This is the archive for May 2006
By David McAlary, VOA News
Washington
All birds, even ones that perch in trees, may have descended from waterfowl. That is the conclusion of a study of well preserved 110-million-year-old fossils of the earliest known modern bird. The specimens were found in northwestern China.
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The Iraqi government is to launch a formal investigation into claims that United States Marines murdered civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha in November 2005.
U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Matthew Biellik (left),searches an abandoned house for a weapons cache during a joint cordon and knock with Iraqi Army soldiers in Tal Afar, Iraq, May 23. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jacob N. Bailey
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Fresh from winning at the the National Catholic Forensics League Grand Nationals, last weekend, the James Logan Forensics team will showcase its many talented members for a local crowd at a fundraiser Friday night.
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Fourteen students who ditched school to nosh at a local eatery duing fourth period last Friday got a special surprise with their happy meals — a visit from Principal Craig Lange and Logan’s School Resource Officers and study hall assignments or worse consequences at school.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger) (ca. 4 BC–AD 65) was a Roman philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work, humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature.
Death of Senaca, by Gerard Van Honthorst
Read Seneca's Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii (The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius), free from Project Gutenberg
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Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday saw the worst violence since the fall of the Taliban after a large U.S. Military cargo truck crashed into about a dozen vehicles at an intersection in Kabul killing at least 5 civilians and injuring about 40.
U.S. Air Force Col. Mike Wilson looks over the mud wall of Kala-I Janghi near Mazar-I-Sharif, Afghanistan. The ancient fortress was the site of a bloody Taliban uprising in 2001. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Orville F. Desjarlais Jr.
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At the North Coast Section's Meet of Champions this weekend, James Logan's teams and athletes came away champions of the champions.
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Henri Frédéric Amiel (September 27, 1821 - May 11, 1881) was a Swiss philosopher, poet and critic. Born in Geneva in 1821, he was descended from a Huguenot family driven to Switzerland by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
Click for a free download of Henri Amiel's book Journal Intime from Project Gutenberg
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The new James Logan Courier received its 10,000th visitor Sunday, a milestone reached in just over two months.
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At the end of World War I, Omar Bradley considered himself a professional failure because he had spent the war in the United States while his contemporaries had distinguished themselves on the battlefields of France. His gloomy self-assessment was premature. Thirty-five years later he held the highest rank in the United States Army, had been its Chief of Staff, and had served two terms as the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He had also more than made up for his lack of combat duty, for during World War II he successively commanded a division, a corps, an army, and finally a group of armies.
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Small mistakes added up to a big loss for the Colts Saturday evening, as Deer Valley of Antioch's Wolverines took advantage of the miscues to put down the Colts, 5-3.
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From The Courier's Archives
J is for Jenius by Christina Jue,Courier Comics Editor
Oh, Snap! by Fred Jedder, Courier Staff Writer
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Rabindranath Tagore (May 7, 1861 – August 7, 1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj (syncretic Hindu monotheist) philosopher, visual artist, playwright, composer, and novelist whose avant-garde works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A celebrated cultural icon of Bengal, he became Asia's first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Tagore (left) meets with Mahatma Gandhi at Santiniketan in 1940.
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The James Logan Lady Colts' run for the NCS 3A Softball Championship hit a familiar obstacle Friday evening, Freedom High School of Oakley, which ruined the Lady Colts' night by beating them, 4-1.
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An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale has struck Indonesia's Central Java province early on Saturday morning, killing at least 3,000 people, and injuring thousands more.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as John F. Kennedy, JFK or Jack Kennedy, was the 35th President of the United States. He served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. A member of the politically prominent Kennedy family, he is considered an icon of American liberalism. During World War II, he was cited for exceptional bravery rescuing fellow sailors in the South Pacific. Kennedy served his home state of Massachusetss in Congress 1947-60, as both a member of the House of Representatives and as U.S. Senator. He was elected President in 1960 in one of the closest elections in history.
