From wikipedia:
Josiah Thomas Walls (1842-1905) was a United States Congressman who served three separate terms in Congress between 1871 and 1876.
Josiah Walls was born a slave near Winchester, Virginia. He was forced to join the Confederate Army and was captured by the Union Army in 1862 at Yorktown. He voluntarily joined the United States Colored Troops in 1863 and rose to the rank of corporal. He was discharged in Florida and settled in Alachua County.
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Robert Clifton Weaver (December 29, 1907 – July 17, 1997) served as the first United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (also known as HUD) from 1966 to 1968. He was the first African American to hold a cabinet-level position in the United States. As a young man, Weaver had been one of 45 prominent African Americans appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to his Black Cabinet, where he acted as an informal adviser as well as directing federal programs during the New Deal.
Weaver was born on December 29, 1907 into a middle-class family in Washington, D.C. His parents were Morgan Weaver, a postal worker, and Margaret Freeman, of mixed-race ancestry; they encouraged the boy in his academic studies. His maternal grandfather was Dr. Freeman, the first black to graduate from Harvard in dentistry.
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Fallout: New Vegas
Reviewed for: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
From: Obsidian Entertainment/Bethesda
Softworks ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and
gore, intense violence, sexual content,
strong language, use of drugs)
The Vegas strip in "Fallout: New Vegas" is minuscule compared to the vast Nevada wasteland that surrounds it, but because it's the only place in the whole region that sparkles like nuclear war never happened, it beams in the horizon for miles from any direction.
When you spot it for the first time in your travels, "Vegas" doesn't break from the action with a cutscene or make any fuss whatsoever. Like everything else in a "Fallout" game, it's just there, and players will spot it in ways and under circumstances that are organic and unique to the story they've spun for themselves up to then.
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Henry Plummer Cheatham (1857–1935) was an African American Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1893.
Born in slavery (with a white father) in what is now Vance County, North Carolina, Cheatham attended public school and graduated from Shaw University in 1883. After working as a school principal, Cheatham served as the elected Register of Deeds for Vance County (1884-1888). In 1884, he married Louisa (or Louise) Cherry, who taught music at the school where Cheatham was principal. In 1888, Cheatham was narrowly elected to Congress over incumbent Furnifold M. Simmons (who would later lead the White Supremacy campaigns that disfranchised North Carolina blacks). During the campaign, Cheatham allegedly told black voters that Simmons and President Grover Cleveland would re-enslave them. Other press outlets of the time later dismissed these allegations by the press as hyperbole or having misrepresented Cheatham's words.
Read an essay by Henry P. Cheatham, free from the Ohio Historical Society.
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John Amos (born December 27, 1939) is an American actor and former football player. His television work includes roles in
The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Good Times, the miniseries
Roots, and a recurring role in
The West Wing. He has also appeared on Broadway and in numerous motion pictures in a career that spans four decades. He has received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and NAACP Image Award.
Read more about John Amos, free from superiorpics.com.
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Abdul "Duke" Fakir (born December 26, 1935; Detroit, Michigan) is best known as a member of popular Motown act the Four Tops from 1954 to the present day. Fakir, who sings first tenor, is now 75years old and the only surviving original member of the group.
Abdul "Duke" Fakir, who is of Ethiopian ancestry, was born in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Pershing High School along with Levi Stubbs.
He and Stubbs first met Lawrence Payton and Renaldo "Obie" Benson at a friend's birthday party in 1954. They so enjoyed singing together that night that they decided to start a singing group named The Four Aims which would later be re-named the Four Tops.
Read an interview with Duke Fakir, free from Bluesandsoul.com.
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By P.J. Huffstutter
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES — Last Christmas, Karen Hoxmeier bought her brother a cashmere scarf and several pricey gadgets for his digital camera.
This year, she bought the out-of-work Hollywood cameraman something more essential: groceries.
With the nation's unemployment rate still high and the economy sluggish, a growing number of people are giving food this holiday season. But it's not fruitcake, eggnog or Christmas cookies. Instead, the quiet voice of frugality is prompting consumers to wrap up baskets of kitchen staples, boxes of meat and grocery store gift cards to help loved ones stock dwindling pantries.
Hoxmeier got the idea after sneaking a peek inside her younger brother Bill's kitchen cabinets. She found them pretty bare, she said, "even for a guy."
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Jabbo Smith, born as Cladys Smith (24 December 1908 - 16 January 1991) was a United States jazz musician, known for his hot virtuoso playing on the trumpet.
Smith was born in Pembroke, Georgia. At the age of 6 he went into the Jenkins Orphanage in Charleston, South Carolina where he learned trumpet and trombone, and by age 10 was touring with the Jenkins Band. At age 16 he left the Orphanage to become a professional musician, at first playing in bands in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Atlantic City, New Jersey before making his base in Manhattan, New York City from about 1925 through 1928, where he made the first of his well regarded recordings.
