Ghana's Blakk Rasta has recorded
an Obama-themed song.>By Drew Hinshaw
PopMatters.com (MCT)
The puppy dogs of America have aged seven or eight years since the exhaustingly long Democratic primary opened for business, and in that time a niche art form has blossomed in the black diaspora: the Barack Obama Praise Song.
The rhythms and melodies range from Jamaican reggae to Kenyan benga, but that pulse of a people's collective hopes racing into the ether is unmistakably familiar: "Yes, We Can" sounds the same in Luo as it does in English. By the time Puerto Rico puts a wrap to this extended season of American political theater with its June 3 primary, some globetrotting multi-cultural record label _ say, Putumayo or Mango — should have the goods for a compilation titled "Obama-mania: World Music Edition."
Listen to Ghana's Blakk Rasta's performance of "Barack Obama," free from truepanther.com.
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President George W. Bush, right,
and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert visit the Masada fortress.
(Ariel Jerozolimski/Flash 90/MCT)
JERUSALEM — President Bush took the occasion of Israel's 60th anniversary on Thursday to denounce calls for the United States to talk to Iran and other radical forces in the region as "appeasement" and a "foolish delusion."
In a speech to Israel's parliament, Bush compared the calls — by some leading Democrats — for talks with Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas to those who sought to negotiate with Adolf Hitler.
"We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history," Bush said in his 20-minute speech.
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Unity Faire is today during lunch at the Big Green! Come enjoy food from different cultures. Tickets to purchase food will be sold at the fair.
Tonight - double feature! Come see the 19th annual One-Acts at 6 pm and stick around to see the Logan Alumni Improv show afterwards at 7:30. Tickets for both events are $3 in advance, $5 at the door.
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By David Collins, Courier Opinion Editor
The basis of all societies is a standard of what is right and wrong. For a society to become stable and also to grow, it must have law, or a standard by which all within that society judge life. The nature of our law is derived from the Romans, who took most of their early ideas from the Greeks. The Greeks greatly believed that the growth of society depended on the wisdom of the people and the ever-growing knowledge that grew from this belief founded a basis for one of the greatest empires the world has ever known.
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From wikipedia:
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming (May 15, 1857 – May 21, 1911), astronomer, was born in Dundee, Scotland, to Robert Stevens and Mary Walker Stevens. She attended public schools in Dundee, and at the age of 14, she became a pupil-teacher. She married James Orr Fleming, and they moved to the U.S. and settled in Boston, Massachusetts, when she was 21. While she was pregnant with her son, Edward, her husband abandoned her, and she had to find work to support herself and Edward.
She worked as a maid in the home of Professor Edward Charles Pickering. Pickering became frustrated with his male assistants at the Harvard College Observatory and famously declared his maid could do a better job.
Learn more about Williamina Fleming and her work, and see pictures of her working, free from the Open Collections Program at the Harvard University Library.
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By Emily Low,
Courier Staff Writer
Think about what a stereotypical image of a nerd looks like. Unkempt hair, with a pencil or two sticking out behind one ear. Crooked glasses, grimy with fingerprints from countless attempts to push them back on the bridge of the nose which seems to be permanently stuck in a book. Slumped shoulders, rounded out by years of dutiful humping of backpacks, heavy with graphing calculators and textbooks. Fingers stained with ink and crisscrossed with paper cuts from flurried research…the list goes on.
Do nerds like that really exist? Consider this: In a school of more than 4,000 diverse students, if such a nerd existed, we would have seen one around the school. However, in the three years that I’ve been here at Logan, I’ve never even glimpsed such a being. I can also claim that I have never heard of this nerd, either. It can logically be concluded that this stereotypical nerd does not exist.
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By Samuel Jue,
Courier Sports Editor
The Boys Track Field team were knocked off 181‑151 by Newark Memorial in the MVAL Championships at Tak Fudenna Stadium on Friday.
Meanwhile, the Girls Team pounded their opposition, finishing with 252 total points and topped their nearest opponents by a wide margin (American 72.5, Newark Memorial 72).
The Boys team failed to finish among the top 5 for both the 100s and the 200s, but had a pair of top finishers in the 400s(Justin Brooks and Nick Shutes) and the 800s(Andy An and Shaun Shutes). Logan also finished with a top finisher in the long distance races the 1600m(Shaun Shutes) and the 3200m(Ravi Patel).
