This is the archive for June 2010
Red Carpet Ready by Melissa Rivers
with Tim Vandehey
Harmony Books, New York
277 pages
$22.99
Deep down in the summer reading pile is a biography, "Red Carpet Ready," from Melissa Rivers, celebrity interviewer and daughter of comedian Joan Rivers, writing with Tim Vandehey.
While Rivers has seen the rise and fall of many a Hollywood celebrity, "Red Carpet Ready" is basically a self-help book aimed at those who may never walk the Oscar red carpet but do have to have the confidence to march across a platform to get a graduation certificate.
"All of us have Red Carpet Moments throughout our lives. They're weddings, bat mitzvahs, and interviews for dream jobs. They're also breakups and painful apologies. A Red Carpet Moment is any time when the spotlight is on you, for better or worse."
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Lena Horne photographed
by Carl Van Vechten, 1941 ((June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010), was an iconic American singer and actress. She has recorded and performed extensively, independently and with other jazz notables, including Artie Shaw, Teddy Wilson, Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, and Charlie Barnet. She currently lives in New York City and no longer makes public appearances.
Lena Horne was born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. She grew up in an upper middle class black community. Her father, Edwin "Teddy" Horne, who worked in the gambling trade, left the family when she was three. Her mother, Edna Scottron, was the daughter of inventor Samuel R. Scottron; she was an actress with an African American theater troupe and traveled extensively. Horne was mainly raised by her grandparents, Cora Calhoun and Edwin Horne. Her uncle, Frank S. Horne, was an adviser to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She is a reported descendant of the John C. Calhoun family.
Learn more about Lena Horne, and see her perform, at lena-horne.com.
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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11
Reviewed for: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
Also available for: Wii
From: EA Tiburon/EA Sports
ESRB Rating: Everyone (comic mischief)
It takes a special kind of thread to maneuver a needle as well-established (and, because it's a professional golfing simulation, creatively handcuffed) as "Tiger Woods PGA Tour," and it's doubly difficult to please everybody in doing so. But in making changes that separately benefit those who want a more accessible golf experience and those who want a game that makes that first group cry, that's precisely what "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11" does.
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From wikipedia:
James Van Der Zee (June 29, 1886 - May 15, 1983) was an African American photographer best known for his portraits of black New Yorkers. He was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Aside from the artistic merits of his work, Van Der Zee produced the most comprehensive documentation of the period. Among his most famous subjects during this time were Marcus Garvey, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Countee Cullen.
James Van Der Zee was born in Lenox, Massachusetts. His parents were John and Elizabeth Van Der Zee. His parents worked for President Ulysses S. Grant in New York City. James was the second of six children and enjoyed a close-knit family. His best friend was Justin Moore. As a child he learned piano, violin, and art. Van Der Zee received his first camera at the age of 14. This was a life changing gift. He soon traveled to New York with his brother and father. He was a skilled pianist and an aspiring professional violinist, but hated painting. The five-piece Harlem Orchestra was created by Van Der Zee, in which he also performed. He discovered photography as a hobby in his hometown of Lenox. At age fourteen he received his first camera from a magazine promotion. His interest with the toy camera led him to getting a slightly better camera with which he would take hundreds of photographs of the town and his family. He was only the second person in Lenox to own a camera, and he developed the images himself. This early start led him to a vast and prolific career documenting each decade in his unique style of photography.
See examples of James Van Der Zee's work, free from Artcyclopedia.com.
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Maria Goeppert-Mayer (June 28, 1906 – February 20, 1972) was a German-born American theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus. She is the second female laureate in physics after Marie Curie.
Goeppert-Mayer was born Maria Goeppert in Kattowitz, within the German Empire's Prussian Province of Silesia. Her family moved to Göttingen in 1910 when her father Friedrich was appointed Professor of Paediatrics at the town's university. On her father's side, Goeppert-Mayer a seventh generation professor. From a young age, she was surrounded by the students and lecturers from the university, intellectuals including future Nobel winners, Enrico Fermi, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, and Wolfgang Pauli. In 1924 Goeppert passed the university's abitur entrance examinations and enrolled there in the fall. Among her professors were three Nobel prize winners: Max Born, James Franck, and Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus. In 1930 Goeppert married Dr Joseph Edward Mayer, the assistant of James Franck. The couple moved to the United States, Mayer's home country.
Read maria Geoppert-Mayer's Nobel Prize lecture, free from Nobelprize.org.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872– February 9, 1906) was a seminal African American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dunbar gained national recognition for his 1896 Ode to Ethiopia, one poem in the collection Lyrics of Lowly Life.
Dunbar was born in Dayton, Ohio to parents who had escaped from slavery in Kentucky; his father was a veteran of the American Civil War, having served in the 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment and the 5th Massachusetts Colored Cavalry Regiment. His parents instilled in him a love of learning and history. He was the only African-American student during the years he attended Dayton's Central High School, and he participated actively as a student. During high school, he was both the editor of the school newspaper and class president, as well as the president of the school literary society. Dunbar had also started the first African-American newspaper in Dayton.
Visit the University of Dayton's Paul Laurence Dunbar website.
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From wikipedia:
Big Bill Broonzy (26 June 1898 – 14 August 1958) was a prolific American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s when he played Country blues to mostly black audiences. Through the ‘30s and ‘40s he successfully navigated a transition in style to a more urban blues sound popular with white audiences. In the 1950s a return to his traditional folk-blues roots made him one of the leading figures of the emerging American folk music revival and an international star. His long and varied career marks him as one of the key figures in the development of blues music in the 20th century.
Broonzy copyrighted more than 300 songs during his lifetime, including both adaptations of traditional folk songs and original blues songs. As a blues composer, he was unique in that his compositions reflected the many vantage points of his rural-to-urban experiences.
Watch Big Bill Broonzy perform the "Worried Man Blues," free from youtube.com.
