This is the archive for November 2007
By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
More than 50 people - including students, parents, teachers, classified employees and administrators - heard presentations and exchanged ideas about “Middle School Changes for 2008-09,” the topic of the November meeting of the New Haven Community Forum, held at Cesar Chavez Middle School.
Following the closure of Barnard-White Middle School (BWMS) at the end of the current school, new boundaries will go into effect to determine whether students attend Cesar Chavez (CCMS) or Alvarado Middle School (AMS), Chief Business Officer Carol Gregorich said. The new boundaries were drawn in an effort to meet the Board of Education’s request to minimize disruption for students and families. Starting in 2008-09, most of the students who would have attended BWMS will go to CCMS, and some students who would have attended CCMS (primarily those coming from Pioneer Elementary) will go to AMS.
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By Jennifer Torres, Courier Staff Writer
Hope Connections continues to uphold their slogan "Giving without Expecting in Return," as they start their 8th annual Winter Drive. The winter drive is an opportunity for the Logan staff and students to aid struggling families within the New Haven Unified School District by donating money, toys, canned foods, and gifts.
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Courier Staff Report
At the dawn of the last day of its biggest month ever, The Courier received its 100,000th visitor since its relaunch 20 months ago as what may be the world's only daily, 365-day-per-year, student-produced high school news source and set new daily readership records for itself.
The Courier's visitor counter at the bottom of its main page clicked over to 100,000 at around 5:30 a.m. this morning, said Patrick Hannigan, staff advisor to The Courier. The counter started at zero on March 5, 2006.
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From wikipedia:
John Toland (November 30, 1670 - March 11, 1722) was an Irish philosopher.
Very little is known about his true origins other than the fact that he was born in Ardagh on the Inishowen Peninsula, a predominantly Catholic and Irish speaking region, in north west Ulster. It is likely that he was originally christened "Seán Eoghain Ui Thuathalláin", thus giving rise to the sobriquet "Janus Junius Toland". After having converted to Protestantism around the age of 16, he obtained a scholarship to study theology at the University of Glasgow. He would also later attend university at Edinburgh and at Leiden in Holland. His first book
Christianity Not Mysterious (1696) was burnt by the public hangman in Dublin. He escaped prosecution by fleeing to England, where he spent most of the rest of his life.
Read Stephen Hartley Daniel's book, John Toland: His Methods, Manners, and Mind, free from googlebooks.com.
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By Carmen Shiu, Courier Special Correspondent
The top 10 finalists of "So You
Think You Can Dance" regroup
after a re-introduction of themselves
at the end of Saturday's show.
Carmen Shiu Photo
From a TV studio set in Los Angeles to stages across the nation, the 2007 top 10 finalists of Fox's hit summer show, So You Think You Can Dance, performed their moves for fans live. This year, Northern California was fortunate enough to have three different shows: Oakland (Oracle Arena), Sacramento (Arco Arena), and San Jose (HP Pavilion).
The Arco Arena was flooded with fans on Saturday, Nov. 24. Some fans customized their shirts with their favorite dancers and others designed posters in hopes of gaining attention.
Approximately 10-15 minutes before the show began, the audience learned fun facts about the finalists and the tour on the big screens.
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By Len Righi
The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (MCT)
You might suppose that collaborating with They Might Be Giants would be a load of laughs, given the charming wackiness of indie-pop tunes such as "Particle Man," "Ana Eng" and "Birdhouse in Your Soul."
But John Linnell and John Flansburgh, while brainy, clever and funny, also are control freaks, and throughout the 1980s and `90s, they could be, as Linnell puts it, "frustrating to work with."
That started to change with 2001's "Mink Car." The Brooklyn-based musicians decided to let outside producers get more involved. And because of what Linnell calls "the nice experience" with Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, he and Flansburgh have learned to ease up on the reins and add new dimensions to their sound.
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LUNCH: Fajita Chicken, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
Veggie Pizza
ACTIVITIES:
Tonight at 8:00, the varsity boys soccer team will be playing their alumni game in the stadium. Come watch new friends and old go head to head!
Come see the fall play, Talking With, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 12/6-12/8, at 7 pm and Sunday at 2pm! For tickets, see cast members!
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By Vicente Marcelo, Courier Sports Writer
The James Logan varsity wrestling team will head to their first tournament of the season on Saturday. They will be going to Brentwood for the Freedom Duals tournament.
Their key wrestlers will be, seniors Jonathan Laureta‑Revelo, Ruben Baca, Khai Tran, Amman Rataul, Junior Lawrance Blanco and sophomore Danny Mai.
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By Samuel Jue, Courier Sports Editor
Amador’s Adam Keaveney notched two goals for the Amador Valley High School boy’s soccer team on Monday as the Logan boy’s team picked up a loss for the season opener.
Logan drew first blood off a throw‑in from Roberto Padilla. Isac Ulloa received the pass and scored on the left corner of the goal to give Logan a 1‑0 lead at the 15 minute mark of the game.
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By Howard Yang, Courier Staff Writer
As the third album from the punk-pop band The Starting Line,
Direction has many expectations to live up to. Regarded as “[their] strongest work to date” by the members of The Starting Line,
Direction is an album that promises to deliver a well-composed collection of catchy songs with none of the extra lyrical and acoustical baggage that was associated with their last album,
Based on a True Story.
Drawing inspiration from old-time artists like Bob Dylan and James Brown, lead singer Kenny Vasoli says that,” [he] wanted to give people something that was three or four minutes long, and got to the point.”
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From wikipedia:
Andrés Bello (Caracas, Venezuela, November 29, 1781 – Santiago, Chile, October 15, 1865) Venezuelan humanist, poet, lawmaker, philosopher, educator and philologist, whose work constitutes an important part of Spanish American culture. Bello is featured on the 2,000 Venezuelan bolívars and the 20,000 Chilean pesos notes.
Bello studied Liberal Arts, Law and Medicine at the University of Caracas and became known for his early writings and translations, edited the Caracas Gazette and held important offices in the government of the Captaincy General of Venezuela. He accompanied Alexander von Humboldt in a part of his Latin American expedition (1800) and was for a short time Simón Bolívar's teacher.
Read more about Andrés Bello and read some of his poetry, free from oldpoetry.com
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LUNCH: Spicy Chicken Salad with Cheddar, Tomatoes
and Ranch Dressing, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
All Veggie Pizza
ACTIVITIES:
Come support the jv and frosh womens basketball teams as they compete in the Winter Jam basketball tournament Thursday, Friday and Saturday here at Logan in both gyms.
Guest passes for the Winter Ball are now available in the Activities Office at lunch or your House Office. The due date for returning them is December 12.
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Note: Each week, The Courier spotlights books newly arrived, or expected to arrive, in the James Logan Media Center.
Firebirds Rising: An Original Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Sharyn November (Editor)
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 544 pages
Publisher: Firebird (April 6, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0142405493
ISBN-13: 978-0142405499
From firebirdbooks.com:
Charles de Lint. Alan Dean Foster. Diana Wynne Jones. Kelly Link. Patricia A. McKillip. Tamora Pierce. These are just a few of the acclaimed and bestselling authors who have contributed original stories to
Firebirds Rising, the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning anthology
Firebirds.
This collection takes readers from deep space to Faerie to just around the corner. It is full of magic, humor, adventure, and—best of all—the unexpected. The one thing readers can count on is marvelous writing.
Firebirds Rising proves once again that Firebird is more than an imprint—it is a gathering place for writers and readers of speculative fiction from teenage to adult, from the United States to Europe, Asia, and beyond.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Nov. 10, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.
(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2007 by Reed Elsevier, USA)
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Stone Cold. David Baldacci. Grand Central, $26.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
2. Creation in Death. J.D. Robb. Putnam, $25.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
3. Book of the Dead. Patricia Cornwell. Putnam, $26.95
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 3
4. Home to Holly Springs. Jan Karon. Viking, $26.95
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 2
5. Rhett Butler's People. Donald McCaig. St. Martin's, $27.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
6. Protect and Defend. Vince Flynn. Atria, $26.95
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2
7. Playing for Pizza. John Grisham. Doubleday, $26.95
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 7
8. The Chase. Clive Cussler. Putnam, $26.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
9. A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead, $25.95
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 25
10. World Without End. Ken Follett. Dutton, $35
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 5
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By Cheryl Truman
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
Once you're done with the gifts and the food and every broadcast of "A Christmas Story" you can stand before you begin to hope that Ralphie does shoot his eye out, what's left to do with that intermission between the holidays and New Year's?
You can read.
It's that one time of year when you will in fact have an afternoon to yourself. Nobody hurrying to athletic practice, a host of other relatives to spirit folks to the movies, and a corner somewhere with lots of pillows, a sofa throw coated with cat hair and a gray treeless view — perfect reading weather.
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Kanye West performing
in New York in 2006
wikipedia photo,
Courier Staff Writer
The untimely death of Kanye West's mother clearly has a great effect on his career right now. His undeniable love for his mother was constantly expressed through his music and in public appearances.
After privately bearing his grief and canceling shows in the wake of her death, he's been back on stage. YouTube has video of him breaking down in tears at a recent show in Paris, after introducing a song,
Hey Mama, he dedicated to her.
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Perri Darweesh
Pepper Moto/Courier Photo
Knowing that the first steps are always the most pivotal in any learning experience has motivated Logan teacher Perri Darweesh to take action and focus on helping freshmen take their first steps toward success in high school.
This large undertaking began last year, when administrators approached Darweesh and asked her to form four groups who met casually in order to provide academic assistance to any students who felt they needed it. As the year carried on, Darweesh began to realize this system was not benefiting those who truly needed the help, and the sporadic meetings did little to make an impact. She also realized that she would not be able to single‑handedly tutor them.
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From wikipedia:
John Lloyd Stephens (November 28, 1805–October 13, 1852) was an American explorer, writer, and diplomat. Stephens was a pivotal figure in the rediscovery of Maya civilization throughout Middle America and in the planning of the Panama railroad.
Early life
John Lloyd Stephens was born November 28, 1805, in the township of Shrewsbury, New Jersey. He was the second son of Benjamin Stephens, a successful New Jersey merchant, and Clemence Lloyd, daughter of an eminent local judge. The following year the family moved to New York City. There Stephens received an education in the Classics at two privately-tutored schools. At the early age of 13 he enrolled at Columbia College, graduating at the top of his class four years later in 1822.