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The James Logan Track & Field team crowned 50 MVAL champions. Great job all student/athletes!
Are you planning to run for class elections? Packets are due TODAY! After school in Room 305.
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold,
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345310020
ISBN-13: 978-0345310026,
Courier Staff Writer
The Chronicle of a Death Foretold , by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a journalistic novel that speaks of the death of Santiago Nasar. He has been accused of taking the virginity of Angela Vicario, who is returned back home five hours after her marriage with Bayardo San Ramon because she can not prove her virginity. When her twin brothers realize who it was that supposedly took their sister's virginity, they decide to kill him to regain their sister's and their own family's honor.
The day of Santiago’s murder is the day of which the Bishop is supposed to come to town to bless the newlywed couple. The Vicario brothers go all around town planning out the death of Santiago Nasar. Many of the town’s people hear this but ignore it not believing it. The killing is done and all that is left is Santiago’s body slaughtered like a pig.
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Leadership students served breakfast
to Logan's teachers and others.
Courier Photo
James Logan’s teachers started their Day of the Teacher this morning with a hot breakfast dished up by Leadership students.
According to the California Teachers Association, the Day of the Teacher “arose out of legislation co-sponsored by CTA and the Association of Mexican American Educators. Sen. Joseph Montoya (D-El Monte) wrote the bill and it was adopted in 1982 as Senate Bill 1546. California has patterned its celebration after the traditional “El Dia del Maestro” festivities observed in Mexico and other Latin American countries.”
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By Jamie Maxfield, Courier Staff Writer
The Almost Moon, by Alice Sebold
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316677469
ISBN-13: 978-0316677462“When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily. Dementia, as it descends, has a way of revealing the core of the person affected by it. My mother’s core was rotten like the brackish water at the bottom of a weeks-old vase of flowers.”
These are the opening sentences of
The Almost Moon, an intense novel by Alice Seabold. After reading that, there was no way I could walk away from this book, and it was well worth my time.
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Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0142437336
ISBN-13: 978-0142437339,
Courier Book Editor
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is set in a theocracy during the 1690’s in Salem, Massachusetts.
Arthur Miller’s play highlights one of society’s rather ridiculous accusations on the innocent, that of accusing someone of being a witch.
A preacher by trade Reverend Parris finds his daughter along with her friend and his slave Tituba dancing in a forest. Then it follows that his daughter falls extremely ill and her father suspects that witchcraft is somehow responsible for the ordeal.
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Courier Staff Report
A surge of activity on The Courier's website triggered the suspension of the online high school newspaper's account Tuesday, leaving would-be readers without access to the site and its stories.
A technician at Visionhead Technologies, The Courier's hosting service, said "The system had suspended the account because it is using up too many resources."
"I noticed that I couldn't access the website at around 6 a.m.," said Patrick Hannigan, the newspaper's faculty advisor. " We started getting complaints from readers at around 7 a.m."
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By Cameron Lacson,
Courier Sports Writer
The James Logan Boys’ Varsity volleyball team opens their North Coast Section playoff run against Deer Valley Wolverines tonight at 7:00 PM in Antioch. The Colts clinched for eleventh place in the North Coast Section Tournament with a 17-15 record.
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From wikipedia:
John Junior Roseboro (May 13, 1933 - August 16, 2002) was a Major League Baseball catcher and coach. He was born in Ashland, Ohio.
A left-handed-hitter, Roseboro had a lifetime .249 batting average with 104 home runs and 548 RBI in 1585 games played with the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers (1957-67), Minnesota Twins (1968-69) and Washington Senators (1970). He was a Gold Glove Award winner twice and a four-time All-Star during a fourteen-year stay.
Read "40 years later, The Fight resonates in a positive way," by Gwen Knapp, free from the San Francisco Chronicle and sfgate.com.
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By Rebecca Soltau,
Entertainment Editor
Let’s face it, my fellow seniors. We’re all looking forward to getting out. We long for freedom from train-like minute bells and the “No Hat” rule. Even though we do like the diversity and unique-ness that is Logan, we want to go, just like the various decades of senior classes did before us.
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From wikipedia:
William Francis Giauque (May 12, 1895 – March 28, 1982), born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, on May 12, 1895, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1949 for his studies in the properties of matter at temperatures close to absolute zero.
