This is the archive for April 2009
By Denay Harris,
Courier Daily Editor
March seemed to be the start of the perfect world for new solo artist/song writer Keri Hilson, as Hilson released her first solo album, “In a Perfect World.”
The album, originally due to be released in 2007, but delayed by many setbacks, is well worth the wait.
Representing the “dirty south,” 27-year-old Hilson was born in Decatur, GA, only a few miles outside of Atlanta, according to the biographical material provided by her publicist. Known as “Keri-Okey” by her friends, she has been on this musical journey for a while now. Growing up watching shows like
Star Search and
Showtime at the Apollo, she was already planning a career in music at age 12.
arts.
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By Steven Thomma and Margaret Talev
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama marked his first 100 days in office Wednesday with a broad assurance that the country is on the road to recovery and that there is no cause for panic on threats ranging from the swine flu to nuclear weapons in Pakistan.
In an evening news conference, Obama defended his formal ban of extreme techniques the Bush administration used to question terrorism suspects, and his decision to declassify memos outlining the tactics. He said there have been "no circumstances" so far "that would make me second-guess the decision that I've made."
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By Kevin G. Hall and Margaret Talev
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama announced Thursday that Italian carmaker Fiat would buy Chrysler and that Chrysler would enter a surgical bankruptcy that would let the storied American carmaker shed debts that it could not negotiate away.
"For too long Chrysler moved too slowly to adapt to the future. My job as president is to ensure that if tax dollars are being put on the line they are being invested in a real fix that will make Chrysler competitive," Obama said.
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LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!
AP TESTING SCHEDULE
Monday, May 4
Government & Politics 7:30 AM-11:30 AM Old Gym
Tuesday, May 5
Computer Science AB 7:30 AM-11:30 AM PE Classroom
Spanish Language 7:30 AM-11:30 AM Room 41 Computer Lab
Statistics 12:00 PM-4:00 PM Old Gym
Wednesday, May 6
Calculus AB 7:30 AM-11:30 AM Old Gym
Calculus BC 7:30 AM-11:30 AM Old Gym
Chinese Language & Culture 12:00 PM-4:00 PM Room 41 Computer Lab
Thursday, May 7
English Literature 7:30 AM-11:30 AM Old Gym
Friday, May 8
US History 7:30 AM-11:30 AM Old Gym
European History 12:00 PM-4:00 PM P.E. Classroom
Studio Art (portfolios due) 12:00 PM-4:00 PM Neagle's Office
Monday, May 11
Biology 7:30 AM-11:30 AM Old Gym
Music Theory 7:30 AM-11:30 AM Neagle's Office
Physics B 12:00 PM-4:00 PM Old Gym
Physics C: Mechanics 12:00 PM-4:00 PM Old Gym
Tuesday, May 12
Chemistry 7:30 AM-11:30 AM Old Gym
Psychology 12:00 PM-4:00 PM PE Classroom
Wednesday, May 13
English Language & Comp 7:30 AM-11:30 AM PE Classroom
Thursday, May 14
Macroeconomics 7:30 AM-11:30 AM Old Gym
World History 7:30 AM-11:30 AM PE Classroom
Microeconomics 12:00 PM-4:00 PM PE Classroom
Friday, May 15
Spanish Literature 7:30 AM-11:30 AM PE Classroom
Human Geography 7:30 AM-11:30 AM PE Classroom
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Sherman's marble statue in
the United States Capitol. April 30, 1721 – July 23, 1793, was the only person to sign all four great documents establishing the United States: the Articles of Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution.
From the National Archives Experience:
In 1723, when Sherman was 2 years of age, his family relocated from his Newton, MA, birthplace to Dorchester (present Stoughton). As a boy, he was spurred by a desire to learn and read widely in his spare time to supplement his minimal education at a common school. But he spent most of his waking hours helping his father with farming chores and learning the cobbler's trade from him. In 1743, 2 years after his father's death, Sherman joined an elder brother who had settled in New Milford, CT.
Read Roger Sherman's 1790 letter to Governor Samuel Huntington of Connecticut, regarding Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton's financial plans, free from the University of Houston's Digital History site.
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Lunch
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!
AP TESTING SCHEDULE
Monday, May 4
Government & Politics 7:30 AM-11:30 AM Old Gym
Tuesday, May 5
Computer Science AB 7:30 AM-11:30 AM PE Classroom
Spanish Language 7:30 AM-11:30 AM Room 41 Computer Lab
Statistics 12:00 PM-4:00 PM Old Gym
Wednesday, May 6
Calculus AB 7:30 AM-11:30 AM Old Gym
Calculus BC 7:30 AM-11:30 AM Old Gym
Chinese Language & Culture 12:00 PM-4:00 PM Room 41 Computer Lab
Thursday, May 7
English Literature 7:30 AM-11:30 AM Old Gym
Friday, May 8
US History 7:30 AM-11:30 AM Old Gym
European History 12:00 PM-4:00 PM P.E. Classroom
Studio Art (portfolios due) 12:00 PM-4:00 PM Neagle's Office
Monday, May 11
Biology 7:30 AM-11:30 AM Old Gym
Music Theory 7:30 AM-11:30 AM Neagle's Office
Physics B 12:00 PM-4:00 PM Old Gym
Physics C: Mechanics 12:00 PM-4:00 PM Old Gym
Tuesday, May 12
Chemistry 7:30 AM-11:30 AM Old Gym
Psychology 12:00 PM-4:00 PM PE Classroom
Wednesday, May 13
English Language & Comp 7:30 AM-11:30 AM PE Classroom
Thursday, May 14
Macroeconomics 7:30 AM-11:30 AM Old Gym
World History 7:30 AM-11:30 AM PE Classroom
Microeconomics 12:00 PM-4:00 PM PE Classroom
Friday, May 15
Spanish Literature 7:30 AM-11:30 AM PE Classroom
Human Geography 7:30 AM-11:30 AM PE Classroom
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"The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun"
by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by
Christopher Tolkien; Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt, New York
(377 pages, $26)
Before J. R. R. Tolkien was known as the master fantasy writer behind "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit," he was fascinated with Norse mythology.
Lost for 70 years, and buried among his papers, were two poems he wrote concerning "the Volsung and Niflung (or Nibelung) legend, using modern English fitted to the Old Norse metre." They now appear for the first time as "The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun."
Tolkien's tireless son, Christopher, has footnoted, detailed other versions and traditions — Germanic, Icelandic and others. By the end, the detail is illuminating but overwhelming.
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From the Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
ALEXANDER II. (1818-1881), emperor of Russia, eldest son of Nicholas I., was born on the 29th of April 1818.
His early life gave little indication of his subsequent activity, and up to the moment of his accession in 1855 no one ever imagined that he would be known to posterity as a great reformer. In so far as he had any decided political convictions, he seemed to be animated with that reactionary spirit which was predominant in Europe at the time of his birth, and continued in Russia to the end of his father's reign. In the period of thirty years during which he was heir-apparent, the moral atmosphere of St Petersburg was very unfavourable to the development of any originality of thought or character.
Learn more about the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, and
listen to a BBC radio program about the murder, free.
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Lunch
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!
