This is the archive for April 2010
By Michelle Danai, Courier Staff Writer
Hot Tub Machine is definitely better than I expected. Its commercials and title made me expect it to be another idiotic humor-filled movie with scenes duplicated from previous movies about time machines. However, this movie is a great mixture of comedy, fun, "bromance," and reminiscence of the unforgettable 80’s.
The movie was released on March 26 and stars John Cusack, Rob Corddry and Craig Robinson.
Posted by courier at 09:42 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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By Alexys Cran, Courier Staff Writer
April 22, was the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day. In 1970, Gaylord Nelson, a Senator from Wisconsin, founded this day that is dedicated to awareness and appreciation for our Earth's environment. This special day also reminds us of the importance of preserving our planet and taking care of our home every day, not just on one particular day.
This day coincides with The World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, or CMPCC, to be held in Cochabamba, Bolivia from April 19 to the 22nd. This conference gives the public and governments the opportunity to get together and think up solutions to climate change issues and begin commitments to projects. If you are interested in this conference, check out OneClimate.net to see highlights from the conference and other information.
Posted by courier at 07:37 AM. Filed under: Opinion
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By Laurel Brodzinsky, Courier Staff Writer
Four Logan students, Michael Wang, James Wong, Jerry Yang, and Jason Zhang who took the AMC12 in March qualified for the next level of the math test, the AIME, and earned Certificates of Merit. Michael, James, and Jerry received special recognition for being in the 10th grade or below and still passing the test.
This was the 61st AMC test, which originated in New York. After passing the AMC about 8000 students take the AIME (American Mathematic Invitation Exam). About 500 of those go on to either the USAMO or USAJMO which occur April 27 and 28. During the early summer, winners attend a special math camp to prepare for the International Mathematical Olympiad.
Posted by courier at 07:28 AM. Filed under: News
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By Shamal Asnani, Courier Film Critic
Anyone who is a fan of Seth Rogen is truly doing themselves an injustice act if they have not yet watched the movie
Pineapple Express.
The movie is currently available on BluRay and DVD and stars Seth Rogen as Dale Denton, a process server, who would much rather enjoy the affects of marijuana, than assume personal responsibility. The rising action in the film begins when Dale has to deliver a subpoena to Ted Jones (Gary Cole), a drug lord. Before he decides to carry out his task, he decides to enjoy a nice smoke of special type of marijuana, known as Pineapple Express. As he is smoking, he witnesses Ted commit a murder. In his fear of being spotted, Dale immediately flees the scene, dropping his rare marijuana. Ted notices that someone has fled the scene, and discovers the blunt that Dale dropped, quickly identifying it as Pineapple Express. He also knows that the only person he sold Pineapple Express to was Red (Danny McBride), who also only sold it to Saul (James Franco), Dale’s dealer.
Posted by courier at 07:14 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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By Alexys Cran, Courier Staff Writer
New Haven Schools Foundation's 3rd Annual Scholarship Luncheon, held April 23, celebrated the 71 scholarship recipients out of the 800 that applied. They had a chance to sit down, eat, and talk with the donors of their scholarships.
I was one of the lucky winners and attended the luncheon with my father. By the time everyone was finished eating, Logan Principal Amy McNamara and Wendy Gudalewicz, Chief Academic Officer of the New Haven Unified School District, presented the scholarship winners, and we received our certificates.
Posted by courier at 07:04 AM. Filed under: News
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By Julie Mendoza, Courier Staff Writer
The timeless, irreplaceable story
The Time Machine, made into a 2002 film starring Guy Pierce, captures it's audience with it's impressive graphics and epic story line. Alexander (Pierce) experiences a misfortune he will never recover from. His beloved fiance Emma, played by Sienna Guillory, is shot in a mugging the night he proposes. Determined to change the single event that he can't recover from, Alexander builds a time machine capable of traveling to anytime in the past or future. This invention triggers an unforgettable adventure that no one would have predicted.
Posted by courier at 06:59 AM. Filed under: News
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From wikipedia:
Percy Heath, (30 April 1923 – 28 April 2005), was a jazz musician, famous for position as double bass player for the Modern Jazz Quartet.
He was the brother of tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath and drummer Albert Heath, with whom he formed the Heath Brothers in 1975. Heath also worked with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Wes Montgomery and Thelonious Monk. At the age of 81, he released his first album as bandleader through the Daddy Jazz label. The album, titled
A Love Song, garnered rave reviews and served as a fitting coda for Heath's illustrious career.
Read A Remembrance of Percy Heath, Part 1-2 by R.J. DeLuke, free from allaboutjazz.com.
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If you ordered a Powder Puff DVD, they are available for pick-up in Coach Zuber’s room (Room 306). There are still 20 copies of the exciting and controversial game available for purchase, so if you want a copy, act quickly!
Drop-In homework/tutoring in Room 77. Daily before school 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Tuesday-Friday 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., and Saturdays 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Posted by courier at 11:33 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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By Luis Arroyave
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
CHICAGO — In September 2005, Tom DeLonge, known as the lipring-wearing singer-guitarist from Blink-182, announced that his new band, Angels & Airwaves, was "preparing the greatest rock 'n' roll revolution for this generation." He said it would be the best album "anybody has heard in 20 years."
On Saturday afternoon, the 34-year-old rocker explained his infamous comments backstage at the Aragon Ballroom hours before an Angels & Airwaves (aka AVA) show.
"I was on Vicodin," DeLonge said, laughing. "Lots of Vicodin."
Posted by courier at 08:46 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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From the U.S. Department of State:
Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974)< an American composer, pianist, and bandleader. is often considered the most important composer in the history of jazz, with an estimated two thousand compositions, arrangements, and collaborations to his credit.
Early in the century, jazz bands became increasingly popular accompaniments for a new, faster style of social dancing. Ellington's career mirrored, and greatly influenced, the rise of the jazz band. In particular, his unique status owed itself to his combined talents of orchestration and bandleading.
Watch Duke Ellington perform Symphony in Black- A Rhapsody of Black Life, free from Redhotjazz.com.
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AP Testing Schedule 2009-10
If you ordered a Powder Puff DVD, they are available for pick-up in Coach Zuber’s room (Room 306). There are still 20 copies of the exciting and controversial game available for purchase, so if you want a copy, act quickly!