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James H. Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is an American civil rights movement figure. He was the first African American student at the University of Mississippi, an event that was a flash point in the American civil rights movement. Motivated by the broadcast of President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address (which did not mention civil rights per se) Meredith decided to apply his democratic rights and then made the ultimate decision to apply to the University of Mississippi. Meredith's goal was to put pressure on the Kennedy administration.
Read more about James Meredith, free from racematters.org.
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From wikipedia:
Dr. Matilda Arabella Evans (May 13, 1872 – 1935) was the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in South Carolina.
Matilda Arabella Evans was born in 1872 to Anderson and Harriet Evans of Aiken, South Carolina, where she attended the Schofield Industrial School. Encouraged by Martha Schofield, the school's founder, Evans enrolled in Oberlin College in Ohio, attended on scholarship for almost four years, and left before graduating, in 1891, to pursue a medical career.
Read more about Dr. Matilda Evans.
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From wikipedia:
Milton John "Milt" Hinton (June 23, 1910 – December 19, 2000), "the dean of jazz bass players," was an American jazz double bassist and photographer. He was nicknamed "The Judge".
Hinton was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he resided until age eleven when he moved to Chicago, Illinois. He attended Wendell Phillips High School and Crane Junior College. While attending these schools, he learned to play the bass horn, tuba, cello and the double bass.
Visit MiltHinton.com.
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Green Day: Rock Band
For: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
From: Harmonix/MTV Games/EA
ESRB Rating: Teen (drug reference,
lyrics, mild blood)
Some would argue that "Rock Band's" migration from honoring The Beatles last fall to honoring Green Day now is akin to Ken Burns following up his Civil War documentary with a 15-hour look at Wrestlemania. But that, like nearly everything else with regard to music, is entirely subjective.
Still, in case it somehow needs to be said, "Green Day: Rock Band" isn't for anyone who doesn't appreciate the musical stylings of Green Day enough to play the band's songs ad nauseam. Just as "Beatles: Rock Band" featured nothing but The Beatles, this package contains nothing but Green Day songs, and while players can migrate the catalog into "Rock Band 2" (and eventually "Rock Band 3") this time, this game itself allows nary a note from any other band. So if you don't like Green Day, you know what not to do here.
What is a little cloudy is what to do if you do like the band.
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From wikipedia:
Katherine Mary Dunham (22 June 1909 – 21 May 2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, songwriter, author, educator and activist who was trained as an anthropologist. Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers in American and European theater of the 20th century and has been called the "Matriarch and Queen Mother of Black Dance".
During her heyday in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, she was renowned throughout Europe and Latin America as La Grande Katherine, and the Washington Post called her "Dance's Katherine the Great". For more than 30 years she maintained the Katherine Dunham Dance Company, the only permanent, self-subsidized American black dance troupe at that time, and over her long career she choreographed more than 90 individual dances. Dunham was an innovator in African-American modern dance as well as a leader in the field of Dance Anthropology, or Ethno choreology.
Visit the Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts and the Humanities.
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By Howard Blume
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES — As he offered a routine explanation of corporations in a recent class, high school economics teacher Dan Schlick hardly came across as subversive.
But just by directly talking to students, just by teaching them, Schlick was part of a self-styled staff revolt in the closing days of a Hawthorne, Calif., school nicknamed Hip Hop High.
The teacher "rebellion" against an online-only curriculum marked a final stage at the Academy for Recording Arts, a school that first became known for giving troubled students access to an on-campus recording studio.
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From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Henry Ossawa Tanner (June 21, 1859–May 25, 1937) was an African American artist who studied with Thomas Eakins and was the first African American painter to reach international acclaim.
Life and career
Tanner was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Benjamin Tucker, a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and Sarah Miller Tanner, a private school teacher. Tanner was the oldest of nine children. In 1864, Tanner and his family moved to Philadelphia, where his artistic interests developed. At the age of thirteen, Tanner decided to become an artist when he saw a painter in Fairmount Park near his home. Initially self taught, Tanner began to draw constantly in his free time and also tried to observe other artists' work in art galleries in Philadelphia. In 1879, Tanner enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and studied under Thomas Eakins, remaining a student there until 1885.
Learn more about Henry Ossawa Tanner and explore links to many of his paintings and other artwork, free from Artcyclopedia.com.
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Bubble Jim by Sabina Singh, Courier Comics Editor
It's a Lulu by Lulu Zhong, Courier Staff Artist
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From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 – November 15, 1932) was an African American author and political activist best known for novels and short stories from Fayetteville, North Carolina. His paternal grandfather was a white slaveholder. Issues of miscegenation, "passing", and racial identity would influence his writing throughout his career.
After the Civil War, the family returned to Fayetteville, where they ran a grocery store. Charles entered school at the age of eight, and at sixteen, became a student-teacher to help support his family following his mother's death. He continued to study and teach, eventually becoming assistant principal of the normal school in Fayetteville.
Read The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt, one of
five of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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By Mark Seibel
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON — BP pulled 25,290 barrels of oil from its runaway Deepwater Horizon site on Thursday, the company said Friday — a high point in its collection efforts but one that adds to the uncertainty over how much oil is flooding into the Gulf of Mexico and whether the Obama administration is prepared for the worst-case scenario.
The new number would suggest that BP is now recovering between 42 percent and 70 percent of the oil surging from the well, if the most recent government estimate that the well is spewing between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels of oil a day is accurate. BP's live video feed from the leak, however, continues to show dark clouds of crude oil and natural gas pouring into the water.
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From wikipedia:
Henry LeTang (June 19, 1915 – April 26, 2007) was an American theatre, film, and television choreographer and a dance instructor.