MISCELLANEOUS
Students: Cheerleading tryouts will be held in May. Anyone who wishes to try out must have and maintain a 2.0 GPA with no Fs.
M.E.Ch.A.’s Cinco de Mayo Car Show is coming! Food, music and rides. If you want an application to enter your cars/bikes/trucks, see Ms. Esquivez, Room 407.
Students: Nominate a teacher or counselor for Teacher of the Year. Get a nomination form from a teacher or house office. The deadline is today!
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By Jericho Faustino and Rohan Kumar Courier Staff Writers
Have you ever dismembered an alien? Or run over someone with a tank?
In many popular games such as,
Gears Of War and
Call of Duty, violence is their main appeal. In
Grand Theft Auto, the game allows you to perform various vigilantes and obscene crimes. Also, in
Halo, gamers can manipulate their opponents to perform derogative acts of harassment.
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From wikipedia:
Lionel Barrymore (April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, radio and film. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931)
Early life
Barrymore was born Lionel Herbert Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of actors Georgiana Drew and Maurice Barrymore (né Blythe). He was the elder brother of Ethel and John Barrymore, the uncle of John Drew Barrymore, and the grand-uncle (or great-uncle) of Drew Barrymore. Barrymore was raised Roman Catholic. He attended the Episcopal Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania.
During World War One Lionel staved off the deadly Spanish Influenza by taking cold alcohol baths as an antiseptic.
See pictures of Lionel Barrymore, free from fanpix.net.
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LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!
MISCELLANEOUS
M.E.Ch.A.’s Cinco de Mayo Car Show is coming! Food, music and rides. If you want an application to enter your cars/bikes/trucks, see Ms. Esquivez, Room 407.
All candidates for ASB elections, there is a candidate meeting today, April 28th, at 3:40 p.m. after school in Room 67. Please have your completed packet.
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Swine flu refers to influenza
caused by viruses endemic to pigs
CDC photo
MEXICO CITY — Schools closed Friday for 6.1 million students across Mexico City and its suburbs, along with public museums and libraries, due to an unusually fierce swine flu outbreak that has killed at least 20 people. Another 40 deaths are being investigated for a connection to the virus.
Authorities in the capital — home to about half of the 18 million people in the metropolitan area — planned to hand out surgical-type masks on the crowded subway and public bus system, prohibit mass events and perhaps even cancel professional soccer matches in an attempt to contain the outbreak.
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Courier Staff Report
The process of nominating teachers and counselors for the annual House Teacher of the Year awards has already resulted in dozens of nominations being turned in, and hundreds more of the nominating forms are expected to be turned in when phase one of the process of choosing the winners ends, the nomination phase, ends Wednesday afternoon.
This is the 14th year of the program, according to organizers, through which parents, students, staff and administrators are invited to participate in choosing teachers for the honor of House Teacher-of-the-Year.
This year, there will be four winners, one for each "house," said Language Arts teacher Tim Campbell, one of the event’s organizers.
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From wikipedia:
Edward Whymper (27 April 1840 – 16 September 1911), was a British illustrator, climber and explorer best known for the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. On the descent four members of the party were killed.
Edward Whymper was born in London, England on 27 April 1840 to Josiah Wood Whymper and Elizabeth Claridge being the second of eleven children including his older brother Frederick Whymper. He was trained to be a wood-engraver at an early age. In 1860, he made extensive forays into the central and western Alps to produce a series of commissioned alpine scenery drawings.
Read Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator by Edward Whymper, free from Google Books.
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LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!
MISCELLANEOUS
M.E.Ch.A. is holding their annual Cinco de Mayo car show May 1st. Admission is only 50¢. We’ll have music, taco trucks and nice rides. See Ms. Esquivez.
The price of yearbooks is going up to $90 on Friday, May 1st. Buy yours now for $80 in Room 44 after school.
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School Days by Jamie Maxfield,
Courier Editor-in-Chief
Bananas by Jessica Stewart,
Courier Editor-in-Chief
Word Play by Gabriel Hinojoza,
Courier Correspondent
Stickies: Surviving Fourth Quarter by Lorisa Salvatin, Courier Staff Artist
The Tao of Sunday by Idy Tao,
Courier Daily Editor
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From wikipedia:
Charles Edward "Cow Cow" Davenport (April 26, 1894 – December 3, 1955) was an American boogie woogie piano player. He also played the organ and sang.
He was born in Anniston, Alabama. Arnold Caplin, on the liner notes to the album Hot Pianos 1926-1940 reports that Davenport started playing the piano at age 12. His family objected strongly to his musical aspirations and sent him to a theological seminary, where he was expelled for playing ragtime.
Read "Cow Cow Davenport," by Art Hodes, free from the-blindman.com.
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Hayden in 1956,
photo by Carl Van Vechten (born Mildred Herman, April 25, 1923, Toronto; died August 9, 2006, Winston-Salem, North Carolina) was a Canadian ballerina at the New York City Ballet.
Hayden was born in Toronto as the second daughter of Jacob Herman and his wife Kate Weinberg,jewish immigrants from Russia. The young Mildred was called Millie at home, a nickname she kept for the rest of her life.
Read Melissa Hayden's obituary, free from Tributes.com.
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By Jenelle Gallardo,
Courier Staff Writer
While most students were spending their time relaxing and enjoying spring break's weather, James Logan's Show Choir and Jazz Singers were competing at the Heritage Festival in Anaheim.
Led by teacher Erin McShane and choreographed by Jeremiah Delacruz, Logan's singers won first place gold for both divisions, the Adjudicator award, and the Choral Sweepstakes.
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By Alejandro Samaniego, Courier Staff Writer
The James Logan boy's volleyball team beat American High School in Mission Valley Athletic League play, Tuesday.
The match was tough as it went to the fifth game as Logan came from behind to take the victory. As the temperature cooled down, the Logan boys heated up. Falling behind by two games (21-25, 18-25) began to look like the boys were going to be swept for the second straight time at an away game.
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From Wikipedia:
Manuel Ávila Camacho (April 24, 1897 – October 13, 1955) served as the President of Mexico from 1940 to 1946.
Manuel Ávila was born in the city of Teziutlán, a small town in Puebla, to middle-class parents, Manuel Ávila Castillo and Eufrosina Camacho Bello. He had several siblings, among them sister María Jovita Ávila Camacho and several brothers. Two of his brothers, Maximino Ávila and Rafael Ávila Camacho both served as governors of Puebla. Ávila did not receive a university degree, although he studied at the National Preparatory School. He joined the army in 1914 as a 2nd lieutenant and reached the status of Colonel by 1920 and, in the same year, served as the Chief of Staff of the state of Michoacán under Lázaro Cárdenas, and became his close friend. In 1929, he fought under general Cárdenas against the Escobar Rebellion and, that same year, achieved the rank of Brigade General. He was married to Soledad Orozco García, who was born in Zapopan, Jalisco. Soledad Orozco was one of the Orozcos of the State of Jalisco. She was born in 1904 and died in 1996.
Learn more about Manuel Ávila Camacho, free from Google.
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From wikipedia:
Granville Stanley Hall (February 1, 1844 - April 24, 1924) was a pioneering American psychologist and educator. His interests focused on childhood development and evolutionary theory. Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association and the first president of Clark University.