Drop-In homework/tutoring in Room 77. Daily before school 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Tuesday-Friday 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., and Saturdays 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Posted by courier at 12:24 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
Intent on providing alternatives to families who will be affected by the elimination of bus transportation, the New Haven Unified School District has partnered with the Alameda County “Safe Routes to School” Program to promote safe walking and biking to school and to minimize traffic congestion in school neighborhoods.
Safe Routes to School (SR2S) is an international movement dedicated to increasing the safety and number of children walking and bicycling to school. SR2S’s Alameda County partnership provides training sessions, resources and customized support at no cost while working with schools, parents and the local community to give children an active, healthy start to the school day, reduce traffic congestion and improve environmental health.
Posted by courier at 12:16 PM. Filed under: News
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From wikipedia:
Madge Dorita Sinclair (28 April 1938 – 20 December 1995) was a Jamaican American character actress.
Sinclair was born Madge Dorita Walters in Kingston, Jamaica, to Herbert and Jemima Walters. She was a teacher in Jamaica until 1968 when she left for New York to pursue her career in acting.
Career
In 1978 she starred in the movie
Convoy as the Widow Maker. She would later receive an Emmy Award nomination for her role as Belle in the miniseries
Roots. She went on to a long-running stint in the 1980s as nurse Ernestine Shoop on the series
Trapper John, M.D. opposite Pernell Roberts. She received three Emmy nominations for her work on the show, and critic Donald Bogle praised her for "maintaining her composure and assurance no matter what the script imposed on her."
Learn more about Madge Sinclair, free from the Internet Movie Data Base.
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Happy Birthday to our 5th President, James Monroe, born this day in 1758.
If you ordered a Powder Puff DVD, they are available for pick-up in Coach Zuber’s room (Room 306). There are still 20 copies of the exciting and controversial game available for purchase, so if you want a copy, act quickly!
ASB Elections are next week! If you’re interested in running for ASB office and leading our student body, please pick up a nomination packet in Room 67. The forms must be completed by and submitted at the mandatory candidates meeting on Wednesday, April 28, after school. Elections will be on May 5 thru 7.
Posted by courier at 10:44 AM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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By Michael Doyle
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a challenge to California's ban on the sale of violent video games to minors.
Hot on the heels of overturning a congressional ban on videos depicting animal cruelty, justices said they would consider the constitutionality of California's 2005 law sometime during the next term that starts in October. A federal judge has previously blocked the state law from taking effect.
Posted by courier at 10:22 AM. Filed under: News
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By Joshua Melvin
San Mateo County Times (MCT)
SAN MATEO, Calif. — Police raided on Friday the home of a journalist who works for a technology Web site that recently unveiled an as yet unreleased version of Apple's iPhone.
Members of a regional computer crime task force searched the home of Jason Chen, who writes for Gizmodo.com. The site released photos and information on the iPhone last week after saying the device had been left at a Redwood City bar by an Apple employee.
Posted by courier at 10:11 AM. Filed under: News
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Red Steel 2
For: Wii
From: Ubisoft
ESRB Rating: Teen (animated blood,
mild language, mild suggestive themes,
violence)
Remember how awesome "Red Steel" was going to be, and how the amazingly immersive mix of first-person shooting and motion-controlled swordplay promised to take action games to an entirely new plane? And remember how none of that happened at all? Oh, you do? Well "Red Steel 2" would rather you didn't, because three years later, all those empty promises finally have a game on which to hang their hats.
Fundamentally, what "RS2" does is similar enough to its predecessor to bear the franchise name. It's still a first-person shooter and motion- controlled swordfighting game cobbled together as one.
Posted by courier at 09:52 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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From wikipedia:
Alice Allison Dunnigan (1906–1983) was an African American journalist, civil rights activist and author. She was the first African American female correspondent to receive White House credentials, and the first black female member of the Senate and House of Representatives press galleries. She has written an autobiography titled
Alice A. Dunnigan: A Black Woman’s Experience. She also has a Kentucky State Historical Commission marker dedicated to her.
Alice chronicled the decline of Jim Crow during the 1940s and '50s, influencing her to become a civil rights activist. She was inducted into the Kentucky Hall of Fame in 1982.
Read more about Alice Dunnigan, free from the Logan Journal.
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Happy Birthday to our 18th President, Ulysses S. Grant, born this day in 1822.
ASB Elections are next week! If you’re interested in running for ASB office and leading our student body, please pick up a nomination packet in Room 67. The forms must be completed by and submitted at the mandatory candidates meeting on Wednesday, April 28, after school. Elections will be on May 5 thru 7.
Drop-In homework/tutoring in Room 77. Daily before school 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Tuesday-Friday 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., and Saturdays 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Posted by courier at 11:54 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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Don’t wait to get your copy of the exciting Powder Puff game! The DVD is professional quality and will be on sale for a limited time only for just $15. It includes the cheerleading show, and of course the controversial ending. Come see Coach Zuber in Room 305 to buy one now!
ASB Elections are next week! If you’re interested in running for ASB office and leading our student body, please pick up a nomination packet in Room 67. The forms must be completed by and submitted at the mandatory candidates meeting on Wednesday, April 28, after school. Elections will be on May 5 thru 7.
Posted by courier at 11:58 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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Ella Fitzgerald photographed
by Carl Van Vechten in 1940.
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as "Lady Ella" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th Century.
With a vocal range spanning three octaves, she was noted for her purity of tone, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. She is widely considered to have been one of the supreme interpreters of the Great American Songbook.
Listen to Ella Fitzgerald perform "Sing Me a Swing Song," recorded in 1936, free from npr.org.
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From wikipedia:
David Harold Blackwell (born April 24, 1919) is Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem. Born in Centralia, Illinois, he was the first African American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, and the first black tenured faculty member at UC Berkeley.
Learn more about David Blackwell, free from Bellevue College.
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By Jericho Faustino, Courier Staff Writer
While most people enjoyed spring break by going out with the family, hanging out with friends or just plain sleeping in, the James Logan World Color Guard where in Dayton, Ohio competing against various schools at the Winter Guard International.
