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Number of leading local figures honoured in Pearson awards
Marie Lindsay receives her award today. Photo by Tom Heaney
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Local figures in the education sector have been honoured for their work.
Selected from thousands of nominations, they have been honoured out of 102 Pearson National Teaching Silver Award winners for their commitment to changing the lives of the children they work with every day.
Ahead of a conference to examine the case for maintaining Catholic schooling in Northern Ireland, Tracey Harkin of the Iona Institute reflects on the challenges facing the sector
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SACRAMENTO, Calif, May 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Frederick Penney, founding partner of Penney and Associates Injury Lawyers, discusses what changes have been made to the court system since the pandemic. He analyzes whether the courts will keep the new changes that include more relaxed filing procedures and allowing individuals and attorneys to appear remotely. https://www.penneylawyers.com/ .
Every court seems to be using video conferencing via Zoom, BlueJeans, Pexip, Polycom, Cisco, Lifesize, and other platforms to hold hearings remotely during 2020 and 2021. Using any of these platform names is meant to use the term generally as video conferencing. Ever since the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act was passed the courts have changed the way they handle court proceedings. They have allowed more video conferencing and media and public access to electronic criminal proceedings, arraignments, detention hearings, misdemeano
Ireland s forever wars Last November, Irish politics were convulsed by a triumphalist tweet from Brian Stanley, a Sinn Féin member of the Irish Dáil. He hailed the centenary of the Kilmichael ambush of 28 November 1920, where 16 Auxiliary members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by Republican forces during the Anglo-Irish War, and for good measure also celebrated the killing of 18 British soldiers at Warrenpoint by the Provisional IRA in August 1979. Stanley linked the incidents as “IRA operations that taught the British elite the cost of occupying Ireland”, and jeered that the latter were handicapped by being “slow learners”.
Gabino (Gabe) Perez Cano (December 22, 1960 to April 14, 2021) passed peacefully at his home surrounded by his wife, children, mother, siblings, nieces, and nephews. Gabino, son of Alvaro and Genevieve Cano, was born in Phoenix, Arizona and spent most of his life in the Central Valley. Gabe was preceded in death by his father, Alvaro. Survivors include his faithful and devoted wife, Olga, and his most enduring legacy, his sons Gabe Jr. and Joshua. He is also survived by his mother, Genevieve, his brothers Leandro (Debbie), Alvaro (Brenda), Stephen (Nina), Chris, Albert, and John (Cynthia), and his sisters Mary Lindsay (Scott), Genevieve Rangel (Val), Angie Campa, and Santos Bailey. Part of his enormous legacy includes his relationship with his many nieces and nephews.