As his parents were U.S. citizens, they returned to the U.S. where he attended public schools primarily in Michigan. Following the death of his father in 1908, the family returned to Niagara Falls, where he studied at the Niagara Falls Collegiate Institute. After graduation, he looked for work in various power plants at Niagara Falls both for financial reasons and to pursue a career in electrical engineering but was unsuccessful.
Read William Giauque's Nobel Prize lecture, free from Nobelprize.org.
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By Larry Printz
The Virginian-Pilot (MCT)
NORFOLK, Va. — Mothers have been portrayed in many ways, but rarely with pistons and overhead valves.
Pretend, for a moment, that it's September 1965 and you've tune to NBC for a night of TV viewing. It's 7:30 p.m.
Time for "My Mother, The Car," voted the second-worst TV show of all time by TV Guide in 2002. ("The Jerry Springer Show" garnered the top spot.)
Watch a clip from the show, with the theme song, free from youtube.com.
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By Samuel Jue, Courier Sports Editor
One month ago, the highly-touted James Logan baseball team had lost three in row and were in danger of being expelled from a playoff spot.
But, Logan picked up back-to-back huge wins over the last week to clinch 2nd place in the Mission Valley Athletic League playoffs. They knocked off Irvington 6-2 on the final day of the regular season to barely sneak by the Vikings for a top two seed.
Logan’s Roberto Padilla pitched lights out baseball for 4 2/3 innings. The Colts ace starter punched out 10 hitters among the 14 he faced Friday night.
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From wikipedia:
Harriet Quimby (May 11, 1875 – July 1, 1912) was the first female to gain a pilot license in the United States. In 1911 she earned the first U.S. pilot's certificate issued to a woman by the Aero Club of America, and less than a year later became the first woman to fly across the English Channel. Although Quimby lived only to age 37, she had a major impact on women's roles in aviation.
A historical marker has been erected near the remains of the farmhouse in Arcadia, Michigan where Quimby was born. After her family moved to San Francisco, California in the early 1900s, she became a journalist. She moved to New York City in 1903 to work as a theatre critic for Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, which published over 250 of her articles over a nine-year period. She became interested in aviation in 1910, when she attended the Belmont Park International Aviation Tournament on Long Island, New York and met Matilde Moisant and her brother John, a well-known American aviator and operator of a flight school. On August 1, 1911, Quimby took her pilot's test and became the first U.S. woman to earn a pilot's certificate. Matilde Moisant soon followed and became the nation's second certified female pilot.
Learn more about Harriet Quimby, free from harrietquimby.org.
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By Christine Surna Khayat, Courier Staff Writer
Event 1: I’m sitting in the mall food court, waiting for my friend to get off of work, simply looking around, observing the people in an attempt to occupy my mind. As my eyes continuously wander from section to section, I can’t help but notice one table in particular. A young, mentally disabled man, no older than eighteen, sat in a wheelchair next to a middle-aged woman. The woman had sunken eyes and a frail figure. Yet, her protruding cheekbones illuminated her fatigued smile—not forced, just exhausted. On the table in front of them sat a tray of Burger King, barely eaten. As the two of them sat, I witnessed something so wonderful and beautiful. The woman was tearing the food into small, manageable pieces, feeding the young man, slowly and patiently. His head would be continuously falling, and there was often food falling out of his mouth, but the woman sat there feeding him and wiping his mouth, smiling patiently--lovingly. In between bites she would whisper in his ear and kiss his cheek. She would tickle and hug him and they would smile and laugh together. They seemed completely and happily oblivious to all the commotion around them. It was then that I realized that I was witnessing true, unconditional love.
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Shopping carts full of donated
shoes await shipment.
Pepper Moto/Courier PhotoBy Christina La,
Courier Editor-in-Chief
Shoes collected as part of a shoe drive begun early last month at James Logan High School to help the hurting children in Africa are about ready to be shipped.
This event is sponsored by Soles 4 Souls, a non-profit organization that offers shoes to the needy around the world.
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By Christina Karma, Courier Staff Writer
On Friday, May 2nd, the romantic comedy
Made of Honor released. It's worth seeing.
The movie starts off as Tom (Patrick Dempsey) is in college and 10 years pass by and he now lives in New York with the millions he has made from his paper-cup sleeve invention. Tom is a man who has a ton of women and also a ton of rules about dating them too. Hannah (Michelle Monaghan), a pretty director of acquisitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Tom are best friends who have known each other ever since college.