King of Afghanistan Zahir Shah (right) and US President John F. Kennedy (left)
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Seniors who haven't been credited with passing the California High School Exit Exam won't be getting diplomas when graduation ceremonies are held next month because the First District Appellate Court won't hear the court case about the test until July 25.
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James Logan High School celebrated the wide diversity of its student body at the Unity Fair, held on the Big Green during the lunch periods today.
The Muslim Students Association is one of many groups represented at the Unity Fair.
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The U.S. Senate Thursday approved a comprehensive immigration reform bill Thursday by a vote of 62-36. Among other provisions, the bill seeks to bolster security along the U.S.-Mexican border, create a guest worker program, and grant many illegal immigrants a path to citizenship, all positions supported by the Bush administration.
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Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor. One of the most recognized figures in 20th century art, he is best known as the co-founder, along with Georges Braque, of cubism.
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Pablo Picasso
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Lawyers for students who sued to stop the use of the California High School Exit Exam today filed a request for an expedited hearing of their case in appellate court, hoping to have the test set aside in time for graduation.
Click here to read the document
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Last year, the Lady Colts softball juggernaut crashed into Freedom High school, which stymied the Colts' drive for the NCS title, which went to Freedom.
Lady Colts Pitcher Melinda Matsumoto
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The James Logan Colts' batters beat up on Antioch while Aaron Buenrostro blew them away in the first round of the NCS 3A Baseball playoffs Wednesday.
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Sun Tzu (6th century BC) was the author of
The Art of War, an immensely influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy (for the most part not dealing directly with tactics). He is also one of the earliest realists in international relations theory.
Sun Tzu
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The on-again, off-again requirement that California high school seniors must pass the High School Exit Exam is back on again, after the California State Supreme Court granted the state's request that the court stay a lower court's decision to stop schools from requiring the test.
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Proving the idea that the quickest way to a Logan staff member's heart is through the stomach, the Associated Student Body fed the staff breakfast this morning.
Career Tech Teacher Richard Lawrence gets his breakfast dished up by Leadership students.
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"Bird Flu" may have developed the ability to spread from human to human to human, raising the spectre of a world-wide pandemic of the deadly disease, although health officials said there is "no evidence" the virus can spread among the general population .
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Saint Francis de Sales (in French, St François de Sales) (1567-1622), seventeenth-century bishop of Geneva and Roman Catholic saint, was born at Thorens into a Savoyard noble family on 21 August 1567.
Saint Francis de Sales
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Logan Science Teacher Sue Hinojoza will use the money she won for her selection as the local Walmart's Teacher of the Year to buy science equipment.
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John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, (June 5, 1883 – April 21, 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, called Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on many governments' fiscal policies. He is particularly remembered for advocating interventionist government policy, by which the government would use fiscal and monetary measures to aim to mitigate the adverse effects of economic recessions, depressions and booms. Economists consider him one of the main founders of modern theoretical macroeconomics. His popular expression "In the long run we are all dead" is still quoted.
John Maynard Keynes (right)
and Harry Dexter White
at the Bretton Woods Conference
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State Superintendent of Schools Jack O'Connell Friday asked the State Supreme Court to stay enforcement of a Superior Court judge's ban of the California State High School Exit Exam so seniors who haven't passed the test can't graduate next month.
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The North Coast Section's baseball playoff at-large and seeding committee met Sunday and decided that the MVAL champion Colts should be the sixth seed and play their first game on Wednesday.
Click for NCS 3a playoff bracket pdf
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China has announced the completion of an enormous dam across the Yangtze River, an important milestone for the world's largest hydroelectric project. The official Xinhua News Agency reports the event as a "landmark in the construction of the project."
The Three Gorges Dam
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Though virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the great American poets of the 19th century. Her life has inspired numerous biographers and voluminous speculation, mostly about her sexuality, of which little is definitively known. Although she wrote (at latest count) 1789 poems, only a handful of them were published during her lifetime, all anonymously and probably without her knowledge.
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By Patrick Pilapil, staff writer
Two Logan art teachers were involved in events this month that showcased the work of local artists and students.
