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“I’m OK, and I love you,” he would write.
“He was fired up. He loved it. There was nothing about the Army that Sean didn’t love,” his mother said. She said her son wanted to become an Army Ranger.
Family members remembered McCune as a loving son and brother, who loved to make people laugh.
“He was mischievous to a fault. Whatever he could do to make somebody laugh, that was Sean,” Gibson said.
McCune loved joking around with his sisters — Amber McCune, 23; Natasha Gibson, 17; and Vicki Gibson, 11.
“He was a best friend. He would be there no matter what you needed, and he would make you laugh until your stomach hurt,” Amber McCune said.
“He was always good to talk to because he would listen to you about anything,” Natasha Gibson said.
Funeral arrangements for McCune have not been announced.
Sean P. McCune had an enormous sweet tooth. He bought $40 worth of candy and ate most of it while on leave last summer.
McCune, 20, of Euless, Texas, died Jan. 11 in Samarra, Iraq, of injuries from a non-combat incident. He was a 2007 high school graduate and was assigned to Schofield Barracks.
“He was kind of a gentle, sensitive kid,” said his father, Larry.
McCune loved to play video games and enjoyed wildlife and photography. Until a few months ago, he still shot photos on an old manual-everything, film-only Nikon camera.
McCune enjoyed making family game nights as rowdy as possible.
He got a Lord of the Rings Monopoly board because of his affection for J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy series.
“He was mischievous to a fault. Whatever he could do to make somebody laugh, that was Sean,” said his mother, Sandra Gibson.
He is also survived by his stepfather, Sandy Gibson.
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The U.S. Department of Education announced Wednesday that it has approved nine more states' plans to ensure that all students, and low-income students in particular, have access to high-quality teachers.
The newly approved plans come from Idaho, Illinois, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Utah, and Wyoming, and are states' responses to the department's Excellent Educators for All Initiative, which began in 2014. The initiatives' three parts include the creation of comprehensive teacher-equity plans, an "educator equity support network" to help support teachers in high-need schools, and equity profiles to help states identify gaps in access to high-quality teaching.
Highlights of the approved plans include Illinois' pledge to work with teacher-preparation programs to develop "best practices" to get new teachers ready to teach in high-poverty and high-minority schools. Idaho said it will provide financial incentives for teachers to stay in the state. And Montana said it will expand the eligibility for a program that provides student-loan forgiveness for teachers working in rural, high-poverty areas.
All the states, according to the department, have agreed to publicly report their progress.
With the equity plans the Education Department previously approved in September and October, the number of states to get their plans OK'd rises to 42.
The Education Department approved teacher-equity plans from 16 states in mid-September, and an additional 17 last month. Although states pledged to make sure that low-income students have access to good teachers, and to raise teacher quality, education policy observers and advocates questioned whether states will actually do a good job implementing these plans. And when we looked at some of the plans, some were essentially repackaged ideas from the past, rather than new proposals.
And then there's a state like Montana, one of the nine to get its equity plan approved in Wednesday's announcement. Last summer, Montana made it very clear that while it considers the issue important, state officials simply don't have the power to make changes in key areas and help their plan succeed.
"The state does not control the hiring and placement of teachers in our schools," wrote Denise Juneau, Montana's superintendent, in a May letter accompanying the state's submitted plan. "These decisions are made by locally elected boards of trustees, not the state."
Proposals in previously approved equity plans included student-loan forgiveness for paraprofessionals entering high-needs teaching fields in Minnesota, and a pay-for-performance system in Nevada. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan also said at the time that specific states would get "equity labs" to bring educators togethers to put the plans into action.
What kind of oversight or enforcement mechanism does the department have regarding these plans? At one point it considered factoring in these equity plans when making decisions about states' waivers from portions of the No Child Left Behind Act, but it ditched that idea. Duncan said two months ago he would prefer not to take punitive actions against states for failing to adhere to their plans, but didn't take it off the table.
States were required to submit the equity plans last June, per new Education Department requirements designed to broadly improve teacher equity. But the general idea itself isn't new.
Under the NCLB law, states had to guarantee that all their teachers were highly qualified by the 2005-06 school year, but plans to make that happen gathered dust on shelves without being updated for several years.
A physical player who doesn't fill up the score sheet, Bortuzzo is a smooth skater and reliable puck-mover with a coveted right-hand shot.
The Pittsburgh Penguins selected him in the third round (No. 78) in the 2007 NHL Draft, before he helped Kitchener win the Ontario Hockey League championship and reach the Memorial Cup final in 2008. Bortuzzo turned pro in 2009-10 with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League, and his plus-13 rating led the club's defensemen that season. His steady play helped Wilkes-Barre/Scranton give up the fewest goals in the AHL in 2010-11 (183) and 2012-13 (178).