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Fredi Washington (Fredericka Carolyn Washington) (December 23, 1903 - June 28, 1994) was an accomplished dramatic African-American film actress, most active in the 1920s- 1930s. Frustrated at limited opportunities, she became an activist and journalist. Washington was a founding member of the Negro Actors Guild of America (NAG) in 1937 to create better professional opportunities. She also was Entertainment Editor of People's Voice, founded in 1942.
Washington earned notice for her portrayal of Peola, a young African-American woman who passed for white in the 1934 Academy Award-nominated film
Imitation of Life. She also appeared with Paul Robeson in
The Emperor Jones in 1933.
Read more about Fredi Washington, free from the New York Times.
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Medal of Honor
Reviewed for: Playstation 3 and
Xbox 360
Also available for: Windows PC
From: Danger Close/DICE/EA
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood, strong
language, violence)
The new, subtitle-free "Medal of Honor" can signify all it wants that it's a new beginning, but make no mistake: If you've played a warfare game in the last few years — "Battlefield: Bad Company" and "Modern Warfare" most especially — then you've seen this before.
Don't automatically confuse that for a swipe against the game, which has a consistently entertaining (though rarely exemplary) single-player campaign and a strong (if loosely familiar) multiplayer component. The groundings in real-world Afghanistan give it a hook the other games lack, and while "Honor's" dabbles in fiction with its storyline, it displays a reverence for its soldiers that's eluded the war shooter genre since it abandoned World War II.
But seriously, you've done this before. "Honor" throws players into the usual FUBAR scenarios that pop up in war games with creative liberty at their feet, so expect to be ambushed a few times and pinned down while fighting a Taliban force that has 10 soldiers for your every one. Expect, also, to dodge gunfire on an ATV, man a turret gun in an Apache, call in laser-guided airstrikes, pick snipers off a mountain range and stalk Taliban in pitch blackness with the assistance of night vision goggles.
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Joshua Gibson (December 21, 1911 – January 20, 1947) was an American catcher in baseball's Negro Leagues. He played for the Homestead Grays from 1930 to 1931, moved to the Pittsburgh Crawfords from 1932 to 1936, and returned to the Grays from 1937 to 1939 and 1942 to 1946. In 1937 he played for Ciudad Trujillo in Trujillo's Dominican League and from 1940 to 1941 he played in the Mexican League for Rojos del Aguila de Veracruz. Gibson served as the first manager of the Santurce Crabbers, one of the most historic franchises of the Puerto Rico Baseball League. He stood 6-foot-1 (185 cm) and weighed 210 pounds (95 kg) at the peak of his career.
Learn about Josh Gibson and other Negro League players at the Negro League Baseball Players Association website.
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Kelvin Trent Tucker (born December 20, 1959, in Tarboro, North Carolina) is a retired American professional basketball player who played 11 seasons in the American National Basketball Association.
A 6'5" shooting guard, Tucker attended the University of Minnesota from 1978 to 1982, leading them to a Big Ten Conference championship in his senior year. He was then selected by the New York Knicks with the 6th overall pick of the 1982 NBA Draft. One of the earliest three-point specialists, Tucker represented the Knicks in the first ever Three-point Shootout (1986), making it to the semifinals before being outpaced by Craig Hodges and eventual winner Larry Bird. Tucker would play nine seasons with the Knicks before joining the San Antonio Spurs in 1991, and after one season with the Spurs he joined the Chicago Bulls, who won the 1993 NBA Championship. He retired after that season, having tallied 6,237 career points and 1,532 career assists.
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Happy Holidays by Satpreet Kaur, Courier Staff Artist
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Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875 - April 3, 1950) was an African-American historian, author, journalist and the founder of Negro History Week, which became Black History Month. He is considered the first to conduct a scholarly effort to popularize the value of Black History. He recognized and acted upon the importance of a people having an awareness and knowledge of their contributions to humanity and left behind an impressive legacy. Woodson was one of the founders of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and Journal of Negro History. He was a member of the first black fraternity Sigma Pi Phi and also a member of Omega Psi Phi. Dr. Woodson is known as the Father of Black History.
Read The Negro in Our History, by Carter Woodson, free from googlebooks.com.
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday signed the bill that extends the George W. Bush-era tax cuts, while Congress moved to wind up its lame-duck deliberations in a session marked by the changing nature of politics and power.
Speaking at the signing ceremony, Obama again defended his compromise, worked out with Republicans. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was prominent at the ceremony, as was Vice President Joe Biden, who bargained with the Republican leader.
"This is real money that is going to make a real difference in peoples' lives," Obama said. Without the bill, the tax cuts would have expired at the end of the year.
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By Ben Fritz
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES — The legacy of this weekend's box office seems certain to be a victory for a visual effects-heavy event movie over a sophisticated adult comedy and a children's animated tale.
"Tron: Legacy," Walt Disney Studios' big-budget resurrection of the 1982 cult favorite, is a sure bet for the most popular movie this weekend in the U.S. and Canada. People who have seen pre-release audience surveys say it should take in about $50 million, a solid but not spectacular start for such a highly anticipated movie.
Warner Bros.' animation/live-action hybrid "Yogi Bear" is appealing mainly to families with young children and is expected to kick off its run with a so-so $20 million.