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James Logan's Varsity Baseball team jumped out to an early lead Friday afternoon against the Irvington Vikings and held onto it to clinch a spot in the North Coast Section playoffs.
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Lin Yutang (October 10, 1895 – March 26, 1976) was a Chinese writer and inventor whose original works and translations of classic Chinese texts became very popular in the West.
Lin Yutang,
photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1939
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Logan Senior Dee Dee Norman's wish to attend the Senior Ball last night was granted through the generosity of viewers of Oakland-based television station KTVU , who paid the school bill that would have kept her from the dance and from receiving a diploma, too.
Dee Dee Norman leaves for the prom
in this frame captured from KTVU video.
Click to see the KTVU story
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By Cecile Miras, staff writer
Each year, the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) recognizes and honors administrators that have showed outstanding performance and achievement in their schools. Our very own Principal Don Montoya was recently given the Administrator/ Principal of the Year award. He represents Alameda and Contra Costa counties, also known as region 6.
Principal Don Montoya
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Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (June 7, 1848 – May 9, 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist artist. Best known as a painter, his bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. Though less well known today, he was also an influential exponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms.
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Friends and family of James Logan student Amrit Kaur will gather tomorrow at Chapel of the Chimes in Hayward to reflect on her short life.
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Local TV station KTVU is championing the cause of Logan senior Dee Dee Norman, who's been put on the exclusion list prohibiting her from attending the Senior Ball tonight, or receiving a diploma at the school's graduation ceremony next month, because her foster family doesn't have enough money to pay debts from her participation in Color Guard.
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By Anne Chen, staff writer
Some James Logan High School students are asking fellow students and staff members to contribute to the Million Voices for Darfur campaign. A table has been set up outside during lunchtime in Colt Court next to Jimmy's, where people are welcome to sign mini-postcards that will be sent to President Bush. The postcards urge the president to take more direct action in helping to stop the current genocide in the Sudan.
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James Logan's Varsity Baseball team hopes to clinch an automatic berth in the Northern California Section playoffs with a victory this afternoon against Irvington in the MVAL Shaughnessy Playoffs, and make it to the big dance on time, too.
Colt right-hander Aaron Buenrostro
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From wikipedia:
Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was an American-born British poet, dramatist, and literary critic, whose works, such as
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,
The Waste Land, and
Four Quartets, are considered defining achievements of twentieth century Modernist poetry. In 1948 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was one of the most influential poets of the 20th century.
Read The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, one of
five of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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State schools Superintendent Jack O’Connell has his lawyers working “around the clock” preparing to ask the State Supreme Court to overturn a lower court judge’s ban on using the California State High School Exit Exam as a graduation requirement, he said today.
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Unified School District Public Information Officer
Ten of 12 schools in the New Haven Unified School District have higher Academic Performance Index rankings under a revised report released by the California Department of Education.
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Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a theoretical physicist widely regarded as the most important scientist of the 20th century. He was the author of the special and general theories of relativity and made significant contributions to quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and cosmology. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905 (his "wonderful year") and "for his services to Theoretical Physics".
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Unified School District Public Information Officer
The Board of Education on Tuesday night approved the closure of one elementary school for the 2007-2008 school year and the closure of one middle school for the 2008-2009 school year, as a means of avoiding the adverse impacts of declining enrollment. In recommending the closures, which equate to ongoing cost reductions of approximately $1 million per year, Superintendent Dr. Pat Jaurequi said decreasing spending on facilities and operations will enable us to direct maximum resources toward teaching and learning.
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William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, often esteemed the greatest English literary critic after Samuel Johnson. Indeed, Hazlitt's writings and remarks on Shakespeare's plays and characters are rivaled only by those of Johnson in their depth, insight, originality, and imagination.
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The state’s teachers and schools chief Jack O’Connell have settled their lawsuit against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and, as a result, billions of dollars in school funding O’Connell and the teachers claimed the governor misappropriated during the state’s fiscal crisis will be returned to the schools.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he will return money diverted from the state's schools
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Michael Foster, Cheryl Kuhlmann and Kenneth Prucha started their first school day today as James Logan's Teachers of the Year.