Bortuzzo made his NHL debut Nov. 5, 2011, against the Los Angeles Kings and played six games with the Penguins that season. He played 15 games for Pittsburgh in 2012-13, finishing with a plus-three rating and scoring his first NHL goal against Martin Brodeur of the New Jersey Devils on Feb. 6, 2013.
Establishing himself as an NHL regular in 2013-14, Bortuzzo had 10 assists and 137 hits, second among Penguins defensemen, in 54 games. He made his Stanley Cup Playoff debut April 26, 2014, against the Columbus Blue Jackets and got his first NHL postseason point May 5, 2014, when he assisted on a Sidney Crosby goal against the New York Rangers.
The Penguins traded Bortuzzo and a 2016 seventh-round draft pick to the St. Louis Blues for Ian Cole on March 2, 2015. He made his Blues debut March 5, 2015, against the Philadelphia Flyers.
In 2015-16, his first full season with St. Louis, Bortuzzo played 40 games and was fifth on the Blues in penalty minutes (52).
Traded to St. Louis by Pittsburgh with Pittsburgh's 7th round pick (Filip Helt) in 2016 NHL Draft for Ian Cole, March 2, 2015.
The Sprout TV network will be boasting lots of Wiggle room starting this summer, when it welcomes the Wiggles to its lineup.
This Australian-bred musical group, recognized as the world�s No. 1 preschool entertainment act, will join Sprout on Aug. 24, the network has announced. Sprout, aimed at kids age 2 to 5, will air episodes from the six seasons of �The Wiggles� series throughout its daily schedule.
In addition, the foursome in the colorful T-shirts will host Sprout�s wake-up program with newly produced segments between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. The group will perform original songs and skits, as well as lead their young viewers in their special brand of wiggling.
�We want to get kids up and moving and singing and dancing with the Wiggles,� said Sprout president Sandy Wax.
The Wiggles also will be featured on Sprout�s on-demand and Web platforms. Sprout has exclusive U.S. rights to Wiggles content, both existing and new, Wax said.
Formed in 1991, the quartet � now consisting of Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field and Sam Moran � perform more than 200 shows annually on four continents, and their TV series is seen in more than 110 countries. They end their seven-year stay at the Disney Channel in June.
Women Living With R. Kelly Defend Singer In 'CTM' InterviewJoycelyn Savage and Azriel Clary tell Gayle King they’re in a relationship with R. Kelly and their families are out for money.
WATCH: R. Kelly Breaks His Silence, Blasts Accusers In 'CTM' InterviewThe embattled R&B singer spoke with "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King for nearly 80 minutes Tuesday.
N.J. Sen. Cory Booker Tells ‘CTM’ The Country Needs A Revival Of ‘Civic Grace’New Jersey Senator Cory Booker says the country needs a revival of "civic grace" as he throws his name into the 2020 race.
Jayme Closs Family Tells ‘CTM’ She Beat Her Alleged Kidnapper ‘At His Own Game’The 13-year-old’s aunts, Sue Allard and Lynn Closs, and cousin, Lindsey Smith, spoke with CBS This Morning’s Gayle King on Monday.
Meet Tina Guerrero, The NYPD's Only Female Counter-SniperSome thought a woman couldn't do the job in the NYPD's version of SEAL Team Six. She proved them wrong.
Charlie Rose Takes Break From 'CBS This Morning' To Undergo Heart SurgeryRose said the surgery will keep him in the hospital for a few days, then he will rest for a couple of weeks.
Ivanka Trump Says She’s On A Mission To Change Things For Working WomenFor months Donald Trump has dominated the headlines in the race for the White House, and his family has been a big part of the campaign.
Lily Aldridge Talks "Victoria's Secret Swim Special"Aldridge joined “CBS This Morning” on Tuesday to preview the upcoming show.
"We are star stuff. When we see the stars in the heavens we see our physical ancestry."
If you've been looking to learn more about salmon and then eat them, this is the ticket.
Miles of scenic vistas and Alpine Lake coast offer up a hiker's dream.
Eric Lyman, owner-operator of the Stanley, Idaho, bungee outfit with locations across the country, takes BW on a thrill ride.
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Gilles Peterson talks to UK drum and bass pioneer Goldie about his life in music.
Gilles is back for another Saturday mix up selection and this week he sits down with UK drum and bass pioneer Goldie, to talk about his life in music.
Having been at the forefront of Drum and Bass for two decades, Goldie is back with new material. As well as the music which has helped him make his name, Goldie and Gilles discuss everything, from his breakbeat inspirations, telling the stories of his early days as a graffiti artist, through the history of Metalheadz to the current state of his scene.
Are You Going With Me?
muncman to palisades and gilbert to liberty. liberty would have 4 state titles by now if gilbert was there.