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From the HistoryMakers.com:
Dedicated educator and educational theorist Barbara Sizemore applied the expertise she acquired at premiere institutions to work on behalf of disadvantaged students. Sizemore was born on December 17, 1927, in Chicago. Upon completing a B.A. in classical languages at Northwestern University, she began teaching in the Chicago public school system. Sizemore returned to Northwestern and received an M.A. in elementary education in 1954. Twenty-five years later, she graduated from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in educational administration.
Read Barbara Sizemore's obituary, free from washingtonpost.com.
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Need Driver’s Education? Your place is the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, December 20, 21 & 22, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
Students: The District Technology Department is working on a new Technology plan and would like to get input from students. Please take a minute or two to take the online survey. You can find it at: districtsurvey.com. Your help would be very much appreciated.
ACTIVITIES
Do you need help in Math and Science? Punjabi Club is offering free tutoring classes in Math and Science during Christmas Break. Classes are open to each and every Logan student who would like to attend. Two hour classes will be held from Monday to Thursday for two weeks. For registration and further details contact Mr. Rana in Room 442 during 4th and 5th lunch break.
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By Rick La Plante,
New Haven Schools Director of Parent & Community Relations
UNION CITY – Santa Claus made his annual tour of the New Haven Unified School District Wednesday, giving out nearly $6,000 worth of classroom grants from the New Haven Schools Foundation’s "Innovations in Education" program, for special projects that promote learning.
The Foundation, in the sixth year of its classroom grant program, received applications this year for 26 projects representing the efforts of 29 educators, from kindergarten through high school. Requests were accepted for up to $500, and the District’s Health Education and Resource Team (HEART) accepted applications for grants of up to $200 for projects promoting a healthy lifestyle.
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William Cooper Nell (16 December 1816 – 25 May 1874) was an American abolitionist, journalist, author, and civil servant. As an historical author his books,
Services of Colored Americans in the Wars of 1776 and 1812 (1851) and
Colored Patriots of the American Revolution (1855) became available to the public. These represented the premier exhaustive studies of African Americans.
Read William Cooper Nell's review of Linda, the Slave Girl, published in The Liberator in 1861.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent & Community Relations
Facing another year of inadequate funding from the state, the Board of Education on Tuesday night approved the first interim budget for 2010-11 along with multi-year projections that include more cuts to programs and services in 2011-12 and 2012-13.
The multi-year projections include furlough days, increased class sizes, the elimination of stipends and release periods for co-curricular and extra-curricular activities, a reduction in the counseling staff and among media specialists and the elimination of transportation for middle school students.
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Impossible by Nancy Werlin
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Dial (September
18, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0803730020
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Impossible by Nancy Werlin is a suspense-filled book with a fantasy world with magic and curses.
In the book, a 17-year-old girl, Lucy Scarborough finds out about a family curse that causes all the girls to get pregnant at age 18. All the girls get pregnant without getting married and all have baby girls so the curse can be passed on from generation to generation. Each girl then goes completely insane.
It’s up to Lucy to break the curse by following the ballad song called the “Scarborough Fair”. The only problem about following each task in the song is that each task is impossible.
This book is exciting, with something new in each chapter. It’s a mysterious adventure as Lucy tries to do each task and finds hidden secrets.
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By Jazzmine Bates,
Courier Staff Writer
Come celebrate at James Logan's Black Student Union's third annual Kwanzaa tomorrow at The Spot from 5:00 p.m.—8:00pm.
Started in 2007, the celebration features the dancing, performances and celebration that Kwanzaa is known for.
The celebration will have performances by the Dance and Step teams; there will also be refreshments.
Some mistake Kwanzaa as being part of Christmas, but it has its own meaning and is celebrated over a span of seven days.
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Need Driver’s Education? Your place is the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, December 20, 21 & 22, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
December 1st was World AIDS Day! Pick up a red ribbon at the Health Center and wear it throughout the month to show your support.
Students: The District Technology Department is working on a new Technology plan and would like to get input from students. Please take a minute or two to take the online survey. You can find it at: districtsurvey.com. Your help would be very much appreciated.
If you would like to join the swim team, then swim to Room 75 today after school for our first team meeting. There will be paperwork to fill out and we’ll talk about fundraising and team suits. All are welcome.
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"The Making of 'The Empire Strikes Back' —
The Definitive Story" by J.W. Rinzler;
Del Rey/LucasBooks (362 pages, $85)
As part of the 30-year anniversary of classic movie "The Empire Strikes Back," J.W. Rinzler has produced an in-depth look not only at the film, but the creation of a film studio — Lucasfilm.
"The Empire Strikes Back" was the second of the six movies that make up the "Star Wars" saga. "The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back — The Definitive Story" shows that its success was done with intense planning, extremely hard work, and a lot of enthusiasm.
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William Augustus Hinton (15 December, 1883, Chicago, Illinois – 1959, Canton, Massachusetts) was a black bacteriologist, pathologist and educator. Hinton was the first black professor in the history of Harvard University. A pioneer in the field of public health, Hinton developed a test for syphilis which, because of its accuracy, was used by the United States Public Health Service.