Born in the Harlem neighbourhood of Manhattan, LeTang was the second son of Clarence, born in Dominica, and his wife Marie, who emigrated from St. Croix. The couple owned and operated a radio and phonograph repair shop. All their children were musically inclined; in addition to his interest in dance, LeTang played the violin. At the age of seventeen, he opened his first studio, one small room with a piano. Over the ensuing decades he taught and/or worked with a multitude of entertainment personalities, including Lena Horne, Betty Hutton, Billie Holiday, Eleanor Powell, Lola Falana, Peter Gennaro, Leslie Uggams, Joey Heatherton, Chita Rivera, Ben Vereen, Debbie Allen, Hinton Battle, Savion Glover, and the Hines brothers, Maurice and Gregory.
Learn more about Henry LeTang, free from DanceUniverse.com.
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510.521.0130
1518 Park Street, Alameda
Lunch: Monday thru Friday: 11:30am - 2:00pm
Dinner: Nightly beginning at 5:00pm
Happy Hour: Monday through Friday
4:30pm – 6pm (1/2 price mojitos),
Courier Staff Writer
Let’s start off by saying that I am a lover of all foods. Mexican food, Thai food, Portuguese food, Honduran food- you name it. So it was to my great pleasure to find Havana, a small Cuban restaurant in Alameda.
The atmosphere is colorful, and lively. With oversized photographs lining the walls of the restaurant, it breaks away from the stereotypical Cuban/Miami scene. The blue and green walls and the big windows help to give the atmosphere a calm, beach like ambience.
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By Hailey Galbreath,
Courier Staff Writer
If you're looking for a movie filled with tons of laughs, but isn't shy of romance
Couples Retreat is a great DVD to look into renting. With an all star cast consisting of Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Faizon Love, Malin Akerman, Kristen Bell, and Kristin Davis, the movie definitely holds many laughs for people of all ages.
In the film, four couples travel to a tropical island resort. Three of the four couples
tag along only in the attempt to help the remaining couple work on their failing marriage. Under the impression that they will be partaking in various activities on the island, the three couples embark on the journey with their lifelong friends. But much to their suprprise (and dismay) they soon come to realize that their tropical enjoyment is cut short when they are told that they too must complete couple counseling as well. Their own marriages and relationships are put to the ultimate test as they undergo a series of challenges and courses that test one anothers boundaries. More than one marriage's stability is taken into consideration as the cast exemplifies the problems and situations real life couples face.
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From wikipedia:
Inez J. Baskin (June 18, 1916 – June 28, 2007), was an American journalist and civil rights supporter who covered the Civil Rights Movement and the Montgomery Bus Boycott for African American readers and publications.
Baskin worked as a journalist and reporter for the "Negro News" section of the Montgomery Adviser newspaper. Baskin was hired by Jet Magazine and the American Negro Press in 1955 to cover the bus boycott following the arrest of Rosa Parks.
Learn more about Inez Baskin and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, free from montgomeryboycott.com.
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By Zola Boyd, Courier Staff Writer
Looking for a rad way to start off your summer this year? Then get your toosh to the Electric Daisy Carnival in Los Angeles.
Located at the L.A. Coliseum, the two day festival takes place on June 25th and 26th and features five stages of live music, carnival rides, and circus performers. Tickets are 75 dollars a day or 130 dollars for a two day ticket, and carnival rides are included in the price, which is pretty cheap for a festival that features over 30 performers a day!
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By Beatrice Esteban, Courier Editor-in-Chief
The dominance of pop music has always been highly disputed by music critics worldwide. The flashy and sexually-energized outfits, constant use of Auto-Tune, and lack of true lyrical depth inspired the rise of indie music, a genre made of many sub-genres with one common identifying factor: clear contempt of mainstream music. Emerging into the indie music scene in 2001 with their debut album
Feel Good Lost, Canada’s Broken Social Scene began as a duo recording ambient instrumentals but has expanded into a musical collective group with a varying lineup and evolved style. This becomes clear to the listener in 2010’s
Forgiveness Rock Record, a seamless integration of different music elements in one enjoyable baroque-indie record.
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By Hailey Galbreath,
Courier Staff Writer
With an all star cast consisting of Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Tracy Morgan, Danny Glover, Regina Hall, Kevin Hart, James Marsden, and Zoe Saldana, I was under the impression that the remake of Death at a Funeral would be beautifully done. I expected a mixture of comedy, drama, and raw talent to come forth in the movie, but sadly
Death at a Funeral fell short of my expectations.
I was a little confused throughout the movie, as it is poorly arranged. Alternating scenes between the different groups of people at the funeral of Aaron (Chris Rock) and Ryan's (Martin Lawrence) late father, causes much confusion throughout the movie. We do come to understand (through much explanation, that is) that Aaron is an aspiring writer, looking to
have his first novel published, who envies his younger brother Ryan.
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From wikipedia:
Robert Clyve Maynard (17 June 1937 - 17 August 1993) was an American journalist, and newspaper publisher and editor, former owner of
The Oakland Tribune and co-founder of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education in Oakland, California.
Maynard was born of six children to Samuel C. Maynard and Robertine Isola Greaves, both immigrants from Barbados. At 16 years old, he dropped out of Brooklyn High School to pursue his passion for writing, and later attended Harvard University on a Nieman Fellowship. Maynard became friends with influential New York writers James Baldwin and Langston Hughes and later acknowledged Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a hero.
Visit the Robert C, Maynard Institute for Journalism Education's website.
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MISCELLANEOUS
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.
Need Drivers Education? Your place is the Adult School. Cost is $125. Two summer offerings, each Mon. – Wed., 7 a.m. – 5 p.m., June 21, 22, 23 or August 2, 3, 4. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
The Track & Field Banquet will be Thursday, June 17th @ Crowne Plaza.
If you are moving and not returning to Logan, you must have your parent or guardian come to the Counseling Center to sign drop forms. You must do this no later than June 16th.
Prospective AP Biology students, come by at lunch or after school in Room 204 to pick up information about your summer assignment!