When Hannah tells Tom that she must go to Scotland regarding work for six weeks, Tom whines replying, “How can I live without you?”
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By Jennifer Torres,
Courier Staff Writer
The end of Tuesday, April 29 marked the official conclusion of the STAR testing week. Logan administrators and students were able to breathe a sigh of relief as the final bell rang.
"Yes! I'm so glad it's over, I will never have to take STAR testing ever again," said Alexis Cassilles, a junior.
Feelings were not mutual for the seniors who were not required to take the test.
"I loved coming to school late, I got to catch up on my beauty sleep," Jessica Yano, a senior.
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Before (top) and after imagery from
NASA's Terra satellite show a
landscape transformed when
Cyclone Nargis made landfall
in Myanmar. NASA photos.
NEW DELHI — With the death toll in cyclone-ravaged Myanmar passing 22,000 and foreign aid only beginning to reach victims, anger is surging against the isolated country's longtime military rulers, analysts said Tuesday.
But what form that frustration might take — and whether it could lead to the political change long sought by protesting monks and democracy campaigners — remains unclear as thousands in the southeast Asian nation struggle simply to cope with the aftermath of the disaster.
"People in general are quite frustrated and angry, but I cannot say whether that will lead to street protests," said Soe Myint, editor of the
Mizzima News, a New Delhi-based Myanmar news publication run by exiles. "People right now are fighting just for their survival."
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From wikipedia:
Dr. William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947) was an American psychologist, feminist theorist, inventor, and comic book author who created the character Wonder Woman. Two women, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne, (who lived with the couple in a polyamorous relationship), served as exemplars for the character and greatly influenced her creation.
He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006.
Early life and career
Born in Saugus, Massachusetts, William Marston was educated at Harvard University, receiving his B.A. in 1915, an L.L.B. in 1918, and a Ph.D. in Psychology in 1921. After teaching at American University in Washington D.C. and Tufts University in Medford MA, Marston traveled to Universal Studios in California in 1929, where he spent a year as Director of Public Services.
Read more about William Moulton Marston and Wonder Woman, free from wonderwoman-online.com.
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By Jowell Caballero,
Courier Staff Writer
Three years after their breakout album,
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out,
Panic At The Disco has released a new cd titled Pretty.Odd, and it is in fact odd. After ditching their exclamation point, it seems as though they have also ditched their former teeny punk music, and adopted a new 70's rock style.
After listening to the entire cd through I can't help but be reminded of the Beatles album
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Borrowing bits from the famous band, songs like "We're So Starving" and "Mad As Rabbits" feature horn sections that seem to have been directly copied and pasted from other famous Beatles songs.
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Alex Cho, second from right, won
a trip to Washington D.C.
,
Courier Staff Writer
Senior Alex Cho has stood apart from the four‑thousand-plus student population of James Logan and claimed victory at the twenty‑sixth annual
Congressional Art Competition, An Artistic Discovery. His success has won him a trip to Washington D.C.,where he will see his art work on display in the U.S. Capitol.
The Congressional Art Competition is an annual art contest hosted by the House of Representatives that recognizes the artistic talents of high school artists across the nation. Local contests are held within each district,and the winning entries from all districts are displayed at the U.S. Capitol for a year.In Logan’s case,only one piece of art work was allowed for submission into the contest.
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Mary Lou Williams (May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz stride pianist, composer, and arranger. Williams had written hundreds of compositions or arrangements, and recorded over a hundred records (in 78, 45, and LP versions). Williams wrote and arranged for such greats as Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. She displayed remarkable versatility and power, and is probably the most influential woman in the history of jazz.
Listen to Mary Lou Williams perform Medi II, free from Project Playlist and Feedburner.
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Senior Jonathan Laureta-Revelo
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The Colts, down 2-0 in the semifinals of the Mission Valley Athletic League playoffs against Moreau Catholic, rallied from a 2 to 0 deficit to beat the Moreau Mariners by a score of 3-2.
Eventually they were able to come back and reel off three straight wins to claim a thrilling 18-25, 23-25, 25-21, 25-23, 20-18 victory over the No.3 Mariners.