Read Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, by John Lloyd Stephens, free from google.books.
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By Denay Harris, Courier Staff Writer
The Lady Colts basketball team faced Arroyo High School of San Lorenzo on Monday night at home at the Guy Emanuele Pavilion.
The pace of play on the court was very fast from the start of the varsity game.
The first quarter ended with Arroyo leading with 14 points to Logan's 12. The Lady Colts kept working hard and tied the game in the second quarter 14 to 14, but by the end of the second they were down again.
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By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
`SUPER MARIO GALAXY'
For: Nintendo Wii
From: Nintendo
ESRB Rating: Everyone (mild cartoon violence)
One of the most telling things one can say about "Super Mario Galaxy" is that Nintendo has delivered a game that's a bigger joy to play upside-down than most games are right-side-up.
As you might have gleaned from various teaser videos and screenshots, "Galaxy" takes the gameplay of "Super Mario 64" and literally sends it into the stratosphere. As such, large portions of the game take place in space, with Mario running around tiny planetoids with self-contained gravitational fields.
In other words, portions of the game take place upside-down. And here's the beautiful thing: It almost instantly feels natural.
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LUNCH: Egg Roll with Rice, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
Turkey Ham and Pineapple Pizza
ACTIVITIES:
Come support the boys soccer team tonight against Berkeley. Jv at 4 pm, Varsity at 6 pm.
Come support the jv and frosh womens basketball teams as they compete in the Winter Jam basketball tournament Thursday, Friday and Saturday here at Logan in both gyms.
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From wikipedia:
Anders Celsius (November 27, 1701 – April 25, 1744) was a Swedish astronomer. Celsius was born in Uppsala in Sweden. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories in Germany, Italy and France.
At Nuremberg in 1733 he published a collection of 316 observations of the aurora borealis made by himself and others over the period 1716-1732. In Paris he advocated the measurement of an arc of the meridian in Lapland, and in 1736 took part in the expedition organized for that purpose by the French Academy of Sciences, led by the French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis.
Read more about Anders Celsius and his counter part Daniel Fahrenheit, and their temperature scales, free from the Alaska Science Forum, a service of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and the Geophysical Institute.
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By Tim Ciardella, Courier Football Writer
The James Logan Colts terrific season ended on Saturday night in a heartbreaking loss to Cal High School. The final score was 27-9.
The Colts put up a good fight against Cal, but could not come out with the victory because of a few big plays on Cal's part. The score doesn't illustrate how close the game really was, as Cal scored late in the fourth quarter when the game was truly over.
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
“Middle School Changes for 2008-09” will be the topic Tuesday night (Nov. 27) when the New Haven Community Forum meets at Cesar Chavez Middle School.
The meeting will be from 6 to 8 p.m. The school is at 2801 Hop Ranch Road.
The closure of Barnard-White Middle School at the end of the 2007-08 school year has provided an opportunity to accelerate the long-awaited modernization of Cesar Chavez Middle School and minimize the effect on student learning. Moving Cesar Chavez to the Barnard-White campus for 2008-09 will allow the modernization to be completed in one year, instead of the multiple years that it could take with students on campus. More important, students will not be attending class at a site where construction is taking place.
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LUNCH: Egg Roll with Rice, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
Turkey Ham and Pineapple Pizza
CLUBS:
The next Puente Club meeting is Wednesday, 11/28 after school in Room 209. You must attend to hear about upcoming fundraising events. If you owe money from candy sales, please turn it in on Wednesday.
Youth Alive Christian Club meets today after school in Room 418. Come find out about our upcoming activities.
Come watch the boys soccer team tomorrow, as they host Berkeley. Jv at 4 pm & Varsity at 6.
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From left: Artemio Zambrano, 9,
Julie Panebianco, Carlo Warren, 9.
Debbie Ly/Courier Photo,
Courier Staff Writer
Garden Club is one of the new additions to James Logan High School’s growing variety of clubs.
The club was created due to a suggestion from Julie Panebianco’s former students, Joseph Rodriguez and Krystal Macaraeg, now both sophomores. The students wanted to improve the look of the campus, making it a nicer place. They were also interested in improving the area near the staff lounge, allowing teachers to enjoy their breaks surrounded by beautiful plants.
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Joe Kennedy
wikipedia image
Oakland A's and others are mourning the death ofJoe Kennedy, a former member of the Oakland Athletics, who passed away after collapsing in his in‑law’s house on Friday.
Kennedy awoke at approximately 1:15 AM to leave the bedroom before falling to the floor, according to reports. The Hillsborough County Fire Rescue brought Kennedy to Brandon Hospital. He was pronounced dead when he arrived.
The left‑hander was 28.
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From wikipedia:
Sarah Moore Grimké (November 26, 1792 - December 23, 1873) was born in South Carolina, the daughter of a plantation owner who was also an attorney and a judge in South Carolina.
Without question, Sarah’s early experiences with education shaped her future as an abolitionist and suffragist. Throughout her childhood, she was keenly aware of the inferiority of her own education when compared to her brothers’ Classical one, and despite the fact that all around her recognized her remarkable intelligence and abilities as an orator, she was prevented from substantive education or from pursuing her dream of becoming an attorney.
Read Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, by Sarah Grimké, free from Sunshine for Women.
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LUNCH: Spicy BBQ Chicken Pizza, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
CLUBS:
The next Puente Club meeting is Wednesday, 11/28 after school in Room 209. You must attend to hear about upcoming fundraising events. If you owe money from candy sales, please turn it in on Wednesday.
Youth Alive Christian Club meets tomorrow after school in Room 418. Come find out about our upcoming activities.
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From The Courier archives
J is for Jenius by Christina Jue (Originally appeared in April, 2006)
Space Rats by David Jackson (Originally appeared in May, 1988)
From MCT Campus
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John Bigelow (November 25, 1817 – December 19, 1911) was an American lawyer and statesman.
Born in Malden-on-Hudson, New York, he became a lawyer and editor, co-owning and editing the New York Evening Post. Abraham Lincoln appointed him Consul at Paris in 1861, progressing to Charge d'Affaires to Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Napoleon III. In 1865 he became Minister to France and helped block the Confederacy's efforts to acquire ships in Europe. He published
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, and helped expose the graft of the Tweed administration in New York City.
Read more about John Bigelow and Abraham Lincoln, free from mrlincolnandnewyork.org.
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From wikipedia:
Grace Darling (24 November 1815 – 20 October 1842) is an English Victorian heroine, on the strength of a celebrated maritime rescue in 1838. Grace was born in 1815 at Bamburgh in Northumberland, and spent her youth in two lighthouses of which her father was the keeper.
In the early hours of 7 September 1838, Grace, looking from an upstairs window of the Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands, spotted the ship,
SS Forfarshire, which had run aground on big Harcar only a few hundred yards away. Knowing that the weather was too rough for the lifeboat to put out from the shore, Grace and her father took a rowing boat across to the island and rescued nine frightened survivors, bringing them safely back to the lighthouse.
Read a poem about Grace Darling, by William Wordsworth
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From wikipedia:
William Barclay "Bat" Masterson (November 27, 1853 – October 25, 1921) was a figure of the American Old West. His adventurous life included stints as a buffalo hunter, U.S. Army scout, avid fisherman, gambler, frontier lawman, U.S. Marshal, and sports editor and columnist for a New York newspaper. He was the brother to lawmen James Masterson and Ed Masterson, and was also the great-grandfather of Robert Ballard, the marine scientist who discovered the wreck of the Titanic in 1985.
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By Christina La,
Courier Editor-in-Chief
In director Preston A. Whitmore's
This Christmas, an emotional adult family drama, everybody has a secret, and these secrets are not just what’s under the Christmas tree. Combining the holiday spirit with sister rivalry, divorce, infidelity and in-the-closet interracial romance, Whitmore tells the story of a middle class African American family's Christmas that consists of unresolved resentments and enduring love.
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By Christina La,
Courier Editor-in-Chief
Warner Bros. Pictures' new movie,
Fred Claus, directed by David Dobkin, gives the audience yet another look into the spirit of Christmas.
Fred Claus (Vince Vaughn) has lived his entire life being the brother of a benevolent and beloved Saint. Although Fred tried, he was never able to live up to the example set by his younger sibling Nicholas (Paul Giamatti). Nicholas grew up to be the model of giving while Fred was quite the opposite.
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By Christina La, Courier Editor-in-Chief
Enchanted, directed by Kevin Lima, is a classical Disney fairytale that collides with modern day New York.
The movie begins in an animated forest, where lovely Princess Giselle (Amy Adams) sings with her animal friends of finding true love. She catches the eye and heart of dashing Prince Edward (James Marsden), and the two plan to wed the next day. But Edward's evil stepmother, Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon), doesn't want the prince marrying a commoner. So the queen arranges for Giselle to take a tumble into modern day Manhattan, where she is in for a rude awakening.
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From wikipedia:
José Clemente Orozco (born November 23, 1883, in Zapotlán el Grande (now Ciudad Guzmán), Jalisco; died September 7, 1949, in Mexico City) was a famous Mexican social realist painter, who specialized in bold murals that established Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, Siqueiros, and others. Orozco was the most complex of the Mexican muralists, fond of the theme of human suffering, and less realistic than fascinated by machines Rivera. Mostly influenced by Symbolism, he was also a genre painter and lithographer. Between 1922 and 1948, Orozco painted murals in Mexico City, Orizaba, Claremont, California, New York City, Hanover, New Hampshire, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Jiquilpan, Michoacán. His drawing and paintings are exhibited by the Carrillo Gil Museum in Mexico City, and the Orozco Workshop-Museum in Guadalajara.
See 11 of Jose Clemente Orozco's paintings, free from Ciudad de la Pintura.
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"The First Thanksgiving," a painting by J.L.G.
Ferris, depicts America’s early settlers and
Native Americans celebrating a bountiful harvest.
Every year, I usually try to keep a low profile when Thanksgiving comes around. As an American Indian, one has to be careful about admitting to the guilty pleasures of enjoying a turkey feast.