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By Beatrice Esteban,
Courier Editor-in-Chief
James Logan High School has done away with prerequisites to honors and AP classes and has enacted various other changes, effective the 2010-2011 school year. This includes giving summer homework for all AP classes (not just Language Arts) and the signing of a contract agreeing to take the AP exam in May, among other things. The administration claims that they are trying to diversify the AP program at Logan, but that may not necessarily be so.
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By Thao (Michelle) Hoang,
Courier Staff Writer
Last night, there was a lot of anticipation from both the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers. The latter was hoping to win the game in order to win the Championship, whereas the former were depending on the game to continue the series.
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By Susan Yackee, VOA News
Muslim-Americans fear there may be a public backlash following the recent attempted car bombing in New York's Times Square by Pakistani-American suspect Faisal Shahzad. They faced one following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. A timely new book examines the "identity crisis" in America's greater Muslim community.
"My findings are of urgent relevance to America, today," says author Akbar Ahmed of his book,
Journey into Islam. “Communication is needed between the two segments [Muslim and non-Muslim] of society.”
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
The Board of Education on Tuesday night approved a 2010-11 budget that - despite another round of cuts imposed by the state - minimizes a planned increase in class sizes in kindergarten through third grade, saving the jobs of more than 40 teachers.
The $99 million budget - down from $108 million as recently 2008-09 - also enables the District to retain transportation for the middle school students who live farthest from their schools, for the 2010-11 school year only. It also enables the District to postpone for one more year the planned elimination of stipends for after-school activities, until 2012-13.
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By Rick La Plante,
New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
Working together to resolve an issue that would have disrupted and distracted students during testing next spring, the New Haven Unified School District and the New Haven Teachers Association have agreed on a change to the 2010-11 instructional calendar.
As approved Tuesday night by the Board of Education, schools will be closed for spring break April 4-8, 2011, instead of April 25-29, as originally called for in the collective bargaining agreement between the District and NHTA. The change will keep students from having to miss a week of school in the middle of the state- and federally mandated testing window.
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John Hazatone
image: Twitter
John Hazatone, who has 14 years of experience as an elementary school principal, has been hired as principal at Hillview Crest Elementary. The New Haven Unified School District Board of Education approved the appointment Tuesday night.
“We are very excited to welcome John to New Haven,” Superintendent Kari McVeigh said. “His tremendous experience, and his knowledge and enthusiasm, will be a perfect fit for the Hillview Crest family – students parents and staff.”
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From wikipedia:
Marita Bonner (June 16, 1899 – 1971) was an African American writer, essayist, and playwright who is commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She was also known as Marita Occomy, Marita Odette Bonner, Marita Odette Bonner Occomy, Marita Bonner Occomy, Joseph Maree Andrew.
Read more about Marita Bonner, free from the University of Minnesota.
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Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Reviewed for: Playstation 3 and Xbox
360 Also available for: Windows PC,
Wii, PSP and Nintendo DS
From: Ubisoft
ESRB Rating: Teen (violence)
Five "Prince of Persia" games in seven years after three in the preceding 14 has taken the franchise from nowhereville to sequel city in a hurry, and "The Forgotten Sands" does itself no favor by abandoning the dramatic visual and narrative makeover that made the 2008 reboot such a pleasantly fresh surprise.
"Sands" instead is a direct sequel to 2003's "The Sands of Time," which provides the basis of the "Persia" film currently in theaters (and, consequently, should answer whatever questions you had about Ubisoft ditching that reboot and rushing "Sands" out 17 months later).
Early on, "Sands" feels less like a sequel to "Time" than a capable but uninspired imitation of it. It plays like a typical "Persia" game, mixing some ambitious environmental platforming with sword combat that's more fun than special. Per series tradition, the massive traversable environments — ledges, trapeze swings, poles, cliff sides — feel like gigantic environmental riddles more than simple action game playgrounds, and the game uses an assisted character movement scheme that doesn't hold players' hands but also doesn't require angle-perfect precision jumping. As with "Time," and per story dictation, players eventually receive a limited-use ability to rewind time and correct mistimed jumps without reverting back to a checkpoint.
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By Rick La Plante,
New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
Despite being forced by the state to make yet another round of budget reductions, the New Haven Unified School District will be able to reduce a planned increase in class sizes in kindergarten through third grade in 2010-11, saving the jobs of more than 40 teachers, according to the spending plan that will be presented Tuesday night to the Board of Education.
Pending Board approval, the District also will be able to retain transportation for middle school students for 2010-11 and postpone for one more year the planned elimination of stipends for after-school activities, until 2011-12, Superintendent Kari McVeigh said.
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From wikipedia:
Adah Isaacs Menken (June 15, 1835 – August 10, 1868) was an American actress, painter and poet.
She was born Adah Bertha Theodore in New Orleans to a French Creole mother and a Free Negro father, Auguste Theodore. She danced as a child in New Orleans, Havana and Texas. Eventually she worked in San Francisco. Menken was known for her poetry and painting, though both were poorly received. In 1859 she appeared on Broadway in the play "The French Spy. Once again, her work was not highly regarded by the critics. The New York Times described her as 'the worst actress on Broadway'. The Observer said "she is delightfully unhampered by the shackles of talent".
Read more about Adah Menken, free from sfmuseum.org.
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MISCELLANEOUS
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.
Need Drivers Education? Your place is the Adult School. Cost is $125. Two summer offerings, each Mon. – Wed., 7 a.m. – 5 p.m., June 21, 22, 23 or August 2, 3, 4. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
There will be a Cross Country meeting on today @ 3:45 p.m. on the track! Please attend.
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The drilling rig Discoverer Enterprise
recovers oil from the leaking
Deepwater Horizon site in the Gulf of
Mexico on Sunday.
James Edwards Bates/Biloxi Sun Herald/MCT)
WASHINGTON — BP knew its Macondo well was troublesome in the days leading up to a fatal April 20 blowout, congressional investigators found, but the company "appears to have made multiple decisions for economic reasons that increased the danger of a catastrophic well failure."