Born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, Hall graduated from Williams College in 1867, then studied at the Union Theological Seminary. Inspired by Wilhelm Wundt's Principles of Physiological Psychology, he earned his doctorate in psychology under William James at Harvard University, after which he spent time at Wundt's Leipzig laboratory.
Read Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall, free from Project Gutenberg.
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A prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison
LONDON — The chief justice of the British High Court on Wednesday gave the British government one week to obtain the U.S. release of classified information about the alleged torture of a British resident who had been detained at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The court indicated that it would issue its own order if the government doesn't respond or justify why continued secrecy is warranted.
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LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!
MISCELLANEOUS
The price of yearbooks is going up to $90 on Friday, May 1st. Buy yours now for $80 in Room 44 after school.
Any students interested in running for ASB office, application packets are available in Room 67 and are due at the candidate’s meeting on Tuesday, April 28th, after school. See any leadership student in Room 67 during lunch if you have any questions.
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Eminem performing
in 2005
wikipedia photo
DETROIT — You can practically feel the buzz building.
Nearly five years after his last album of new material, Eminem is headed back into the limelight. "Relapse," the first of two promised albums for the Detroit hip-hop icon this year, will hit stores May 19. The record's saucy first single, "We Made You," was released two weeks ago amid much hoopla.
And now the fanfare — which has been on a steady simmer since the autumn release of Em's autobiography — is set to flash to a boil.
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By Tearra Webb,
Courier Staff Writer
Ever since the controversy with Chris brown and Rihanna, many women, men and television shows are opening up about abusive relationships, sharing their personal feelings about abusive relationships.
I feel abusive relationships are one of the most harmful things happening to woman today. But it’s not only men that do it—women can be the abusers in the relationship, too. There are many men and women who are physically and emotionally hurt from abusive relationships.
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LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!
MISCELLANEOUS
Come to the Bay Area Top 8 Track & Field Meet on Friday and Saturday. Four National Leaders will be in attendance.
Cheerleading tryouts will be held in May. Anyone who wishes to try out must have and maintain a 2.0 GPA with no Fs.
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
by Jane Austin and Seth Grahame-Smith
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Quirk Books (April 4, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1594743347
ISBN-13: 978-1594743344
Amid a tsunami of Jane Austen-based books, "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" has a unique twist: romance novel and horror flick.
Most people are aware of the original "Pride and Prejudice" either through school reading lists or recent movies. It is a classic tale of the English class, good breeding and husband-hunting centering on the Bennet family of five daughters — Jane, Elizabeth, Kitty, Mary and Lydia.
Fewer people may be aficionados of the zombie genre. A zombie is an animated corpse. Here, zombies are ravenous brain-munching, rotting "Unmentionables" that travel in packs, attack coaches, milkmaids, kitchen staffs, and the occasional aristocratic ball room.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
All students will perform at grade level in core academic subjects according to the new District Goal formally approved Tuesday night by the Board of Education.
The Board also approved two Superintendent’s Goals: 1) to create a set of Planning Policies, including vision, philosophy, District goals and comprehensive plans; and 2) to create a Comprehensive Planning Framework including a systemic theory of action to guide all District work in answering three questions regarding student performance:
• Where are we?
• Where do we need to be?
• What will get us there?
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Tribute by Nora Roberts
Hardcover: 464 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult; First Edition edition (July 8, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0399154914
ISBN-13: 978-0399154911,
Courier Editor-in-Chief
”Standing, she scanned the ruined lawns, the sagging fences, the sad old barn that stood soot gray and scarred from weather. There had been chickens once--or so she’d been told--a couple of pretty horses, tidy fields of crops, a small, thriving grove of fruit trees. She wanted to believe--maybe needed to believe--she could bring all that back. That by the next spring, and all the springs after, she could stand here and look at the budding, the blooming, the business of what had been her grandmother’s.
Of what was now hers.”
Unfortunately, bringing her grandmother’s house back to life will also bring back to life a hatred that has been buried for decades. This is a fantastic book. Nora Roberts does a beautiful job of combining romance and mystery, reality and imagination, character development and plot. It is the perfect length, not so short that it skimps on details and not so long that it bores the reader. It has a satisfying conclusion that ties up all of the loose ends. I was not left wanting more of the story, but I was definitely left wanting more of Roberts’s books.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
Full-day kindergarten, successfully implemented at four New Haven Unified School District elementary schools during the past two years, will be in place at Searles Elementary in 2009-10, Superintendent Kari McVeigh announced today.
Acting on studies showing that full-day kindergarten can lead to increased student achievement and accelerated behavioral and social development, the District instituted full-day kindergarten as a pilot program at Pioneer Elementary in 2007-08. Three other schools – Alvarado Elementary, Hillview Crest Elementary and Kitayama Elementary – implemented it in 2008-09.
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From wikipedia:
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22 in Richmond, Virginia , 1873-November 21, 1945 in Richmond, Virginia) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist from Richmond, Virginia.
Beginning in 1897, Glasgow wrote twenty novels and many short stories, mainly about life in Virginia. Her own education had been rudimentary, a fact Glasgow compensated for by reading widely. Today, her novels are regarded as more than just depictions of life in the Southern United States.
Read The Ancient Law by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, free from Google Books.
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The Chronicles of Riddick:
Assault on Dark Athena
For: Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC
From: Starbreeze/Tigon/Atari
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore, intense
violence, sexual content, strong language)
If selling games is a race, then "The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena" is a 100-meter sprinter with an eight-second head start. In a move that hopefully becomes a trend, developers Starbreeze and Tigon have included a remastered copy of "Athena's" prequel, "Escape From Butcher Bay," as bonus content.
"Bay" was incredible enough to command $50 on its own five years ago, and its approach to first-person stealth still feels fresh in its 2009 incarnation. Tigon and Starbreeze took an oft-inaccessible genre and made it immersive and exciting by nailing the control scheme and devising some ingenious means of communicating your ability to hide and remain hidden. It didn't hurt that the game's storyline and characters were more engaging than those found in the "Riddick" movie released around the same time.
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LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!
MISCELLANEOUS
Cheerleading tryouts will be held in May. Anyone who wishes to try out must have and maintain a 2.0 GPA with no Fs.
The 9th Annual Children’s Art & Science Festival is being held at the Hayward Parent Nursery School and they need student volunteers. Want to help? Pick up a GREEN flyer in the Career Center.
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From wikipedia:
Raden Ajeng (Adjeng) Kartini or, more accurately, Raden Ayu (Ajoe) Kartini, (April 21, 1879–September 17, 1904), was a prominent Javanese and an Indonesian national heroine. Kartini is known as a pioneer in the area of women's rights for native Indonesians.
Kartini was born into an aristocratic Javanese family in a time when Java was still part of the Dutch colony, the Dutch East Indies. Kartini's father, Raden Mas Sosroningrat, became Regency Chief of Jepara, and her mother was Raden Mas' first wife, but not the most important one. At this time, polygamy was a common practice among the nobility.
Read Letters of a Javanese princess by Kartini and Agnes Louise Symmers, free from googlebooks.com.
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LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!
MISCELLANEOUS
The Student Principal’s Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting normally scheduled for tomorrow is canceled.