White liberals are shocked to learn that an Indian could celebrate a holiday that is essentially a funeral for them — "You're commemorating your own cultural death?" White conservatives like to use the holiday to make mention that "Indians are the ones who should be thankful for all we've done to civilize them."
Yes, considering that I spend most of the year thinking and writing about the plight of my Indian people, Thanksgiving is my day of rest. And considering what a lousy cook I am, imagine my delight last year when I discovered "turkey in a bag" for under 20 bucks. It's loaded with seasoning and does its own basting right inside the bag. Just pop it in the oven and in a few hours, juicy turkey is served.
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From wikipedia:
Mary Ann (Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological perspicacity.
She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure that her works were taken seriously. Female authors published freely under their own names, but Eliot wanted to ensure that she was not seen as merely a writer of romances. An additional factor may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes.
Read Adam Bede by George Eliot, one of
11 of her works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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By Jasmeen Banwait,
Courier Staff Writer
Set in the 1930s in Eatonville, an all black community located in Florida, Zora Neale Hurston’s
Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the touching story of a woman named Janie. Janie endures three marriages throughout her lifetime.
Through these marriages, Janie grows into a strong and independent woman, a woman who differs from the rest of the women in her society. Janie’s first marriage is thrust upon her, for she is helpless and does not have much say. She makes the decision to elope with a man who she feels she will be happy with. Yet this decision does not favor her in the long run. Her daring and loving nature helps her finally find her true love, her third husband. He is the man of her dreams, and she admits that, “Once upon a time… Ah never ‘spected nothin’…But [he] came ‘long and made sumthin’ outa me.”
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Note: Each week, The Courier spotlights books newly arrived, or expected to arrive, in the James Logan Media Center.
The Foundling by D.M. Cornish
Country: Australia
Language: English
Genres: Horror, Fantasy
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Publication: 2006
Media type : Print (Hardback)
Pages: 433 pp
ISBN 0-399-24638-X
From monsterbloodtattoo.com:
Set in the world of the Half-Continent-a land of tri-corner hats and flintlock pistols-the
Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy is a world of predatory monsters, chemical potions and surgically altered people.
Foundling begins the journey of Rossamund, a boy with a girl's name, who is just about to begin a dangerous life in the service of the Emperor. What starts as a simple journey is threatened by encounters with monsters-and people, who may be worse. Learning who to trust and who to fear is neither easy nor without its perils, and Rossamund must choose his path carefully.
Complete with appendices, maps, illustrations, and a glossary,
Monster Blood Tattoo grabs readers from the first sentence and immerses them in an entirely original fantasy world with its own language and lore.
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The Colts get coaching during a time-
out.
On Tuesday night, the James Logan boys basketball teams, still in their pre-seasons, faced the Castro Valley Trojans. The games took place at Castro Valley High School
The boy’s varsity team played a good game after finding themselves down in the first quarter. The Colts came back in the third with the help of junior Salaimon Siddiq who made a shot right at the buzzer. Logan held this lead late into the third quarter, but the Castro Valley Trojans came out with the win, 60-58, a very close game.
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By Abhishek Saluja,
Courier Book Reviewer
A young sailor set to become captain one day, set to marry a beautiful fiancée, and set to lead a worry free life suddenly finds himself betrayed by his own friends. In
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas, the main character, Edmund Dantes, is sent to prison for a crime he has not committed.
Accused of treason, Dantes spends over a decade in prison, around fourteen years. Charged at the ripe age of nineteen, he is still in prison when he is thirty three.
Then finally he finds a way to escape the horrid place known as the Chateau de if. The prison has changed Dantes in more ways than a normal man should change.
Read The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, free from Project Gutenberg.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Nov. 10, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.
(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2007 by Reed Elsevier, USA)
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Stone Cold. David Baldacci. Grand Central, $26.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
2. Creation in Death. J.D. Robb. Putnam, $25.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
3. Book of the Dead. Patricia Cornwell. Putnam, $26.95
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 3
4. Home to Holly Springs. Jan Karon. Viking, $26.95
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 2
5. Rhett Butler's People. Donald McCaig. St. Martin's, $27.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
6. Protect and Defend. Vince Flynn. Atria, $26.95
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2
7. Playing for Pizza. John Grisham. Doubleday, $26.95
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 7
8. The Chase. Clive Cussler. Putnam, $26.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
9. A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead, $25.95
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 25
10. World Without End. Ken Follett. Dutton, $35
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 5
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A man is chained to a bed frame at
a mental hospital in Mogadishu,
Somalia, October 6.
(Kuni Takahashi/Chicago Tribune/MCT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Abdulrahman Habeb was a man with problems, the most pressing of which involved a barrel of tranquilizer pills.
The barrel — containing 50,000 capsules of fluphenazine hydrochloride, a potent anti-psychotic drug ordered from America — was boosting his patients' appetites. This was not good. Patients at the Habeb Public Mental Hospital were scaling the facility's mud walls to scavenge for food outside, in the war-pocked streets of Mogadishu. One had been shot.
"They don't stop when sentries say `Halt!'" said Habeb, the director of the only mental health clinic in Somalia's capital. "How could they? They are mentally ill."
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By Edward M. Eveld
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
Freerice.com is this "great, addictive" Web site, said the e-mail from a friend and expatriate all the way from the United Arab Emirates.
Log on to
freerice.com, and what appears is a multiple-choice vocabulary game. Up pops a word followed by four definitions. The task is to pick the right definition. After three correct answers, the player graduates to a higher vocabulary level.
Addictive, yes. But here's the "free rice" part. Each correct answer results in the donation of 10 grains of rice to help feed the hungry around the globe. Perhaps that qualifies the game as a good addiction.
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By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
"Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Zombie Ninja Pro-Am"
For: PlayStation 2
From: Creat Studios/Midway
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood, language, mature humor, drug reference, cartoon violence, suggestive themes)
The good news about "Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Zombie Ninja Pro-Am" is that, at $30, it's affordably priced by video game standards. That allows fans of the hilariously funny "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" cartoon to purchase it on impulse and play through it to see some exclusive new content, including a brand-new episode.
The attractive price also is, for many of the same reasons, bad news. What "Pro-Am" doesn't do to your wallet, it most certainly will do to your patience and will, regardless of how deep your "Aqua Teen Hunger Force " fandom goes.
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From wikipedia:
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (November 20, 1858 – March 16, 1940) was a Swedish author and the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Known internationally for
Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (a story for children, in translation
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils), she was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1909 "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings."
Read The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf, one of
five of her works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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Dr. David Birnbach in a simulation operating
room used to teach how to react to
emergencies. at the UM/JMH Center
for Patient Safety. (Al Diaz/Miami Herald/MCT)
MIAMI — The patient's on the operating room table. His upper body is punctured with stab wounds. He's kept alive via snaking tubes infiltrating the gashes.
The lights go out. Power failure. The ventilator, inoperable. The doctors, nurses and anesthesiologists are in the dark; a senior surgeon barks orders.
Thankfully, the victim is a "model patient." A mannequin.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
The following editorial appeared in Newsday on Wednesday, Nov. 14:
The papal style of Pope Benedict XVI is more low-key than his predecessor's, but he has the same moral authority: the power to lead and to speak for more than 1 billion Catholics. That makes his trip to New York and Washington next April something to be anticipated eagerly.
Pope John Paul II was a unique amalgam of actor, playwright, scholar and canny player of the geopolitical game. Benedict is a highly accomplished and thoroughly orthodox theologian, a talented pianist and, like John Paul, a prolific writer. Now, with a few powerful, well-crafted words, he can make a major contribution to international affairs.
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Dorothy Dix (November 18, 1861 – December 16, 1951), was the pseudonym of U.S. journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer.
As the forerunner of today's popular advice columnists, Dorothy Dix was America's highest paid and most widely read female journalist at the time of her death. Her advice on love and marriage was syndicated in newspapers around the world. With an estimated audience of 60 million readers, she became a popular and recognized figure on her travels abroad.
Her name is the origin of the term Dorothy Dixer, a widely-used phrase in Australia meaning a question from the floor that enables the speaker to make or strengthen a point he wanted to get across, especially in Parliament.
Read "Miss Dix’s Dictates for a Happy Life," by Dorothy Dix, free from the Felix G. Woodward Library at Austin Peay State University.
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Quarterback Rashad Evans rushed
for one touchdown,threw for another.
Courier Photo,
Courier Football Writer
Logan walked all over Foothill Friday night as they crushed the Falcons 31-7. Logan’s offense was just too much for Foothill’s defense to handle as the Colts got a total of 366 yards and 315 of that on the ground.
Quarterback Rashad Evans led the ground game with 113 yards and one touchdown. Running back Danny Godfrey the workhorse had 90 yards rushing and scored two of Logan’s four touchdowns. Logan’s other touchdown was surprising considering it was a touchdown pass from Evans to Medhane.
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By Olivia Winslow
Newsday (MCT)
Presidents of 81 private colleges across the nation made more than $500,000 each in total compensation in fiscal year 2006, up 200 percent from five years ago, while salaries for presidents of public colleges rose rapidly as well, with eight institutions paying their presidents at least $700,000 in 2007, compared with just two the year before.
These are among the findings reported in an annual survey released Monday by the publication the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Adults used MySpace to drive
teen Megan Meier to suicide
CHICAGO — A bizarre and cruel Internet hoax that ended with the suicide of a 13-year-old girl has bitterly divided a western St. Louis suburb, provoked a firestorm in the blogosphere and raised troubling questions about how to police traffic on popular social networking sites like MySpace.com.
The death of Megan Meier in Dardenne Prairie, Mo., went beyond the growing phenomenon of cyber-bullying because the alleged instigators of the hoax were not only adults, but parents of a classmate of Megan's, who lived just down the street from her.
No charges have been filed. A local newspaper's decision not to publish the names of the parents involved has fanned a furious public response.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
The following editorial appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Sunday, Nov. 11:
Al Gore won well-deserved glory with the Nobel Peace Prize for raising awareness of the threat of climate change — a threat that President Bush largely chooses to ignore. Now it's up to Congress to be the architect of U.S. strategy for dealing with this planetary peril.
Congress finally is advancing global warming legislation this fall. The package needs to be both strong and broad, at last moving the United States toward a position of world leadership.
