Every day we read in the news about a tragic death of an employee in Georgia.
Sadly Georgia worker's compensation is inadequate to replace the lost income for most families.
Worker's compensation was designed to replace law suits against employers. Under Georgia law, with a few exceptions, it is the "exclusive remedy" that a worker has against his/her employer for harms and losses resulting from an on-the-job injury.
The income benefits (maximum $500 week) are generally intended to help a worker until they can return to work. For catastrophic, injuries and death claims they are inadequate.
As an attorney representing families, I have to learn as much about the deceased person as possible by spending time with the family members. The chance of recovery is fact intensive.
Georgia's workers' survivor benefits vary based on many circumstances.
Here is the law on benefits:
1) The insurer must pay for the final burial expenses, up to $7,500.00.
2) The insurance company must pay for the worker's final medical expenses; if any.
3) Primary and secondary beneficiaries and dependants can collect income benefits for varying periods of time. This varies based on if the deceased was married or had any children or other dependants.
Bad news, an unmarried person with no children, under Georgia workers compensation, their estate has a zero recovery!
Some cases have been decided involving an award of income benefits to step-children, adopted children, disabled adult children, and college students.
In addition, the length of time one can collect benefits varies. There is a cap on benefits in some cases.
A surviving spouse with no dependents at the time of death can ONLY collect up to $150,000.00 and some cases $200,000.00. This is usually paid out at $500.00 per week and NOT in a lump sum.
If there are dependent children the income ($500.00 per week) is often divided between the spouse and the children.
Again, time limits; for the child the income stops at age 18 or if enrolled in college full time then the benefits end at age 22.
The surviving spouse can only collect benefits if they remain unmarried or do not cohabitate. We have been able to obtain recoveries in such situations in excess of $300,000.00. This is rare.
If there are no surviving beneficiaries or a spouse, the insurer only must pay $10,000.00 to the State Board of Workers' Compensation to be placed into a general fund of the State of Georgia.
Often families ask me, is there a recovery other than workers compensation? The answer, is maybe.
In many cases, worker's compensation benefits are the exclusive and sole remedy. Personal injury lawsuits against an injured or deceased worker's employer are, at best, very difficult. Most of the time, they are impossible.
So, a thorough fact and legal investigation must be made for viable third parties to sue which can be difficult to find in many cases. In other cases, there are viable third parties that can be sued.
We have successfully collected as high as $4 million and $10 million in work related injury cases from at fault third parties. These are the exceptions. The money never replaces the loved one but it can help the family survive the loss of income and provide for the children's education.
Unfortunately, I have often seen in my 26+ years of practicing law that Georgia Worker's compensation benefits are inadequate to replace the income for the family.
After my father's death our family received no recovery against the employer or any third parties. My passion is to help families who have suffered such a devastating loss.
Since 1984, I have had the privilege of helping working men and women and their families who have suffered catastrophic injuries and wrongful deaths; to recover for their harms and loses.
The purpose of Workers compensation coverage and third party law suits are to hold at fault parties responsible and not place the burden on families and the tax payers.
Families are often confused, upset and feel powerless. We strive to help family members and loved ones understand their rights.
As an attorney, my quest is to help families during these difficult times and hopefully to help them find some peace.
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PowerMizzou.com has been at every open session of Missouri's fall camp over the last three weeks. On Monday, the Tigers will release their depth chart for the Murray State game. However, we take a shot at our predictions and analysis at each position following fall camp.
Quarterback: The suspense (if there was any) was removed here after the second scrimmage. James Franklin is the starter, Maty Mauk is the backup.
What we are fairly confident in past that is that a redshirt season is coming for Eddie Printz and Trent Hosick barring injury just ravaging the position. Corbin Berkstresser will be the third-stringer.
The main intrigue here is how and how often Mauk will be used. Gary Pinkel has talked about wanting to work him into games and reiterated that thought after the scrimmage on Thursday. But what does that mean? Would Mauk play situationally like Franklin did as a freshman? Would he see only mop-up duty like Blaine Gabbert did? Or could he get a meaningful series every week the way Chase Daniel did?
At this point, nobody knows the answer to that question. But putting Mauk in during the first half of games is a risky proposition. Not because of anything have to do with Mauk, but more because it opens up the possibility of creating a quarterback controversy when there doesn't need to be one.
Franklin spent all spring and summer trying to earn the starting job. He did that. But after last season, the public confidence in Franklin hasn't been high (and he even has admitted his own confidence wavered). If Franklin isn't playing well, or even if he is, and Mauk comes in and lights it up in the first half of a game, the public outcry for a quarterback change will reach manic levels.
