This is the archive for February 2011
Julian Gutierrez
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Courier Editor-in-Chief
In the wake of the death of a freshman this weekend, James Logan High School officials this morning deployed counselors, psychologists and others to help students and staff deal with their grief.
The school is "mourning the loss of Julian Gutierrez," Logan Principal Amy McNamara said via the school's public address system during first period. "He will be much missed by family and friends."
Later, during the daily bulletin, she called for a moment of silence in the 15-year-old's honor.
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By Farah Habad,
Courier Staff Writer
Habad is a member of the James Logan Forensics team.
For the first time in four years, the James Logan Forensics team was victorious at the prestigious California Invitational for the first time in four years.
Held annually at the University of California, Berkeley campus, the three days of rigorous competition during President's Day weekend brought thousands of competitors from twelve states to test their might against the best of the best.
The tournament is notorious for running behind schedule, and this year proved to be no different.
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From wikipedia:
Barbara Acklin (February 28, 1943 - November 27 1998) was a soul singer of the 1960s and 1970s. Her biggest hit was "Love Makes a Woman" in 1968 which reached the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Born Barbara Jean Acklin, the only child of Herman and Hazel Acklin, she began singing in church and then as a teenager in nightclubs while attending Dunbar Vocational High school in Chicago. Upon graduation, she was hired as a secretary for a local record label by her cousin, saxophonist and producer Monk Higgins. Her first release was under the name Barbara Allen on his Special Agent label. Later, Higgins used Acklin as a background singer on his Chess Records sessions with artists like Etta James and Fontella Bass.
Listen to Barbara Acklin perform Love Makes a Woman, free from youtube.com.
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It's a School Life by Satpreet Kaur, Courier Staff Artist
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,"Portrait of Marian Anderson singing."
Jan. 14, 1940.from
Creative Americans:
Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964,
Library of Congress.
Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) was an American contralto, perhaps best remembered for her performance on Easter Sunday, 1939 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Anderson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She joined a junior church choir at the age of six, and applied to an all-white music school after her graduation from high school in 1921, but was turned away because she was black. The woman working the admissions counter replied, "We don't take colored" when she tried to apply. Consequently, she continued her singing studies with a private teacher.
Read My Lord What a Morning, an autobiography by Marian Anderson, free from the Internet Archive.
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Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino (born February 26, 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana), is a classic R&B and rock and roll singer, songwriter and pianist. He was the best-selling African-American singer of the 1950s and early 1960s. Domino is also a pianist with an individualistic bluesy style showing stride and boogie-woogie influences. His congenial personality and rich accent have added to his appeal.
Biography
Domino first attracted national attention with "The Fat Man" (1949, Imperial Records), credited by some as being the first rock and roll record, featuring a rolling piano and Domino doing wah-wah vocalizing over a fat back beat. The record, a reworking of "Junker's Blues" by Champion Jack Dupree, was a massive hit, selling over a million copies and peaking at #2 on the Billboard R&B Charts. It has been estimated that Domino has sold in excess of 110 million records.
Visit the online Fats Domino exhibit a the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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By Alonyia Godfrey,
Courier Features Editor
For Colored Girls is a movie adapted from the play “For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When the Rainbow was Enuf”, created by Ntozake Shange. The play is composed of 20 poems that talk about some of the trials and hardships “being colored and being a woman”.
Anika Noni Rose plays Yasmine, who represents the “Lady in Yellow” from the play. Yasmine is a passionate, artistic spirit who loves the art of dance. However, her life is shattered when she is raped in her home by a man with whom she was on a date.
Kerry Washington plays Kelly (Lady in Blue), a loving social worker who has a hard time dealing with her inability to have children due to an untreated STD that she contracted from a cheating boyfriend when she was younger.
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By Julia Ortiz,
Courier Staff Writer
This year's
I Am Number Four shows John Smith, a teen on the run from an evil force out to kill him. He puts everything on the line to save planet Earth. With three of his kind already dead, and him being number four, danger lurks in every mysterious sound.
The opening scene is full of action and the inevitable need to know what in the world is going on. With iant space beasts, super powers, weapons glowing with a deadly glare,
I Am Number Four is a definite hit.