Congratulations to the Show Choir and Jazz Singers who participated in the Heritage Festival in Anaheim over the weekend. Both choirs took 1st place in their divisions, and Show Choir won the Adjudicator Award (highest combined total from one adjudicator) and the Choral Sweepstakes Award, the highest scoring choir in the festival!
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By Peter Nicholas
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago — Rebuffing criticism of the warm greetings he exchanged with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, President Barack Obama said Sunday the United States, with its overwhelming military superiority and need to improve its global image, can afford to extend such diplomatic "courtesy."
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By Dana Hull
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Mike Maietta was eating lunch when he got a text message from his mom.
"Notre Dame," it said. "Big envelope!"
Mike, a senior in high school, whooped for joy. The big envelope meant the storied Catholic university in South Bend, Ind., had offered him a coveted slot in its Class of 2013. But the $51,300 annual price tag is a formidable obstacle. So Mike and his parents are considering offers from several other colleges and calculating the costs Cost of college, economic woes have high school seniors weighing options tuition, housing, holiday trips home.
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From wikipedia:
Dinah Maria Craik (born Dinah Maria Mulock, also often credited as Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik) (20 April 1826 - 12 October 1887) was an English novelist and poet. She was born at Stoke-on-Trent and brought up in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.
Read
John Halifax, Gentleman, by Dinah Craik, one of
nine of her works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!
MISCELLANEOUS
Junior Prom and Senior Ball tickets are on sale in the 300s courtyard near Room 67 during lunch only. Junior Prom is on Saturday, May 2nd at 8:00 p.m. in the Pavilion. Tickets are $55. Delicious appetizers and beverages will be served. Senior Ball is on Saturday, May 23rd at 7:00 p.m. and is a cruise on the Bay with a buffet dinner. Tickets are $125. Buy your tickets now before prices go up!
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School Days by Jamie Maxfield, Courier Editor-in-Chief
From The Courier's Archives:
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From wikipedia:
Richard Arthur Warren Hughes OBE (19 April 1900—28 April 1976) was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays.
He was born in Weybridge, Surrey of Welsh parentage, and educated at Charterhouse and graduated from Oriel College, Oxford in 1922.
A Charterhouse schoolmaster had sent Hughes's first published work to
The Spectator in 1917. (The article, written as a school essay, was an attack on
The Loom of Youth, by Alec Waugh, a recently published novel which caused a furore for its frank account of homosexual passions between British schoolboys in a public school). At Oxford he met Robert Graves, also an Old Carthusian, and they co-edited a poetry publication,
Oxford Poetry, in 1921. Hughes's short play
The Sister's Tragedy was in the West End at the Royal Court Theatre by 1922. He is credited with the authorship of the world's first radio play, Danger, commissioned from him for the BBC by Nigel Playfair, and broadcast on January 15, 1924.
Read more about Richard Hughes' radio play, Danger, the first radio play ever written.
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By Joel Brinkley
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
In France, newspapers are in trouble, just as they are in the United States. Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, wants to give 18-year-olds a free subscription to the paper of their choice.
In America, the news media don't take financial aid from the government, even when it's indirect. Still, major newspapers are shutting down, and owners are telling others that the end is nigh. As they say, pending death tends to focus the mind. So let's focus on this: How can an industry survive if it allows other companies, like Google News, to use its content without any compensation?
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By Sandy Bauers and John Shiffman
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)
PHILADELPHIA — In a landmark move that counters eight years of inaction by the Bush administration, the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday determined that greenhouse gases threaten public health because they contribute to climate change.
The ruling sets the stage for the agency to regulate emissions from a spectrum of sources, including automobiles, ships, airplanes, power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and more.
Supporters and critics alike agreed that the finding was a game-changer with potentially profound consequences, though the latter warned that implementing new rules would have devastating impacts on the economy.
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CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE
2 stars (out of 5)
Cast:: Jason Statham, Amy Smart,
Dwight Yoakam, Bai Ling, Corey Haim
Director: Mark Neveldine /Brian Taylor
Running time: 1 hour 26 minutes
Industry rating: R for frenetic strong
bloody violence throughout, crude
and graphic sexual content, nudity
and pervasive language.
If Jason Statham is the greatest B-movie action star of our day (and he is), then the "Crank" movies are his showcase. These gonzo, amoral, politically incorrect rides put the ripped, bald and mean Statham through his paces like nothing else in his action repertoire.
And unlike the decline and fall of "The Transporter" series, the latest "Crank" shows few signs of slacking off the pace.
We know Chev Chelios died at the end of "Crank," plummeting to his death as he pummeled his nemesis mid-fall. In "Crank: High Voltage," Chev has been scooped off the street and kept alive for organ harvest by Chinese doctors working in the back of a Chinatown brothel. Chev (Statham) wakes up post-op, realizes he has an artificial heart and quickly learns from his underworld surgeon pal (Dwight Yoakam, on his game) that he needs to get his real heart back and that he has about an hour to do it, depending on stops for re-jolting the apparatus in his chest.
"Juice me."
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From wikipedia:
Jaime Torres Bodet (17 April 1902 – 13 May 1974) was a prominent Mexican politician and writer who served in the executive cabinet of three Presidents of Mexico.
A native of Mexico City, Torres Bodet was appointed Secretary of Public Education (1943–46) by President Manuel Ávila Camacho; he then served as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1946–1951) under President Miguel Alemán Valdés. Later, in 1958-64, he was again appointed to serve as Secretary of Public Education, this time under President Adolfo López Mateos.
Read a speech given by Jaime Torres Bodet, then Secretary of Public Education in Mexico, at the 25th anniversary celebration of the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Mexico. January 24, 1961.
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By Mike Osegueda
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
FRESNO, Calif. — A week ago marked the 15th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death.
One Chicago band is helping to keep Cobain's — and his band Nirvana's — legacy alive.
Nevermind started playing Nirvana tunes in 1991 and 18 years later has toured all over the country (and even outside of it) re-creating the Nirvana experience.
We talked to J. Veldman, Nevermind's frontman, to learn more about the band:
Question: How did you guys come to start a Nirvana tribute band back in 1991, when Nirvana first hit big?
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The Roots performing in Toronto, Canada
on March 24, 2007. wikipedia photo
NEW YORK — It's 10 minutes to show time backstage at "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon," and Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson is wondering what the Roots have gotten themselves into.
"There are two sayings: 'The grass is always greener on the other side' and 'Be careful what you wish for,'" says the drummer and bandleader of the Philadelphia hip-hop-plus ensemble. Since March 2, when Fallon replaced Conan O'Brien at 12:35 a.m. EDT on NBC, the group has been aptly introduced to America as "The Legendary Roots Crew."
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Mykerlie Lachapelle, a senior at Jones High School,
checks out a prom dress, March 27, 2009, while
visiting the "Tiger's Den/Chelsea's Boutique," in
Orlando, Florida. The boutique, on site at the school,
is an affordable option for formal wear for school
special events, like proms and homecoming dances.
(Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/MCT)
ORLANDO, Fla. — Forget dresses, ballrooms and music.
When it came to planning the prom at Mount Dora High School this year, "the first thing I thought about was the recession," said Marilyn Orr, the junior-class sponsor.