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From wikipedia:
Voltairine de Cleyre (November 17, 1866 – June 20, 1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced." Today she is not widely known, possibly as a result of her early death.
Life
Born in the small town of Leslie, Michigan, she was placed as a teenager into a Catholic convent by necessity, because her father could not support the family. This experience had the effect of pushing her towards atheism rather than Christianity. The convent was in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada and of her time spent there she said, "it had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days." She attempted to run away, swimming to Port Huron Michigan, and hiked 17 miles where she met friends of her family who contacted her father and sent her back. She ran away again and never returned.
Read essays and poems by Voltairine de Cleyre, and learn more about her life and work, free from Voltairine.com.
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Administrators Mistee Hightower (left),
Roxana Mohammed and Don Montoya
dish up breakfast to Ramiro and Lorrie
Barrera. Courier Photo
School administrators kicked off Thanksgiving early by cooking breakfast for the school staff in gratitude for their work this year.
Principal Don Montoya came on the school's public address system just before zero period started to invite school staff members to the Staff Lounge, where he and the rest of the school's adminstrators had cooked up a meal of pancakes, eggs, bacon, fruit and more and were dishing it out. Some breakfasts were delivered to zero period teachers who couldn't attend.
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By Tim Ciardella,
Courier Football Writer
Logan heads into post-season play in the 4-A NCS Play-Offs seeking revenge against the visiting Foothill Falcons of Pleasanton tonight after completing a perfect 6-0 Mission Valley Athletic League season with a win against then-unbeaten Newark Memorial last Friday,
The Colts, 10-0 overall this season, are hoping to settle the score after losing to Foothill last year 32‑29 to end their post-season hopes. The game starts at 7 p.m. at the Judson E. Taylor Field on the James Logan campus.
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By Charles Yi, Courier Entertainment Writer
"Bee Movie", directed by Simon J. Smith and Steve Hickner, is the latest animated feature from DreamWorks Entertainment.
Barry B. Benson (voiced by Jerry Seinfeld) is a bee who has graduated from college, but who also is devastated that his "big dreams" must be forgotten for the general welfare of his hive community. Preparing for his gloomy future of making honey, Barry takes a trip around Manhattan, where he meets a florist named Vanessa (voided by Renee Zellweger).
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From wikipedia:
Chaudhary Rahmat Ali (November 16, 1897 - February 3, 1951) was an Indian Muslim nationalist who was one of the earliest proponents of the creation of the state of Pakistan. He is credited with creating the name "Pakistan" for a separate Muslim homeland on the Indian subcontinent.
Read more about Rahmat Ali and the establishment of Pakistan, free from zyworld.com.
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LUNCH: Fajita Chicken, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
Veggie Pizza
ACTIVITIES:
Pre-sale for the tonight’s NCS football game against Foothill are on sale in the Activities Office during lunch only. $8 adults, $5 students.
What are you thankful for? Come out to Colt Court today at lunch and write what you’re thankful for on Youth Alive’s “Thankful Wall”.
Boys soccer will have their first games of the season tonight vs. Antioch. Jv at 4, Varsity at 6.
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These chairs replaced
the contentious table.
Courier Photo,
Courier News Editor
School administrators have moved a lunch table that spurred conflict between groups of students contending the use of it, ending the conflict for the time being, at least.
The table, formerly in the Senior Patio area along the outside wall of the Student Union, was the regular eating site of a closely associated group of students who used it regularly for several years. The table was (before its relocation) a lunchtime eating area for students, and a hang-out spot after school.
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Many students seem more interested
in learning Soulja Boy's "Superman"
dance than the history of their world.,
Courier News Editor
Where are the bright minds that our parents sacrificed their youth for? Many students at Logan know what it's like to grow up in a single parent home, or in a economically disadvantaged family. When we were told as children that we could do anything. When did we decide that we just want to hang out at the mall and watch Paris Hilton on TMZ?
I am furious with my generation.
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From wikipedia:
Madeleine de Scudéry(November 15, 1607 - June 2, 1701), often known simply as Mademoiselle de Scudéry, was a French writer. She was the younger sister of author Georges de Scudéry, but is generally regarded as his superior in skill.
Born at Le Havre, Normandy, in northern France, she is said to have been very plain as well as without fortune, but she was very well educated. Establishing herself at Paris with her brother, she was at once admitted to the Rambouillet coterie, and afterwards established a salon of her own under the title of the Société du samedi. For the last half of the 17th century, under the pseudonym of Sapho or her own name, was acknowledged as the first bluestocking of France and of the world. She formed a close friendship with Paul Pellisson which was only ended by his death in 1693.
Read excerpts of Madeleine de Scudery's work and more about her life, free from infionline.com
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
The Board of Education on Tuesday night received a report on how academic interventions are being incorporated into the instructional program to meet student needs.
Alvarado Middle School Principal Yvonne Hull and teacher Sarah Graff told the Board how the Voyager program is being used to support students with skill needs in language arts. Voyager, which also is being piloted at Barnard-White and Cesar Chavez middle schools, is a mandatory class for “below basic” and “far below basic” students. It focuses on improving vocabulary, fluency and comprehension skills.
The Board also discussed the possibility of bringing a bond measure before New Haven voters in 2008.
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Note: Each week, The Courier spotlights books newly arrived, or expected to arrive, in the James Logan Media Center
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers (September 26, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385733135
ISBN-13: 978-0385733137
From hattiebigsky.com:
For most of her life, sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks has been shuttled from one distant relative to another. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she summons the courage to leave Iowa and move all by herself to Vida, Montana, to prove up on her late uncle's homestead claim.
Under the big sky, Hattie braves hard weather, hard times, a cantankerous cow, and her own hopeless hand at the cookstove on her quest to discover the true meaning of home.
Read the first chapter.
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By Abhishek Saluja, Courier Book Reviewer
The novel
King Solomon's Mines involves an intriguing character by the name of Allan Quatermain. Quatermain is asked for help by a rich man, Sir Henry Curtis, in a search for his lost brother. Sir Henry's brother desired treasures which reside in King Solomon�s Mines and was presumably lost on his journey.
Quatermain is the daring leader of the expedition, in addition to adventure he wants part of the treasure sitting in King Solomon's Mines. This is supposedly his last job whether he finds the treasure or not. He believes that the dangerous journey will consume his life; yet he agrees to embark on the quest anyway.
Read King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard, one of
57 of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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LUNCH: Spicy Chicken Salad with Cheddar, Tomatoes, and Ranch Dressing, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips, All Veggie Pizza
ACTIVITIES:
The boys soccer teams will have their first game of the season Friday night vs. Antioch. Jv at 4, Varsity at 6.
Come support the boys soccer team Monday night as they match up against Mt. Eden in our home stadium. Jv at 4 pm and Varsity at 6 pm.
Pick up your id card and/or pictures in the Activities Office at lunch.
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From wikipedia:
Robert Fulton was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1765. He may have become interested in steamboats in 1777 when (at the age of 12) he visited William Henry of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who had found out about Watt's steam engine on a visit to England; Henry then made his own steam engine and in 1763 – two years before Fulton was born – tried putting it in a boat, which sank.
Read "A Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation" by Robert Fulton, free from Google Books.
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By Jennifer Torres,
Courier Staff Writer
On Saturday, The Hope Connections Club delivered and distributed their hygiene baskets to the Sunrise Homeless Shelter located in Fremont. Throughout the month of October, Hope Connections had been collecting items such as toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoos, soaps, wash cloths, towels and various other hygienic products from Logan students and staff.
With these everyday commodities the Hope Connections Club created 40 hygiene baskets to be donated to the Sunrise Shelter.
"Many people take these items for granted and do not truly appreciate the comforts it offers people." said Linda Rodriguez, the club's faculty advisor.
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LUNCH: Cheeseburger, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
Sausage and Veggie Pizza
ACTIVITIES:
Come support the boys soccer teams in their first game of the season Friday night vs. Antioch. Jv at 4, Varsity at 6.
Pick up your id card and/or pictures in the Activities Office at lunch.
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By Andrea Coombes
MarketWatch (MCT)
SAN FRANCISCO — The rise of social-networking brings the convergence of your personal life with your work life online.
People who participate on sites such as Facebook and MySpace are more likely to be sharing inside information with people who, before, they may have only passed the time of day with.
Whether you're an entrepreneur or an electrician, an executive or executive assistant, if you want to post a profile and "friend" people online, heed the tips below to ensure your online reputation doesn't hinder your offline life.
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By Eric Benderoff
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
CHICAGO — Rupert Murdoch looked at the future of social networking and he saw the competition. That's why he told a conference of influential Web developers last month that MySpace, a unit of Murdoch's News Corp., would open up its software platform to allow the types of interactive applications that have helped make Facebook the social darling of the year.
Those applications, mini-software programs that personalize a user's profile page and are sometimes called widgets, represent not only a tech trend of the moment but also another way of tracking the explosive growth of Facebook.
Facebook opened its platform to outsiders in May. It launched with just a handful of applications users could place on their profile page. Today, more than 6,000 are available.
Clearly, MySpace saw a need to respond.
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By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
`ZACK & WIKI: QUEST FOR BARBAROS' TREASURE'
For: Nintendo Wii
From: Capcom
ESRB Rating: Everyone (cartoon violence)
Every time you try to do anything in the first level of "Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure," the game interrupts to slowly demonstrate how to do what you already know how to do. The source of these interruptions: a sidekick/monkey named Wiki, whose inclusion in the game's title suggests he isn't going anywhere.
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From wikipedia:
William Shenstone (November 18, 1714 – February 11, 1763) was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes.
Son of Thomas Shenstone and Anne Penn, daughter of William Penn of Harborough Hall, then in Hagley (now Blakedown), Shenstone was born at the Leasowes, Halesowen. At that time this was an enclave of Shropshire within the traditional county of Worcestershire.
While attending Solihull School, he began a lifelong friendship with Richard Jago. He went up to Pembroke College, Oxford in 1732 and made another firm friend there in Richard Graves, the author of
The Spiritual Quixote.
Read Levities; or, pieces of humour by William Shenstone, free from the Shrewsbury Library in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.
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By Audrey Hoffer
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)
MILWAUKEE — Women and minorities are significantly underrepresented as professors in science and engineering departments at the top research universities across the country.