Of course, there is more to the movie then action and adventure. John falls in love with the lovely and intelligent girl at his school. Stereotypical jocks try to scare him out of it and he saves the school ‘nerd’ from humiliation.
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Attention AP students: Time to sign up for AP testing. Come to the main office windows in Colt Court between February 28 and March 18. See Sarah Muse to pay for your exams at lunch or after school until 3:50 p.m. Your AP teacher has detailed information.
Attention TAs: TA passes are ready for periods 0 through 4. Please pick yours up from Mrs. Whitaker during your TA period only.
Need Driver’s Ed? Your place is at the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday; April 4, 5 & 6, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
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Yoshi's Oakland
510 Embarcadero West
Jack London Square
Oakland, CA 94607
Phone: 510.238.9200
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Courier Staff Writer
Last week, my family and I went to Yoshi’s Jazz Club and Japanese restaurant for dinner; both the highly acclaimed restaurant and the night’s music were both delightfully pleasant.
Up and coming singer-songwriter Tad Worku charmed guests with his swoon-worthy voice. His voice sounded like a refreshing mix between the style of Jazz singer Michael Bublé and the voice of American R&B singer John Legend. The event was also the release concert of Worku’s highly anticipated eponymous EP.
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Lee Edward Evans (born February 25, 1947) is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Born in Madera, California, Evans was undefeated in high school and won his first AAU championship in 440 yd (402.34 m) in 1966, shortly after graduating. He repeated his win in next year and won AAU and NCAA 400 m titles in 1968.
Lee Evans achieved his first world record at 1966, as a member of the US national team which broke the 4 x 400 m relay record at Los Angeles, the first team to better 3 minutes (2:59.6) for the event. In next year he broke the 4 x 220 yd (201.17 m) relay world record at Fresno in a time of 1:22.1.
Read an interview with Lee Evans and Olympic team mate Tommie Smith about the upcoming 1968 Olympics and their plans to stage a protest.
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The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
from space.
NASA photo
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Letting some fish species die off as part of a larger environmental restoration may be the best way to protect the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a leading California think tank says.
The recommendation in a 500-page report by experts working with the Public Policy Institute of California, is the second time this month that an influential report has suggested some fish, particularly Delta smelt, may become too far gone to save. The other was an early draft from a new state agency charged with crafting a plan for the Delta.
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By Ann Powers
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
Thom Yorke jerks around in the video for "Lotus Flower," the first single from Radiohead's just-released eighth studio album, "The King of Limbs," like someone only just discovering that the body's job is to move. In the clip, choreographed by the British kinesics expert Wayne McGregor, Yorke shakes, wobbles and nearly drools to the song's needling dance beat, sometimes elegantly loosening up, only to shake back into awkwardness.
The singer's moves and bowler hat recall the comedians of the silent film era, when onscreen human motion still seemed artificial, almost surreal. It's a typical Radiohead moment, a visceral expression of the struggle to stay fully human in a world both enhanced and corrupted by technology.
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Eddie Murray's "rookie card" (born February 24, 1956 in Los Angeles, California) is a former Major League Baseball first baseman who was known as one of the most reliable and productive hitters of his era, earning the nickname "Steady Eddie". Murray is regarded as one of the best switch hitters ever to play the game. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003.
High school career
Murray attended Locke High School in Los Angeles, California, where he batted .500 as a senior and was a teammate of Ozzie Smith.
Review Eddie Murray's baseball statistics, free from baseball-reference.com
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Attention TAs: TA passes are ready for periods 0 through 4. Please pick yours up from Mrs. Whitaker during your TA period only.
Need Driver’s Ed? Your place is at the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday; April 4, 5 & 6, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
DeVry University is offering a FREE SAT prep class on February 26th from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. To register for this event, read your Logan e-mail or see Mrs. Hart in the Career Center.
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Prince and his stage impressed at
Oracle Arena Monday.
Courier Staff Photo
Prince came to Oakland on Monday and put on an display of his prodigious musical talents and his sense of showmanship.
It was impressive.
Ultimately, though, I wasn't moved or emotionally involved in the proceedings, just impressed.
It struck me as appropriate that I was seeing the show the day after the NBA Allstar extravaganza, in that the NBA and Prince seemed to me to have the same basic goal: display jaw-dropping talent wrapped in undeniably entertaining packaging that obscures the lack of real drama or emotion.