Posted by courier at 09:29 AM. Filed under: Sports
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By Krystyna Wolny, Courier Staff Writer
With summertime fast approaching, it’s common that jobs come across more applications from teenagers. But how easy is it to get these jobs? With lack of experience and the common assumption by employers that teenagers are lazy and irresponsible, it’s no wonder it is almost impossible for teenagers to get these jobs.
Though the legal age to work in California is 16, more and more jobs are making their hiring age 18. This might be due to legal reasons enforced by the company's’ headquarters or the individual store managers' requirements. For example, my friend and I went to the mall to go job hunting and I personally began paying attention to reactions from the employees already working there when she asked for an application. Younger employees merely grabbed an application and handed it to her without judgmental looks or comments. However, I noticed at other stores where there were older women working, we were looked up and down and immediately asked “How old are you?”.
Posted by courier at 09:27 AM. Filed under: Opinion
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Courier Staff Report
After months and months of vocalizing our desire to get our navels pierced, my friend Christina and I finally went through with it.
Saturday morning her mom and her came by to pick me up, and we were on our way to Berkeley. Driving there, our conversations were filled with nerves, anxiety, and excitement over the outcome of our new piercing.
When we got there our nerves took over and we had to push any small chance of doubt in the back of our heads.
Posted by courier at 09:17 AM. Filed under: Features
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By Shamal Asnani, Courier Film Critic
Anyone who is looking to watch a movie that is completely out of the norm should definitely watch District 9, which was released on Blu-Ray and DVD around last Christmas. Although someone might look at movie and say,” oh it’s just another alien movie,” District 9 is far much more. The movie is about a large group of aliens that become stranded in Johannesburg, South Africa. After the aliens are discovered, they are given refuge at a government site; however, this is not given to them under pleasant terms. The area they are given quickly begins to resemble a slum, due to their harsh mistreatment by the government. The aliens are forced to start dealing in illegal arms and join gangs in order to barely survive, until they are able to find a way to get back home.
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From wikipedia:
Granville T. Woods (April 23, 1856 – January 30, 1910), was an African American inventor who holds more than 60 patents for inventions. Most of his work was on trains and street cars. Woods also invented the Multiplex Telegraph, a device that sent messages between moving trains and train stations. He was born in Columbus, Ohio and died in New York.
Woods attended school in Columbus until age 10, when he then went to work with his father. They worked repairing railroad equipment and machinery.
Learn more about Granville T. Woods, free from about.com.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Happy Birthday to our 15th President, James Buchanan, born this day in 1791.
STAR Testing is next week and we need every Logan student to take the test and do their best! ASB Leadership is sponsoring a daily raffle of prizes for students who can tell themselves: “I took the test and did my best!” That means get to your testing room on time, give your best effort on each section and each problem, and you will receive a ticket for a chance at winning fabulous prizes. Daily prizes include gift cards to local restaurants and businesses, and grand prizes at the end of the week include a yearbook, digital camera, iPod, and a notebook computer. Let’s show our community that we can do it!
Posted by courier at 11:58 PM. Filed under: In Quotes
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y Lisa M. Krieger
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Fifty years ago this month, California promised a low-cost, high-quality university education for every qualified high school graduate in the state. But that promise — inflated by growing populations and academic aspirations — expanded beyond the state's willingness to pay for it.
What went wrong? How did the university system that was long the envy of the world suddenly become the focus of angry street protests, overcrowded classrooms, soaring tuition and a monumental debate over whether the state can ever make good again on its groundbreaking mission?
Posted by courier at 09:59 AM. Filed under: News
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By Robert Lloyd
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
You are no longer loved, TV Theme Music, at least not by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, which is threatening to decommission your category from its Emmy Awards. In its place, more or less, will be a new prize for "music composition for a non-fiction program." As if you could ever hum that.
Many of us, I'll wager, had forgotten, or never knew, that they were giving you an Emmy at all — even before it was eliminated, your category was shut out of the prime-time telecast. The stated reasoning behind this bruited change is the fact that fewer and fewer series are mounting a "traditional" TV theme, although just what "traditional" means is unclear, and fewer does not yet mean "none."
Posted by courier at 09:48 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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By Jordan Levin
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
MIAMI — Before he became an internationally lauded jazz musician, before he learned to play the guitar, Pat Metheny fell in love with the player piano in his grandparents' basement in Manitowoc, Wis. At 9 years old, the multi-Grammy-winning jazz composer was fascinated by the clumping, old-fashioned wooden invention that he'd play on family visits.
"It was ancient and really old-fashioned. It even had that smell of something from the 1800s," Metheny says. "At the same time it was like science fiction, Jules Verne, it had that quality to me. You kind of invented stories to go with it ... What is this thing, and how is it doing this?"
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From wikipedia:
Charles Mingus (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and human rights activist.
Having released numerous records of high regard, Mingus is considered one of the most important composers and performers of jazz as well as a pioneer in bass technique. Dozens of musicians passed through his bands and later went on to impressive careers. Mingus was also influential and creative as a band leader, recruiting talented and sometimes little-known artists whom he assembled into unconventional and revealing configurations.
Visit Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, the official website of Charles Mingus.
Posted by courier at 06:16 AM. Filed under: In Quotes
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Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Random House
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1400067111
ISBN-13: 978-1400067114
In her novel
Shanghai Girls, author Lisa See takes readers on a turbulent journey from China torn by war in the 1930s to Los Angeles' Chinatown.
Shanghai Girls is a story of two sisters, and it opens Shanghai in 1937. The city was a glamorous international center, known as the Paris of Asia. But according to Lisa See, that life was about to change for sisters May and Pearl.
"It was a final, final moment before things took a real change. In August of 1937, the Japanese invaded," See said. "The Sino-Japanese War rolled right into World War II. As soon as World War II was over, civil war [erupted]. And then in 1949, Mao [Zedong] and the communists took over the country. And so Shanghai went from being kind of like the Paris of Asia to being for many, many years a very dark, very gray, very grim place."
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
Tom Kitayama Elementary School is a 2010 California Distinguished School, as announced Mondaymorning by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell.
“Kitayama Elementary is a tremendous example how successful a school community can be when it has an dedicated principal focused on doing the right work, enthusiastic and well-trained teachers, energetic and supportive classified employees and active, engaged parents,” said Kari McVeigh, Superintendent of the New Haven Unified School District. “Schools like Kitayama – and in fact I would say this about all New Haven schools -- are public education at its best.”