As a result, tenured positions in those departments are primarily the realm of white men, according to a recent study.
The study, conducted by Donna J. Nelson, an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma, looks at all faculty in the top 100 university science, technology, engineering and mathematics departments in the nation, counting the number of tenured and tenure-track professors by gender, race and ethnicity.
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Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (center) jokes during
the Democratic presidential debate at Drexel
University in Philadelphia, October 30. From left
are Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd, Delaware Sen. Joe
Biden, John Edwards, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton,
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, Ohio Rep. Dennis
Kucinich, and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
Michael Perez/Philadelphia Inquirer/MCT
Another week, another debate. If it's early November, this must be the Republicans in Cedar Falls, Iowa, as opposed to the Democrats gathering in Philadelphia last week, or Nov. 17 when the same crew assembles in Las Vegas.
What happens in Vegas, won't stay in Vegas. The Democrats travel on to Des Moines, Los Angeles and Boston, while the Republicans duke it out in St. Petersburg and twice in two days in Des Moines, the Paris of presidential politics.
Is this any way to elect a leader, through a two-ring traveling circus of gabfests?
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By David Collins, Opinion Editor
I must say, before I begin, that this column is not intended to slander or disrespect any religion or belief, or those without them.
I have found in my observance of humanity that people hold certain beliefs by which they live. Whether these beliefs are results of culture, religion or personal growth, they are held in high esteem by their adherants. In this I find only one issue: When some are a part of a religious group or system of beliefs, they tend to follow said group blindly.
This, of course, is not an issue I find in all believers, but in many.
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From wikipedia:
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was an English physicist who (with William Ramsay) discovered the element argon, an achievement that earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. He also discovered the phenomenon now called Rayleigh scattering and predicted the existence of the surface waves now known as Rayleigh waves.
Strutt was born in Langford Grove, Essex and in his early years suffered frailty and poor health.
Read John William Strutt's Nobel Prize lecture, free from Nobelprize.org.
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Title page of the Ostrih Bible, a 16th
century Ukrainian Bible in the collection
of the Library of Congress.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham reprimanded the Chinese ambassador to the United States on Wednesday over reports that Bibles are on a list of prohibited items for athletes who stay in the Olympic village during next year's Beijing Games.
Graham, a longtime critic of China over its currency manipulation and trade tariffs, said he called Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong and complained about the reported Bible ban.
"This would be contrary to the Olympic spirit," Graham said in an interview after speaking with the envoy. "It would be a totalitarian move that would create problems between China and the United States far beyond what we have today."
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Self-Portrait, 1880
From wikipedia:
Marie Bashkirtseff (November 11, 1858 — October 31, 1884) was a Ukrainian-born Russian diarist, painter and sculptor.
Born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva in Gavrontsy near Poltava, to a wealthy noble family, she grew up abroad, traveling with her mother across most of Europe. Educated privately, she studied painting in France at the Académie Julian, one of the few establishments that accepted female students. The Académie attracted young women from all over Europe and the United States. One fellow student was Louise Breslau who Marie viewed as her only rival. Marie would go on to produce a remarkable body of work in her short lifetime, the most famous being the portrait of Paris slum children titled
The Meeting and
In the Studio, a portrait of her fellow artists at work. Unfortunately, a large number of Bashkirtseff's works were destroyed by the Nazis during World War II.
Read Marie Bashkirtseff (From Childhood to Girlhood) by Marie Bashkirtseff, one of
two of her works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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Horatio Caine fans and others
might have to settle for reruns
and dvds, for awhile.
When "CSI: Miami's" Lt. Horatio Caine cocks his head, removes his sunglasses for the nth time in the episode and utters some hyper-cheesy line like, "Evidence ... as always ... will speak for itself," it's hard not to scream at the television: "Who writes this stuff?"
Members of the Writers Guild of America do. But the television and film writers won't be crafting any new one-liners for Caine or any Hollywood or New York character — fictional or otherwise — in the short term.
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By Kim Barker
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A massive security clampdown by President Pervez Musharraf snuffed out a planned opposition rally by former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Friday but left the country facing more days of tense standoff as Bhutto was released from temporary house arrest and called for a rally next week.
Musharraf's dispatch of thousands of police and soldiers to surround Bhutto's home and seal off the planned site for the event drew international criticism and led the opposition to step up its demands that he retract the state of emergency through which he suspended the constitution last week.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Oliver Goldsmith (November 10, 1730 or 1728 – April 4, 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem
The Deserted Village (1770) (written in memory of his brother), and his plays
The Good-natur'd Man (1768) and
She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). (He is also thought to have written the classic children's tale,
The History of Little Goody Two Shoes, giving the world that familiar phrase.)
Read She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith, one of
seven of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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Courier Staff Report
The Courier, James Logan's online, blog-style student news publication, has won the Best Education Weblog Award in the 2007 Weblog Awards competition.
The Courier beat nine other finalists in the category to be named winner of the award last night at Blogworld and New Media Expo, a weblog industry convention and trade show held in Las Vegas through tonight.
The Courier garnered 1,371 votes in the balloting that determined the winner. The second place website, IvyGate, which serves the colleges and the universities of the Ivy League, such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton, received 690 votes. Third place Education Week received 166 votes.
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Tackle Mico Pineda
Courier photo, Courier Football Writer
The Logan Colts rely on their rushing game and most of their success on the ground is thanks to their outstanding offensive line.
One of the players on that very good O‑line is senior tackle Mico Pineda. Pineda has been playing football for three years now and has really come into his own. He is not the biggest linemen you’ll ever see at 5 foot,10 inches and 195 pounds, but he plays a lot bigger than he is, as he has been able to open up big holes for his backs.
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By Howard Yang, Courier Staff Writer
Ray’s Sushi
888 West A Street
Hayward
(510) 887-0701
Have you ever stepped out a sushi restaurant with a stomach only half full and a wallet completely empty? If so, Ray's Sushi in Hayward may be the restaurant that finally satisfies your taste for delicious raw fish without making you break the bank.
Ray’s Sushi isn’t a very large restaurant by all means. However, as one steps into the relatively cramped interior, the furnishings and decorations give off an ambiance resembling a traditional Japanese venue. Guests seeking an authentic sushi experience would appreciate the sushi bar and the guest rooms where customers sit on bamboo mats instead of chairs.
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By Charles Yi, Courier Staff Writer
Columbus Pizza
31871 Alvarado Blvd
Union City, CA 94587
510-487-4992
Popular pizza chains such as Pizza Hut and Domino's suffer in comparison to Columbus Pizza here in Union City.
Although the gleaming oil may be intimidating to health‑nuts at first, after one bite of Columbus pizza, all thoughts of maintaining that Hollywood body will be forgotten as you will be craving more of the fresh ingredients and superb flavors incorporated into these pizzas.
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LUNCH: Egg Roll with Rice, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
Turkey Ham and Pineapple Pizza
ACTIVITIES:
Pick up your id card and/or pictures in the Activities Office at lunch.
Interested in Track & Field? Come to the Weight Room M,W,F at 3:45.
After school tutoring this week will only be afternoons (3:30-4:30) in Room 64. Normal tutoring days and times will resume in Room 77 the week of 11/26.
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By Sandhaya Mansfield, Courier Staff Writer
A dark science fiction fantasy called
Tin Man, an update and adaptation of L. Frank Baum's classic,
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, is coming to the SciFi channel as a six hour miniseries.
The series in a product of executive producers Robert Halmi, Robert Halmi Jr. Mitchell, and Van Sickle. It will premiere December 2 at 9 p.m.
Tin Man takes place in the outer zone (O.Z.), a fantasy-like world taken over by dark magic. The O.Z. has been taken over by an evil sorceress, Azkadellia, who now rules the land after stealing power from her own mother, the rightful queen,
Lavender Eyes. Azkadellia is armed with winged monkey-bats and storm troopers as a measure to make sure her rule is not overthrown.
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While at Logan, now-graduated
comic artist Ben Seto took AP Art
and painted this mural.
Courier photo
Advanced Placement classes are supposed to give students a chance at a head start in college, Logan teacher Kate Lipman's Advanced Placement Art classes are giving some students a head start in art careers, too.
In addition to AP Art, Lipman teaches Advanced Drawing, Painting, and Multi-Cultural Art, in room 86. In order to take AP Art, a student must be a junior or senior and must have received a grade of a B or higher in at least one art class.
“Students enrolled in this course are expected to be able to work independently and at a college level,” said Lipman. Overall, Lipman says that her students enjoy this rigorous course, especially those students who are immensely interested in art.
Click "Read More" to see examples of the AP Art classes' work.
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From wikipedia:
Marie Dressler (November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934) was an Academy Award-winning Canadian actress.
Born Leila Marie Koerber in Cobourg, Ontario to parents Alexander Rudolph Koerber (who was Austrian) and Anna Henderson. Being a rather overweight child, she spent a lot of time developing the defense mechanisms many overweight children become skilled at. The young Marie Dressler was able to hone her talents to make other people laugh, and at 14 years old she began her acting career in theatre. In 1892 she made her debut on Broadway. At first she hoped to make a career of singing light opera, but then gravitated to vaudeville.
Learn more about Marie Dressler, from the Canadian fan site, www.mariedressler.ca.
Watch Marie Dressler in Tillie's Punctured Romance, a film by Charlie Chaplin produced in 1914, and available free from the Internet Archive. (Blocked on campus computers.)
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By Carmen Shiu, Courier Special Correspondent
From pop to rap, the albums released on Tuesday, Oct. 30 are looking good. Singer and tabloid-favorite Britney Spears returned with
Blackout, debuting at No. 2 on the charts. Popular music group Backstreet Boys came back with
Unbreakable, which landed on No. 6. Rapper Baby Bash is ready to do it again with
Cyclone, though he only charted at No. 35.
It's been four years since her last album,
In the Zone, but she is in the tabloids just about every other day. "It's Britney, @^%#$!" Yes, Britney Spears is now back with her latest album,
Blackout.
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LUNCH: Fajita Chicken and Veggie Pizza, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
ACTIVITIES:
Pick up your id card and/or pictures in the Activities Office at lunch.
The American Red Cross thanks the James Logan community for donating over 100 pints of blood at the Blood Drive last Thursday. Your generosity has the potential to save over 300 lives!