From the company's uncommon well design to its fatal decision not to circulate drilling mud, which could have cleared out pockets of gas, and the lack of critical testing, which could have pinpointed problems with its cementing, the company had many points at which it could have prevented an explosion, investigators with the House Energy and Commerce Committee have found.
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By Raja Abdulrahim
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES — The Muslim Student Union at the University of California at Irvine should be suspended for one year for its involvement in repeated disruptions of a February speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, according to a disciplinary report released by the university.
The Muslim Student Union has appealed the recommendation.
The speech about U.S.-Israeli relations was interrupted 10 times by students who got up and yelled out things like, "Michael Oren, propagating murder is not an expression of free speech."
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From wikipedia:
Nat Love (1854 - 1921) was an African American cowboy during the time of the claim to that moniker. In 1907, Love wrote his autobiography, "Life and Adventures of Nat Love."
Love was born a slave in Davidson County, Tennessee, in 1854. Despite slavery era statutes that outlawed black literacy he learned to read and write as a child with the help of his father. He later went west to Dodge City, Kansas, and became a cowboy.
Read The Life and Adventures of Nat Love
Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick" by Himself, by Nat Love, free from the University of North Carolina.)
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MISCELLANEOUS
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.
Need Drivers Education? Your place is the Adult School. Cost is $125. Two summer offerings, each Mon. – Wed., 7 a.m. – 5 p.m., June 21, 22, 23 or August 2, 3, 4. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
There will be a Cross Country meeting on Tuesday, June 15th @ 3:45 p.m. on the track! Please attend.
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From The Courier's Archives:
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From wikipedia:
Adolphus Anthony Cheatham, better known as Doc Cheatham (13 June, 1905–2 June, 1997) was a jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader.
After having played in some of the leading jazz groups from the 1920s on, Cheatham's career enjoyed renewed acclaim in later decades; Cheatham himself agreed with the critical assessment that he was probably the only jazz musician to create his best work after the age of 70.
Learn more about Doc Cheatham, free from All About Jazz.
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By Allen Chan, Courier Staff Writer
Only days remain for the senior class and their high school career will come to an end. Luckily, we have memories to hold with us forever.
The top four memories, voted by seniors, are Homecoming day, Senior Skit, Powderpuff, and Senior Prom.
Senior Dana Llarena said, “it was good to take the league title back on homecoming day” while Darren Dela Pena says, “the dance routine [for skit] was epic.”
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By Sabina Singh, Courier Comics Editor
In the past, the district had to cut out school bus transportation and other things in order to balance the district budget. Now, after the latest revision of the state budget, the New Haven Unified School District will be laying off teachers. The lay offs will be taking effect in the 2010-2011 school year.
Teachers were notified in March about the lay offs. Most of the teachers who are being laid off are teachers who were hired this year or ones with temporary contracts. The departments facing the biggest cuts are the Math and English departments.
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From wikipedia:
Charlotte Hawkins Brown (June 11, 1883 - January 11, 1961) was an American educator and academic.
Born Lottie Hawkins in Henderson, North Carolina, in the late 1880s her family moved north to settle in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An exceptional student in a very white world, during her senior year of high school, Alice Freeman Palmer, a former Wellesley College president, provided financial support to enable her to further her education at the State Normal School in Salem.
Read more about Charlotte Hawkins Brown, free from the State Library of North Carolina.
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James Hansen
Courier Staff Photo
James Hansen started teaching at Logan in the fall of 1976. Now after 34 years of working at James Logan High School, he will be retiring.
Hansen is a well-known teacher throughout the school. He is a teacher that students admire and like. Kids have fun in his class because Hansen doesn't just teach. he also jokes around with the class and makes his class fun.
Asked what he thought of Logan students, he said, "I get along with most of them through humor and hopefully they're learning."
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By Ranjana Prasad,
Courier Staff Writer
Stand-out members of the James Logan Forensic Team are on their way to the 2010 National Forensic League National Championship in Kansas City, Missouri.
Members of the forensic team left Wednesday for this five-day tournament that is being held from June 14 to June 18. This is the last tournament for the 2009-2010 school year.
Two of the Logan's duo teams are in transit to the competition.
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By Laurel Brodzinsky, Courier Staff Writer
Second of two parts
Recent changes to the AP and Honors program have resulted in an opening up of those classes to more people. Those who previously would have been limited because of not completing extensive pre-requisites or being GATE-identified earlier now can sign up for higher level courses. Opinions on these changes vary among teachers, staff, and students.
Honors teachers hosted a meeting with prospective students today to explain the programs.
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By Thao (Michelle) Hoang, Courier Staff Writer
SS501 was supposed to have their comeback on May 1st. But due to the delays, they weren’t able to. Now finally, not too long ago, SS501’s new mini-album Destination was released along with a few teasers for the music videos. SS501 worked on this album for 3 months after finishing their Asia Tour. Now the full-length music video for the group’s comeback title track ‘Love Ya’ has been released.
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By Zola Boyd, Courier Staff Writer
This year, my friends and I chose to ditch prom and go to "POP 2010: The Dream" instead, a huge concert/rave/sweaty pile of humans held at the Cow Palace in Daly City. We arrived in style, decked out in lace and glitter and ready to dance, only to find a line of hundreds of people. The wait seemed forever, however half naked people of all shapes and sizes and bizarre costumes were entertainment enough.
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From wikipedia:
Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), better known as
Howlin' Wolf, was an influential American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player.
With a booming voice and looming physical presence, Burnett is commonly ranked among the leading performers in electric blues; musician and critic Cub Koda declared, "no one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits." Many songs popularized by Burnett—such as "Smokestack Lightnin'," "Back Door Man" and "Spoonful"—have become standards of blues and blues rock.
Listen to Howlin' Wolf perform "Moanin' at Midnight," free from wikipedia.