"I thought, we need to make this prom affordable."
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From wikipedia:
Dr. José de Diego y Benítez (April 16, 1866 – July 16, 1918), was a statesman, journalist, poet and advocate for Puerto Rico's independence from Spain and from the USA.
De Diego was born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico and received his primary education in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. He then moved to Spain where he graduated from the "Polytechnic College of Logroño". While in Spain, de Diego collaborated with the newspaper "El Progreso" (Progress) which was founded by José Julián Acosta and which attacked the political situation in Puerto Rico. This led to various arrests and eventually he returned to the island.
Read two poems by José de Diego, free from Elboricua.com
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Night Shadow by Nora Roberts
Mass Market Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: Silhouette; Other Printing edition (July 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0373285108
ISBN-13: 978-0373285105,
Courier Editor-in-Chief
“He was watchful, always, for those who preyed on the helpless and vulnerable. Unknown, unseen, unwanted, he stalked the hunters in the steaming jungle that was the city. He moved unchallenged in the dark spaces, the blind alleys and violent streets. Like smoke, he drifted along towering rooftops and down into dank cellars.”
He is Nemesis, a masked vigilante with the power to blend into walls and take the criminals he hunts by surprise. What with all of the superhero movies that have been coming out over the last few years, this book is excellent because it shows yet another side of a superhero’s life without all of the special effects and glamour to mask it. I really enjoyed reading it and, surprisingly, have no complaints about it.
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Students and teachers peruse books at a two-week-long
book fair that opened in late March at Baghdad University.
(Corinne Reilly/Merced Sun-Star/MCT)
BAGHDAD — When Maysoon Kadhim began working on her master's thesis at Baghdad University two years ago, she braced for the challenge. After all, her paper's subject is Shakespeare, whose prose can perplex even native English speakers.
Kadhim, of course, grew up with Arabic.
As she proofread her final draft days before it was due, however, she said her biggest frustrations have nothing to do with language.
Instead, they have come from trying to get her hands on the right books.
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By Wahida Paykan
The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (MCT)
MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan — At age 2, Nilab has no idea that her family has just given her away as compensation in a dispute with another family.
And rather than being outraged, most here would applaud the transaction as a peaceful way of settling what could have become a bloody conflict.
The practice is called baad, which usually means settling disagreements between families by the guilty party compensating the perceived victim with a young female child.
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By Jessica Knoblauch
Mother Nature Network (mnn.com) (MCT)
A new book explores how the world's first wildlife forensics lab is solving crimes and saving endangered species.
Not long ago, illegal wildlife smugglers could pretty much get away with murder. From selling polar bear rugs to crocodile-face ashtrays, these smugglers pull in as much as $20 billion annually, ranking just behind drugs and human trafficking as the third largest illegal trade worldwide.
But a little known group of dedicated scientists are stemming the tide of illegal wildlife trade at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory in Ashland, Ore., the world's first wildlife forensics lab.
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By David Ranii
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina company that plans to release a video game about one of the Iraq war's bloodiest battles is running into a buzzsaw of criticism.
The game, "Six Days in Fallujah," is being made with the help of Marines who fought in the battle, and its defenders say it provides a history lesson about what Atomic Games president Peter Tamte has described as "the largest urban military assault in about half a century."
But it has hit a nerve because U.S. soldiers are still dying in Iraq — on Friday, five soldiers were killed in the deadliest attack in a year. The controversy raises questions about the line that divides art and entertainment; books and movies about the Iraq war haven't aroused similar protests.
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The Godfather II
For: Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC
From: EA
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood, drug reference,
intense violence, nudity, sexual themes, strong
language)
Sometimes, it's the little things. In a game as wonderfully, erratically ambitious as "The Godfather II," it's the little things that, however subtly, sometimes save the day.
Take, for instance, the game's ingenious living map, which not only helps you get from point A to B — handy, considering the story takes place in open-world Florida and open-world New York City at the same time — but keeps track of your targets, your allies, your family's holdings, the profit margins at each property and just about everything else you need to manage via the game's newfound Don powers. When a holding is under attack, the animated 3D map quite decisively illustrates the urgency. Ditto for when a rival holding is up for grabs.
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Maersk-Alabama Capt. Richard Phillips, right,
stands alongside Cmdr. Frank Castellano,
commanding officer of USS Bainbridge (DDG 96)
on Sunday after U.S Naval Forces rescued
Phillips off the coast of Somalia. (U.S. Navy/MCT)
MALINDI, Kenya — With Somali pirates pointing an automatic rifle at a hostage American ship captain, U.S. Navy sharpshooters opened fire Sunday, killing the pirates and ending an extraordinary five-day standoff that marked the first seizure of a U.S. vessel by pirates on the high seas in at least two centuries.
Three pirates were killed, the Pentagon said. The captain, 53-year-old Richard Phillips of Underhill, Vt., was rescued unharmed and taken aboard a U.S. warship. A fourth pirate who had surrendered earlier also was being detained, and could face trial in the United States.
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From wikipedia:
John Hanson (April 14 [O.S. April 3] 1721 – November 22, 1783) was a merchant and public official from Maryland during the era of the American Revolution. After serving in a variety of roles for the Patriot cause in Maryland, in 1779 Hanson was elected as a delegate to the Continental Congress. He signed the Articles of Confederation in 1781 after Maryland finally joined the other states in ratifying them. In November 1781, he became the first President of Congress to be elected under the terms of the Articles of Confederation. For this reason, Hanson was later promoted as having been the first President of the United States, one of several myths about him.
Read more about John Hanson and the spurious claim that he was President of the United States free at snopes.com.
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School Days by Jamie Maxfield, Courier Editor-in-Chief
The Tao of Sunday by Idy Tao,
Courier Daily Editor
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From wikipedia:
Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 - April 12, 1975), born was an American-born dancer, actress and singer. She was given the nicknames "Black Venus", "Black Pearl", and "Creole Goddess". She became a citizen of France in 1937.
Early life
Josephine Baker was born on June 3, in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Tom Ado. Her father's identity is debated. It is often said that he was Eddie Carson, who certainly was the lover of Carrie McDonald.Her father is identified as vaudeville drummer Eddie Carson by the official biography of her estate; however, there are other sources that state that her father was a travelling Jewish salesman. She was of mixed ethnic background: Native American/African American. She descended from Apalachee Indians and Black slaves in South Carolina.
Learn more about Josephine Baker; visit the Official Site of Josephine Baker.
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By Shashank Bengali And Jonathan S. Landay
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
NAIROBI, Kenya — Pirates holding an American ship captain hostage in a lifeboat off the coast of East Africa on Friday demanded $2 million for his release, maritime officials said, hours after the captain attempted a daring escape from his captors.
The American, Richard Phillips, jumped overboard into shark-infested waters but was quickly recaptured and brought back onto the lifeboat, a U.S. official said. In a statement released after the incident, the owner of Phillips' ship, the Maersk Alabama, said that Phillips remained in contact with U.S. warships on the scene and appeared unharmed.
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From wikipedia:
James Parkinson (April 11, 1755 – December 21, 1824) was an English physician, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist. He is most famous for his 1817 work, An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, in which he was the first to describe "paralysis agitans", a condition that would later be named Parkinson's disease after him.