Come meet two of the greatest discus throwers to ever live! Tomorrow 8-9 am @ the discus ring. Mac Wilkins - 1976 Gold Medalist, & Jay Silvester - broke the World Record seven times, will be there.
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By Tim Ciardella,
Courier Sports Writer
This Friday is the game of the year so far for the James Logan Colts as they face off against fellow unbeaten team Newark Memorial this Friday for first place in Mission Valley Athletic League football standings.
Both teams are undefeated in MVAL and non-league games as they have records of 9-0. This game is to the MVAL as what Indianapolis Colts and New England Patriots this past week was to the NFL. Logan is ranked number two in the East Bay by the
Argus, with Newark ranked at number four. Both teams should put on quite a show and this game figures to be a very good one.
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Courier Staff Report
Dana Llarena
Courier photoWith their best setter out with an injury, the James Logan Girls Varsity Volleyball team is pinning its hopes in tonight's Mission Valley Athletic League playoffs against Washington High School on defense.
"Dig or die!," said team member Mimi Lu. The other team members she was with before school this morning echoed her sentiment.
With setter Aimee Silva out injured, the Lady Colts are down to one setter, so "defense is the key" in tonight's match, said Dana Llarena.
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By Christina La,
Courier Editor-in-Chief and
Cameron Lacson,
Courier Staff Writer
Picasso at the Lapin Agile is a play written by Steve Martin in 1993. James Logan’s drama department production of
Picasso in Lapin Agile was presented November 1-4. We were able to catch the Sunday afternoon showing, and we left very pleased.
The play was primarily about the theories of two different philosophers, Pablo Picasso (Gerald Carlos Malixi) and Albert Einstein (Gabriel Hinojoza). The setting was taken place at a bar called Lapin Agile in Montmartre, Paris owned by Freddy (David Collins) and his wife, Germaine (Allyn Pintal). It is set on October 8, 1904 where both men dicuss their ideas about the future. Picasso and Einstein debate back and forth the value of genius and talent with the help of other characters.
The cast shares a toast. Christina La/Courier photo
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Apple Computer Inc. (MCT)
Top 10 albums on iTunes Music Store for Nov. 6:
1. "Kiss Kiss," Chris Brown, featuring T-Pain
2. "Apologize," Timbaland, featuring OneRepublic
3. "Bubbly," Colbie Caillat
4. "Crank That (Soulja Boy)," Soulja Boy Tell 'Em
5. "No One," Alicia Keys
6. "Paralyzer," Finger Eleven
7. "How Far We've Come," Matchbox Twenty
8. "Cyclone," Baby Bash, featuring T-Pain
9. "Hate That I Love You," Rihanna
10. "Stronger," Kanye West
For more information, please visit the iTunes Web site at www.apple.com/itunes/.
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
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A few things at Logan bore me: the lunch lines, the hallways during passing period, and the gross Public Displays of Affection (PDA) by couples.
It's time to draw the line between puppy love and soft porn. Now, don't get me wrong; I understand that love is in the air and some people can only see their "boo" at school, but that isn't any reason for the obscene groping that goes on in the 500's during break.
For clarification purposes, here are some things that cross the line of PDA:
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From wikipedia:
Sarah Fielding (November 8, 1710 – 1768) was a British author and sister of the novelist Henry Fielding. She was the author of
The Governess, or
The Little Female Academy (1749), which was the first novel in English written especially for children (children's literature), and had earlier achieved success with her novel
The Adventures of David Simple (1744).
Read The Governess; or, Little Female Academy by Sarah Fielding, free from Project Gutenberg.
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Note: Each week, The Courier spotlights books newly arrived, or expected to arrive, in the James Logan Media Center.
It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: Miramax (March 21, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0786851961
ISBN-13: 978-0786851966
From the publisher:
Like many smart, ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner seeks entry into Manhattan’s most prestigious school, Executive Pre-Professional High School. With single-minded determination, he works night and day to ace the entrance exam and gets in. That’s when everything starts to unravel.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Oct. 27, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.
(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2007 by Reed Elsevier, USA)
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Book of the Dead. Patricia Cornwell. Putnam, $26.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
2. A Lick of Frost. Laurell K. Hamilton. Ballantine, $24.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
3. Playing for Pizza. John Grisham. Doubleday, $26.95
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 5
4. World Without End. Ken Follett. Dutton, $35
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 3
5. The Almost Moon. Alice Sebold. Little, Brown, $24.99
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 2
6. The Choice. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central, $24.99
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 5
7. A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead, $25.95
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 23
8. Now & Then. Robert B. Parker. Putnam, $25.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
9. Dark of the Moon. John Sandford. Putnam, $26.95
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 4
10. You've Been Warned. James Patterson & Howard Roughan. Little, Brown, $27.99
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 7
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Map of the Democratic Republic
of Congo.
U.S. State Department image
RUTSHURU, Congo — Peace wasn't sweet — it tasted like soggy crackers — when a warlord surrendered in Congo's lawless east October 27.
Kasereka Kabamba, the shaved-headed chief of a militia known for dressing in animal pelts and invoking magical powers in battle, gave himself up "for the good of the people" at a United Nations military base. Indian peacekeepers in short pants offered bowls of cookies and saltines to the 29 sulky gunmen and one wide-eyed boy, aged about 9, who joined in Kasereka's capitulation.
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LUNCH: Spicy Chicken Salad with Cheddar, Tomatoes, and Ranch Dressing,
Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
Main Cafeteria Pizza: Vegetarian with Bell Peppers, Mushrooms, Fresh tomato, & Olives
ACTIVITIES:
Make sure to pick up your id card and/or pictures in the Activities Office at lunch.
After school tutoring for next week will only be afternoons (3:30-4:30) in Room 64. Normal tutoring days and times will resume in Room 77 the week of 11/26.
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Diogenes the Cynic
searched for an honest man.
Detail of painting by John
Waterhouse.
Recently I’ve begun to notice how easy the truth is to find, if you have the desire to look for it. I believe that this desire is something that many people lack, unfortunately. There are so many problems with the world right now that it is staggering, but most people seem content to simply ignore them or admit that are terrible and do nothing.
This ignorance and foolishness brings a feeling of comfort and safety and makes it much easier to get through the day, but it breeds even more problems. The “I’ll fix it later” mentality has caused countless problems, both historically and presently. I am writing to encourage students and others to get out and learn the truth for yourself and, because sooner or later you will be forced to step out of your protective shell and look at the world and by then it may be too late.
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By Najia Qadir, Courier Staff Writer
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: NAL Trade (December 27, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 045121742X
ISBN-13: 978-0451217424
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation is a story to fit almost all genres. This book has it all: history, drama, romance, mystery, humor, and intrigue. It keeps you interested until the very last page.
There are two main characters and two stories in this book. It is a book within a book.
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By Sarena Bains, Courier Staff Writer
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
Paperback: 486 pages
Publisher: Multnomah (May 11, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1576738167
ISBN-13: 978-1576738160
Redeeming Love is a Christian novel which is set in the 1850's during the Gold Rush in California. The story is taken from the Book of Hosea in the Bible.
It is a heartbreaking romance between a prostitute, named Angel, and a kind farmer named Michael. Angel was sold into prostitution as a child, and is the representation of someone with sin and shame.
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A Spanish stamp featuring Ibn Hazm (7 November 994–15 August 1064) was an Andalusian-Arab philosopher, litterateur, historian, jurist and theologian born in Córdoba, present-day Spain. He was a leading proponent of the Zahiri school of Islamic thought and produced a reported 400 works of which only 40 still survive, covering a range of topics such as jurisprudence, logic, history, ethics, comparative religion, and theology, as well as the The Ring of the Dove, on the art of love
Lineage
Ibn Hazm was born into a notable family - his grand father Sa'id and his father Ahmad both held high positions in the court of the Umayyad Caliph Hisham II- and professed a Persian genealogy. However scholars believe that Iberian converts adopted such genealogies to better identify with the Arabs and favor evidence that points to an Christian Iberian family background hailing from Manta Lisham (near Sevilla).
Read Ibn Hazm's work, The Tawq-al-hamâma, in Arabic, free from the Library of the University of Leiden.
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By Tawab Fakhri, Courier Technology Writer
Dynasty Warriors Gundam
For: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
From: Namco Bandai
ESRB rating: T for Teen
Namco has been working long and hard to reverse the decline in sales and ratings on their
Dynasty Warriors saga. With the latest update, I think they got it right. Synergizing the popular anime series Gundam with most of the original mechanics,
Dynasty Warriors Gundam takes us to a whole new level.
With two different single player modes, up to six friends in on and offline play in multi-player mode, and most of the main Mobile Suits (Gundams) in the series, DWG will have you hooked from the start. However some may ask for how long?
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Courier Staff Report
A get-out-the-vote campaign by The Courier, the James Logan administration and the New Haven school district have helped online school news blog build a substantial lead over its closest rival, IvyGate, a blog serving the Ivy League universities.
The results as of about 3:30 p.m. show that The Courier has received more than 1,000 votes, while IvyGate has garnered just over 600.
Click "Read More" to see the latest totals.
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Principal Don Montoya
Courier Photo
Logan Principal Don Montoya apologized to the school staff Monday for what many describe as the worst opening of school in memory.
At the school-wide staff meeting, held in the Little Theater after school, Montoya took the blame for the "Perfect Storm" of problems that have plagued teachers and students since August 29, the first day of school, even as he acknowledged that some of the problems are still ongoing.
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LUNCH: Chicken Caesar Wrap, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
Main Cafeteria Pizza: Pork Sausage, Bell Peppers, Mushrooms, Fresh Tomato, and Olives
ACTIVITIES:
Make sure to pick up your id card and/or pictures in the Activities Office at lunch.
CLUBS:
No Mural Club this week, but be sure to attend next week in Room 86, so we can get started.
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By Howard Yang,
Courier Staff Writer
In today's fast-paced gaming industry, tactical shooter fans are hard pressed to find a high quality game that offers both depth of gameplay and long term replayability. Luckily for gamers, the United States Army has the answer they are looking for. America's Army: Special Forces is a online multi-player tactical shooting game that rivals the greatest titles from its genre, and best of all it's free!