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The Governess Wears Scarlet
by Sari Robins
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Avon (January 29, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060782498
ISBN-13: 978-0060782498,
Courier Book Editor
“The old restlessness was upon him again like a serpent uncoiled from sleep and ready to strike. It did not matter that he was a gentleman with influential friends and important connections. It was of no consequence that he had a shiny new title that he’d finally managed to secure after years of peddling himself like a [harlot] with the rent overdue. Here he was once more, prowling the streets of London in search of justice he so desperately longed to mete out.”
When I spotted the title of this novel, I thought exactly what I’m sure you’re thinking. Great, another novel about a hussy and her employer. Not only that, but the author probably can’t write to save her life and writes trashy romance novels as a last resort. Nonetheless, I picked the book up and read the back. Sure, it sounded interesting, but I still had my doubts about the talent (or lack thereof) of the author. My mind was immediately changed when I encountered the first paragraph. Clearly, Robins has some talent when it comes to writing. I was unwillingly hooked like a rainbow trout whose only crime was nibbling on that lovely little piece of flash right in front of it. Luckily, I didn’t end up in the frying pan, and instead found myself enjoying the little piece of flash with the only consequence being late nights and horrible mornings.
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By Rick La Plante,
New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
The Board of Education on Tuesday night heard a report from the Education Services Department about the work done this year to develop a comprehensive interventions model at the elementary, middle and high school levels. Nancy George, Director of Adult Education and Intervention Services, explained how three tiers of intervention - benchmark, strategic and intensive - are being used to support struggling students.
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A Dangerous Dress by Julia Holden
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: NAL Trade (6/27/2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451218647
ISBN-13: 978-0451218643,
Courier Staff Writer
If there was ever an example that a fabulous dress could change your life, it's Jane Stuart's story in
A Dangerous Dress by Julia Holden.
In the book, Jane is a young woman from Indiana who is just sick of waiting for something exciting to happen in her unbelievably boring life. Fortunately, the answers to her prayers comes in the form of a phone call. A movie producer found her college research paper about Jane's grandmother's dress. Jane wrote the report detailing the dress' 1920's origin and stylish look. The producer was calling to ask for her grandmother's dress and for Jane's fashion expertise of the 1920's era. There was only one catch: the movie was shooting in Paris.
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Ellis Wilson, an African-American, was born in 1899 in "the Bottom" of Mayfield, Kentucky.
[The exact date of his birth is unclear. Some list it as April 30, 1899. The African American Registry says his birth is celebrated on May 7.]
While working as a janitor and delivery person for Day's Ready-to-Wear Dress Shop, Wilson would make soap drawings on the store's windows before cleaning them. The owner of the shop was so impressed with the portraits, that he added the weekly portraits to Wilson's job duties. It was then that Wilson determined that he would be an artist.
In 1917, Wilson enrolled at Kentucky State College in Frankfort. Unfortunately, the only coursework offered by the institution was for the study of agriculture or education. No other Kentucky institution offered blacks post-secondary education in other fields. After two years at Kentucky State, Wilson enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Learn more about Ellis Wilson, and see examples of his paintings, free from Kentucky Educational Television.
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Teacher Maria Cullinane uses an
electronic blackboard to help
Cliffside Park, New Jersey sixth
grader Alexander Velasquez learn
math in preparation for a state exam.
Carmine Galasso/The Record/MCT
HACKENSACK, N.J. — School districts eager to boost scores and keep pace with federal mandates are using computer games, electronic blackboards and even pep rallies to prepare students for state exams.
Technology in particular has become a mainstay for some schools as they prepare students for an acronym soup of tests.
For example, in late April and early May, students in the fifth through seventh grades in Bergen and Passaic counties will take the New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge, or ASK, while eighth-graders will round out the year with the Grade Eight Proficiency Assessment, or GEPA.
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By Tawab Fakhri, Courier Staff Writer
An overabundance of great action and shooter games, such as
Halo 3, Call of Duty 4, Mass Effect and more, came out this spring. However, gamers were left wanting something more cooperative, a part of the games that never have been targeted truly in the gaming genre until now.
Army of 2 is the undisputed king of cooperative game play.
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From wikipedia:
Martin Robison Delany (May 6, 1812 – January 24, 1885) was an African-American abolitionist, arguably the first proponent of American black nationalism and the first African American field officer in the United States Army.