He studied at the University of Kansas before transferring to Harvard University, where he earned a B.S. degree in 1905. Following his graduation, he taught in Tennessee and Oklahoma. During the summers he continued his studies in bacteriology and physiology at the University of Chicago. In 1909, Hinton enrolled in Harvard Medical School. With the aid of two prestigious scholarships he was able to graduate with honors in 1912.
Learn more about William A. Hinton, free from the Public Health Museum.
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Jody Watley in a vintage
sequined dress.
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Add shine and sparkle to any outfit with sequins!
With the holiday season soon approaching, catching the shine, shimmer and whimsy spirit in your outfit is crucial. By wearing sequins, you are sure to catch eyes with your style.
Whether you want all eyes on you or just a subtle shine, sequins can work for anybody. You can go all out by wearing a top or dress completely covered in sequins. If this is the statement you want to make, keep accessories, make-up and hair relatively subtle to let the shine do the talking.
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By Mike Swift
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Google on Tuesday switched on a new program that will dramatically improve the accuracy of its speech recognition service, which allows people to use verbal commands to search the Internet, send an e-mail or post a Facebook update.
That's of growing importance to the Mountain View, Calif., search giant, which sees Internet searches on smart phones as a significant part of its business. While the company doesn't disclose specific numbers, one in four searches on Android devices are now done by voice, and the search volume on Android phones climbed by 50 percent in the first six months of 2010.
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Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
For: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
From: Ninja Theory/Namco Bandai
ESRB Rating: Teen (blood, language,
suggestive themes, violence)
Gaming's 2010 holiday season is fueled almost entirely by sequels to and remakes of games you've already played, so the mere air of mystery surrounding the brand-new "Enslaved: Odyssey to the West" makes its presence welcome by default.
Fortunately, "Enslaved" wholly earns that welcome by telling a fresh story, telling it well, and backing it up with continuously great third-person action.
"Enslaved" stars players as Monkey, a prisoner who escaped a crashing prison ship only to become subservient to another escapee, Trip, who planted a device on Monkey that forces him to obey orders and help Trip return home alive. (The story, in addition to boasting outstanding voice acting and exceptional character and environmental details, pretty capably makes surprising sense of the details behind Monkey's predicament.)
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Ernie Davis (December 14, 1939 – May 18, 1963) was an American football running back and the first African-American athlete to win the Heisman Trophy. Wearing number 44, Davis competed collegiately for Syracuse University before being drafted by the Washington Redskins, then almost immediately traded to the Cleveland Browns in December 1961. However, he would never play a professional game after developing leukemia in 1962. He is the subject of the 2008 Universal Pictures movie biography,
The Express, based on the non-fiction book
Ernie Davis: The Elmira Express, by Robert C. Gallagher.
Read more about Ernie Davis, free from Time.com.
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An emergency toilet with
the included supplies.
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James Logan High School was recently provided with safety buckets for use as toilets in case of emergency situations.
Rhonda Neagle, Logan's vice principal of operations, arranged the purchase of the kits. As some may know, Newark Memorial High School had a lockdown a few months ago; during the debriefing, administration from schools discussed the actions taken during the lockdown. A popular recommendation was a "bathroom kit", under the premise that, sooner or later, people would need to use the bathroom during the unpredictable length of the emergency.
There have not been any recent emergencies Logan but Neagle said, "We're trying to be productive and ready for intruders and life-threatening situations."
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MISCELLANEOUS
Need Driver’s Education? Your place is the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, December 20, 21 & 22, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
Don’t forget to donate to the winter canned food drive to your 2nd period December 6-15. Donations are never too much for the homeless. The top three classes that turn in the most canned food will receive a continental breakfast during the week of finals.
December 1st was World AIDS Day! Pick up a red ribbon at the Health Center and wear it throughout the month to show your support.
Students: The District Technology Department is working on a new Technology plan and would like to get input from students. Please take a minute or two to take the online survey. You can find it at: districtsurvey.com. Your help would be very much appreciated.
Swimmers, if you want to join the Swim Team and learn how to swim fast, then swim over to room 75 Wednesday the 15th after school for our first team meeting. All are welcome.
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From wikipedia:
Ella Josephine Baker (December 13, 1903 – December 13, 1986) was a leading African American civil rights and human rights activist beginning in the 1930s. She was a behind-the-scenes activist whose career spanned over five decades. She worked alongside some of the most famous civil rights leaders of the twentieth century, including: W.E.B. DuBois, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, and Martin Luther King Jr. She also mentored such then young civil rights stalwarts as Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael and Bob Moses.
Listen to an interview with Ella Baker, free from the University of South Carolina.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Need Driver’s Education? Your place is the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, December 20, 21 & 22, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
Don’t forget to donate to the winter canned food drive to your 2nd period December 6-15. Donations are never too much for the homeless. The top three classes that turn in the most canned food will receive a continental breakfast during the week of finals.
December 1st was World AIDS Day! Pick up a red ribbon at the Health Center and wear it throughout the month to show your support.
Students: The District Technology Department is working on a new Technology plan and would like to get input from students. Please take a minute or two to take the online survey. You can find it at: districtsurvey.com Your help would be very much appreciated.