Here's my prediction: Gilbert to Emmaus when Bott decides to retire.
I will be shocked if Gilbert does not end up at CB West.
The obituary of Jason Gilligan, apparently the current wrestling coach at Palisades reminds us of stark reality and misery. He was a PIAA champion at Brookville in 1999, was a contemporary of the late Christian Luciano, 1998 PIAA champ from Northampton (Jason was 3rd in the state in 1998).
(Newser) – The family of a woman shot dead by Baltimore police was initially awarded $38 million. Now, that award is zero. A Baltimore County judge cited the doctrine of "civil liability" Thursday in rescinding the award to the family of Korryn Gaines, 23, who was killed during a six-hour standoff with police in 2016, the New York Times reports. "The evidence is clear," writes Judge Mickey Norman, per CNN. "This Court has found that Corporal [Royce] Ruby is entitled to qualified immunity and therefore, his shooting of Gaines was not unlawful." Qualified immunity is a doctrine maintaining that government officials on the job are protected from civil liability as long as they don't violate a person's constitutional rights. And by opening fire, Norman ruled, Ruby was only doing his job.
There is no such thing as a doctrine of "civil Liability." The article correctly describes qualified immunity as the doctrine applied by the judge. Does Newser not have editors or are they as ignorant as their authors?
Good job, your honor! Juries in that festering ghetto would give the family of some thug money like that. That turd would have never made that much in her lifetime, so try being realistic.
What a ridiculous amount of money for nothing... That thug had a 6 hour standoff armed with a gun, and they reward the family 38 million?? Pathetic, good on that judge putting a stop to that nonsense.
Stephanie Stockstill, Cody Jolly and Kevin Webb star in "Shockheaded Peter" from Black Button Eyes Productions.
It has been 16 years since “Shockheaded Peter,” the cultish British “junk opera” created by the Improbable Theatre and the Tiger Lillies, was first seen at the Athenaeum Theatre. Last time, the show featured most of the brilliant original cast and all three of the Tiger Lillies, the quirky, British band with rabid fans.
The timing — mid-September 2001 — for a gory, macabre horror show about the terrible consequences of childish misbehavior could not have been worse.
Almost no one came. Only a very few of us were in the mood during those awful days for horror-satire in homage to the Grand Guignol.
That was a great pity. Internationally acclaimed, “Shockheaded Peter” was one of the most creative, compelling and original shows of its era. Improbable Theatre, an ensemble that fused music, theater, puppetry and pantomime with innovative design, would prove to be a highly influential company; its leaders ultimately were seduced by Broadway.
Like many conceptual works created by writer-performers, “Shockheaded Peter” (the work is based on the stories of Heinrich Hoffmann) is now available for others to do, including Chicago’s Black Button Eyes Productions, a cool company very much in the Improbable mode. Director Ed Rutherford’s production is being staged in the upstairs studio at the Athenaeum. That’s likely a coincidence, but also a neat nod to the Chicago history of this deliciously weird piece of performance.
Black Button is a group of sophisticated visual conceptualists and that part of “Shockheaded Peter” is handled exceptionally well, as is the crucial narrative role of the emcee. Kevin Webb takes risks and makes most of them pay off. The show has a live three-piece band, terrific handmade puppets, great globs of multifarious creative ingenuity and a full willingness to probe the dark soul of a piece that, like so many Victorian works, is sourced by a work obsessed with the mortality of children. Including Frederick (Anthony Whitaker), here cleverly designed to evoke the petulance of a president not yet imagined in 2001.
The area that needs attention in this slightly overplayed production, though, is the storytelling.
In such a strange, collagelike work, the audience really has to be led by the hand through the yarn and kept on the right path. That never really happens here. Although consistently ingenious and fun — and that is no faint praise — the staging often is difficult to follow, partly because the stakes of the core dramatic story aren’t high nor real enough and partly because the piece falls into the seductive trap of pulling all of the toys out of the box at once and asking the viewer to play with them all at the same time.
“Shockheaded Peter” has an anarchic soul. As such, its tall tales need careful attention. And, whatever horrors exist outside the theater’s door, thriller-theater always craves the oxygen of tension and surprise.
Where: Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport Ave.
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A group of 60 graduate students led a teach-in and mediation at UC Berkeley’s School of Welfare yesterday in response to racist comments made by a tenured professor. During class on Feb. 10, a tenured white professor, shared statistics citing Black on Black crime as the real cause of harm to the Black community. He then encouraged the class to join him in a rap, claiming that he had been inspired after attending a Black Lives Matter event the prior evening. The rap he shared in class caused great offense to students, with lyrics that stated the movement, “needed to stop scapegoating the cops.” The professor also silenced students who questioned and pushed back on his reasoning.