Is that a risk Pinkel is willing to take? Mauk needs to play, if nothing else to prepare for a likely starting role next season. But the Tigers need to be careful not to undermine Franklin's confidence at the same time. Interesting situation to be sure.
Tailback: Henry Josey is the starter. He had his best scrimmage of camp on Thursday when he ran for 49 yards on six carries and offered the first real public evidence that he is awfully close to being all the way back (and may even be there).
Russell Hansbrough and Marcus Murphy are going to get carries. It is nothing but a guess, but we're thinking Josey will get about 50% of the chances, Hansbrough 30 and Murphy 20.
Those are the only three likely to get meaningful snaps barring injury. Will Josh Henson use some sort of a short-yardage specialist? If so, is it Morgan Steward or did Tyler Hunt show enough in camp to have a shot at that role? Greg White was injured for the last week or so of camp and doesn't look like he will play a prominent role, at least early on.
Wide Receiver: Pinkel has said he'll use seven or eight receivers. At this point, it is a slam dunk that Marcus Lucas, Bud Sasser, L'Damian Washington, Dorial Green-Beckham and Jimmie Hunt will see significant time. Those are the top five wideouts.
Levi Copelin looked good during spring and fall and is in the rotation. Darius White saw more and more passes over the last couple of scrimmages and likely plays a fair amount. The final spot looks like it comes down to Jaleel Clark and J'Mon Moore. The question is, is it worth burning a year of eligibility for Moore to be at the tail end of an eight man rotation? The guess here is probably not.
Tight End: Sean Culkin and Eric Waters are the top two and will get the lion's share of the snaps. They may get every one.
Henson has spoken highly of Clayton Echard, but freshman Jason Reese has a lot of promise. Again, it comes down to this: Is Reese's upside worth using the year of eligibility or for the role of third tight end does the staff feel confident going with Echard to keep the redshirt on Reese? Our bet is that Reese plays. Echard will see some snaps, but it will be in more of a specialty role where he is used in specific packages.
Offensive Line: The top five haven't changed since the start of camp. Justin Britt and Mitch Morse are at tackle, Connor McGovern and Max Copeland at guard and Evan Boehm at center.
Mitch Hall will be in the rotation, even though it didn't appear he beat out Copeland for a starting spot. Brad McNulty is the second-string center and can spell Boehm when necessary. Anthony Gatti and Taylor Chappell are the backup tackles, but it isn't clear how much either one figures into the rotation. Perhaps the fastest riser in fall camp was redshirt freshman Jordan Williams, who may have worked his way into some playing time at guard, especially early on during the non-conference season.
Those appear to be the top ten. But do all ten play? I have no idea.
Defensive Line: Defensive end is the deepest proven position on the roster (wide receiver probably has more depth, but end has more guys who have done it on Saturday). Kony Ealy and Michael Sam are the slam dunk starters. Shane Ray and Markus Golden have definitely earned playing time and Pinkel spoke highly of Brayden Burnett after Thursday's scrimmage as well. Redshirt freshman Rickey Hatley made some plays during scrimmages as well. It doesn't seem likely there are enough snaps for him barring injury, but if he's pressed into action, he is a guy who looks like he could help. True freshman Marcus Loud looks physically ready right now, but with the depth here, there just isn't a need to force him into action.
At tackle, Matt Hoch and Lucas Vincent are the starters. It appears Harold Brantley is the third guy with Marvin Foster and freshman Josh Augusta also in the rotation. It would be a surprise to see anyone outside of those five in action barring injuries.
Linebacker: Kentrell Brothers looks to have beaten out Darvin Ruise for a starting spot, but both will play. Andrew Wilson has the middle under control and Donovan Bonner is the third starter. The Tigers need a fifth backer ready to play, though he might not get significant snaps, especially if Mizzou is playing a passing team that requires more nickel packages. Michael Scherer and Donavin Newsom could both figure into that rotation somehow.
Cornerback: E.J. Gaines may be the most indispensable player on the team. He's far and away Missouri's best corner. Randy Ponder will start on the other side, but Ernest Payton may have helped himself more than any other Tiger in camp. He is in line to be the third corner. Missouri probably needs five guys ready to play. The last two spots come down to John Gibson, David Johnson and freshman Aarion Penton. While preserving Penton's redshirt might be ideal, he also has value as a return man (as does Gibson) and our guess is he will see the field this season.