Posted by courier at 09:41 AM. Filed under: News
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Don’t wait to get your copy of the exciting Powder Puff game! The DVD is professional quality and will be on sale for a limited time only for just $15. It includes the cheerleading show, and of course the controversial ending. Come see Coach Zuber in Room 305 to buy one now!
Drop-In homework/tutoring in Room 77. Daily before school 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Tuesday-Friday 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., and Saturdays 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Posted by courier at 09:31 AM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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By Farah Habad, Courier Staff Writer
Phlebotomists from the American Red Cross collected blood from Logan students and staff this month in the second ASB-coordinated blood drive this year.
According to Activities director Francis Rojas, because of the large population of our school we give the most blood to the Red Cross, compared to other high schools in Northern California.
Junior Julienne Sumodobila said, "It is imperative that we as a school band together to serve our community. We are supposed to be the leaders of tomorrow, but how are we going to do that if we cannot do something so simple, that can benefit so many?"
Posted by courier at 09:26 AM. Filed under: News
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
The Board of Education on Tuesday night approved a recommendation to use the District’s existing Transportation Department to provide transportation to special education students, which also could allow for some field-trip and extra-curricular transportation despite the elimination of K-8 home-to-school transportation due to state budget cutbacks.
The recommendation came after the District, citing unacceptable service, resigned from the South County Transportation Joint Powers Agreement. The decision will enable the District to retain 16 positions in the Transportation Department that otherwise would have been eliminated.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
Changes in the Division of Teaching and Learning will enable the New Haven Unified School District to increase services to students, enhance safety and better manage risk -- while saving two classified positions and reducing the impact on the general fund -- Superintendent Kari McVeigh announced today.
With Director of Pupil Services Don Montoya retiring in June, the Board of Education on Tuesday night approved the appointment of Scott Pizani as Director of Student Intervention Services, responsible for the English Language Learner program, academic interventions in kindergarten through 12th grade, suspensions and expulsions, among other duties. Mr. Pizani, who was principal at Emanuele Elementary when the school made an impressive 39-point gain on its API score in 2005 and later served as the District’s Coordinator of Prevention and Intervention Services, has spent the past two years as Director of Instructional Support.
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From wikipedia:
Clara Ward (April 21, 1924 – January 16, 1973)[1] was an American gospel artist who achieved great success, both artistic and commercial, in the 1940s and 1950s as leader of The Famous Ward Singers.
A gifted singer and arranger, Ward took the lead-switching style used by male gospel quartets to new heights, leaving room for spontaneous improvisation and vamping by each member of the group while giving virtuouso singers such as Marion Williams the opportunity to step forward in songs such as "Surely, God Is Able" (among the first million-selling gospel hits), "How I Got Over" (which she wrote; one of the most famous songs in the Black gospel repertoire), and "Packin' Up".
Visit clarawardsingers.com.
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For those students that purchase lunch in the Student Union, we now provide cards as proof of payment. You must use your card the same day you purchase your lunch. You cannot use it on another day.
If you receive a free or reduced lunch and are caught selling your lunch card, you will be reported and may lose your free or reduced lunch privileges.
Drop-In homework/tutoring in Room 77. Daily before school 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Tuesday-Friday 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., and Saturdays 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Posted by courier at 11:33 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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Supreme Commander 2
Reviewed for: Xbox 360
Also available for: Windows PC
From: Gas Powered Games/Square Enix
ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+ (fantasy violence)
The bad news about "Supreme Commander 2" is the same bad news that's held true for every real-time strategy game developers have attempted to migrate from PCs to consoles: If you're playing it this way, you're settling.
The good news? You're settling a lot less this time around.
Contrary to the buggy volcano that erupted when Hellbent Games ported the first "Supreme Commander" to the Xbox 360, "SC2" generally functions as it should. It isn't as pretty as on a top-shelf PC, but it's pretty enough, and outside of the occasional framerate dip, it keeps up on the performance side as well.
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From wikipedia:
Gwendolyn Knight (April 20, 1914 – February 18, 2005) was an African American artist from Barbados, in the West Indies.
Gwendolyn Knight painted throughout her life, but did not start seriously exhibiting her work until the 1970s. Her first retrospective when she was nearly eighty years old ("Never Late for Heaven: The Art of Gwen Knight," at the Tacoma Art Museum (2003)).
Visit the Jacob and Gwen Knight Lawrence Visual Resource Center.
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For those students that purchase lunch in the Student Union, we now provide cards as proof of payment. You must use your card the same day you purchase your lunch. You cannot use it on another day.
If you receive a free or reduced lunch and are caught selling your lunch card, you will be reported and may lose your free or reduced lunch privileges.
Drop-In homework/tutoring in Room 77. Daily before school 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Tuesday-Friday 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., and Saturdays 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Posted by courier at 09:27 AM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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By T.J. Matsumoto, Courier Sports Editor
On Friday night, the Juniors won a very close game on a controversial call on the last play of the game.
Near the end of the game, after the Juniors forced the Seniors to turn the ball over on downs, running back Chelsea Salom ran a reverse for 34 yards down to the Senior 3 yard line with 16 seconds left. On the following play, the Juniors fumbled the snap, but the referees stopped the clock, which Seniors contended should not have been done as a fumble is a running play and therefore the clock should continue to run.
Posted by courier at 09:16 AM. Filed under: Sports
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From wikipedia:
Etheridge Knight (April 19, 1931 – March 10, 1991) was an African-American poet who became a notable poet in 1968 with his debut volume,
Poems from Prison. The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after Etheridge was arrested for robbery in 1960. A prose version was published in Italian as
Voce negre dal carcere, and in English as
Black Voices from Prison (1970), which includes other prisoners' writings. He is considered one of the major poets of the Black Arts Movement, which flourished from the early 1960s through the mid-1970s.
Read poems by Etheridge Knight.
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MISCELLANEOUS
For those students that purchase lunch in the Student Union, we now provide cards as proof of payment. You must use your card the same day you purchase your lunch. You cannot use it on another day.
If you receive a free or reduced lunch and are caught selling your lunch card, you will be reported and may lose your free or reduced lunch privileges.
