Germanna's Kathryn Denner awarded Teacher Innovation Grant

The Orange County Educational Foundation has honored Germanna Community College's Kathryn Denner with a Teacher Innovation Grant.
Denner (left), who is pictured with GCC Dean of Student Services Pam Frederick, will use her $250 award to purchase materials to support high achievement in mathematics as part of her Math Anxiety Reduction grant.
She's one of six recipients of OCEF's first Teacher Innovation Grants. The six teachers were selected from among 25 Orange County educators who submitted applications.
The grants were designed to assist with the development of projects to increase student achievement, promote tolerance, and exhibit new technology in the classroom.
“The Education Foundation was glad to be able to award grants to strengthen the quality of education for students in Orange County,” said Sam Kessler, chair of the OCEF Teacher Innovative Grant Committee. “We are grateful to all the teachers who submitted grant proposals and look forward to offering additional grants in the 2011-2012 school year.
Winners of this spring’s teacher innovation grants will be honored at their individual schools and as a group at 2011-2012 Convocation Ceremonies. The recipients, representing five different schools and covering students from kindergarten through post secondary education include Denner, Vickie Baker of Orange County High School, Sarah Duffy of Locust Grove Middle School and Gloria Pullen, Sharon Mohrmann and Carolyn Herndon, all of Orange Elementary School.

Mid-summer update

As we sit here baking in the hot July sun, I am thankful that I am able to sit here in the relative cool of the library.  It has been a somewhat tumultuous summer so far and I thought I'd write down all that has been going on.  In late May, we found out that the Bru Crue Coffee Bar was going to have to abruptly shut down.  I, and many others, were sad to hear about this.  However, we will soon have another coffee vendor up and running - Rita's Roast Coffee Co. will be open very soon.

Our new roof has been finished and at least in some parts of the building, the reflective quality of the white vinyl may actually be helping to lower the temperature!  I'm not sure that there's any helping the Computer Lab temperature, but other parts of the second floor seem cooler.

On the subject of the public computer lab, we are exploring the cost involved in redoing the HVAC for that part of the building.  As we have discussed what to do about the computer lab, we have revisited the arrangement of the whole area north of the mezzanine.  Who knows?  By the time all is said and done, we may have a whole new look on the 2nd floor!

US Hacker gets 18-year sentence

 WASHINGTON - A US man who hacked into his neighbours Wi-Fi network and tried to anatomy them with child pornography and baleful emails to the US V.P. has comprised sentenced to 18 years in jail.

US District Judge Donovan Frank condemned Barry Ardolf, 46, on Tues after hearing to the tearful testimonial of Bethany Kostolnik, the Minneapolis Star Tribune accounted.

"My husband and I had to explicate to our young, ignorant children way too early that there are evil people in the world  and to never go in Barry Ardolf's yard," she said, according to the newspaper.

"Until Ardolf was immured, not a day glided by that I didn't entertain another attack," her husband Matt Kostolnik said.

"Barry Ardolf has demoed by his conduct that he has a dangerous man," US attorneys prosecuting the case said in court documents."When he got angry at his neighbours, he aired out his anger in a bizarre and calculated campaign of terror against them."The trouble began in August 2008 when the Kostolniks, who had just went into the neighborhood, reported Ardolf to police after he picked up their four-year-old son and kissed him on the mouth, according to US attorneys.

Ardolf then got claiming revenge by hacking into their wireless fidelity network and making fake email addresses, which he wont to send crude messages and child pornography to Matt Kostolnik's co-workers and boss, the prosecution said.

Afterward Ardolf sent threatening emails in Kostolnik's name to V.P. Joe Biden and others, investigators discovered the hacking following a search of Ardolf's home in the summer of 2009.

Ardolf initially arranged a plea deal that would have had him serve two to five years in prison, but later backed away of it and fired his attorney.In Dec Ardolf again pleaded guilty before converting his mind and trying to arrange a different deal, but the pursuing US attorney held him to the plea.

Charlie Sheen Is Dead' rumour Storms The Online

Charlie Sheen is alive and comfortably, contempt a recent online rumor that advised the former 'Two and a Half Men' star was dead. The Sheen conjecture comes just hours after a similar false rumour claimed Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner had died.

A fake story that the afflicted actor was dead got down diffusing on Twitter yesterday (12th July 2011), with fans apprehensively exploring for ratification of the news. One user re-tweeted a fake Msnbc story that read, "Charlie Sheen was found dead in his Beverly Hills early this morning, causas of his death are presently stranger" (sic), but a fan of the actor attempted to put the story to bed, tweeting, "Charlie Sheen is not dead! he just sent me a tweet RT". In point of fact, the actor accepted comprised tweeting on a regular basis throughout the day, asking fans, "could be time for an "I'll do anything party." Vegas anybody?" Rumors of the actor's passing may have originated from the news that his Two and a Half Men' character chevies to be exterminated. The actor was replaced by Ashton Kutcher for the coming new series, and writer Chuck Lorre has comprised working at ways in which to create a smooth conversion between the two stars.

Charlie Sheen is reportedly approximately agreeing a deal to return to television in afresh sitcom. Whenever applied the go-ahead, the show is likely to debut in January 2012.