Delany was born free in Charles Town, West Virginia (then part of Virginia), though his father Samuel was a slave. Delany's maternal grandparents were born in Africa and his grandfather was said to have been a prince. When he was just a few years old, attempts were made to enslave the rest of his family, but his mother Pati carried her two youngest children twenty miles to the courthouse in Winchester to argue successfully for her family's freedom.
As he was growing up, Martin Delany and his siblings learned to read and write using "The New York Primer and Spelling Book," which had been given to them by a peddler. This was illegal in Virginia, where it was forbidden to teach black people literacy. When this was discovered in September 1822, Pati took her children to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, leaving Samuel, who remained a slave. This situation changed a year later when he bought his freedom after refusing to take a beating, rejoining his family in Chambersburg.
Read The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, by Martin Delany, free from Project Gutenberg.
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By Oscar Avila
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
MEXICO CITY — While Mexican immigrants led the charge in Chicago and other cities Thursday to push the U.S. government to treat illegal immigrants more humanely, the same demands for immigrant rights are festering in Mexico, which is facing mounting international criticism for how it treats Latin American migrants.
In April, diplomats from El Salvador and Honduras formally protested after dozens of their citizens accused Mexican authorities of brutality while they were detained.
That same month, the top UN advocate for migrant rights toured the country and proclaimed that "the impunity with which Mexico victimizes Central American immigrants makes it the principal violator of human rights on the American continent."
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By Pablo Bachelet
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON — Tucked into a vast public lands measure approved by Congress last week was a bill that thrilled Hispanic lawmakers and activists.
The legislation, which the White House is expected to approve, creates a 23-member panel to study the viability of a National Museum of the American Latino Community in Washington. Proponents hope the museum will rise above the din of the illegal immigration debate to highlight the contributions to U.S. society by the 45 million-strong Latino community.
"This could really happen," said Florida Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. "We could really make this come true."
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By Mandy Locke
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Tilden Hagan spends his days cruising college campuses trying to pick up students.
His line: Let me tell you about my mom.
Before they can answer, Tilden Hagan, a 25-year-old Duke University alumnus with shaggy hair, launches into a speech about the ills of America's health care system, lack of financial aid for students and slow progress in making energy green. He insists his mother, Kay
Hagan, can fix what's broken with America and tells them she needs their vote in the May 6 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate.
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Musically Minded by Kimberly Low
From The Courier's archives:
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Go see Alex Cho’s amazing artwork at the San Leandro Gallery & Museum between May 2 and May 9 at 320 W. Estudillo Ave. His work may turn out to go to Washington DC, if he wins the competition.
Spring football starts Monday, May 19, at 3:45 p.m. on the big green.
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From wikipedia:
Umm Kulthum (the name is spelled variously using the Roman alphabet as
Om Koultoum, Om Kalthoum, Oum Kalsoum, Oum Kalthum, Omm Kolsoum, Umm Kolthoum, Um Kalthoom, Omme Kolsoum, and others). Born
Umm Kulthum Ebrahim Elbeltagi (May 4, 1904 – February 3, 1975) was an Egyptian singer, songwriter, and actress. Born in El Senbellawein, she is known as "the Star of the East" (kawkab el-sharq). More than three decades after her death, she is still recognized as one of Egypt's most famous and distinguished singers of the 20th century.
Learn more about Umm Kulthum, and hear and see samples of he perfomrances, free from the Al Mashriq website.
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By Emily Low, Courier Staff Writer
The classroom is still. The clock ticks almost inaudibly from its spot on the wall, a slow, steady sound that never wavers. Out of the corner of your eye, something moves, and startled you glance over. Nothing. On your other side, something scratches; you jump. It’s beginning to get distracting. Suddenly…BOOM. You jump, eyes wide—oh, the air conditioning has come on.
Such are the horrors of STAR testing, one might sigh. There is complete and utter boredom and silence, broken only by the monotonous task of filling bubbles or other such annoying things. It’s a small wonder that students happen to be uninterested in the week standardized testing.
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By Carmen Shiu, Courier Special Correspondent
With an average of 28.6 million viewers in the final performances and season finales of the popular TV show, American Idol, over the past six seasons, one has to wonder, What happens to the contestants?
There are stories of contestants being successful, working on it, flopped, and even having their 15 minutes of fame (William Hung, anyone?).