Drop-In homework/tutoring in Room 77. Daily before school 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Tuesday-Friday 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., and Saturdays 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
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Faux Real by Christine Moon, Courier Staff Artist
From The Courier's Archives
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From the Spartacus Educational website:
Clarence Darrow was born in Kinsman, Ohio, on 18th April, 1857. His father had originally trained as a Unitarian minister, but lost his faith and Clarence was brought up as an agnostic. An opponent of slavery, Darrow brought up his son as a supporter of reformist politicians such as Horace Greeley and Samuel Tilden. Another important influence was the radical journalist, Henry George.
After an education at Allegheny College and the University of Michigan Law School, Darrow became a member of the Ohio bar in 1878. For the next nine years he was a typical small-town lawyer. However, in 1887 Darrow moved to Chicago in search of more interesting work.
Read Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow, free from Project Gutenberg.
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From wikipedia:
Laverne Scott Caldwell (born 17 April, 1950) is an American Tony Award-winning actress known for her role as Rose on Lost.
Caldwell, who earned a degree in Theater Arts and Communications from Loyola University Chicago, has an extensive background in feature films, television and theater. Her film credits include
Mystery Alaska, Waiting to Exhale, The Net, The Fugitive, Dutch and
Without a Trace. Caldwell had recurring roles on
Judging Amy, and has guest-starred in JAG,
Chicago Hope, City of Angels and
Promised Land, all on CBS. Her additional television credits include
The Practice, The Division, Any Day Now, Murder One, The Pretender, Grace Under Fire, Melrose Place, Lois and Clark, ER, Nip/Tuck, L.A. Law, Ghost Whisperer, Cold Case, Saving Grace, State of Mind, and
The Cosby Show.
Watch L. Scott Caldwell in an episode of
Lost.
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By Krystyna Wolny, Courier Staff Writer
San Francisco’s Third Eye Blind released
Ursa Major in August 2009, which is their first album in six years. Being a former Third Eye Blind fan I took this opportunity to reconnect with my inner liking for rock, and I wasn’t too disappointed.
Overall, their music hasn’t changed much, but it seems to be edgier and more intense, especially in terms of the complexity of the songs. Each song is different, which is something that definitely stood out to me, as songs usually have a similar sound to them on most other artists’ albums.
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By Shamal Asnani, Courier Staff Writer
Last month marked the DVD and Blu-ray release of a movie which has been highly anticipated,
2012. The film is based off the belief that the world as we know it will end in the year 2012.
The film stars John Cusack as Jackson Curtis, a science fiction novelist, and limousine driver. He is divorced, and his wife, Kate (Amanda Peet), lives with their kids and her plastic surgeon boyfriend. One day, John takes his kids on a camping trip to Yellowstone National Park.
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From wikipedia:
Richard "Dick" Lane (April 16, 1928 – January 29, 2002) nicknamed "Night Train", was an American football player, best known as a defensive back for the Chicago Cardinals and Detroit Lions. During his rookie season in 1952, Lane established the record for most interceptions in an NFL season (14).
He was born in Austin, Texas, and raised by Ella Lane, a woman who found him abandoned as an infant. After graduation from high school, he spent one year in junior college before dropping out and serving four years in the United States Army.
Visit the official Dick Lane website.
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By Omar Olimi, Courier Staff Writer
This weekend the James Logan Forensics Team, coached by Tommie Lindsey Jr., will be sending 54 competitors to the Speech and Debate State Tournament in Bakersfield.
Competitors are able to compete at the State tournament only if they qualified in their event at the State Qualifiers tournament, which was held several weeks ago.
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Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa>
By Danny Yadron
Medill News Service (MCT)
WASHINGTON — The Senate's most powerful Democrat on education unveiled a $23 billion bailout for public schools on Wednesday, hoping to keep classrooms staffed as cash-strapped states burn through the last of their federal stimulus dollars.
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said unless Congress acts, many of the education policy changes currently being weighed by the Obama administration and Congress will be pointless.
"This has to move right away," said Harkin. "The pink slips are going out right now, and it can't wait."
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By Lisa M. Krieger
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. — For the first time, University of California, Berkeley has doubled the number of admission offers to out-of-state and international students — while cutting coveted spaces for California residents.
Saying the state did not provide enough money to support California students, the university dropped the number of in-state offers by 15 percent — from 11,184 for the current school year to 9,459 for next fall's freshman class, according to data released Wednesday by UC.
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By Beatrice Esteban,
Courier Managing Editor
Folk music has been around for centuries but has often been ridiculed by people that prefer a more contemporary sound in their music. Despite the respect that the music community holds for artists such as Bob Dylan, some proclaim folk music to be a silly, outdated, and dying genre of music. However, in recent years, many different styles of music have emerged from the indie music scene. One such sub-genre, known as indie folk, combines elements of folk storytelling and the mellow instrumentals of soft indie rock. Singer-songwriter M. Ward and actress Zooey Deschanel fit perfectly into this description with their band She & Him’s second album,
Volume Two.
In their sophomore effort, the two appear to be even more heavily influenced by folk than on their first album,
Volume One. However, this influence comes with a price: the album’s content is much less substantive than
Volume One, focusing primarily on love-oriented songs.
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Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
Paperback: 232 pages
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0802132952
ISBN-13: 978-0802132956
When I received my list of suggested 20th century novels in my AP Lit class, I was surprised to see one of my favorite books, William S. Burroughs'
Naked Lunch on the paper.
Although it is considered one of the most significant novels of the twentieth century, the book is still obscene to some, called "pornography" by my own journalism teacher. A scattered and oddly poetic novel, it tells the tale of a heroin addict unmoored in New York city, Tangiers and eventually the wasteland of Interzone, a journey in and out of reality through the labyrinthine mind of an addict.
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Immortal by Gillian Shields
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061375802
ISBN-13: 978-0061375804
“Between the clouds, I caught sight of the sun slipping behind the moors like a streak of blood. The leaden sky seemed to press down heavily on the land. I had lived all my life next to the open sea, and those dark hills made me feel strangely hemmed in. For all my brave talk, I suddenly felt very small and alone. How stupid I'd been not to let Dad come.... Then the car turned a corner, and the church tower and gray stone buildings of Wyldcliffe village finally came into sight. The driver pulled up outside a tiny general store on the rain-blackened street. ‘Where to, then?’ he growled. ‘The Abbey,’ I replied. ‘You know, Wyldcliffe Abbey School.’ He twisted his head around and glared at me. ‘I'll not take you to that cursed place,’ he spat. ‘You can get out and walk.’”