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He became a naturalized citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95.
David Levering Lewis, a biographer, wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W.E.B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism—scholarship, propaganda, integration, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity."
Read The Negro by W. E. B. Du Bois, one of six of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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Attention TAs: TA passes are ready for periods 0 through 4. Please pick yours up from Mrs. Whitaker during your TA period only.
Need Driver’s Ed? Your place is at the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday; April 4, 5 & 6, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
DeVry University is offering a FREE SAT prep class on February 26th from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. To register for this event, read your Logan e-mail or see Mrs. Hart in the Career Center.
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Students in the AIM program
carry a GPS unit like this.
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Frustrated by students habitually skipping class, police and school officials in Anaheim, Calif., are turning to GPS tracking to ensure they come to class.
The Anaheim Union High School District is the first in California to test Global Positioning System technology as part of a six-week pilot program that began last week, officials said.
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Stephen Curry
wikipedia photo
OAKLAND, Calif. — Some say point guards are born and not bred. The position is too dependent on intangibles, too innate to teach. The great ones have something extra, something God-given.
And then there's the Warriors' Stephen Curry, among the bred.
"I'm a natural point guard," Utah's Deron Williams said. "I think I was born to play point guard. But some guys can make the adjustment. Since he's gotten to the NBA, I think Steph's done a great job. He balances his scoring and gets his assists. He can pass. He just has a great knack for the game."
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Dead Space Extraction
For: Playstation 3 (via Playstation Network)
From: Visceral Games/Eurocom/Electronic Arts
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore, intense
violence, strong language)
Price: $15 standalone, free with purchase of
Playstation 3 version of "Dead Space 2"
Few games deserve a second chance as much as "Dead Space Extraction," which sold miserably on the Wii despite continuing one of the generation's best new fictions and outclassing just about every on-rails shooter that ever came before it.
Though it also works (and with surprisingly decent results) with a regular Playstation 3 controller, "Extraction's" chemistry with the Wii's remote makes it a perfect fit for the Playstation Move controller as well, and its flawless (and, on some levels, enhanced) migration immediately positions it as perhaps the best Move-enabled game out there until "Killzone 3" arrives later this month.
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Ishmael Scott Reed (b. February 22, 1938) is an American poet, essayist and novelist. Reed is one of the best-known African American writers of his generation, and along with Amiri Baraka is one of the most controversial (and politically left-wing). His work consistently satirizes the American right-wing (and often the left as well), highlighting domestic political and cultural oppression. While some have found Reed's work a vivid, comic depiction of non-white America, others have criticized it as incoherent or muddled.
Listen to Ishmael Reed discuss his life and work, free from wiredforbooks.com.
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Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American politican from Texas. She served as a Congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979.
Jordan was born in Houston's Fifth Ward. Her parents were Rev. Benjamin M. Jordan and Arlyne (Patten) Jordan. Barbara Jordan attended Wheatley High School and graduated magna cum laude from Texas Southern University in 1956 and from Boston University Law School in 1959. She passed the Bar Exams in Massachusetts and Texas before returning to Houston to open a law practice.
Hear Barbara Jordan's keynote speech to the Democratic National Convention in 1976, free from AmericanRhetoric.com
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MISCELLANEOUS
Need Driver’s Ed? Your place is at the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday; April 4, 5 & 6, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
DeVry University is offering a FREE SAT prep class on February 26th from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. To register for this event, read your Logan e-mail or see Mrs. Hart in the Career Center.
Congratulations to senior Janet Leung for winning the Comcast Leaders and Achievers Scholarship. WooHoo!
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From The Courier's Archives:
Musically Mindedby Kimberly Low
Care is Called For by Howard Yang
Bubble Jim by Sabina Singh
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Poitier at a 1963 Civil Rights March
at the foot of the Lincoln MemorialKBE (born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian-American actor, film director, author, and diplomat. He broke through as a star in acclaimed performances in American films and plays, which, by consciously defying racial stereotyping, gave a new dramatic credibility for black actors to mainstream film audiences in the Western world.