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From The Courier's Archives:
The Tao of Sunday by Idy Tao,
Courier Daily Editor
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Eslanda ("Essie") Goode Robeson, (December 12, 1896 - December 13, 1965) the wife and business manager of Paul Robeson, was an American anthropologist, author, actor and activist.
Eslanda Cardozo Goode was born in Washington, DC in 1896. The Cardozo family descended from Black slaves and wealthy Jews expelled from Spain in the 17th century. Her grandfather was Francis Lewis Cardozo, the first Black treasurer of South Carolina. Her father, John Goode, was a law clerk in the War Department who later finished his law degree at Howard University. Eslanda had two older brothers, John Jr. and Francis. She attended the University of Illinois and later graduated from Columbia University in New York with a B. S. degree in chemistry. When then she started to work at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, she soon became the head histological chemist of Surgical Pathology, the first Black to hold such a position. In 1920, Paul Robeson and Eslanda attended summer school at Columbia. One year later they married. Eslanda gave up her intentions to study medicine and supported her husband as his business manager. Eslanda worked at the hospital until 1925, when the career of her husband took more and more of her time. She spent time between Harlem, London and France in the following years.
Read Paul Robeson, Negro by Eslanda Goode Robeson, free from www.archive.org.
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Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984) was an American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter. She was the first to record the hit song "Hound Dog" in 1952. The song was #1 on the Billboard R&B charts for seven weeks. The B-side was "They Call Me Big Mama," and the single sold almost two million copies. Three years later, Elvis Presley recorded his version, based on a version performed by Freddie Bell and the Bellboys. In a similar occurrence, she wrote and recorded "Ball 'n' Chain," which became a hit for her. Janis Joplin later recorded "Ball and Chain," and was a huge success in the late 1960s.
Read more about Willie Mae Thornton, free from answers.com.
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Championship ring that
Logan's girls softball team
saved up for. James
McDonald/Courier Photo
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Last Friday the Logan girls softball team received their championship rings. After a long season, their hard work and accomplishment embroidered in a championship ring.
When asked about the rings, Coach Teri Johnson said, “They are a special group with a special win. They were the first group to fundraise for the rings. The rings were $300 each…we had a ring ceremony at Chevy’s where last year's seniors got their rings too. ”
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By Justyna Torres,
Courier Staff Writer
James Logan High School's Puente Program will host its first-ever Zumba Night.
Next Tuesday, Puente will hold a fundraiser in the Al Rodrigues Gym, which will be open to all who enjoy working out, spending time with friends and having a great time.
According to its site, Zumba is a new, popular style of workout that incorporates Latin rhythms and high powered dance moves that are fun and a great workout as well. The class will be taught by instructor Maria Charito Martinez from M&M Fitness at Futsal Republic in Hayward.
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By Julia Ortiz,
Courier Staff Writer
"Tangled" triumphed over Harry Potter at the box office, bringing forth a wonderful animated story of Rapunzel the long lost princess. It has all the makings to become another successful Disney classic.
Trapped in her tower, Rupunzel longs to be free of the confinement in which her mother has left her. She teams up with the handsome Flynn Rider—who is wanted by the royal guard—on a whirlwind adventure that takes them from bars filled with thugs to a sky lit by a thousand lanterns.
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From wikipedia:
Mark Anthony Aguirre (born December 10, 1959 in Chicago, Illinois) is a retired American basketball player in the National Basketball Association. Aguirre played from 1981–1994 and won two championships with the Detroit Pistons after being sent to Detroit from the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for Adrian Dantley. Aguirre was a three-time All-Star for Dallas.
While playing at DePaul University, he averaged 24.5 points over three seasons with the Blue Demons, and in 1981 was The Sporting News College Player of the Year. He also was the USBWA College Player of the Year and James Naismith Award winner in 1980, and a 2 time member of The Sporting News' All-America first team. As a freshman in 1978–1979, he led the Demons to the Final Four, where they lost to Indiana State, led by future NBA Hall of Famer Larry Bird.
Read more about Mark Aguirre, free from NBA.com.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Need Driver’s Education? Your place is the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, December 20, 21 & 22, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
Don’t forget to donate to the winter canned food drive to your 2nd period December 6-15. Donations are never too much for the homeless. The top three classes that turn in the most canned food will receive a continental breakfast during the week of finals.
December 1st was World AIDS Day! Pick up a red ribbon at the Health Center and wear it throughout the month to show your support.
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By Amanpreet Tatlah,
Courier Staff Writer
Armenian-American Tamar Kaprelian first dazzled listeners with her cover of OneRepublic's "Apologize". Listeners are now falling in love with her new album,
Sinner or a Saint. The first single, "New Day", reflects how the rest of the album will be. Her first single has a very sensational and an inspiring tone. The music is not dull; instead it’s moving and exciting, which makes people want to listen to more.
Kaprelian began writing and composing piano accompaniments at 14. She was first discovered by a talent scout after she was seen performing with a school group at 15. She was then signed by a company but went off to college, at which point she stopped recording.