Have you ever dreamed of what life would be like if you never died? How the world would change? How people would change? But what if in all those years of living you had to stay in the same area? The same place you’ve lived all your life? Watching as everyone you knew and loved died? Would you feel trapped? Lonely? Okay? Well in this book Evie Johnson is about to find a world quite like this.
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The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Baen (August 11, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1439132836
ISBN-13: 978-1439132838,
Courier Staff Writer
“From the neck half-way down the back, was something which was not flesh. A couple of inches thick, it gave the corpse a round-shouldered, or slightly humped, appearance.
It pulsed.”
While the threat of an invasion of aliens from space might seem cliché now, it wasn’t in 1951 when Robert Heinlein, famous science fiction writer, wrote “The Puppet Masters”. The novel is a quick read (175 pages) with a continuously moving plot, but still manages to bring out important themes like fear of assimilation, sacrifices for freedom, the problems with efforts to create a Utopia, and loss of individuality.
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Open House is tonight! Students, be sure to remind your parents that Logan’s Open House is tonight from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. This is your parents’ chance to drop in to visit your teachers and see some of the excellent work you’ve done this year. Today during 3rd period you will be given a flyer to fill out your schedule; please bring it home to your parents so they know what classes to go to. Thanks, and we look forward to seeing your parents tonight!
It’s time again to nominate a teacher or counselor for Teacher of the Year. Ask your teacher for a nominating form or get one at your house office, fill it out and turn it in by April 30th.
Yearbooks are still on sale. Buy your yearbook for $90 in Room 44 after school. Hurry, before they sell out!
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From wikipedia
Eugene "Jug" Ammons (April 14, 1925 – August 6, 1974) also known as "The Boss," was an American jazz tenor saxophone player, and the son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons.
Ammons began to gain recognition when he went on the road with trumpeter King Kolax band in 1943, at the age of 18. He became a member of the Billy Eckstine and Woody Herman bands in 1944 and 1949 respectively, and then in 1950 formed a duet with Sonny Stitt. His later career was interrupted by two prison sentences for narcotics possession, the first from 1958 to 1960, the second from 1962 to 1969. He recorded as a leader for Mercury (1947-1949), Aristocrat (1948-1950) and Chess (1950-1951), Prestige (1950-1952), Decca (1952), and United (1952-1953). For the rest of his career, he was affiliated with Prestige.
Learn more about Gene Ammons at geneammons.com.
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Another Money Box winner: Congratulations go out to Nargis Hakeem for winning the TzuChi scholarship.
Yearbooks are still on sale. Buy your yearbook for $90 in Room 44 after school. Hurry, before they sell out!
It’s time again to nominate a teacher or counselor for Teacher of the Year. Ask your teacher for a nominating form or get one at your house office, fill it out and turn it in by April 30th.
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Reviewed for: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
Also available for: Windows PC
From: Avalanche Studios/Eidos/Square Enix
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood, drug reference,
language, sexual themes, violence)
The original "Just Cause" was sensationally fun despite having more issues than a panophobia convention, so how much better is "Just Cause 2" by touching the same fun-at-all-costs nerve and doing it without all those aforementioned issues?
No one really knows, because "JC2" brings back several of those issues en route to a sloppy opening hour that, thankfully, isn't a complete indication of things to come.
Most glaringly, "JC2" shoots like a third-person shooter from 2003. Auto-aim runs rampant, manual targeting is unwieldy and players looking for a way to seek cover will be dismayed to discover even the basic crouch mechanic is completely useless.
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Nellallitea 'Nella' Larsen (first called
Nellie Walker) (April 13, 1891 – March 30, 1964) was an American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote two novels and a few short stories. Though her literary output was scant, what she wrote earned her recognition by her contemporaries and by present-day critics.
Nella Larsen went by various names throughout her life. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, on April 13, 1891 as Nellie Walker. She was the daughter of Danish immigrant Marie Hanson and Peter Walker, a West Indian man of color from Saint Croix who soon disappeared from her life. Her mother was a domestic case worker. Taking the surname of her Scandinavian stepfather Peter Larsen, Walker also at times went by Nellye Larson, Nellie Larsen and, finally, Nella Larsen. When she married, she sometimes used her married name Nella Larsen Imes.
Read excerpts of Nella Larsen's novel, Quicksand, free from googlebooks.
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Happy Birthday to our 3rd President, Thomas Jefferson, born this day in 1743.
On Thursday, April 15th, the Career Center will host a presentation by the University of Hawaii. To get more info and to be part of the presentation, you must sign up in the Career Center.
Summer School Applications Now Due! Students, this is a reminder that summer school applications are now due. Priority registration will be given to those students who submit their application by April 30th. Remember that you need to give your counselor time to review your application, so leave extra time for that. Summer will be here before you know it, so it’s time to get it turned in!
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By Michael Muskal,
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES - A group of economists on Monday said that it was too soon to know when the U.S. recession had ended, a technical ruling that has more than academic interest in this midterm election year.
In a statement published on its Web site, the National Bureau of Economic Research said that the usual indicators showed the economy was improving, but that it was too soon to put a date on when the recession ended.
"The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research met at the organization's headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 8, 2010," the group said. The committee examines economic indicators to determine the trough date, the end of contraction and the beginning of expansion for the recession that began in December 2007.
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From wikipedia:
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American pianist and composer. He is regarded not only as one of the greatest living jazz musicians, but also as one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century. His music embraces elements of funk and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz. In his jazz improvisation, he possesses a unique creative blend of jazz, blues, and modern classical music, with harmonic stylings much like the styles of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.
Visit Herbie Hancock's website.
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From wikipedia:
Jane Matilda Bolin LL.B. (April 11, 1908-January 8, 2007) was the first African-American woman to graduate from Yale Law School, the first to join the New York City Bar Association, and the first to join the city's law department. She became the first black woman to serve as a judge in the United States when she was sworn in to the bench of the New York City Domestic Relations Court in 1939.