Developed by the U.S. military,
America's Army offers unparalleled authenticity and realism. Take the gameplay, for example, a new player must first pass a series of basic training courses in order to be given a rank and be permitted to participate in online gameplay. For those who wish to explore further, the game allows players to take on a grueling special forces training regiment that would frustrate even the most seasoned gamers. In order to become a medic, for example, the player must take an injury treatment course and even pass an exam!
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By Reid Kanaley
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)
With more than a million iPhones sold, we revisit the matter of how the much-hyped device from Apple Inc. stacks up with other smart phones. These Web sites have addressed the matter. If you think the issue is settled, read on.
TECHCRUNCH
Here, for business users, are results of a two-week summer test of the iPhone and a late version of the RIM BlackBerry by someone identified only as a venture capitalist. In this case, the BlackBerry comes out on top as a better telephone, with faster downloads. In posted comments, readers chide the anonymous VC for missing various features and for not testing other products.
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The eagle with lit dynamite
and a macuahuitl is part of
the symbol of MECha.
Though it is well into a new school year, the clubs of James Logan continue to demonstrate their willingness to aid in charities and events in order to better the community.
As a prime example, the Logan M.E.Ch.A. club, an organization to help further the inclusion of Latino culture and history in school settings, is doing its part. M.E.Ch.A. is an acronym for Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan Instead of an individual event, the club has started a year‑round recycling event in order to raise money for various causes.
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By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
`RATCHET AND CLANK FUTURE: TOOLS OF DESTRUCTION'
For: Playstation 3
From: Insomniac/Sony
ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+ (alcohol reference, animated blood, crude humor, fantasy violence, language)
Everybody dances in "Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction." Doesn't matter if we're talking about a grunt, boss character, ally or even a gun turret. If you throw a Groovitron and it lands in someone's vicinity, they dance. Period.
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From wikipedia:
Antoine-Joseph 'Adolphe' Sax (November 6, 1814 – February 3, 1894) was a Belgian musical instrument designer and musician (clarinetist), best known for inventing the saxophone.
Adolphe Sax was born in Dinant in Wallonia, Belgium. His father, Charles-Joseph Sax, was an instrument designer himself, who made several changes to the design of the horn. Adolphe began to make his own instruments at an early age, entering two of his flutes and a clarinet into a competition at the age of fifteen. He subsequently studied those two instruments at the Royal School of Singing in Brussels.
Read more about Adolphe Sax and the development of the saxophone and other instruments, from the Belgian website, Dinant.
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Sketch of a working teen
from the Center for Disease Control
It’s 3:30 and Logan’s dismissal bell rings, releasing a rush of students out of their classrooms. Many of the students will head home, and others will attend a club or participate in another after school activity. Many, of the students, however, will end their school day only to begin their workday.
So how do students with jobs get all of their schoolwork done and work at their job, all without sacrificing any part of their education? It’s simple, actually--they just can’t.
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LUNCH: Spicy Chicken Patty, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
Main Cafeteria Pizza: Hawaiian with Turkey Ham and Pineapple
CLUBS:
Reminder-important MEChA meeting tomorrow. Be sure to attend. Also, all members must turn in their fundraiser money asap or you will be billed.
MEChA dinner Friday in the Spot from 6-9 pm. There’ll be food and entertainment. See Ms. Esquivez in Room 72 for info. All are welcome.
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By David Collins, Opinion Editor
If you are a frequent reader of the Collins Comment here on the Courier, you’ve read of my opinions of school and the various issues that I either disagree with or accept without complaint, but for this particular entry, I would like to take you “deeper into the rabbit hole”, if I may.
I’ve found in my years here at James Logan High, that these four years of adolescence are extremely difficult for many. It comes to a point for us to find ourselves for who we are, rather than who we pretended to be in middle school. For most students, they lose their identity in intermediate schooling because of the entry into adolescence. Their desire to fit in and find a place over-power’s their will of self-identification. When we come into high school, most begin to shed the image that was posted before, to become adults; parts of society.
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From wikipedia:
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850–October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was
Poems of Passion, and her autobiography,
The Worlds and I was published in 1918 shortly before her death.
Ella Wheeler was born in 1850 on a farm in rural Johnstown, Wisconsin, east of Janesville, the youngest of four children. The family soon moved to north of Madison. She started writing poetry at a very early age, and was well known as a poet in her own state by the time she graduated from high school. When about 28 years of age, she married Robert Wilcox. They had one child, a son, who died shortly after birth. Not long after their marriage, they both became interested in Theosophy, New Thought, and Spiritualism.
Read Poems of Passion, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, one of
18 of her works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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Rep. Dennis Kucinich answers a question during
the Democratic presidential debate at Drexel
University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania October 30.
Michael Perez/Philadelphia Inquirer/MCT
PHILADELPHIA — On the day after the Democratic debate here, the tempest generated by Hillary Rodham Clinton's handling of the issue of driver's licenses for illegal immigrants refused to go away.
Democratic and Republican presidential candidates alike joined in criticizing her Wednesday — even as several Republicans used the occasion to go after one another.
And the Clinton campaign, hoping the episode will not become a metaphor for evasiveness, clarified her position on the issue and put out a web video mocking her opponents for "piling on."
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Students and adults marched together
Anne Chen/Courier Photo
Thousands of people from all over the Bay Area marched in a national anti-war rally in San Francisco. That Saturday, October 27, the streets were filled with people of all ages, including students and teachers from James Logan High School.
Many contingents such as the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition, Pilipino Youth Coalition (PYC), Babae (a Womyn’s organization), League of Filipino Students (LFS), and Anakbayan (an east bay organization) were only a few among the large amount of other Northern California peace and justice organizations that participated. According to the ANSWER Coalition’s website, over 30,000 people took part in not only a march from the San Francisco Civic Center to Delores Park, but also a die-in to represent the more than 1 million Iraqis killed since the war began in 2003.
“Even though we’ve been to so many rallies, this is the first time we’ve ever done a die in,” said Logan alumni Jerico Abanico.
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From wikipedia:
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (March 18, 1893 – November 4, 1918) was a British poet and soldier, regarded by many as the leading poet of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trench and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon and sat in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time, and to the confidently patriotic verse written earlier by war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Some of his best-known works—most of which were published posthumously—include
Dulce Et Decorum Est, Anthem for Doomed Youth, Futility, and S
trange Meeting. His preface intended for a book of poems to be published in 1919 contains numerous well-known phrases, especially 'War, and the pity of War', and 'the Poetry is in the pity'.
He is perhaps just as well-known for having been killed in action at the Sambre-Oise Canal just a week before the war ended, causing news of his death to reach home as the town's church bells declared peace.
Read Wilfred Owen's Poems, free from Project Gutenberg.
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By Samuel Jue,
Courier Sports Editor
Ryan Shay, a top distance runner, collapsed Saturday after running for five and a half miles during an Olympic Trial in New York.
Medical response after the collapse was swift, but to no avail. Shay was shipped to Lenox Hill Hospital where he then pronounced dead at 8:46 AM.
He died at the age of 28.
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Courier Staff Report
When it comes to backs who can run wild against defenses, the James Logan Varsity Colts are well stocked, to put it mildly.
Of course, they have Rashad Evans, the star who averaged around 25 yards-per-carry coming into Friday night's home game against Irvington, the latest Mission Valley Athletic League victim.
But Evans had what is, for him, a bit of an off night, gaining "only" 138 yards on nine carries, an average of "only" about 15-yards-per-carry. He did score three touchdowns, though. So maybe it wasn't an off night, after all.
Whatever. The Colts won, 42-0.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Wednesday, Oct. 24:
High tuition costs are forcing college students to work full-time jobs while taking classes, mortgage their futures with excessive loans, and defer their educations.
The College Board, which tracks financial trends in colleges and universities, has provided numbers to confirm what students and families already understood: The cost of college is handily outpacing inflation.
Much less clear to consumers and public officials is why education costs are continuing to climb so rapidly. Schools need to do a much better job of providing students, parents and the public with detailed accountings of how the institutions operate, and how tuition and tax dollars are spent.
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South Seattle Community College student
Denise Andrews pumps crushed grapes
into a fermenting tank. Alan Robertson
sprinkles oak chips, and winemaking
instructor Peter Bos, center, checks the tank's
level at North Seattle Community College.
John Lok/Seattle Times/MCT
After high school, Melissa Pederson yearned for a traditional college experience. So she moved into campus housing with roommates from around the world and immersed herself in her wooded, secluded school.
Yet Pederson's move was far from typical: She was among the first students in King County to live on a community-college campus. Now finishing her sophomore studies at Green River Community College in Auburn, Wash., Pederson, 20, is one of a growing number of students taking advantage of shifts in the mission and approach of two-year colleges.
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From wikipedia:
Calvin Fairbank (November 3, 1816 - October 12, 1898) was an abolitionist minister who spent more than 17 years in prison for his anti-slavery activities.
Biography
Born in Pike, in what is now Wyoming County, New York, Fairbank grew up in an intensely religious family environment. Listening to the stories told by two escaped slaves whom he met at a Methodist quarterly meeting, he became strongly anti-slavery. He began his career freeing slaves in 1837 when, piloting a lumber raft down the Ohio River, he ferried a slave across the river to free territory. Soon he was delivering runaway slaves to the Quaker abolitionist Levi Coffin for transportation on the Underground Railroad to northern U.S. cities or to Canada.
Read Calvin Fairbank's autobiography, Rev. Calvin Fairbank during slavery times : how he "fought the good fight" to prepare "the way," free from the Kentuckiana Digital Library.
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LUNCH: All-Beef Hot Dog, Tomatoes,
and Ranch Dressing, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
Main Cafeteria Pizza: Hawaiian with Turkey Ham and Pineapple
ACTIVITIES:
Wrestling practice starts today. All first year wrestlers will meet in the Mat Room next to the Weight Room right after school. You must have your paperwork completed.
CLUBS:
Punjabi Club meeting tomorrow, to plan Diwali on Friday. Come one, come all!
MISCELLANEOUS:
The Courier has been nominated for the 2007 Best Educational Paper Award. Vote for your school paper - go to jameslogancourier.org for more info.