This year's Teachers of the Year are Michael Foster, left, Cheryl Kuhlmann and Ken Prucha.
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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, KC (22 January 1561–9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman and essayist. He was knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and created Viscount St Alban in 1621; both peerage titles became extinct upon his death.
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Logan students facing the prospect of not graduating because of the California High School Exit Exam rejoiced today when told an Oakland judge has struck down the test, but their joy was tempered when they found that the state is trying to get the ruling overturned.
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At Tuesday night’s New Haven Unified School District board meeting, Superintendent Pat Jaurequi will recommend the closure of two district schools in the coming years.
Superintendent Pat Jaurequi
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By Ignacio Torres, staff writer
I remember being in my kindergarten classroom with a class full of friends. I would play with everyone and share my lunch, as well; if you ask me now for some of my lunch, I would tell you to please go buy your own, but in a harsher manner. My point is that, as one gets older, it seems that we become a bit cynical about which of our friends are truly trustworthy and will be there until the end.
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By Ray Dequina, staff writer
The James Logan High School Show Choir recently won gold at the San Francisco Heritage Music Festival.
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Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), also called Lady Day, was an American singer, generally considered one of the greatest jazz voices of all time, alongside Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald.
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By Monica Amaral, Entertainment editor
At 18-years-old, Rihanna has already accomplished so much in one year, by releasing one of the most popular singles of 2005, and her second album,
A Girl Like Me, in April.
Come to Room 509 for a free Rihanna
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Gautama Buddha was a spiritual teacher of ancient India. He is universally recognised by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha of our age. The time of his birth and death are unclear, but most modern scholars have him living between approximately 563 BCE and 483 BCE.[1] By tradition, he was born with the name Siddhartha Gautama and, after a quest for the truth behind life and death, underwent a transformative spiritual change that led him to claim the name of Buddha. He is also commonly known as Shakyamuni ("sage of the Shakya clan") and as the Tathagata ("thus-come-one").
Standing Buddha,1st century CE
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By Cecile Miras, staff writer
One of the top-selling teen magazines, Seventeen, not only includes a variety of articles about the newest trends in make-up, hair, and clothing, but have recently picked up on the search for new talent in music. They showcase many new up-and-coming artists to help them make their way onto the scene. Billy Mann, a top producer and songwriter, has become one of the main staff writers for the magazine, spotlighting fresh new indie bands in his weekly column, “Indie Beat”.
Come to the Courier's office, room 509,
to pick up a free "Seventeen" poster,
a gift from the James Logan Courier,
while supplies last.
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Martina Navrátilová (b. October 18, 1956, in Řevnice, near Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a former World No. 1 woman tennis player. Originally from Czechoslovakia, she defected to the United States in 1975 and became a U.S. citizen in 1981. During her career she won 18 Grand Slam singles titles and 40 Grand Slam doubles titles (31 women's doubles and 9 mixed doubles). She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon a record 9 times. She is considered one of the greatest players of all time.
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As expected, Superior Court Judge Robert Freedman today issued an injunction stopping the state from requiring would-be high school graduates to pass the California High School Exit Exam, but the state schools superintendent said he would try to overturn Freedman's ruling.
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By Pamela Gutierrez, staff writer
Thousands of Logan students both eagerly awaited and desperately dreaded the arrival of the spring quarter grades in the mail, scheduled to arrive about a two weeks ago. However, due to a bad grade scanner, grades didn’t arrive at homes until late last week, foiling many student’s plans to take them out of the mailbox.
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USA Today reported on Thursday that the United States' National Security Agency collected millions of call logs from telecommunication companies in 2001. The report comes almost four months following a previous controversy of the agency, which included the monitoring of International calls placed within the United States.
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Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American blues-influenced rock singer and occasional songwriter with a distinctive voice. Joplin released four albums as the frontwoman for several bands from 1967 to a posthumous release in 1971.