James Parkinson was born in Shoreditch, London, England. He was the son of John Parkinson, an apothecary and surgeon practising in Hoxton Square in London. In 1784 Parkinson was approved by the City of London Corporation as a surgeon.
Read "An Essay on the Shaking Palsy," by James Parkinson, free from psychiatryonline.com.
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DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION
Two of five stars
Cast: Justin Chatwin, Jamime Ching,
Emmy Rossum, Chow Yun-fat
Director: James Wong
Running time: 1 hour 24 minutes
Industry rating: PG for intense sequences
of action/violence and brief mild language.
We've had to wait decades, enduring first subtitled Hong Kong films and later sputtering Hollywood attempts at turning him into a conventional Chinese character actor, for our first chance to see the great Chow Yun-Fat cut up the way he does in "Dragonball Evolution." Whatever the director (James Wong of "Final Destination") was going for, whatever the studio intended in this film adaptation of a beloved comic and video game, Chow saw his chance to chew the scenery. And he took it.
As Master Roshi, mystical martial arts master, owner of a dragonball and of late, trainer to young Goku (Justin Chatwin), Chow goes for the laughs, and lands them.
"Believe it punk, you're gonna get your clock cleaned," he says when we and Goku meet him. He mugs. He grins. His every move is a calculated bit of tomfoolery. And he's a stitch, almost the only reason to see this warmed-over Far Eastern fantasy.
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LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!
MISCELLANEOUS
Attention all Freshmen, Sophomores and Juniors interested in running for ASB elections. Packets will come out after Spring Break on Monday, April 20th. Pick it up in Room 67.
Filipino Students: Stanford University is holding a Filipino Youth Leadership Conference on April 18th. For more information check your Logan e-mail.
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By Jonathan S. Landay
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON — The CIA is decommissioning the secret overseas prisons where top al-Qaida suspects were subjected to interrogation methods, including simulated drowning, that Attorney General Eric Holder, allied governments, the Red Cross and numerous other experts consider torture, the agency said Thursday.
In an e-mail to the agency's work force outlining current interrogation and detention policies, CIA Director Leon Panetta also announced agreements with the private security firms guarding the so-called black sites will be "promptly terminated," and contractors no longer will be used to conduct interrogations.
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By Mark Stryker
Detroit Free Press (MCT)
DETROIT — Finally, the summit.
For two years, Hungarian pianist Andras Schiff has been climbing one of the highest peaks in classical music, performing all 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas in chronological order. The rewarding journey concludes this week with a final concert Saturday in Ann Arbor, Mich. Schiff's performances have become a sweeping manifesto, with the 55-year-old pianist performing the cycle not only here but in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. His celebrated live recordings of the sonatas for ECM grew out of a European cycle in 2004-06.
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Lido Beach, "on tour" with FOB
played outside the Event Center.
Tuesday Night's
Believers Never Die Tour Part Deux was kick started at the Bay Area's very own San Jose State University's Event Center. The weather was less than perfect being a little muggy and slight overcast. By the time I arrived, the caution tape was already broken in to and the arena was shaking with colorfully dressed youth and accompanying parents who looked like they did not want to be there.
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Sol Hurok, right, with Marian Anderson
Sol Hurok (Solomon Isiaevich Hurok; born Solomon Izrailevich Gurkov) (April 9, 1888, Ukraine — March 5, 1974, New York City) was a world famous 20th century American impresario. Hurok moved to the United States in 1906 and became a naturalized citizen in 1914.
During Hurok's long and illustrious career, S. Hurok Presents managed many major performing artists, including Marian Anderson, Irina Arkhipova, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Feodor Chaliapin, Van Cliburn, Isadora Duncan, Michel Fokine, Emil Gilels, Jerome Hines, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, David Oistrakh, Anna Pavlova, Jan Peerce, Svyatoslav Richter, Mstislav Rostropovich, Arthur Rubinstein, Isaac Stern, Galina Vishnevskaya, Efrem Zimbalist, and many others.
Read Sol Hurok: America's dance impresario by Harlow Robinson, free from findarticles.com
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The Empire State Building
wikipedia photo
MELVILLE, N.Y. — The Empire State Building is being converted into an eco-friendly skyscraper, transforming the landmark into a "green" architectural marvel as part of a multimillion-dollar upgrade, officials said Monday.
Former President Bill Clinton said the skyscraper will bring more attention to the need to convert structures into energy-efficient buildings.
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By David J. Neal
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
Even the president takes a break to fill out a bracket. Domed stadiums host NCAA men's basketball Final Fours as regularly as they do Super Bowls. The NBA's pushing LeBron and D-Wade, the NHL"s pushing Sid the Kid and Alex the Great, and every sport tries to find its popularity-boosting star rivalry it can call its "Bird vs. Magic." ESPN is ubiquitous.
And so much of all that began 30 years ago, on March 26, 1979. That's when a nation tuned in for the 1979 NCAA title game between Michigan State and Indiana State, turned on to Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and dropped out of one era of sports and into another.
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LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!
MISCELLANEOUS
Attention all Freshmen, Sophomores and Juniors interested in running for ASB elections. Packets will come out after Spring Break on Monday, April 20th. Pick it up in Room 67.
Filipino Students: Stanford University is holding a Filipino Youth Leadership Conference on April 18th. For more information check your Logan e-mail.
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A Dad at Last
by Marie Ferrarella
Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Silhouette (July 1, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0373650736
ISBN-13: 978-0373650736He'd only just found out he had a son, and now that little boy's life depended on a group of men he hadn't met until a few months ago. Men who were at this moment laying their own lives on the line, shielded only by the inky cloak of night and their bravery as they crept toward the abandoned sugar factory ahead, where he'd been told to meet Chase's kidnappers.
So begins Ferrarella's addition to the
Maitland Maternity series from Silhouette Books. The plot is original, and the characters are simply complex. The setting, Austin, Texas, adds a bit of flavor to everything, combining the mysterious cowboy image of the past with the modern world. My only problem is that Ferrarella fails to explain everything to the reader's satisfaction. Otherwise, it proved to be a light, quick, relaxing read, perfect for a lazy spring day.
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By Jamey Padojino, Courier Staff Writer
Students of the Filipino Heritage Studies class held an assembly to collect sign-ups for next year’s classes Thursday.
With these sign ups, the class hopes to show the administration just how important ethnic studies are to Logan.
Senior Jorge Ayala says, “Logan is so diverse that the needs of each color are not met. These classes help students know their roots, or else history has no relevancy to them. Diversity has needs it needs to met for culture to be kept alive.”
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From wikipedia:
María Félix (8 April 1914 - 8 April 2002) was a Mexican actress, one of the leading figures of the golden era of the Cinema of Mexico. She was commonly known, particularly in her later years, by the honorific
La Doña.
Born María de los Ángeles Félix Güereña in Álamos, Sonora, Mexico. Most reference works state that she was born on April 8, 1914. She died on April 8, 2002 in Mexico City of congestive heart failure. It was her 88th birthday.
Watch María Félix in a clip from the film, Doña Bárbara, free from youtube.com.
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LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!