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Courier Staff Report
Updated
New Haven teachers will vote Friday on whether to ratify a tentative three-year contract agreement reached between the New Haven Teachers Association bargaining team and the New Haven Unified School District.
News of the tentative agreement went out via email to union members Wednesday evening.
According to the email, the NHTA executive board and representative council "overwhelming recommend the approval of this tentative agreement."
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From wikipedia:
Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1845 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent the majority of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution.
Harris led two significant professional lives. Editor and journalist Joe Harris ushered in the New South alongside Henry W. Grady, stressing regional and racial reconciliation during the Reconstruction era. Joel Chandler Harris, fiction writer and folklorist, recorded many Brer Rabbit stories from the African-American oral tradition and revolutionized children's literature in the process.
Read Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings, by Joel Chandler Harris, free from the University of Florida.
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By Philip Bocog,
Courier Staff Writer
As James Logan High School's boy's basketball team begins its 2010-2011 season, junior Inderpreet Dhahan is a player to look out for.
Dhahan made varsity as a sophomore last year and has developed into a great player ever since. He didn’t play much last year, but he expects to get more playing time this year.
He plays small forward and power forward at times, but focuses on power forward more. His height and his speed contribute to his athleticism so he can be versatile on the court. Dhahan is about 6’2 and can run pretty well. You can put him anywhere on the floor and he can produce. He can get up and down the floor pretty good so he can play both sides of the ball evenly.
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Need Driver’s Education? Your place is the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, December 20, 21 & 22, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
The Hispanic University located in San Jose will be tabling today during lunch in Colt Court.
Don’t forget to donate to the winter canned food drive to your 2nd period December 6-15. Donations are never too much for the homeless. The top three classes that turn in the most canned food will receive a continental breakfast during the week of finals.
December 1st was World AIDS Day! Pick up a red ribbon at the Health Center and wear it throughout the month to show your support.
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From wikipedia:
Clerow Wilson, Jr. (December 8, 1933 – November 25, 1998), known professionally as
Flip Wilson, was an American comedian and actor. Wilson was the first African American entertainer to host his own weekly variety series, The Flip Wilson Show. The popular series earned Wilson a Golden Globe and two Emmy Awards.
In January 1972,
Time magazine featured Wilson's image on their cover and named him "TV's first black superstar".
Read more about Flip Wilson, free from the Museum of Broadcast Communications.
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By Arthel Cargill,
Courier Staff Writer
In past years, there has been little to no diversity in the honors and Advanced Placement classes at James Logan High School, but since administrators began open enrollment this year, the future is looking brighter for students of color.
Junior May Brown said, "I'm taking honors English. It's so hard and sometimes I wish I would've taken regular, but I think it'll be worth it. The class is fun and everything, but a lot of the students are snobby. I'm, like, the only black person in my class and sometimes it's uncomfortable."
While some students like Brown took a slightly negative approach to the subject, others such as Dionnica, a freshman at Logan, had nothing but good reviews. "I like honors classes, It makes me feel so smart! I hear kids complain about how hard they are, but they're supposed to be challenging. It's what makes it fun."
Students of color may have been the main picture in this matter, but behind the scenes, teachers were working to help the students succeed, encouraging them every step of the way.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Need Driver’s Education? Your place is the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, December 20, 21 & 22, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
The Hispanic University located in San Jose will be tabling today during lunch in Colt Court.
Don’t forget to donate to the winter canned food drive to your 2nd period December 6-15. Donations are never too much for the homeless. Class winners will win free breakfast on December 16th.
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By Justyna Torres,
Courier Staff Writer
The controversial trend of fur has made its way back onto the fashion scene.
This fall many stars and runway models have been adorned in furs. But this year, designers and consumers are avoiding controversy by turning to faux fur. This is now a win-win situation for animal and fashion lovers alike.
Of course, fur has been around for many years, but this fall it’s taking a fun new twist. This fall the must-have item is a fur vest. This accessory tops off almost every look perfectly. It can give the wearer a layered look the best finish or give new life to their favorite tops.
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By Satpreet Kaur, Courier Staff Writer
Looking for a new and exciting video game can be considered by many as a favorable pastime that all kids share? Whether you're are probing for new innovations to gaming consoles, or just simply expanding upon one adventure after another: video games are fun for the whole family.
Recently, Nintendo released a new chapter in the beloved
Donkey Kong series for the Nintendo Wii. Not only does this new edition,
Donkey Kong County Returns, give the old-timer a chance to be transported into simpler times: where all that mattered as trying to get as many bananas as you possibly could, but also introduces a new aspect to the already incredible and awe striking features DK Country had displayed sixteen years before. What I personally love the most about this game is the return of the legendary soundtrack, featuring the unmistakable DK Theme Song.
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Wind turbines on the Altamont Pass
wikipedia photo
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — The largest wind energy producer in the Altamont Pass area in California's Alameda and Contra Costa counties has agreed to replace 2,400 wind turbines within four years and pay $2.5 million in a legal settlement to reduce deaths of eagles, hawks and other raptors hacked by turbine blades.