Safety: Braylon Webb is going to start and Matt White probably locked up the other spot with a nice finish to camp. Ian Simon is the third guy here right now and saw first team snaps in some nickel packages. Duron Singleton may not be ready to go in week one, but he'll figure in the rotation at some point as well. Cortland Browning and Chaston Ward were the other players getting long looks in the final scrimmage. There is probably only a need for one of them to play a significant role and the edge goes to Browning for right now.
Special Teams: Christian Brinser is the punter and Andrew Baggett the kicker. Neither was seriously challenged in camp. The return games are in the hands of Marcus Murphy. Braylon Webb does the holding and Jake Hurrell the snapping.
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Isaiah Thomas might be one of the smallest players in the country but he is having one of the biggest junior seasons of anyone in his class.
The 5-foot-8, 160-pound junior guard is leading Washington state in scoring at 32.4 points a contest and the anchor of Tacoma Curtis (14-1), who is the No. 2 team in the state in class 4A. Thomas has gone over 40 three times this year, including a career high 52 points in the second game of the season.
The reason for his success this year is simple, he says.
"I worked my butt off this summer," Thomas said.
Fair enough. Thomas has added another dimension to his arsenal this season. He is dunking now. Eleven times to be exact. There isn't a secret to his recent added boost off the hardwood, Thomas says.
"It just came out of nowhere," Thomas said. "I've had some good ones this year. I had an alley-oop on the break. I went down the right baseline and they threw up and I put it in. It was nice."
Recruiting is going nicely as well at the moment as well. Thomas said Indiana and Washington are his top two schools while Florida, Georgetown, Kentucky and UCLA round out his top six. All but Georgetown have offered, Thomas said.
Thought at one point to be an early commitment in the fall, Thomas has slowed the process down somewhat. He wants to get to Bloomington first.
"I really want to visit Indiana before I decide," Thomas said. "I've been to (Washington) a lot. Coach (Mike) Davis said they'd like for me to visit sometime at the end of March or the beginning of April."
The hometown Huskies have made a strong push of late. Thomas said he would will most likely be a committed player by the end of the spring.
"A lot of spots are being taken. I don't want mine to get taken so that's why I want to pick by April," Thomas said.


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Please note this concert starts at 4 p.m.
Larry Lapin, director
Longtime music professor Larry Lapin is retiring from teaching in May and is staging a farewell concert of epic proportions to feature students and alumni from the Vocal Jazz program, including the incredible JV1 Ensemble. Join us and show some love for Professor Lapin who has brought great music to our community and beyond for 40 years. Lapin's footprint in the world of jazz education and the music profession is huge. His legacy reaches every corner of the world as his former students are now performing, teaching, arranging and composing at the highest levels. So, enjoy seeing Larry count off the swinging-est vocal jazz in the land as he presents a farewell concert in grand style!
Adults: $15
Seniors: $10
UM Students: Free with valid ID, subject to availability on concert night
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- Ensure that parcels and letters from the post office are delivered to the office in a timely manner.
- Ensure availability of medical and non-medical consumables for all trainings and site visits with technical guidance from relevant staff.
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Boot/Partition Question on Acer Aspire
I have just tried the latest Sabayon release on the cover disc of Linux Format and to be honest I was blown away.
I have never used Linux before and the fact that all of my drivers and peripherals worked perfectly was very impressive.
WiFi connected without a hitch and the desktop looked gorgeous.
OK - I am now at the install stage booting from a DVD.
The Anaconda install manager has a range of options but I am hesitant to 'hit the switch'.
One of the options is to use the existing space allowed under the Windows partition to install Sabayon...does this mean that I will have the option to dual boot at BIOS?
I need to maintain my Windows 7 OS for various bespoke software for work.
All advice appreciated :-)
I would recommend to cancel the installation here. Start Windows and use the Windows partition manager to shrink your Windows partition, so that you have that amount of free space that you want to give to your linux installation. Then start the installation again and let the installer use the free space.
Hey ZenProcrastination,
First finish your windows 7 and then go ahead with your linux .
Be carefull what ever distro you may choose but dont select the entire disk after the windows on it, It will use the entire Hard disk instead of free hard disk space
Thanks guys :-)
Currently typing this response via Chromium on Sabayon :-D
I had some real trouble shrinking the Windows 7 partition as the MFT was in the way. I had to disable the page file and turn off system restore. Luckily a Microsoft moderator recommended the EaseUS Partition Manager which helped me free up 60gb for the install.
After that the install was a breeze.
Thanks for the helping and loving the new OS!