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Android Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy and Ben H. Winters
Quirk Books,
Philadelphia
544 pages
$12.95
Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" has had a futuristic steampunk makeover in "Android Karenina."
The latest literary mash-up takes Tolstoy's classic novel of love and adultery in Russian high society and stuffs it full of robots, wormholes, spaceships and time travel.
Ben H. Winters, known for "Sense and Sensibility and Sea-Monsters" — a collaboration with Jane Austen — takes on the massive task of converting a thousand pages of a Russian literary masterpiece into a svelte science fiction action novel only half that long.
Winters says, "The main concern was to preserve the two love stories that between Anna and (her lover) Vronsky, and that between Levin and Kitty — we had to abridge the book and in abridging it, I had to make sure we kept everything relating to the love stories."
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By Laurel Brodzinsky, Courier Staff Writer
Part One of Two
On a Tuesday last month, administrators and teachers met to discuss changes to the James Logan Advanced Placement and Honors programs.
The administration is attempting to open up the AP and Honors classes to all students, getting rid of the process of teacher recommendations and applications to get into them. Gifted and Talented Education- identified (GATE) students were previously funneled into these classes automatically, while others had to work to get into them. The theory was that GATE-identified students were the most fit for college level or higher level classes, and would be most successful. However, some have now brought out issues with the GATE testing discriminating against students from certain socioeconomic and racial backgrounds.
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Sharon Hope
Courier Staff Photo
As we approach the end of the school year here at James Logan High school, the school is not only saying goodbye to the graduating class of 2010, but also 10th Grade counselor Sharon Hope, who is retiring this year.
Hope started her job as a counselor at James Logan in August of 1974, at the age of twenty-three. Although she had heard the school was looking to hire someone with teaching experience, something she did not possess, she still applied and received the job. She noted that when she first started working here, the school was not exactly in the best shape. However, after taking a brief break from Logan to work at the district’s elementary schools as a counselor, she returned to a much different, yet familiar environment. Upon her return she immediately noticed that the schools attendance record had skyrocketed to 98 %, and that the campus was contaminated by many fewer fights.
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From wikipedia:
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (June 9, 1877 - March 18, 1968) was an African American artist. She is best known as the first African American artist to make art celebrating Afrocentric themes. A multi-talented artist who created poetry and paintings, she is mainly known as a sculptor who explored her African-American roots. Fuller created emotion-packed work with strong social commentary, and became a forerunner of the Black Renaissance, a movement promoting African-American art.
Read more about Meta V.W. Fuller in Black Genius: Inspirational Portraits of America's Black Leaders By Dick Russell and Alvin F. Poussaint, free from Google Books.
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By Tawab Fakhri, Courier Correspondent
The Legend of Zelda series is a large franchise of Nintendo that has captured the hearts and minds of millions of gamers for years. The last
Zelda game on the DS,
Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, was the first handheld game for the Nintendo DS and was considered a critical success with its new style of touch-style play. Nintendo decided to further its luck by creating a sequel to this game-
Zelda: Spirit Tracks. They hit the gold with this game; with new items, a fascinating plot line and a cleaner game interface,
The Spirit Tracks will keep you playing from the beginning to the end.
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By Alexys Cran, Courier Staff Writer
Next year, the house structure of Logan will be returning to a three house model instead of the current four house structure organized around grade levels. These changes will be made to address and correct problems, mainly in counseling, clerical staffing, and in parent feedback.
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Nicholas Staib
Courier staff photo,
Courier Staff Writer
There are a number of students graduating from James Logan this year. Some of them have scholarships, but not as much as Nicholas Staib. He has eight of them.
Senior, Nicholas Staib, leads Logan with the most scholarships, with Justin Chan and Nargis Hakeem right behind him with five scholarships apiece.
"It feels good, like an accomplishment," saidť Nicholas Staib on receiving the scholarships. "It wasn't very easy. You need to write a lot of essays, and paper work, and meet deadlines to stay on top of the scholarship."
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MISCELLANEOUS
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.
Need Drivers Education? Your place is the Adult School. Cost is $125. Two summer offerings, each Mon. – Wed., 7 a.m. – 5 p.m., June 21, 22, 23 or August 2, 3, 4. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
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Red Dead Redemption
For: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
From: Rockstar San Diego
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood, intense
violence, nudity, strong language,
strong sexual content, use of drugs)
The problem with most video game westerns is that you don't need to appreciate the Old West to appreciate them. They're typically designed in the mold of other games, subbing in Old West iconography but otherwise bearing little distinction from so many other shooters covering completely different periods.
"Red Dead Redemption" doesn't have this problem, because while many of its underpinnings are unmistakably lifted from Rockstar's "Grand Theft Auto" games, the degree to which Rockstar caters those parts to the setting — instead of the usual other way around — gives it more Wild West conviction than the sum of almost every virtual western that preceded it.
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U.S. government photo (June 8, 1943 – June 17, 2002) was an American athlete, born in Troy, Alabama. William attended Howland High School, a suburb of Warren in Northeast Ohio. He participated in hurdling events in four Olympic Games, winning the title in 1968. In 1980, he also took part in the Olympic Winter Games as a runner for the American bobsled team.
Read more about Willie Davenport, free from the USA Track and Field Hall of Fame.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Yearbooks will be distributed today after school behind the Book Room. Students must have their I.D. cards to pick up their books.
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.
Need Drivers Education? Your place is the Adult School. Cost is $125. Two summer offerings, each Mon. – Wed., 7 a.m. – 5 p.m., June 21, 22, 23 or August 2, 3, 4. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
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By Alyssa Pimentel, Courier Staff Writer
By the autumn of 2011, the Logan campus will be the site two schools: the current James Logan and a "school-within-a-school" currently in the development stage. The smaller school would kind of act like a magnet school, creating what administrators and others hope will be a “small, individualized education” experience, as requested by the community.