The settlement between NextEra Energy Resources, the state and several environmental groups was announced Monday by state Attorney General Jerry Brown.
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NHL Slapshot
For: Wii
From: EA Sports
ESRB Rating: Everyone
NHL 2K11
For: Wii
From: 2K Sports
ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+ (mild violence)
NHL 11
For: Xbox 360 and Playstation 3
From: EA Sports
ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+ (mild violence)
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)
Another fall means another round of hockey games from the usual suspects, but the rules have changed slightly for 2010.
The biggest twist is "NHL Slapshot," a brand-new, Wii-only game with arcade tendencies that harken back to EA's early hockey days and a pack-in hockey stick peripheral that makes it a beast of its own creation.
The stick is nothing more than an enclosure for the Wii remote and nunchuck, and those who wish to play "Slapshot" without it can do so with two alternative control schemes. But the scheme designed around the stick — buttons play a role, but the act of swinging the stick allows players to shoot, check and deke — is surprisingly fun and, thanks to "Slapshot's" arcade leanings, plenty precise enough to work.
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From wikipedia:
Pearl Cleage (born 7 December 1948) is an African-American poet, essayist, and journalist living in Atlanta, Georgia. An activist on issues including AIDS, women's rights, and black life, her first novel,
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (1997), was an Oprah Book Club selection and appeared on the New York Times best-seller list for nine weeks.
Cleage (pronounced "cleg") was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, the younger daughter of Doris Graham and Albert B. Cleage Jr. She grew up in Detroit, Michigan, where her father was a church pastor and played a prominent role in the civil rights movement.
Visit Pearl Cleage's website.
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Discharged ballast water from
ships sometimes brings invasive
aquatic species to the San Francisco
Bay. New technology may help solve
the problem.
Courier photo
CROCKETT, Calif. — Twenty feet below the water line, in the bilge of a cargo ship unloading raw sugar at the C&H factory, scientists are testing a high-tech weapon in the fight against invasive aquatic species.
A special ballast water treatment system is purifying the water that whooshes through a pump from the Carquinez Strait into the Moku Pahu, a double-hull bulk carrier that ferries raw sugar from Hawaii to California.
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Need Driver’s Education? Your place is the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, December 20, 21 & 22, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
Hispanic University presentation will be held on Wednesday, December 8th, 3rd period. Interested Juniors and Seniors should sign up in the Career Center.
Don’t forget to donate to the winter canned food drive to your 2nd period December 6-15. Donations are never too much for the homeless. Class winners will win free breakfast on December 16th.
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From wikipedia:
Theodore K. Lawless (1892-1971) was a noted dermatologist, medical researcher, and philanthropist. He is known for work related to leprosy and syphilis. He also was involved in various charitable causes including Jewish causes. Related to the latter he created the Lawless Department of Dermatology in Beilison Hospital, Tel-Aviv, Israel. He received his degree from Northwestern University and was a self-made millionaire.
Dr. Lawless was born on Dec 6, 1892 in Thibodeaux, Louisiana. Soon after his birth, his father, a Congregational minister, moved the family to New Orleans.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Need Driver’s Education? Your place is the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, December 20, 21 & 22, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
Hispanic University presentation will be held on Wednesday, December 8th, 3rd period. Interested Juniors and Seniors should sign up in the Career Center.
Don’t forget to donate to the winter canned food drive to your 2nd period December 6-15. Donations are never too much for the homeless. Class winners will win free breakfast on December 16th.
December 1st was World AIDS Day! Pick up a red ribbon at the Health Center and wear it throughout the month to show your support.
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It's a Lulu by Lulu Zhong, Courier Comics Editor
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From wikipedia:
André "Doctor Dré" Brown (born on December 5, 1963, in Westbury, New York) is an African American radio personality and former MTV VJ. He was best known for being the co-host of MTV's hip hop music specialty program
Yo! MTV Raps with partner Ed Lover.
Dre starred in the 1993 film
Who's the Man? with Ed Lover. Dré teamed up with Lover in the early 1990s to co-host a morning radio show when they helped re-launch radio station Hot 97 (WQHT) in New York City.
Read more about Dr. Dré and Ed Lover, free from Answers.com.
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From wikipedia:
Eddie Heywood (born Edward Heywood, Jr. 4 December 1915, Atlanta, Georgia – died 3 January 1989, Miami Beach, Florida) was a jazz pianist who became very popular in the 1940s. His father, Eddie Heyward, Sr. was also a jazz musician from the 1920s. Heywood, Jr. played with several popular jazz musicians such as Wayman Carver in 1932, Clarence Love from 1934 to 1937 and Benny Carter from 1939 to 1940 after moving to New York.
Listen to excerpts of Eddie Heywood's music, free from Verve Music Group.
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By Mark Seibel
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON — Note to Tatiana Gfoeller, U.S. ambassador to Kyrgyzstan: If you ever tire of the Foreign Service — or get drummed out — there may be a reporting job for you.
Gfoeller, a career diplomat who speaks six languages — seven, if you count English — is the author of a WikiLeak'd diplomatic cable about Britain's Prince Andrew that made headlines in London because she said the conversation at a brunch the prince shared with diplomats in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital, two years ago "verged on the rude."