Fine. Let us wait a little, I have seen many people loving the OS the first few days and then reverting to Windows. Of course I hope that is not the case for you.
Cynicism ;-)
Maybe, but also experience.
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Now, the Rio Arriba County sheriff is in serious trouble, even as he's on the way out the door of the sheriff's office after losing his re-election bid in the June Democratic primary.
This time, it's not merely a squabble among warring factions in Rio Arriba. The FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office are behind his indictments on felony federal civil rights violations for allegedly roughing up a 26-year-old Española man after a vehicle pursuit in March and making false statements in reports about the incident.
Rodella resigned once before when he was under fire. In 2005, former Gov. Bill Richardson appointed him a magistrate judge. He stepped down after controversy erupted over his role in the release from jail of an acquaintance charged with DWI.
Rodella won back the judgeship in the 2006 election, with 24 percent of the vote in a crowded field, only to be removed from office by the state Supreme Court in 2008 for assorted misdeeds.
This time, Rodella and his lawyers have made it clear he won't leave the sheriff's position he won in 2010, with about 25 percent of the vote in another multi-candidate race, and a term through Dec. 31. They contend the federal charges were trumped up as part of a dispute over whether the U.S. Forest Service can enforce state criminal laws in Rio Arriba County.
When Rodella was arraigned Aug. 15, he showed up at court with a group wearing black shirts emblazoned with the phrase: "When Injustice Becomes Law Rebellion Becomes Unity."
Some of his followers wonder how he got charged by the feds for an alleged road-rage incident said to have included using a gun threateningly and shoving his badge into someone's face, while other New Mexico police officers whose questionable fatal shootings, recorded on video, have escaped prosecution by the U.S. Attorney.
Not unexpectedly, the case has spun out in strange ways in Rio Arriba. The County Commission says Rodella's undersheriff threatened county officials with a criminal investigation just moments after the commission voted to call for Rodella's resignation.
Within a few days, the sheriff's office turned reports over to the State Police that raise questions about whether one of the commissioners, a Rodella critic, and another county employee were cutting their own deals for use of a county community center. Who knows how that investigation will play out, but serving notice of it in the moments after the commission's anti-Rodella vote was unseemly timing that could only have been interpreted as intimidation.
For now, Rodella has lost his badge and his gun, and his law enforcement certification is suspended.
With all of this, it's time for Rodella to go.
The people of Rio Arriba County shouldn't have to live with a law enforcement operation clouded by the latest serious allegations against Rodella, who will get his day in court on the civil rights charges.
But if there was a doubt as to whether he should leave now, the revocation of his law enforcement certification and the new "investigation" revealed immediately after the vote tip the scales.
Enough is enough. And Rio Arriba County has had enough of Tommy Rodella.
This editorial first appeared in the Albuquerque Journal. It was written by members of the editorial board and is unsigned as it represents the opinion of the newspaper rather than the writers.


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"Redesigning society for the greatest good by meeting the priority needs of the very young." – Raffi Cavoukian Crowning his tireless efforts on behalf of the championship of youth, beloved children's troubadour and peace activist Raffi Cavoukian has founded the Centre for Child Honouring on Salt Spring Island, BC. Just as Raffi has been a good friend and supporter of APPPAH in recent years, let us support his fine efforts as well—as they are all devoted to the same important ideal! Take a quick moment to go to the Child Honouring website and "Sign the Plea"—calling on leaders of all faiths to unite in ending violence to children. As Raffi writes in his letter to us all, "We trust that a massive outpouring of public and religious support for respecting the personhood of children would:
- have significantly beneficial impacts on behaviour in families, communities, schools and institutions worldwide, and
- bring renewed awareness and support for implementing the articles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.


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Exemplary Administrators Honored at ASBO's Annual Meeting
Larry Williams, assistant superintendent for facilities and construction in the Lewisville (Texas) Independent School District, received the Pinnacle of Excellence Award at the annual meeting of the Association of School Business Officials International (ASBO) in Chicago in October. He was honored for spearheading a project to make his department's work more efficient and more cost-effective. It included the initiation of the "classroom blitz," in which every 60 days each of the district's 4,000 classrooms is inspected. Williams (third from right) was joined by the four winners of the Pinnacle of Achievement Award: Patrick C. Collins, director of business operations at Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School in Marlborough, Mass.; Joel Sloggett, chief administrative officer of Student Transportation Services of Central Ontario in Peterborough, Ontario; and Nita R. Mensia-Joseph, director of operations for Portsmouth (Va.) Public Schools. Also present were two representatives from furniture and equipment maker Virco, which co-sponsored the award with ASBO: Toni Bock (far left), director of community relations, and Larry Wonder (far right), vice president of sales. At the same event, ASBO honored other administrators with the International Eagle Award and the Distinguished Professional Awards.