Bolin was born in Poughkeepsie, New York. She was the youngest of four siblings. Her father, Gaius Charles Bolin, was the first African-American to graduate from Williams College and became a lawyer. Her mother, Matilda Ingram Bolin (née Emery), a white Englishwoman, died when Bolin was 8 years old.
Read more about Jane Bolin at the website of the American Bar Association.
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From wikipedia:Bunny Wailer, also known as Bunny Livingston (born Neville O'Riley Livingston, April 10, 1947, Jamaica), is a singer songwriter and percussionist and was an original member of reggae group The Wailers along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. He is widely regarded as a musical legend and is considered one of the longtime standard bearers of reggae music. He has been named by Newsweek as one of the three most important musicians in world music.
Listen to an interview with Bunny Wailer, free from ireggae.com.
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From wikipedia:
Irene Morgan (April 9, 1917 – August 10, 2007), later known as Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, was an important predecessor to Rosa Parks in the successful fight to overturn segregation laws in the United States. Like the more famous Parks, but eleven years earlier, in 1944, the 27-year-old Baltimore-born African-American was arrested and jailed in Virginia for refusing to give up her seat on an interstate Greyhound bus to a white person. In a 1946 landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-1 that Virginia's state law enforcing segregation on interstate buses was illegal.
A fateful bus ride
In July 1944, Morgan was a 27-year-old mother of two, who was in Gloucester County, Virginia visiting her mother. One Sunday morning she boarded a Greyhound Lines intercity bus bound for Baltimore, Maryland, where she was going home from visiting her mother in Gloucester county, Virginia. She sat down four rows from the back of the bus, in the section for "colored" people. When a white couple boarded and needed seats, the driver told Morgan and her seatmate to move farther back. Irene Morgan refused.
Read Irene Moran's obituary in the New York Times.
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From wikipedia:
Carmen Mercedes McRae (April 8, 1920 – November 10, 1994) was an American jazz singer, composer, pianist, and actress. Considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century, it was her behind-the-beat phrasing and her ironic interpretations of song lyrics that made her memorable. McRae drew inspiration from Billie Holiday, but established her own distinctive voice. She went on to record over 60 albums, enjoying a rich musical career, performing and recording in the United States, Europe, and Japan.
Learn more about Carmen McRae, free from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Billie Holiday(April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), born Eleanora Fagan and later called Lady Day, was an American singer known equally for her difficult life and her emotive, poignant singing voice. Holiday has long been considered one of the greatest jazz voices of all time.
Early life
Holiday had a difficult childhood which greatly affected her life and career. Much of her childhood is clouded by conjecture and legend, some of it propagated by her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, published in 1956. This account is known to contain many inaccuracies. Her professional pseudonym was taken from Billie Dove, an actress she admired, and Clarence Holiday, her probable father. At the outset of her career, she spelled her last name "Halliday," presumably to distance herself from her neglectful father, but eventually changed it back to "Holiday."
Visit Billie Holiday: The Official Site of Lady Day, for more information.
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Metro 2033
Reviewed for: Xbox 360
Also available for: Windows PC
From: 4A Games/THQ
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood, sexual themes,
strong language, use of drugs, violence)
Give 10 nitpickers 10 hours each to run through "Metro 2033," and each probably would emerge with a unique laundry list of missteps. There's no multiplayer. The gunplay is just a touch off. Checkpoints occasionally appear before unskippable (and, upon failure to reach the next checkpoint, repeating) cutscenes. The running animation looks hilariously wrong. The voice acting cuts out when it shouldn't. Human enemies have weird, sometimes amusing A.I. patterns, and they occasionally can withstand a perfect headshot and continue functioning like it's a bee sting.
But a staunch dedication to atmosphere — and a willingness to do anything, even to the player's occasional temporary detriment, to creatively make that ambience sing — is perhaps the one thing that makes grievances easiest to forgive. Despite dealing with themes (Nazis, Soviets, mutants, post-apocalyptic wastelands and subterranean warfare) other games have wrung dry, it's this attention to mood that makes "2033" not only forgivable, but an arguable must-play.
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From wikipedia:
Ivan Dixon (April 6, 1931 – March 16, 2008) was an American actor, director, and producer best known for his series role in the 1960s sitcom
Hogan's Heroes, for his role in the 1967 telefilm
The Final War of Olly Winter, and for directing hundreds of episodes of television series. Active in the Civil Rights Movement, he served as a president of Negro Actors for Action.
Watch an interview with Ivan Dixon, free from ReelBlack and YouTube.
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Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856, – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author and leader of the African American community.
Washington was born into slavery to a white father and a black slave mother on a rural farm in southwestern Virginia. After the slaves were freed there in 1865, he worked in West Virginia in a variety of menial labor jobs for several years before making his way to Hampton Roads seeking an education. He worked his way through the school which is now Hampton University and attended college at Wayland Seminary. After returning to Hampton as a teacher, upon recommendation of Hampton's president, Sam Armstrong, he was named in 1881 as the first leader of the new normal school which became Tuskegee University in Alabama.
Read Up from Slavery: an autobiography by Booker T. Washington,
one of three of his works presented free by Project Gutenberg.
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Bubble Jim by Sabina Singh,
Courier Comics Editor
Daily Life by Anjelica Ramos, Courier Staff Artist
It's a Lulu by Lulu Zhong, Courier Staff Artist
This Side Up by Laurel Brodzinsky, Courier Staff Artist/Writer
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From wikipedia:
Major Lance (April 4, 1939 – September 3, 1994) was an American R&B singer. After a number of US hits in the 1960s, including "The Monkey Time" and "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um", he became an iconic figure in Britain in the 1970s among followers of Northern soul.
Major Lance was born in Winterville, Mississippi. Major was his given forename. As a child, he relocated with his family to Chicago, attending Wells High School - the same school as Curtis Mayfield and Jerry Butler - taking up boxing and also singing as a member of the Five Gospel Harmonaires. In the mid-1950s, he and singer Otis Leavill formed a group, the Floats, who broke up before recording any material. Lance became a featured dancer on a local TV show, and presenter Jim Lounsbury secured him a one-off record deal with Mercury Records, who released his single "I Got a Girl", written and produced by Curtis Mayfield, in 1959. The record was not successful, and Lance worked at various jobs over the next few years.
