The James Logan Courier

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It’s almost summer, the sun is out, and the weather is warm. But remember, this is school, not the pool! Please dress appropriately for school; tops must have straps and cover cleavage, the stomach and midriff, and bottoms not too short. This goes for both boys and girls. Please review our Student Handbook for specifics. Thank you!

Yearbooks are now on sale! From May 9 until May 25, prices are $65 with ASB and $75 without. After May 25th, prices are $80 with ASB and $90 without. Get yours before prices increase.

Former Cesar Chavez Middle School students: Is your blue promotion gown just taking up space in your closet? Make them useful again by donating it to a current 8th grader. Bring your promotion gown to House 1 in Colt Court.

By Carolyn Kellogg
Los Angeles Times (MCT)

FADE IN: A car idles in the foggy pre-dawn, pointed at the end of a cul-de-sac. Inside, an attractive 30-ish couple, DAMON and AMY, are worn from travel. She is dark-haired, pale-skinned and tense, and she leans against the passenger window. Behind the wheel, he carefully watches her mood as they evaluate the appearance of an owl in front of them. Good omen or bad? They can't decide, and continue on, lost.

This is the opening scene of "Rain Dragon," the second novel by Jon Raymond, who earned devoted fans with 2004's "The Half-Life." Since then, he's gone into screenwriting, earning an Emmy nomination for his work on the 2011 HBO miniseries "Mildred Pierce."

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations

The Board of Education on Tuesday night approved a plan to designate the District’s Independent Study Program as its own school, to be located on the campus of the New Haven Adult School.

The Independent Study Program, currently headquartered at the Cabello Student Support Center, includes independent study for James Logan High students as well as independent study for kindergarten through eighth grade students and home schooling for kindergarten through 12th grade students. It is estimated that the new school will serve about 300 students, the vast majority in grades 9 to 12.

From Wikipedia:
Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.

Terkel was born to Samuel Terkel, a Russian Jewish tailor and his wife, Anna Finkelin in New York City, New York. At the age of eight he moved with his family to Chicago, Illinois, where he spent most of his life. He had two brothers, Ben (1907–1965) and Meyer (1905–1958).

Visit StudsTerkel.org.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

From its core out to the fringes, "Prototype 2" has a lot — arguably too much — in common with "Prototype."

But the one significant change — outside of a new main character, and more on that in a bit — is a good one. This time, all that's good and fun about "Prototype 2" isn't completely torn down by the horrifying A.I. and difficulty balancing meltdowns that made its predecessor one of 2009's most obnoxious games.

Conceptually, it's business as usual. As James Heller, you're still taking on both military and mutant forces. And despite filling a new set of shoes, you're still a superpowered one-man army who can jump 50 feet per bound, sprint up the side of a New York City skyscraper, throw a car like a baseball and fully consume other people to shapeshift into them and acquire their memories and abilities.

MISCELLANEOUS
It’s almost summer, the sun is out, and the weather is warm. But remember, this is school, not the pool! Please dress appropriately for school; tops must have straps and cover cleavage, the stomach and midriff, and bottoms not too short. This goes for both boys and girls. Please review our Student Handbook for specifics. Thank you!

Yearbooks are now on sale! From May 9 until May 25, prices are $65 with ASB and $75 without. After May 25th, prices are $80 with ASB and $90 without. Get yours before prices increase.

Former Cesar Chavez Middle School students: Is your blue promotion gown just taking up space in your closet? Make them useful again by donating it to a current 8th grader. Bring your promotion gown to House 1 in Colt Court.

By Kim Ode
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)

Dust always needs a place to land. Take the record turntable, rarely used, but there when you want to listen to some classic vinyl. Or the transistor radio. The sound quality is awful, but it'll come in handy if a storm knocks out the power. The telephone? Well, every once in a while, it does ring.

Sometimes you might even see it sporting a blinking light — if you ever looked.

From Wikipedia:
Lyman "L." Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost" novels, 82 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works predicted such century-later commonplaces as television, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work).

Read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, free from Project Gutenberg.

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Heald College will be tabling during lunch today in Colt Court. Heald offers associate degrees and certification programs in healthcare, business, legal and technology fields. Stop by their table to see for yourself.

It’s almost summer, the sun is out, and the weather is warm. But remember, this is school, not the pool! Please dress appropriately for school; tops must have straps and cover cleavage, the stomach and midriff, and bottoms not too short. This goes for both boys and girls. Please review our Student Handbook for specifics. Thank you!

Yearbooks are now on sale! From May 9 until May 25, prices are $65 with ASB and $75 without. After May 25th, prices are $80 with ASB and $90 without. Get yours before prices increase.

From Wikipedia:
Sidney Bechet (May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.

He was one of the first important soloists in jazz (beating cornetist/trumpeter Louis Armstrong to the recording studio by several months and later playing duets with Armstrong), and was perhaps the first notable jazz saxophonist of any sort. Forceful delivery, well-constructed improvisations, and a distinctive wide vibrato characterized Bechet's playing.

However, Bechet's mercurial temperament hampered his career, and not until the late 1940s did he earn wide acclaim.

Listen to Sidney Bechet's performance in The Sheik, free from redhotjazz.com.

MISCELLANEOUS
It’s almost summer, the sun is out, and the weather is warm. But remember, this is school, not the pool! Please dress appropriately for school; tops must have straps and cover cleavage, the stomach and midriff, and bottoms not too short. This goes for both boys and girls. Please review our Student Handbook for specifics. Thank you!

Yearbooks are now on sale! From May 9 until May 25, prices are $65 with ASB and $75 without. After May 25th, prices are $80 with ASB and $90 without. Get yours before prices increase.

Former Cesar Chavez Middle School students: Is your blue promotion gown just taking up space in your closet? Make them useful again by donating it to a current 8th grader. Bring your promotion gown to House 1 in Colt Court.

From Wikipedia:
Georges Braque (13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art style known as Cubism.

Georges Braque was born on 13 May 1882, in Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise. He grew up in Le Havre and trained to be a house painter and decorator like his father and grandfather. However, he also studied artistic painting during evenings at the École des Beaux-Arts, in Le Havre, from about 1897 to 1899. In Paris, he apprenticed with a decorator and was awarded his certificate in 1902. The next year, he attended the Académie Humbert, also in Paris, and painted there until 1904. It was here that he met Marie Laurencin and Francis Picabia.

See examples of Georges Braque's art, free from the Museum of Modern Art.

By Tierra Negra, Courier Special Correspondent

Never has been more obvious the lack of purpose of a government in this country as it is now days. It is not because of the way it was originally designed or intended but as a result of the people currently holding positions that behave irresponsibly while merely aiming to profit personally and for those that finance their candidacy to stay in power.

According to the principles that inspired the creators of the Declaration of Independence and in order to secure certain unalienable rights that make us all equal “…Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...” But, how would I be willing to consent a government that exacts more taxation from me in order to privilege those with the capital?

From Wikipedia:
Lincoln Ellsworth (May 12, 1880 – May 26, 1951) was an polar explorer from the United States.

He was born on May 12, 1880 to James Ellsworth and Eva Frances Butler in Chicago, Illinois. He also lived in Hudson, Ohio as a child.

Lincoln Ellsworth's father, James, a wealthy coal man from the United States, spent US$100,000 to fund Roald Amundsen's 1925 attempt to fly from Svalbard to the North Pole. The craft were forced down onto the ice short of their goal, and the explorers spent 30 days trapped on the surface.

Learn more about Lincoln Ellsworth.