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McGovern Cemetery
09, 2001 Contributed by Elaine Frey
McGOVERN CEMETERY
O'Neill, Daniel born 1801 - died 1881 on the same stone
O'Neill, Bridget born 1816 - died 1858 on the back of the stone
O'Neill-- new stone erected by great great grandson, John F. O'neill - 1977. Note: Right beside it is the old stone for Bridget
Harden Monument:
Harden, Bridget - died August 24, 1877 - Aged 49 years. Daughter of Edward
Margarett McGovern - Wife of Thomas Harden
McGovern, Thomas - March 17, 1822 - Oct. 15, 1844 (Ireland)
McGovern, Margarett R. - died March 14, 1844 - Aged 22 years. daughter of Thomas and Bridget Harden.
McGovern, Mary - died Aug. 27, 1867 - aged 6 weeks
McGovern Monument
McGovern, Edward - Born in the County Gavin, Ireland 1799
"Emigrated to the United States 1833. Was among the first Catholic pioneers of the Region - 1842. Died in the Lord April 1, 1876. A Loving husband, A fond father, A kind neighbor and a devout Catholic. Requiescat in Pace."
Editor's Note: In St. Basil's, Dushore, PA, During 100 Years: 1838-1938, the author, Reverend Francis E. Tourscher, OSA, reports the full original inscirption on this stone and the significance of its location:
In the Cemetery plot where the Chapel stood on the McGovern farm, is a granite block monument. On this block is the following inscription: Edward McGovern born in County Cavan, Ireland, 1799. Emigrated to the United States in 1833. Was among the first Catholic pioneers of this region in 1842.--Died in the Lord April 7, 1876. A loving husband, a fond father, a kind neighbor, a devout Catholic. Requiescat in Pace. On this same block are also the names of Mary Conmey, wife of Edward McGovern, died April 5, 1868, and Patrick McGovern, son of Edward, died May 8, 1893 (Footnote 12).McGovern, Francis - Son of Edward & Margaret McGovern. died March 17, 1844 in the 6th year of his age. Note: There was a second stone for Francis leaning against the monument.
McGovern, Anne - Daughter of Edward and Margaret McGovern, died in Lancaster, PA, Dec. 29, 1912. Aged 71 years.
McGovern, Patrick - Son of the late Edward and Margaret McGovern. Died May 8th, 1893. Aged 67 years.
Mcgovern, Margaret - Consort of Edward McGovern. Born in County Fermanagh, Ireland. 1799. Died April 5th 1888. "She was a lady of strong Faith and sterling virtues, a kind neighbor, a devoted wife and mother. She left her children a legacy of a bright example."
Coggins, Bridget - died Dec. 1, 1862 -Aged 19 yrs 6 mo (?) Daughter of Thomas and Mary Cogans
Cogans, Mary - died Oct. 9, 1855 - aged 40 years. Wife of Thomas Cogans
"A native of the parish of Killglass Co. of Sligo Ireland. Requiescent in Pace."
Coggins, Cathar----- died Dec. 4, 1862 - Age 23 yrs 3 mo (?) Daughter of Thomas and Mary Coggins.
Note: There was a stone face down in the ground. My guess is that it was Thomas Cogans/Coggins' stone
Broken stone - No Name - Aged 10 mo, 11 days - May her soul rest in peace. Amen
Nagle (?), Mary - wife of Patrick Nagle (?). and Daughter of Thomas Coggin: Age 25 years 9 months 20 days. July 20, 1860.
Andrews, John M. died August 12, 1850
O'Brien Monument
O'Brien, Jennie A. - died Jan. 4, 1883 - aged 3 yr 8 mo 14 da
O'Brien, Alice L. - died Jan. 20, 1883 - aged 2 yr 4 mo 24 da
O'Brien, John J. - died Jan. 16, 1883 - aged 10 yr 8 mo
O'Brien, Daniel T. - died Jan 18, 1883 - aged 6 yr 2 mo 13 da
Children of D. F. and Kate O'Brien
Conmey Monument
Conmey, John - died Feb. 26, 1889 - aged 82 years
A native of Castle Connor Co. Sligo, Ireland
Jane - Died Oct. 5, 1894 - aged 78 years - wife of John, a native of Droheda, Ireland
Editor's Note: Jane's last name is known to have been Flannagan from other sources. Also, she was the second wife of John Conmey, whose first wife, surnamed McAuley, died young.--Bob Sweeney
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Seton holds fish fry on Friday, Feb. 15
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School will hold a fish fry at 3:45 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, at the church, 2035 W. 15th St.
Tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for children 5 to 12. Children 4 and younger eat free. Seniors' tickets are $11. Tickets will be sold at the door.
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If you're a Chinese film buff, you may have already seen a bit of Tongli (Tónglǐ, 同里)—it's a popular spot for shooting historical scenes. Some 18 km (11mi) to the southeast of Suzhou and 80 km (50 mi) west of Shanghai, Tongli is one of the best preserved of Jiangsu Province's old Yangtze River Delta water towns, featuring an assortment of Ming and Qing Dynasty houses situated amidst a network of canals spanned by 49 classic Chinese bridges.
Charming scenes abound: willows reflect in waters plied by sampans. Whitewashed walls and black-tiled roofs with graceful upturned eaves shelter elderly couples lingering over tea. Temples and gardens emerge from the mist or glow in the sun, adorned with wood carvings of figures from classical Chinese literature and folklore. Tongli is understandably popular with tour groups, so if you'd like to take in the scenery with a minimum of fellow tourists crowding the picture, come on a weekday or in the off season.
An RMB 100 fee gets you into the old town and most of Tongli's attractions, including the UNESCO heritage site garden, Garden of Retreat and Reflection (Tuisi Yuan), the Ming-era Gengle Hall, Luoxing Islet (Luóxīng Zhōu, 罗星洲) and its temples, as well as other notable attractions. Admission to the Chinese Sex Museum is an additional RMB 20. An easy day trip from Shanghai or Suzhou, Tongli also makes for a pleasant overnight destination—the town empties of tour groups in the evening, making for peaceful strolls and pretty views of lights reflecting off the surface of the canals, and there are a number of charming guest houses offering affordable Tongli accommodations.
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The Tam High JV football team rolled to a 54-0 win over San Rafael behind 388 yards on the ground and six TDs from its offense. Nick Lawlor, Stuart Davenport, Judha Van Zandt, Dominic Quaranta and Logan Salcuni keyed the offensive line effort. Linebacker Pablo Salinas keyed the defensive effort with an interception, two sacks, a fumble recovery and also recorded a safety to go with a half-dozen solo tackles. Dante Mills also had an interception for Tam.
The Tam High JV water polo team capped its perfect MCAL season with a 15-2 win over Redwood. Fiona Mosser led the way with four goals and Emma Sell, Amanda Faubel, Zoey Smith and Sydney Smith each scored twice. Goalies Maddie Hess and Dani Budish combined for six blocks. The Red-tailed Hawks went on to win both games at the Davis Fall Classic. Izzy Parlamis had three goals in Tam's 6-5 win over Bella Vista. Zoey Smith and Alex Zener had two goals apiece in that game.
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The Palo Alto school board confirmed a new principal for Juana Briones Elementary School Tuesday night, June 26.
Lisa Hickey, an elementary school principal in the Cupertino Union School District since 2005, will join the Palo Alto district effective July 1.
She replaces Matthew Nagle, principal since 2009, who announced last month he would leave the school to work on projects at the district's central office.
Hickey was one of two finalists interviewed last week by a Juana Briones search team that included parents and teachers.
"I'm really energized that Palo Alto has smaller elementary schools," Hickey told the board Tuesday, noting that her most recent school, Meyerholz Elementary School, has an enrollment of 750. Last year's enrollment at Juana Briones, by contrast, was 415.
"In Palo Alto it's really possible to get to know all the students and parents. Palo Alto has the resources to do what's best for children, keeping the fourth- and fifth-grade class sizes smaller."
Hickey was accompanied by her husband and two sons as well as by her father and mother, a retired school principal.
At Meyerholz, Hickey oversaw both a neighborhood population and a Mandarin-immersion program. Prior to that, she was principal of Sedgwick School, which had a large special education population.
She also worked as an assistant principal and a middle school teacher in Cupertino, and has extensive experience with special education and preschool students.
Hickey earned a bachelor's in sociology from the University of California at Los Angeles as well a master's degrees in interdisciplinary education and educational administration from Santa Clara University.
"Fourteen years ago when I was getting my credential at Santa Clara I said that Palo Alto was my dream job," she said. "I'm just very excited to join the Palo Alto management team."


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