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By Jezza Pimentel, staff writer
Dozens of Logan students and a few faculty members remained mute all day to pay respect to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual people, and other victims of prejudice in our society during Wednesday’s Day of Silence.
Senior Annie Clitherow taped her mouth closed to signify her support for victims of prejudice
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Teachers began voting for Logan’s House Teachers of the Year minutes after ballots were emailed to Logan’s staff this morning.
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By Ignacio Torres, staff writer
Graduation is coming and a common tradition is to exchange gifts among friends. However, when my friends and I were planning what gifts we were going to give each other, it seemed that all we thought about were the materialistic goods.
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"Lillian Asplund, the last American survivor of the Titanic, died in her home May 6 in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. She was 99 years old.
Sinking of the Titanic by Willy Stöwer
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Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (April 26, 121 – March 17, 180) was Roman Emperor from 161 to his death. He was born Marcus Annius Catilius Severus, and at marriage took the name Marcus Annius Verus. When he was named Emperor, he was given the name Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. He was the last of the Five Good Emperors.
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James Logan’s teachers will sit down to a free lunch today as part of the national “Day of the Teacher" celebration.
Logan displays a banner thanking teachers.
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A judge delayed until Friday his decision on whether to stop the state from requiring high school students to pass the California High School Exit Examination in order to be graduated.
Judge Robert Freedman
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Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (born as Harry Heine, December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was one of the most significant German poets.
Heinrich Heine by Moritz (Daniel) Oppenheim.
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New Haven School District officials are scrambling to shut off a stream of email “phishing” messages targeting teachers, administrators and staff members using the district’s email system.
Some New Haven staffers are receiving "phishing" emails like this one.
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LUNCH MENU:
Soft Tacos/Refried Beans, French Bread Cheese Pizza
SIDES: Peas & Carrot Coins, Cole Slaw, Salad Cup,
Canned Fruit, Garlic Butter Bread Stick
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Fifty Logan seniors are scheduled to take the California High School Exit Exam today and tomorrow, while an Oakland judge is preparing strike down the law requiring would-be high school graduates to pass the high-stakes test.
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President George W Bush has announced US emergency food shipments to Darfur, a province of Sudan. He has asked Congress to approve $225m in aid. Sudan and the biggest rebel group signed a peace deal last Friday to end the three year old civil war, claiming more than 200,000 lives.
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Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974) is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian-American singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Her international debut album, Jagged Little Pill, (1995) sold 30 million copies. Three more studio albums followed – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998), Under Rug Swept (2002), and So-Called Chaos (2004).
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LUNCH MENU:
Spicy Chicken Tenders, Bean & Cheese Burrito
SIDES: Baked Beans, Macaroni Salad, Tator Tots,
Salad Cup, Fresh Fruit, Muffin
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United States Air Force General Michael Hayden has been nominated as the new director of the CIA.
Air Force General Michael Hayden
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By Diamond Floyd, staff writer
The Hip-Hop Elements Club, a club advised and funded by the Logan Health Center, is bringing together students to celebrate music, dancing and more.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900), a German philologist and philosopher, produced critiques of contemporary culture, religion, and philosophy centered around a basic question regarding the positive and negative attitudes toward life of various systems of morality. Beyond the unique themes dealt with in his works, Nietzsche's powerful style and subtle approach are distinguishing features of his writings. Although largely overlooked during his short yet astonishingly productive working life, which ended with a mental collapse at the age of 44, Nietzsche received recognition during the second half of the 20th century as a highly significant figure in modern philosophy. His influence was particularly noted throughout the 20th century by many existentialist, phenomenological, post-structural, and postmodern philosophers.
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Last week’s announcement that most soda manufacturers will stop selling their sugary products in U.S. schools didn’t mention avoiding lawsuits as motivation for the self-imposed ban, but some of those who were threatening legal action to stop the sales are patting themselves on the back over the agreement, while lamenting that the deal doesn’t go far enough and planning to press for more restrictions.
Students at James Logan High School pass a Coke truck delivering goods as they enter campus.
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By Mary Nguyen, staff writer
Birds are chirping and bells are ringing. But the bells rang differently
for a time at James Logan High school last week, and it wasn't a beautiful sound.