Posted by courier at 01:34 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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By Barb Hart, Career Center Technician
The following is a listing of current scholarship applications which are available for your pick-up in the Career Center. This list is intended to give you a brief synopsis of the most pertinent information for each scholarship or award. If a scholarship looks interesting to you, come to the career center to pick up a hardcopy application (located in the money box), or if a web address is provided apply on-line or down load your application using the stated web-site. Please note the deadlines, and that some scholarships target only a certain population.
Most of these scholarships are for seniors. Last year’s class of 2007 was awarded 127 private/corporate donor scholarships.
By Carmen Shiu, Courier Special Correspondent
KYLD Wild 94.9's Boost Mobile Boo Bomb 2007 was held Tuesday at the HP Pavilion in San Jose. The radio station may have impressed its listeners with the lineup, but the show itself wasn't so impressive.
American Idol 2007 winner Jordin Sparks was supposed to be a special guest host. KYLD must not know what a host really is, because appearing once for a brief moment with another DJ is not called hosting. Sparks did sing a short acapella of her new song, "Tattoo," though.
Posted by courier at 10:27 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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By Howard Yang, Courier Staff Writer
With the arrival of the fourth installment of the SAW series, it would seem that going out to the movies to see a SAW sequel has become part of the Halloween tradition. Movie-goers would be glad to know that SAW IV delivers on its promises of a frightening night at the theatres.
Tobin Bell makes a return in his role as John Kramer, the Jigsaw killer whose notorious reputation comes from his ingenious traps that force their victims to make a decision, suffer extreme pain in order to save themselves or die a gruesome death.
Posted by courier at 09:46 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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By Sandhaya Mansfield, Courier Staff Writer
"The world ended with no warning, and all that was left...was hope."
SciFi fans should be gearing up for the third season of Battlestar Galactica by executive producer Ronald D. Moore premiering this Sunday.
For those who don't know what Galactica is about: Basically it's a remake of the old 1978 series and focuses on the battle between humans and the Cylons (man-made super-machines gone bad). Cylons were created by the people of the Twelve Colonies and used as slaves and warriors. Because the Cylons were created with such high intelligence they rebelled against the humans and thus a war between humans and Cylons began. The war lead to a bloody stalemate and finally the Cylons fled to a remote place in space.
Posted by courier at 09:13 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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By Rechie Cruz, Courier Staff Writer
Academy Award winners Denzel Washington, and Russel Crowe star in the new blockbuster
American Gangster.
It's the story of African American business man Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington), who works his way past the big time Mafia bosses to make his way to be one of the most notorious criminal masterminds of the streets of Harlem.Working as a big time heroin supplier in the 1970's, he raked in more than $250 million dollars in cash importing heroin through military officials in Vietnam.
Posted by courier at 09:07 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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By Charles Yi,
Courier Staff Writer
Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is a lawyer who "fixes" malpractice legal cases of powerful, corporate conglomerates. Although financially successful, Clayton is a troubled single parent struggling with gambling problems; he is also beginning to doubt his career and where it will take him in the future.
One day, colleague Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson) drags Clayton into an important case where the defendant is steadily gaining advantage in a malpractice case. Clayton unravels the truth behind the case and discovers clear evidence of illegal protocol by the corporation, thus becoming an assassination target of the corporation.
Posted by courier at 08:25 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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By Debbie Ly, Courier Staff Writer
The ban on candy sales at school is costing students who join the California Scholarship Federation more in dues.
Membership in the CSF, which recognizes students' academic achievements, now costs $3, up from two.
Teacher and CSF advisor Dean Cozine said the raise in dues is because the club can't sell candy anymore due to a statewide ban on junk food sales that went into effect this year. Until a fundraiser that replaces the lost revenue is found, the dues will remain at $3, he said.
Posted by courier at 08:12 AM. Filed under: News
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Those who try to vote from school
might get a message stating that
they already voted, even if they
haven't.
Voting for the 2007 Weblog Awards began last night, and The Courier, a finalist in the Best Education Blog category, trails in early polling.
As of 7:30 a.m., The Miss Rumphius Effect blog lead with six votes out of the twenty. The Courier had two votes, trailing Frumteacher and Education Week, which both had three. Teaching ...Multiple Special Needs was tied with the Courier.
Click here to vote for The Courier.
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From wikipedia:
Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III(November 2, 1877 – July 11, 1957) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims. He was one of the founders and the first president of the All-India Muslim League, and served as President of the League of Nations from 1937-38.
Early life
He was born in Karachi (then British India, now Pakistan) to Aga Khan II and his second wife, Nawab A'lia Shamsul-Muluk, who was a granddaughter of Fath Ali Shah of Persia (Qajar dynasty).
Watch the coronation of the Aga Khan IV, grandson to the Aga Khan III, the day after his death, free from the History Channel.
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By Ashley Carter, Courier Staff Writer
Lauren ‘Keyona’ Palmer has got it going on at the young age of 14.
Palmer is the young lady who played in Tyler Perry’s
Madea Family Reunion which was #1 in the box office for two consecutive weeks, and starred in
Akeelah and the Bee, which gave her the opportunity to win the 2007 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress, and on the Disney Channel hit movie,
Jump In!
She goes by "Keke," the nickname that her older sister (Loreal) gave her. Keke's undeniable talent in acting since the age of 9 has gotten her far in life and in her career, but it turns out that acting is not her first love. She has always had a love for singing which has been her passion ever since the age of 5 after singing in her church choir back in Chicago.
Posted by courier at 02:06 PM. Filed under: Entertainment
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LUNCH: Crispy Baked Chicken with Potato Wedges, Tomatoes,
and Ranch Dressing, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
Main Cafeteria Pizza: Fajita Chicken with Bell Peppers, Fresh Tomato, and Olives
ACTIVITIES:
Wrestling practice starts next Monday. All first year wrestlers will meet in the Mat Room next to the Weight Room right after school. You must have your paperwork completed.
Come see the Logan Drama play, “Picasso at the Lapin Agile”, tonight, tomorrow night, and Sunday in the Little Theater. See any cast member or Mr. Vega for tickets or at the door.
Posted by courier at 12:56 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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Courier Staff Report
The Lady Colts have a chance to move into a tie for first place in Mission Valley Athletic League Volleyball play tonight.
If the Lady Colts, with a 9-1 record, defeat the 10-0 Washington Huskies in the Guy Emanuele Pavilion tonight, the teams will be tied at 10-1.
"Currently Washington is ahead of us by one game and we get a chance to even it up [tonight] before going into playoffs," said Coach Danielle Anderson.
Posted by courier at 12:54 PM. Filed under: Sports
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Drop by Room 509 for a free
I15 poster.,
Courier Staff Writer
From catchy beats and the accompaniment of soothing voices, new artists I15 have made their way to the ears of many. Their new single "Lost in Love" will be dropping ialong with their new debut cd coming out this fall.
Their name, I15, comes from the highway that runs between the cities of Los Angeles and Las Vegas and links the members of the group who lived in both cities.
In the summer of 2006, group members Das, Flash, and Castro signed with superstar producer Polow Da Don, who has done work with artists such as Ciara, Ludacris, Rich Boy, and Fergie after considering other options.
Posted by courier at 11:32 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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Drop by The Courier's office, room 509,
for a free will.i.am poster.,
Courier Entertainment Editor
Hip-hop purists may loathe him, but there is no denying the fact that will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas is a creative force. His pop-friendly beats and rhymes helped propel the Peas to cosmic levels and, while on tour, he still managed to hit the studio and churn out beats that have spawned hits for the likes of The Pussycat Dolls and Justin Timberlake.
Not one to miss an opportunity, his new solo album,
Songs About Girls, is all about capitalizing on his buzz as a producer—and an outlet to show off his creative force once again. It’s time to forget the divisive “My Humps” and let Will sink or swim all on his own.
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Courier Staff Report
The James Logan Courier is a finalist a 2007 Weblog award for Best Education Blog.
Organizers of the event, an annual recognition of outstanding blog-style websites, made the announcement last night. The Courier is among ten finalists in the category, which include the websites Education Week and NYC Educator.
Posted by courier at 10:13 AM. Filed under: News
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By Karen Mui, Courier Staff Writer
Testing dates for the first administration of the critically important California High School Exit Exam to this year's sophomores have been rescheduled earlier than the previous years in an attempt to streamline the busy spring testing season and provide students a better chance to pass it.
Juniors and seniors who haven't yet passed it get another crack at it next week.
Sophomores will have to wait until February to take it for the first time, which is about a month earlier than in previous years. During the 2007‑2008 school year, sophomores will test on February 5th and 6th. The earlier dates means that sophomores who miss the test will be able to make it up on March 5th and 6th, when the juniors and seniors get another crack at it.
Posted by courier at 09:11 AM. Filed under: News
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Digital Arts students install
a paper spider. Digital Arts photo,
Courier Staff Writer
Dozens of sculptures popped up all around campus last week, then disappeared after a few days into a TRI-CED truck headed for the recycling yard.
It was all part of an art installation project by the Digital Arts classes, taught by Debra Collins.
The ephemeral art now being recycled itself was made of tubes constructed from paper recycled from the hundreds of newspapers delivered to James Logan every school day.
Posted by courier at 08:29 AM. Filed under: Features
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From wikipedia:
Spencer Perceval, KC (1 November 1762 – 11 May 1812) was a British statesman and Prime Minister. He is the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated.
Biography
Perceval was the seventh son of John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont by his second wife, Catherine. His father, a close advisor of Frederick, Prince of Wales and King George III, had served briefly in the Cabinet as First Lord of the Admiralty, but died when Perceval was ten.
He attended Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was impressed by the evangelical Anglican movement. In later life Perceval became an expert on Biblical prophecy and wrote pamphlets relating prophecies which he had discovered. Perceval became a barrister on the Midland circuit, where he found it difficult to obtain sufficient work until aided by family connections. Through his mother's family he was appointed as a Deputy Recorder of Northampton, and he was later made a Commissioner of Bankrupts and given a legal sinecure worth £119 annually. Perceval acted for the Crown in the prosecutions of Thomas Paine (1792) and John Horne Tooke (1794), and wrote pamphlets supporting the impeachment of Warren Hastings.
Learn more about Spencer Perceval from 10 Downing Street, website for the residence of the Prime Minister of the British government.
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Oz Joins the Dark Side