Jessica Lange, one of the teachers that are helping design this school, said it is a work in progress. “Right now, we’re still at the planning stage of everything,” she said, “So there really isn’t much information to give.” Others that are in the planning committee are teachers Alicia Elbert, Jodie Schwartzfrab, Erin Cross, Dorothy Allen, Ed Raco, Stephanie Papas and Principal Amy McNamara.
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Mary Jo Von Pinnon
Eric Brown/Courier Photo,
Courier Staff Writer
It’s June once again, a time of year where nearly all of Logan’s attention is devoted to seniors who are nearing their departure date. The impending graduation ceremony, however, obscures other losses in the Logan community, notably the retirement of Logan teacher Mary Jo Von Pinnon. After dedicating 13 years of her life to the Colt community Von Pinnon, known by many students as Ms. Von, is preparing to call it quits but has many memories from her time spent at Logan.
When Von Pinnon came to Logan in November 1997 she had a considerable amount of work experience, having taught for five years and then worked in the fashion and retail industry for 15 years. Despite her prior work experience Von Pinnon encountered initial difficulty at Logan, stepping into Foods and Keyboarding classes where “there had not been a regular teacher from the beginning of the year and the kids were wild”. Von Pinnon is the first to admit that she was not a computer expert at the time and thanks the help other faculty members gave her.
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From wikipedia:
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American writer. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.
Gwendolyn Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas to David Anderson Brooks and Keziah Wims, their first child. Her mother was a former school teacher who left teaching for marriage and motherhood, and her father, the son of a runaway slave who fought in the Civil War, had given up his ambition to become a doctor to work as a janitor because he could not afford to attend medical school. When Brooks was only six weeks old, her family moved to Chicago, Illinois, where she grew up. She went by the nickname, "Gwendie", which her close friends called her.
Read poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, free from the Academy of American Poets.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Yearbooks will be distributed today after school behind the Book Room. Students must have their I.D. cards to pick up their books.
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
Daily Life by Anjelica Ramos, Courier Staff Artist
It's a Lulu by Lulu Zhong, Courier Staff Artist
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From wikipedia:
Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939) is an American activist for the rights of children. She is president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund.
Edelman was born the youngest of five children to Arthur Jerome Wright and Maggie Leola Brown in Bennettsville, South Carolina. Her father, a Baptist minister who instilled in her that Christianity obligates one to service, died when she was 14, urging in his last words, "Don't let anything get in the way of your education."
Listen to a radio show featuring Marian Wright Edelman, free from Minnesota Public Radio.
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From wikipedia:
Marion Motley (June 5, 1920 - June 27, 1999) was a professional football player, a fullback for the Cleveland Browns, and briefly for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Motley attended high school at Canton McKinley High School in Canton, Ohio, and played college football at South Carolina State and Nevada. Motley joined the U.S. Navy, where he first played for Paul Brown with the Great Lakes Naval Training Station team. This team, full of fine players who had enlisted for World War II, notably defeated Notre Dame 39-7 in 1945. Motley planned on going back to college to get a degree, but then Paul Brown offered him a job with his new professional team. He started his pro football career in 1946, when the Cleveland Browns were part of the new AAFC.
Learn more about Marion Motley, free from the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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By Chris Lee
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
VANCOUVER, Canada — Talk about a Bad Attitude.
As early December, darkness fell on the Vancouver set of Fox's $100-million movie reboot of "The A-Team," one of its stars, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, found himself fending off an all-too-familiar impulse. The urge to, well, rampage.
Pride of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and a former light-heavyweight champ (he last fought May 29 against Rashad Evans in Las Vegas, a bout Jackson lost in a unanimous decision) — a guy whose day job consists of beating the toughest men in the world into either submission or unconsciousness — Jackson stood in the middle of his trailer spewing invective with a glint of real menace in his eye.
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By Thao (Michelle) Hoang,
Courier Staff Writer
On Thursday night, June 3rd, the NBA Finals kicked started the first game at the STAPLES Center. The Lakers came out with a vengeance to win Game 1.
At the start of the game, I knew it was going to be an intense game, with both teams alternating just leading by one point. Lakers knew what they had to do to crush the Celtics.
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From wikipedia:
Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4, 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri – October 28, 1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger and composer.
Oliver Nelson's family was musical: his brother was also a saxophonist who played with Cootie Williams in the 1940s, and his sister sang and played piano. Nelson began learning to play the piano when he was six, and started on the saxophone at eleven. From 1947 he played in "territory" bands around Saint Louis, before joining the Louis Jordan big band from 1950 to 1951, playing alto saxophone and arranging. After military service in the Marines, he returned to Missouri to study music composition and theory at Washington and Lincoln Universities, graduating in 1958.
Read an interview with Oliver Nelson, free from jazzprofiles.blogspot.com.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Yearbooks will be distributed after school on Monday behind the Book Room. Students must have their I.D. cards to pick up their books.
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.
Need Drivers Education? Your place is the Adult School. Cost is $125. Two summer offerings, each Mon. – Wed., 7 a.m. – 5 p.m., June 21, 22, 23 or August 2, 3, 4. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
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Children Pledge Allegiance to the Flag
in San Francisco, California, at Raphael
Weill Public School in 1942.
Dorothea Lange photo
Everyday, at the beginning of second period, Logan Live starts its announcements. During this time they take a few seconds to recite the pledge of allegiance. A question formulates on how many students actually rise and recite the pledge. “None of my classmates rise for the pledge,” says an anonymous student. “Our teacher says we don’t have to.” Similar responses from students are given when asked if they rise during the pledge.
Josh McAllister remembers, “In elementary school, we always stood and recited the pledge. However, in high school nobody really does.” It is true that students in elementary schools are not reluctant to say the pledge, whereas high school students simply do not care. In fact, some people believe there are several causes for this lack of care.