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Hippocrates of Cos (c. 460 BC–c. 380 BC) was an ancient Greek physician. He has been called "the father of medicine", and is commonly regarded as one of the most outstanding figures in medicine of all time. According to the biographical tradition, he was a physician trained at the Dream temple of Cos, and may have been a pupil of
Herodicus. Writings attributed to him (Corpus hippocraticum, or "Hippocratic writings") rejected the superstition and magic of primitive "medicine" and laid the foundations of medicine as a branch of science. Attributed sayings of Hippocrates include: "He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor, but a fool," and "There are in fact, two things: science, and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance." Little is actually known about Hippocrates' personal life, but some of his medical achievements were documented by such people as
Plato and
Aristotle.
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Ten American soldiers were killed when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border close to a landing zone in the Kunar province. A military spokesman said it crashed while conducting combat operations. The soldiers were involved with Operation Mountain Lion which is aimed at rooting out al-Qaeda and former Taliban militants.
A similar U.S. Army CH-47
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The annual Cinco de Mayo Car Show proved so popular with students this year that the "taco truck" catering the event sold out of food before the first lunch period ended.
Senior Jeff Boggess' 1985 Camaro was on display at the Cinco de Mayo Car Show.
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Aristotle (384–March 7, 322 BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote books on many subjects, including physics, poetry, zoology, logic, rhetoric, government, and biology. Aristotle, along with Plato and Socrates, is generally considered one of the most influential of ancient Greek philosophers. They transformed Presocratic Greek philosophy into the foundations of Western philosophy as we know it. The writings of Plato and Aristotle founded two of the most important schools of Ancient philosophy.
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A James Logan junior has a bullet in his back after being shot last weekend during fight after the Powderpuff football game.
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HERE ARE YOUR CLASS ELECTION RESULTS:
CLASS OF 2009
Class Rep: Kayla Nebriaga
Treasurer: Rizza Ybera
Secretary: Janessa Canilao
Vice President: Tiffany Hoang
President: Andrew Silva
CLASS OF 2007:
Class Rep: Jackie Sioson
Treasurer: Stephanie Africa
Secretary Michelle Rodriguez
Vice President: Danielle Lemi
President: There is a run-off between Yusuf Ayar and Kaysie Jose
CLASS OF 2008:
Due to election irregularities,
the class of 2008 will need to revote for all officers.
The run-off election for 2007 and the revote for 2008 will take place tomorrow. Vote online at www.eduballot.com/jlhs
between 8 am and 3 pm.
Voting will only be open during school hours tomorrow.
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By Ray Dequina, staff writer
In today’s cinema, political movies can be done in two ways. They can either be really preachy affairs that present heavily skewed viewpoints to try to force a political agenda down your throat (I’m looking at you, Michael Moore!) or they can be enjoyable jabs at an extremely controversial issue while at the same time being actually thought provoking. Thank the non-denominational Maker that
Thank You for Smoking
is one of the latter.
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Reena Sandhu, staff writer
Derived from the video game,
Silent Hill came in with big expectations with the games-based fans. It was a well-told horror flick, which lured audiences into this trance world of horror. Rather than the typical momentary-shock style horror flicks that grace our screens these days, this movie brings out the true essence of what a horror flick should be like by building suspense.
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Epictetus (c.55–c.135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was probably born at Hierapolis, Phrygia, and lived most of his life in Rome until his exile to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece, where he died. The name given by his parents, if one was given, is not known - the word epiktetos in Greek simply means "acquired."
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The James Logan Colts defeated Newark Memorial 12-0 Wednesday afternoon, pushing the team's league record to 10-0 and clinching the MVAL baseball championship.
Logan ace Aaron Buenrostro dominated Newark's batters, pitching a complete-game shut-out, and raising his record to 9-1. He threw 79 pitches, striking out eight and giving up no walks.
"He was dominating," said coach John Goulding.