MISCELLANEOUS
Junior Prom and Senior Ball ticket sales begin this week in the 300s courtyard near Room 67. If you are planning on bringing a non-Logan guest, please make sure you complete a guest pass before purchasing your guest’s ticket. Guest passes are available in the Grade 11/12 office. Junior Prom tickets are $40 per person and Senior Ball tickets are $100 if you purchase this week until Thursday. After Spring Break prices will go up. You need your current School I.D. card to purchase your own ticket, as well as your date’s I.D. for theirs.
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By Jericho Faustino, Courier Daily Editor
Finally, the dream match of all dream matches: Ali vs. Tyson.
People would never have dreamed of a fight of this caliber. Soon, you can live fights like this in
Fight Night Round 4.
The two monster athletes grace the cover of EA Sports Fight Night's latest game. Three years after the last
Fight Night, Fight Night Round 3, FNR4 offers the same classic beat-down experience, but adds, also, the dynamics of a live match.
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By Jessika Robinson, Courier Staff Writer
Growing out your fingernails can be hard work especially if you play sports, or do ceramics.
Some nails split and break easily. Researchers often say that it is because of a lack of calcium in one's diet. Others say that it is a lack of protein. Whatever the cause, maybe there are a few solutions to nail breaking problems.
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By Cait Baca,
Courier Staff Writer
Logan's Marketing & Management Academy traveled across the country to New York to compete at the Virtual Enterprises' International Trade Fair last month.
This particular Trade Fair is considered the biggest trade fair that the members of the M&M Academy would ever attend. It was their first, and only trade fair in which not only were there numerous schools based from USA, but there were schools around the world in attendance, as well.
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President Obama addresses a meeting
in Turkey. Pete Souza/White House Photo
STRASBOURG, France — In a variation on his message to Europe, President Barack Obama on Friday described an America that needs to change as he arrived for the NATO summit but appealed to Europeans to set aside their own "insidious" anti-U.S. bias in return.
It was a twist on the conciliatory approach Obama has relied on over the past four days as he travels through Europe, spelling out a new American foreign policy and attitude that differs sharply from his that of his predecessor.
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LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!
MISCELLANEOUS
Logan males, are you turning 18? If so, don’t forget to register with Selective Service. Besides being the law, you also jeopardize any federal financial aid for college. To find out more, pick up a flyer in the Career Center.
DeVry University will have an information table in Colt Court today during lunch.
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By Andrew Alcazar, Courier Sports Writer
James Logan (3-8, 3-2) built up a bit of momentum in Mission Valley Athletic League recently, winning three in a row after going winless in the preseason, but on Friday they just didn't have it, as league-leading Irvington (11-1, 5-0) was just too much for Logan.
They won 8-2.
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From wikipedia:
Nadar was the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (April 6, 1820 – March 21, 1910), a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist.
Nadar was born in 1820 in Paris (although some sources state Lyon). He was a caricaturist for Le Charivari in 1848. In 1849 he created the Revue comique and the Petit journal pour rire. He took his first photographs in 1853 and in 1858 became the first person to take aerial photographs. He also pioneered the use of artifical lighting in photography, working in the catacombs of Paris.
Read an article about Nadar, by Bruce Sterling, free from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!
MISCELLANEOUS
Students, the price of yearbooks is going up! On May 1st the price increases to $90. Buy yours now for $80 in Room 44 after school.
Up to 10 ½ hours of community service available for students interested in helping out the Fremont Freewheelers 38th Annual Bicycle Race taking place on Sunday, April 19th. For more information pick up a white flyer in the Career Center.
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By David Lightman
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama boasts that he'll reduce spending on key domestic nondefense programs to their lowest levels since the 1960s, but he and Democrats in Congress are on a spending spree not seen since then.
Few analysts or members of Congress expect Obama to meet his cost-cutting goal, which he projects he won't meet for 10 years.
"Projections for future years rarely come true," said Marc Goldwein, policy director at the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
Some Democratic lawmakers agreed.
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By Herb Jackson
The Record (Hackensack N.J.) (MCT)
WASHINGTON — The mysterious death of a Teaneck, N.J., teenager on a school-sponsored trip could prompt a change in federal law, her parents said after meeting with the nation's top education official and a House committee chairman.
"It's a blessing," said Lola Moore, mother of Phylicia Moore, the namesake of the proposed Phylicia's Law, which would require schools to have written safety practices before overnight trips.
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School Days by Jamie Maxfield, Courier Editor-in-Chief
Cooking Wave, Beverages? by Chyna Cunningham, Courier Staff Artist
Stickies: Spring Break by Lorisa Salvatin, Courier Staff Artist
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San Jose Mercury News (MCT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Here is a glance at measures that are on the May 19 special election ballot in California:
—Prop. 1A: Would limit state spending based on the previous decade's revenues and place unexpected revenues during flush years in a "rainy day" reserve. Passage would extend a series of recently approved tax increases by one or two years, generating $16 billion.
—Prop. 1B: To make up for recent budget cuts, would set aside 1.5 percent of state revenues each year (about $1.5 billion) for public schools. Payments would continue until schools received $9.3 billion.
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Dorothea Lynde Dix (April 4, 1802 – July 17, 1887) was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums.
Early life
She grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts (Born in Hampden, Maine), then in her wealthy grandmother's home in Boston. She struggled to find a career in traditional female occupations: schoolteacher, governess, writer. None of these pursuits satisfied her ambition, and in her mid-thirties she suffered a debilitating breakdown. In hopes of a cure, in 1836 she traveled to England, where she had the good fortune to meet the Rathbone family, who invited her to spend a year as their guest at Greenbank, their ancestral mansion in Liverpool. The Rathbones were Quakers and prominent social reformers, and at Greenbank, Dix met men and women who believed that government should play a direct, active role in social welfare. She was also exposed to the British lunacy reform movement, whose methods involved detailed investigations of madhouses and asylums, the results of which were published in reports to the House of Commons.
Read more about Dorothea Dix' efforts on the behalf of the mentally ill, free from psych.org.
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The Oakland Zoo
Address: 9777 Golf Links Rd
Oakland, CA 94605
Hour: Monday-Sunday: 10:00am to 4:00pm
The Oakland Zoo in Bay Area has been around since 1922, and it is one of the most well known zoos in the country. There are more than 440 animals in the zoo, and there are six different zones for the animals living places. Last Saturday, my friend and I had the chance to go visit in the zoo.
It is the first time for me to go to zoo in America, and I figured "why not?" since we'd been living here for almost 4 years and had yet to go. When we entered the zoo, I was pleasantly surprised at the size of the zoo, since most people miss it, hidden up in the hills. Walking around, we kept finding the path leading to different areas and exhibits.
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ALIEN TRESPASS
1 star
Starring: Eric McCormack, Jody Thompson,
Jenni Baird, Robert Patrick
Directed by: R.W. Goodwin
Rated: PG for sci-fi action and
brief historical smoking
The redeeming quality of '50s space invader movies was their earnestness. There's not a drop of irony in "This Island Earth" or "Forbidden Planet." Their campy sincerity is what makes them fun to watch today. Just add sarcasm and enjoy.