Berkeley, CA – Feb. 24, 2015. A contingent of 60 graduate students led a teach-in and mediation at UC Berkeley’s School of Welfare today in response to racist comments made by a tenured professor.
Present were Dean Jeffery Edleson and Professor Steven Segal. The action was organized in support of 25 graduate students enrolled in Segal’s Mental Health Policy course, which must be completed this semester by all students in the Community Mental Health concentration. On Feb. 10, 2015, students advocated to end class early due to offensive and racist comments made by the professor regarding the Black Lives Matter movement. The day prior, Segal had been invited by students to participate in a school-wide conversation meant to create a safe space for students to share ideas for how the social work profession could be accountable to the movement. During class on Feb. 10, Segal, a tenured white professor, began by sharing statistics citing Black on Black crime as the real cause of harm to the Black community. He then encouraged the class to join him in a rap that he wrote the night before, claiming that he had been inspired after attending the Black Lives Matter event the prior evening. The rap he shared in class caused great offense to students, with lyrics that stated the movement, “needed to stop scapegoating the cops.” The professor also silenced students who questioned and pushed back on his reasoning.
Later that day, Dean Edleson e-mailed a school-wide announcement addressing the incident and discussed the event with the Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination who filed a complaint. On Feb. 12, Professor Segal issued an apology to the class if he had caused any offense by his comments and that this was not his intent.
After the incident, students quickly organized to generate a list of demands, including mediation. After several letters and meetings requesting such, mediation was not offered by School of Social Welfare administration. Students were afforded two options: to attend an alternate class with a new professor on a different day, or to continue in Segal’s class as usual. Students who were unable to attend the alternate class due to scheduling conflicts remained without a solution. In addition, a healing circle was scheduled the week following the incident for students in the class to process together. After receiving this news, students requested a mediator to be offered from the University’s Ombudsman’s office. The request was again denied. Students then began to strategize alternate actions to make the classroom safe in order to return.
A group of Social Welfare students, who were not in the class, organically came together to support Community Mental Health students who had been at a loss for ways to move forward.
Students in Segal’s class met with Dean Edleson on Feb. 23 to discuss their continued concerns preceding their expected return to either class option that week. The following day, Segal reportedly planned to listen to students’ concerns on their first day back in class since the incident. Dean Edleson was present to observe. Student organizers met on steps of Haviland Hall where they hung a banner that read, “School of Social Welfare: Striving to Maintain Oppression Since 1944.” At the start of the class, students marched into the building singing “Requiem for Mike Brown” inspired by October’s protests at Saint Louis Symphony. Students Karen Navarro, Vanessa Coe and Erika O’Bannon facilitated the discussion, which focused on identifying problems and envisioning solutions. Students are seeking individual accountably for Segal regarding his actions, which includes attending an anti-racism training and issuing a public apology acknowledging the harm caused by his actions. Students also called for school-wide policy changes, namely developing a strategic plan that addresses faculty incompetence in facilitating discussions about power, privilege and oppression in their classrooms and academedia, limited course content on progressive social change, abysmal efforts to diversify the student body, and an institutional disconnect with local communities. Dean Edleson agreed to co-develop the strategy with student organizers, who asked for him to initiate action.
These actions are linked to ongoing student organizing within the School of Social Welfare around Black Lives Matter that began in late November.
The British founder of an international architectural charity has been nominated for a prestigious design prize.
London-born and British-trained Cameron Sinclair, 32, who founded the charity Architecture for Humanity in 1999, has been nominated for the Design Museum's £25,000 Designer of the Year award.
He is on the shortlist with cartoonist Jamie Hewlitt, co-founder of 'virtual pop group' Gorillaz, furniture designer Tom Dixon and the team from the Guardiannewspaper that spearheaded its recent redesign.
Sinclair trained at the University of Westminster and the Bartlett, where he developed an interest in social, cultural and humanitarian design. He then moved to the United States to work for New York architects Steve Blatz and Lauster Radu, followed by Gensler.
Architecture for Humanity has been behind the construction of schools, medical clinics and community centres in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Pakistan earthquake.
Sinclair's work will go on display at the Design Museum from 4 March to 18 June. People can vote on the Designer of the Year website at www.designmuseum.orgbefore the winner is announced in May.
The annual rate of inflation based on wholesale price index stood at 3.18 per cent in March mainly due to hike in food and fuel prices, the government said on Monday.
Wholesale inflation was 2.93 per cent in February and 2.74 per cent in March 2018.
The official wholesale price index for all commodities (base: 2011-12=100) for March 2019 rose by 0.4 per cent to 120 (provisional) from 119.5 (provisional) for the previous month.
Build up inflation rate in the financial year so far was 3.18 per cent compared to a build-up rate of 2.74 per cent in the corresponding period of previous year, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.