Aaron Buenrostro
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Hamburger, Cheeseburger, Vegetarian Burger,
BBQ Roasted/Oven Fried Chicken
SIDES: Green Beans, fries, Pickle Chips,
Salad Cup, Fruited Gelatin, Wheat OR Potato Roll
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By Joon Chang, staff writer
Melinda Matsumoto is Logan’s varsity softball team’s star pitcher, with numerous perfect games. College scouts have taken notice of her great skill and have offered a full ride to UC Santa Barbara to play softball, which she has accepted.
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Picasso's famous portrait of his lover, "Dora Maar with cat/ Dora Maar au chat", has been auctioned for $ 95.2 million at Sotheby's in New York on wednesday. The 1941 masterpiece sold to an anonymous buyer.
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Petronius (c.27 - AD 66) was a Roman writer of the Neronian age; he was a noted satirist. He is identified with C. Petronius Arbiter (see below), but the manuscript text of the Satyricon calls him Titus Petronius.
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An earthquake with estimated magnitude of 7.8 struckjust before dawn today, 95 miles south of Neiafu, Tonga, 1,340 miles north-northeast of Auckland, New Zealand, and about 10 miles below the Earth's surface.
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By Rick La Plante, Public Information Officer, New Haven Unified School District
The Board of Education on Tuesday night approved site administrative and clerical staffing ratios - similar to longstanding student-to-teacher ratios and consistent with such ratios in comparable and neighboring districts - allowing the District to "self-correct" staffing based on enrollment at each school.
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LUNCH MENU:
Hot Dog on a Bun, Chicken Patty, Bean and Cheese Burrito
SIDES: Vegetarian Chili Beans, Kernel Corn,
Potato Wedges, Canned Fruit, Aloha Roll
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Coke will stop selling it’s sugary soda products at Logan as part of a soft drink industry deal that aims to reduce childhood obesity.
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From Wikinews
Violence erupted in Vadodara in the state of Gujarat after municipal authorities demolished a dargah (Muslim shrine). The shrine was an unauthorised structure which was obstructing a road-widening project.
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Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966), was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and animator . He was also a race car driver, a lion tamer and later an FBI agent. One of the most well-known motion picture producers in the world, Disney was the co-founder with his brother Roy O. Disney of Walt Disney Productions. The corporation, now known as The Walt Disney Company, makes revenues of about US $30 billion annually. Walt Disney is particularly noted for being a successful storyteller, a hands-on film producer, and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in amusement park design. He and his staff created a number of the world's most popular animated properties, including the one many consider Disney's alter ego, Mickey Mouse.
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LUNCH MENU:
Chicken Caesar Wrap, Cheese Wrap, French Bread Pizza
SIDES: Peas & Carrot Coins, Cole Slaw, salad Cup,
Canned Fruit, Garlic Butter Bread Stick
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About a dozen Logan students walked out of school today to join other students who cut school to join a nationwide protest against U.S. immigration policy dubbed "Day Without Immigrants."
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Norman Vincent Peale (May 31, 1898 – December 24, 1993) was a Christian preacher and author (most notably of The Power of Positive Thinking) and a progenitor of the theory of "positive thinking".
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LUNCH MENU:
Spicy Chicken Patty on a Bun, Bean & Cheese Burrito
SIDES: Baked Beans, Macaroni Salad, Tator tots,
Salad Cup, Fresh Fruit, Muffin
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Choose from dozens of courses and gain valuable college credit over the summer, online, or concurrently with your high school schedule. Five sessions of summer school are available. Registration begins on May 17. Talk to your high school counselor about enrolling in our program today. Visit
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/admissions/concurrent/ for more information.
By Monica Amaral, staff writer
While nine-year-old Alexander Prucha's broken leg knitted together, his grandmother, Isabel D. Prucha, mother of Logan teacher Ken Prucha, wove together
Alexander's Sock, a children's book based on the experience.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was a famous American author, poet, and philosopher.
Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the Rev. William Emerson, a Unitarian minister in a famous line of ministers. He gradually drifted from the doctrines of his peers, then formulated and first expressed the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his essay Nature.
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