"Alien Trespass," an affectionate tribute to flying saucer movies, treats the cliches of drive-in sci-fi with touching naivete, too. So why isn't it more fun?
"Alien Trespass" requires some knowledge of creature features to get the jokes. How the movie will play to anyone who has not seen a blob, a body snatcher or a beast from 20,000 fathoms is hard to guess. Directed by "X-Files" veteran R.W. Goodwin, it hits all the expected notes, wringing mild amusement out of space mutants, dedicated men of science and perky, idealized mid-century housewives. This is the sort of film where a visible zipper running up the back of an alien's space suit is a pretty boffo gag.
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From wikipedia:
George Horatio Derby (April 3, 1823–May 15, 1861) was an early California humorist. Derby used the pseudonym "John P. Squibob" and its variants "John Phoenix" and "Squibob." Derby served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Topographic Corps. In his spare time, he wrote humorous anecdotes and burlesques, often under the guise of his pseudonyms.
Read Phoenixiana, by George Derby, free from googlebooks.com.
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LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!
ACTIVITY
Finally! Junior Prom and Senior Ball tickets go on sale next week in the 300s courtyard near room 67. If you are planning on bringing a non-Logan guest, please make sure you complete a guest pass before purchasing your guest’s ticket. Guest passes are available in the Grade 11/12 Office. Junior Prom tickets are $40 per person, and Senior Ball tickets are $100 if you purchase on Monday-Thursday before Spring Break. After Spring Break prices will go up. You need your current school I.D. card to purchase your own ticket, as well as your date’s I.D. for theirs.
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By Jenelle Gallardo, Courier Staff Writer
Editor's Note: Promoters have provided The Courier with free tickets to the Fall Out Boy's April 7 show for review purposes.
Headlining this year's Believers Never Die Tour, Part Deux is multi-platinum selling band Fall Out Boy. After forming in 2001, the band has gone from performing in basements, garages, and old folks homes, to headlining arenas, festivals, and other sold-out venues.
In support of their their latest album,
Folie A Deux, out last year, is currently on a world-wide tour, which stops in the Bay Area Tuesday for a show at the San Jose State Event Center.
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By Cait Baca,
Courier Staff Writer
Logan's Powderpuff Game is this Friday. All Junior and Senior players are very pumped with anticipation this year. And Both teams are convinced they will win.
Led by Football Coach Scott Coates, the Juniors are anxious to play their first Powderpuff Event, and hold their heads extremely high as they go into this year's game. Coates has no doubts that his girls will do their best.
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Zakir Hussain
For well over three decades, Americans have viewed Zakir Hussain as one of the world's most prominent ambassadors of Indian classical music.
When you have collaborated with such pioneering jazz and rock greats as guitarist John McLaughlin, drummer Mickey Hart, saxophonist Charles Lloyd and, more recently, banjoist Bela Fleck, you can't help but gain a reputation as something of a journeyman.
But on Hussain's "Maestros in Concert" tour, the Grammy-winning tabla player is contining a long-standing alliance with deep, homeland roots that are only now reaching Kentucky.
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By Jordan Levin
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
MIAMI — In Cuba she was a diva of nueva trova and boleros, a singer with great talent whom songwriters vied to have perform their compositions. And when Xiomara Laugart arrived in the United States in 1998, it seemed she would continue her success — first singing with a prestigious Cuban rumba-fusion project, Deep Rumba, then fronting the hot Cuban-funk band Yerba Buena. More recently, she starred in the off-Broadway musical "Celia: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz."
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Walter Percy Chrysler (April 2, 1875 – August 18, 1940) was an American machinist, railroad man, automotive industry executive, and founder of the Chrysler Corporation.
He was born in Wamego, Kansas and grew up in Ellis, Kansas.
Railroad career
Chrysler apprenticed in the railroad shops at Ellis as a machinist and railroad mechanic. He then spent a period of years roaming the west, working for various railroads as a roundhouse mechanic with a reputation of being good at valve-setting jobs. Some of his moves were due to restlessness and a too-quick temper, but his roaming was also a way to become more well-rounded in his railroading knowledge. He worked his way up through positions such as foreman, superintendent, division master mechanic, and general master mechanic.
Visit the Walter Chrysler Museum online at chryslerheritage.com.
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LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!
ACTIVITY
Finally! Junior Prom and Senior Ball tickets go on sale next week in the 300s courtyard near room 67. If you are planning on bringing a non-Logan guest, please make sure you complete a guest pass before purchasing your guest’s ticket. Guest passes are available in the Grade 11/12 Office. Junior Prom tickets are $40 per person, and Senior Ball tickets are $100 if you purchase on Monday-Thursday before Spring Break. After Spring Break prices will go up. You need your current school I.D. card to purchase your own ticket, as well as your date’s I.D. for theirs.
All students interested in Cheerleading, there will be a sign-up list in the old gym P.E. classroom/small dance studio, April 6 & 7, 3:30 to 4:30.
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Sweep: Spellbound
By Cate Tiernan
Reading level: Young Adult
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Puffin (September 10, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0142300462
ISBN-13: 978-0142300466˜You okay?" He asked quietly, his grey-blue eyes dark. I opened my mouth and to indignantly say ˜Of course," but then I shut it again. I'd known Robbie too long and had been through too much with him to fob him off with white lies. He had been one of the first people I'd told about being a blood witch, about being adopted, about being Woodbane. Of the seven Great Clans of Wicca, Woodbanes were the ones who sought power at all costs, the one who worked with dark magick. When I'd found out about being a blood witch, I hadn't known my clan and had hoped that I was a Rowanwand, a Wyndenkell, a Brightendale, a Burnhide. Even a mischievous Leapvaughn or warlike Vikroth would have been fine. But no, I was Woodbane: tainted.
Are you guys ready for more from the
Sweep series? I hope so, because here comes book 6. Morgan has found out that she is a blood witch, adopted, and a Woodbane. How much more can there possibly be? Trust me there is definitely more to learn.
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By Aman Batheja
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
FORT WORTH, Texas — April Fools' Day pranksters may find themselves outmatched this year.
A cunning computer infection that is believed to have infiltrated millions of computers is expected to receive a set of instructions from its creator on April 1.
"Everybody is a little bit nervous about it," said Mike Stute of Dallas-based Global DataGuard, a network security firm. "It could be nothing. It could be very dangerous."
Either way, the anonymous creator of the Conficker virus has caught the attention of computer security experts around the world, with Microsoft going so far as to issue a $250,000 bounty on those who created it.
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From wikipedia:
Marie-Sophie Germain (April 1, 1776 – June 27, 1831) was a French mathematician who made important contributions to the fields of differential geometry and number theory. Germain made significant contributions to the study of
Fermat's Last Theorem.
Germain was born to a middle-class merchant family in Paris, France; and at age 13, she read about Archimedes in a book in her father's extensive library. In it, she read that during the Roman invasion of Syracuse, Archimedes was so engrossed in his mathematics that he ignored a Roman soldier who there upon killed him without comprehending the fame of his victim. This inspired the young Germain, as she thought that if someone could be so interested by mathematics as to not realize somebody was about to kill him, it must be an incredibly interesting subject.
Read An Attack on Fermat by Julie Rehmeyer, free from Science News.
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