Season seven is well on its way to the finale with the remaining four contestants battling it out next week to be the top three. So what exactly can the public and the singers themselves expect out of appearing on Idol?
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From wikipedia:
Andy Adams (May 3, 1859 – September 26, 1935) was an American writer of western fiction.
Andy Adams was born in Indiana. His parents, Andrew and Elizabeth (Elliott) Adams, were pioneers. As a boy he helped with the cattle and horses on the family farm. In the early 1880s he went to Texas, where he stayed for 10 years, spending much of that time driving cattle on the western trail. In 1890 he left the trail to try his hand at business, but the venture failed, so he turned his hand to gold-mining in Colorado and Nevada. In 1894, he settled in Colorado Springs, where he lived until his death.
Read Andy Adams' The Log of a Cowboy, one
of six of his works available from Project Gutenberg.
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By Christina Karma, Courier Staff Writer
On Friday,
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay hit movie theaters.
Starting from where the first film,
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle left off, Harold Lee & Kumar Patel go on a hunt to find Maria, Harold’s secret love, in Amsterdam. Throughout this journey, make obstacles occur, making it difficult to get to Amsterdam. After a questionable security pass, the two finally board the plane. During the flight, Kumar sees the need to show Harold his latest invention; a smokeless bong. As a passenger overhears the two talking about the bong, she hears incorrectly and yells “It’s a bomb!” Taken in hand the ethnicity of Kumar, he is mistaken as an Arab.
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By Jasmeen Banwait, Courier Copy Editor
Leatherheads stars George Clooney, Renee Zellweger, and John Krasinski. The plot takes place during the time period of the 1920s, and Dodge Connolly (Clooney) is the captain of an unsuccessful and disappointing football team that goes by the name of the Duluth Bulldogs. The Bulldogs have a major losing record, which causes them to lose their sponsorship leaving the team bankrupt before football season even starts. Connolly feels alarmed and tries to think of ways to save his team. He sees a television show interviewing Carter (Krasinski ), a well known and successful college football player attending Princeton University. Connolly attempts to convince Carter to join the Bulldogs for one season, and Carter accepts.
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By Sandhaya Mansfield, Courier Staff Writer
The Life Before Her Eyes is a movie adaptation of the novel by Laura Kasischke about a life changing decision made by two high school best friends.
Diana (Evan Rachel Wood) is young,wild, adventurous and in her final year of high school. She holds back on nothing and does whatever she pleases while her conservative best friend Maureen (Eva Amurri) watches on the sidelines. They are not only polar opposites, but best friends who spend every waking hour together. One day, before class Diana and Maureen stop in the bathroom to check reflections when they hear gunshots being fired outside. Seconds later the gunman, who is a fellow classmate, bursts into the bathroom and demands that the two girls pick who will live. The screen goes black and is followed by cries then gunfire. The image that returns seconds later is an all grown up Diana (Uma Thurman) who has just woken from a nightmare.
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From wikipedia: Claude-Joseph Désiré Charnay (2 May 1828 - 24 October 1915) was a French traveller and archaeologist notable both for his explorations of Mexico and Central America, and for the pioneering use of photography to document his discoveries.
See a collection of Charnay's photos of Mexico, free from the American Philosophical Society.
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By Rebecca Soltau, Entertainment Editor
Daniel Hunter is a musical master of multi-tasking. The 18-year old Texas native sings, produces, and writes every scrap of material that comes from the microphone he serenades in the one-man project
PlayRadioPlay!, which was recently on a year-long tour with
Gym Class Heroes, Young Love, and the epic
Fall Out Boy.
Simply put, Daniel Hunter is a music purist who relies on off-beat humor and natural emotions to inspire his lyrics, and PlayRadioPlay!’s newest album,
Texas, provides ample evidence of his creative genius.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
Rosa Thompson, who for more than 20 years has played a crucial role in the English as a Second Language Program at Barnard-White Middle School, was named today as one of the six inaugural winners of California’s Classified School Employees of the Year program.
“The state obviously wanted to set the bar high as they started this award, and they’ve set it very high indeed by making Rosa one of the recipients,” said Derek McNamara, Associate Superintendent for Personnel Services for the New Haven Unified School District. “Rosa’s work has directly benefitted hundreds of students during her career, and we’re immensely proud of her.”
Learn about all of the winners from the website of Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell.
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