Watch Major Lance perform "The Beat, free from YouTube.com.
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From wikipedia:
James Harrell McGriff (April 3, 1936 -- May 24, 2008)[1] was a hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader who developed a distinctive style of playing the Hammond B-3 organ.
Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, McGriff started playing piano at the age of five and by his teens, also learned to play vibes, alto sax, drums and upright bass. His first group was a piano trio, which found him playing bass in the band. When he joined the Army, McGriff served as an MP during the Korean War and he later became a police officer in Philadelphia for two years.
Learn more about Jimmy McGriff, free from soul-sides.com.
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By Julie Mendoza, Courier Staff Writer
Many people are familiar with the classic teen film.
Dazed and Confused. The movie set precedents for teenage film being produced today. Taking place in 1976,
Dazed and Confused settles into the life of normal adolescents celebrating their last day of school. This includes hazing, drugs, partying, and figuring out what you're gonna do for the rest of your life. It consists of struggles that every teen still has trouble with. High school, no matter what generation, has something familiar and irreplaceable.
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301 Broadway Oakland
510.922.1615
Do you like good food? Do you have soul? If you answered yes to either of these questions, you should follow your nose to Souley Vegan, a restaurant specializing in vegan versions of your favorite comfort foods. The inside of the restaurant is white and modest, paintings of famous soulful people like Ella Fitzgerald line the walls and there's a live band on some Friday nights.
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By Shamal Asnani, Courier Film Critic
Adam Sandler is undoubtedly one of the best current actors in comedy today, and his partnership with Kevin James, in
I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry, was no exception to this fact. The movie centers around two firemen, Chuck (Adam Sandler) and Larry (Kevin James). Although the two are quite good friends, they are also quite different. Chuck is a ladies man, living on his own, who enjoys nothing more than having a good time. On the contrary, Larry is a widower, a father of two children, and is constantly devoted to being the best family man that he could possibly be.
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From wikipedia:
Booker Little, Jr (2 April 1938 – 5 October 1961), was an American jazz trumpeter and composer.
Despite his premature death from kidney failure at the age of 23, Little made an important contribution to jazz. Stylistically, his sound is rooted in the playing of Clifford Brown, featuring crisp articulation, a burnished tone and balanced phrasing. He is considered to be one of the first trumpet players to develop his own sound after Clifford Brown.
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NO OFF CAMPUS ROP CLASSES TODAY in Fremont.
Summer School Applications Now Available! Students, do you need to make up a failed class, or improve a pesky “D” you may have on your transcript? Well, summer school applications are now available in the counseling center. Adult School offerings will be limited this summer, so be sure to submit your signed summer school application by April 30th for preferred placement and registration. We have some interesting new offerings available this year, so check it out. See your counselor, Mr. Brar or Mr. Smith for more information.
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By Zola Boyd, Courier Staff Writer
I'm sure any student at Logan knows what's going down on Saturday, May 29th, right? Senior Ball, of course, but that's not it. Not everyone is cut out for all that high heels and limousines business. If you don't feel like going to prom this year, but still want to get your groove on, you should make your way to ETD Pop 2010, a big ass rave that just happens to be the same night as prom. There's no dress code and everyone is going to be feeling real good, so get into it.
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By Eric Brown, Courier Music Editor
Reviewing Becca, the new chick rock artist from Portland, Oregon, requires somewhat of a handicap: in a music industry awash with incompetent and untalented media whores, the role of the woman in music has shifted drastically in recent years. While her debut album
Alive!! is far from a musical masterpiece, Becca is able to inject some sense of creativity into what has become a truly pitiful genre.
The artist, whose biography stresses her affiliation with Nineties rocker Meredith Brooks, is not your typical Beyonce or Rihanna prototype. In the package that was sent to the Courier, Becca’s body and physical appearance is highly downplayed—this isn’t to say she’s unattractive, but her record company makes it clear that she is not being marketed based on looks. Her biography also accentuates both humble and unconventional beginnings: Becca has been playing music since her early childhood, started collaborating with Brooks in her teenage years, and has since become a sensation in Japan. Although some of her music was used for commercial purposes, such as a Japanese anime show, Becca’s package generally seemed to be a genuine and promising one.
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By Eric Brown, Courier Music Editor
Just a little less than forty years ago Jimi Hendrix, the seminal guitar virtuoso prophet of the Hippie Generation, played his final concert. The musician operated from 1967 until 1970, when he died an untimely and drug-induced death at the age of twenty-seven. Hendrix only released three studio albums, which to many guitarists and rock fans are not far from musical scripture, but was actually far more prolific than his initial catalog might indicate; once he became famous, Hendrix founded Electric Lady studios in New York City, where his frequent jam sessions with other masterful musicians became legendary. Ever since his fateful demise, Hendrix’s estate has been mining this veritable wealth of recordings, many of which faithful fans consider to be travesties. The most recent installment of these disputed studio takes is the new album Valleys of Neptune.
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By Jericho Faustino, Courier Staff Writer
The new CD,
FrostBite, delivers cool club bangers from one of the game's hottest artists, Gucci Mane.
I've never actually been a fan of Gucci Mane, but this album isn't as bad as I thought it would be. Something I liked about this album is the song " Mi Casa Tu Casa." Gucci Mane spits so much fire on this track that it started to steam up my computer screen.
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From wikipedia:
Alberta Hunter (April 1, 1895 – October 17, 1984)[1] was an American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse. Her career had started back in the early 1920s, and from there on, she became a successful jazz and blues recording artist, being critically acclaimed to the ranks of Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith. In the 1950s, she retired from performing and entered the medical field, only to successfully resume her singing career in her eighties.
Born in Memphis, she left home while still in her early teens and settled in Chicago, Illinois. There, she peeled potatoes by day and hounded club owners by night, determined to land a singing job. Her persistence paid off, and Hunter began a climb through some of the city's lowest dives to a headlining job at its most prestigious venue for black entertainers, the Dreamland ballroom. She had a five-year association with the Dreamland, beginning in 1917, and her salary rose to $35 a week.
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