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I have been a fan of The Honorary Title since middle school after watching their video for their hit single "Bridge and Tunnel" in 2004. Struck by lead singer Jarrod Gorbel's charming voice, lyrics, and looks, I have been hooked on most of their first album, "Anything Else But the Truth" and listen to it for nostalgia and reminiscing about being an awkward, whiny preteen. While those words may describe a large percentage of their current fans, that album includes some of my favorite songs, including "Everything I Once Had", and "Anything Else But the Truth". "Anything Else But the Truth" stands out in that album because of its seemingly cheery melody and guitar, yet the lyrics describe a helplessness that I had related to, reluctantly going through puberty.
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By Thao (Michelle) Hoang, Courier Staff Writer
Music fans may remember the trio of brothers — Ashley, Austin and Adam Clark — from the reality show The Next Great American Band. At the time, they were called The Clark Brothers. They swept America off their feet, beating 10,000 other contestants for the title and scored a recording contract with 19 Recordings/Interscope Records in the process.
Now, three years later, the trio brothers changed their names to the Sons of Sylvia, to honor their mom, and are ready to make a fresh start into the music industry. Not too long ago, did they just release their debut album titled Revelation. Although it is categorized as Country music, it’s not quite what you would expect. It’s more of the Alternative Country Rock. On their new album, you will find 10 tracks that each displays a different genre. It consists of country, pop, rock, bluegrass, all combined with their good vocals.
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By Thao (Michelle) Hoang,
Courier Staff Writer
Magic failed to keep their hopes alive at Friday night’s game against the Boston Celtics. As a matter of fact, Game 6 was very important for the Magic to force a Game 7, and would be the first team in the NBA history to come back from a 0-3 deficit.
The Celtics finished off the Orlando Magic Friday, 96-84 to advance to the NBA Finals for the second time in three years.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Yearbooks will be distributed after school on Monday behind the Book Room. Students must have their I.D. cards to pick up their books.
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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By Allen Chan, Courier Staff Writer
Ten years ago a school lunch cost $1.50. It was very affordable for the youth and guaranteed a substantial amount of nutrition. Four years later it increased to $2.50 due to the California’s shortage of revenue. The price was still affordable and students were willing to pay the extra amount because the lunches satisfied the stomach. However, six years later everything changed.
The current price for a school lunch cost $3.75. Within ten years the price has more than doubled. A student who purchases lunch everyday would have to spend $18.75 a week, $75.00 a month, and $787.5 in a school year. If one were to multiply the cost by thirteen, for every year a student attends school, the amount would come out to $10,211.50 by the time a student crosses the stage.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
The Board of Education on Tuesday night received an update on how Gov. Schwarzenegger’s proposed revisions to the state budget will affect New Haven schools in 2010-11.
The budget presented in January forced the District to make $3.6 million in new reductions for 2010-11, on top of $1.6 million in reductions previously approved for next year. Chief Business Officer Akur Varadarajan told the Board that the May revise could cost the District an additional $550,000 in lost revenue.
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The Hollow by
Jessica Verday
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 515 pages
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416978933
ISBN-13: 978-1416978930It was funny. At a time like this, wasn't I supposed to be thinking serious thoughts of eternity, and the afterlife, and all that? As I glanced around me at all the small groups of people huddled around the room, it seemed that's what they were all thinking about. Each somber face reflected their pious thoughts, but all I could think about was the hair-drying incident. It was funny. I guess I should have been thinking about all the things I wanted to say. All the things I couldn't say. And all the things I'd never get a chance to say. But I didn't. It wasn't like any of this was really happening anyway. She's only been missing since June 9. Sixty-eight days. That's not long enough for her to be "dead."
Here is a new series for you all to get into. This one is a trilogy by Jessica Verday. Unfortunately
The Hollow is the only book out in the series as of right now. It's also only out in hardcover as well. The paperback version of this novel comes out in August along with the second book.
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From wikipedia:
John Hope (June 2, 1868 – February 20, 1936), born in Augusta, Georgia, was an African-American educator and political activist. He was the son of James Hope, a white Scottish of his mother's family's status of having been free before the Civil War. Hope could have passed for white, but he was proud of his black heritage and identified with the black community.
Hope graduated from Worcester Academy in 1890 and then from Brown University in 1894. He went on to teach at Roger Williams University (Nashville, Tennessee). On December 29, 1897 he married the former Lugenia D. Burns, who would become a well-known social reformer. In 1898, he became professor of Classics at Atlanta Baptist College, (now Morehouse College), a historically black college. In 1906 he was appointed the institution's first black president.
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Super Mario Galaxy 2
For: Wii
From: Nintendo
ESRB Rating: Everyone (mild cartoon violence)
Nintendo has made zero bones about "Super Mario Galaxy 2" being more of the same stuff that made "Super Mario Galaxy" what it was, and because "Galaxy" was one of 2007's best games, no one really seemed bothered by the idea of "SMG2" being, at worst, the same fundamental game with new levels.
And at worst, that's exactly what this is. But that's also what the first "Galaxy" was — a prototypical 3D Mario game that had the same old story and was more notable for the unbelievable variety of new level designs it unleashed than any revolutionary change to the way players controlled Mario.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Yearbooks will be distributed after school on Monday behind the Book Room. Students must have their I.D. cards to pick up their books.
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.
Need Drivers Education? Your place is the Adult School. Cost is $125. Two summer offerings, each Mon. – Wed., 7 a.m. – 5 p.m., June 21, 22, 23 or August 2, 3, 4. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
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From wikipedia:
Marie Knight (June 1, 1925 - August 30, 2009) was an American gospel and R&B singer.
She was born Marie Roach in Sanford, Florida but grew up in Newark, New Jersey. Her father was a construction worker and the family were members of the Church of God in Christ. She first toured as a singer in 1939 with Frances Robinson, an evangelist. She married preacher Albert Knight in 1941; they were later divorced.
Learn more about Marie Knight and her samples of her music at MarieKnight.com.
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