Among the prince's targets, Gfoeller reported, were the French, whose penchant for corruption, in the prince's opinion, was nearly as great as the Kyrgyz government's, and the Americans, whose ignorance of geography placed them in a category definitely inferior to his own countrymen.
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From wikipedia:
John Wesley Dobbs (December 3, 1882 - August 21, 1961) was considered the unofficial 'mayor' of Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, GA, and the African-American counterpart to Mayor William B. Hartsfield.
Dobbs was educated at Atlanta Baptist College - which later became Morehouse College. After completing college, Dobbs passed a civil service exam and became a railway mail clerk in 1903. He was a great familyman for his wife and six daughters. With educational background and his job at the postal service, he was a member of Atlanta's rising African-American middle class. All of Dobbs' daughters graduated from Spelman College and one daughter, Mattiwilda Dobbs, became a notable opera singer.
Read a December 2, 1939 radio address by John Wesley Dobbs, free from the Library of Congress.
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By Philip Bocog, Courier Staff Writer
Calicove, originally out of the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas, have a unique style that they call Rap n Roll, in which the the styles of rap and rock are mixed together. They are a unique group that should be well known very shortly.
Already, many club-goers in the Bay Area and Los Angeles counties from which they hail know of them. They perform at various clubs in the Bay Area to try and get themselves known and exposed.
It seems to be working, as people who have heard them like their music and performance style.
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By Kimmai Nguyen,
Courier Staff Writer
Nu-metal band Linkin Park debuted
A Thousand Suns, their new album, this September. Diehard fans had high expectations for this comeback album, but their hopes for a crazed album fell short. Despite the hype generated by The Catalyst LP's live release at the 2010 VMA’s, this CD isn’t as good as their previous three.
The new album has fifteen tracks, five of which are intros and preludes. Some intros were unnecessary, like "Jornada Del Muerto". The intros seemed to simply be thrown in, weren’t cohesive and failed to give beautiful transitions to the next song. Although many tracks didn’t flow with their intros, the band did an outstanding job introducing the song "Iridescent" with the intro track "Wisdom, Justice, and Love".
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Eminem performing live at the
DJ Hero Party in Los Angeles.
wikipedia photo
LOS ANGELES — The beleaguered record industry couldn't have been happier about the return to the spotlight in 2010 of rapper Eminem, the biggest-selling artist of the new millennium, and heaped upon him a field-leading 10 Grammy Award nominations for his album "Recovery," including nods in all three top categories of album, record and song of the year.
Although it was widely expected that Eminem would do well in this year's Grammy competition, Hawaiian-born producer-singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Bruno Mars caught many by surprise as runner-up to Eminem with seven nominations, announced Wednesday in conjunction with a televised Grammy nomination concert from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Need Driver’s Education? Your place is the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, December 20, 21 & 22, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
Hispanic University presentation will be held on Monday, December 8th, 3rd period. Interested Juniors and Seniors should sign up in the Career Center.
ACTIVITIES
Homework/Saturday school is open this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Take advantage of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work with peers, and a welcome atmosphere too. Enter by the carpeted hallway near Media Center to Rooms 77 & 78.
Interested in Track & Field? See Coach Webb on the track after school.
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From wikipedia:
Charles Harris Wesley (December 2, 1891 - August 16, 1987) was a noted African American historian, educator, writer and author.
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he graduated from Fisk University in 1911 and received a Master's degree from Yale University in 1913. In 1925, Wesley became the third African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Read excerpts from Charles H. Wesley: the intellectual tradition of a Black historian, by Charles H. Wesley and James Conyers, free from Google Books.
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Need Driver’s Education? Your place is the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, December 20, 21 & 22, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
Hispanic University presentation will be held on Monday, December 8th, 3rd period. Interested Juniors and Seniors should sign up in the Career Center.
ACTIVITIES
Homework/Saturday school is open this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Take advantage of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work with peers, and a welcome atmosphere too. Enter by the carpeted hallway near Media Center to Rooms 77 & 78.
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By Marcus Agraviador, Courier Staff Writer
The writer is a member of the James Logan Colts' Varsity Football Team.
The Mighty Colts’ varsity football season ended last week against the Berkeley Yellow Jackets.
The Colts played hard and tried to mount a comeback after falling behind early, but the gap was just to wide for the colts to leap over.
James Logan kicked off to the Yellow Jackets to start the game, and was penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct.
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From wikipedia:
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American comedian, actor and writer.
Pryor was a storyteller known for unflinching examinations of racism and customs in modern life, and was well-known for his frequent use of colorful, vulgar and profane language and racial epithets. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations. He is commonly regarded as one of the most important stand-up comedians of his time: Jerry Seinfeld called Pryor "The Picasso of our profession"; Whoopi Goldberg cited him as her biggest influence, stating "The major influence was Richard - I want to say those things he's saying."[citation needed] Bob Newhart has called Pryor "the seminal comedian of the last 50 years."
Read more about Richard Pryor, free from Salon.com.
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