In 1963, Poitier became the first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in
Lilies of the Field. The significance of this achievement was later bolstered in 1967 when he starred in three well-received films—
To Sir, with Love; In the Heat of the Night; and
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner—making him the top box office star of that year. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Poitier among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking 22nd on the list of 25.
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William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American R&B and soul singer and songwriter. Robinson is noted for being one of the primary figures associated with the Motown record label, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy. As both a member of Motown group The Miracles and a solo artist, Robinson recorded seventy Top 40 hits for Motown between 1959 and 1990, and also served as the company's Vice President from 1961 to 1988.
Visit the Smokey Robinson exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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By Amy Kaufman and Ben Fritz,
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES — On what is traditionally the first big box-office weekend of the year, Hollywood may still be playing in a minor key.
With most people off work or school Monday, Presidents Day weekend is usually prosperous for the film studios. This one will probably fall short, however, continuing a box-office slide: So far, 2011 receipts are down 24 percent from a year earlier.
The young adult action-adventure "I Am Number Four" should top the box office; people who have seen pre-release audience surveys said it would probably take in close to $25 million in ticket sales in its first four days. The Martin Lawrence comedy sequel "Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son" is expected to finish second with about $20 million. And the new Liam Neeson action tale "Unknown" should be close to "Big Mommas" with $15 million to $20 million.
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By Dan Hinkel and Michael Muskal,
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
MADISON, Wis.—Wisconsin Republicans turned to the state police Friday to find and cajole Democratic lawmakers to return to the Capitol as Wisconsin's battle between a cash-strapped government and an angry unionized work force continued.
Thousands of protesters were back to demonstrate at the Capitol in Madison, and some testified at committee hearings in the Assembly, which could consider a bill Friday that would end collective bargaining for public employees and force those workers to pick up a share of rising health insurance and pension costs.
The Senate was forced to adjourn after all 14 Democrats fled Thursday. Democrats continued their boycott Friday, prompting Republicans to ask Gov. Scott Walker to send officers to the home of Minority Leader Mark Miller to urge the Democrats to come back to work.
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By Rebecca Keegan,
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
When Rooster Cogburn, Jeff Bridges' gravel-voiced federal marshal in Joel and Ethan Coen's "True Grit," defends his tendency to shoot first and ask questions later in a courtroom scene, he is a figure engulfed in shadows. Slowly, a shaft of light streams through the courtroom's giant windows, revealing Cogburn's craggy, bearded face to the film's protagonist, 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), and the audience for the very first time.
The dramatic effect, announcing the movie's larger-than-life antihero through light and darkness, is the work of Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Roger Deakins.
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Toni Morrison (February 18, 1931) is one of the most prominent authors in world literature, having won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 for her collected works. Several of her novels have taken their place in the canon of American literature, including
The Bluest Eye, Beloved (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction),
and Song of Solomon. Morrison's writings are notable for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed African American characters. In recent years, Morrison has published a number of children's books with her son, Slade Morrison.
Read Toni Morrison's speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1993, accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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By Ajay Bains,
Courier Staff Writer
Logan's girls soccer team has high expectations after beating Mission San Jose High School 8-0 and taking the league title.
Last Thursday the girls sealed a spot in NCS and took MVAL. After a long hard season their work finally paid off.
When asked about the team's success, the team's middle-forward, senior Cheyenne Barnard, said, “We had to keep our composure and stay focused all season long.”
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By Kimmai Nguyen,
Courier Staff Writer
January 15 was a night to remember: Chris Carrabba, singer from Dashboard Confessional, came to The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco to played the album
Swiss Army Romance for its tenth anniversary.
With much anticipation on BART, arriving was the easy part; trying to push and maneuver to the front of the crowd was the hard part.
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Homework – Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Take advantage of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work with peers, and a welcome atmosphere, too. Enter by carpeted hallway near the Media Center to Rooms 77 and 78.
Come support the wrestling team at the MVAL finals this Saturday to be held in the Pavilion. Wrestling will begin at 10:00 a.m.
Need Driver’s Ed? Your place is at the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday; April 4, 5 & 6, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
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From wikipedia:
James Nathaniel "Jim" Brown (born February 17, 1936) is an American former professional football player who has also made his mark as an actor. He is best known for his exceptional and record-setting nine-year career as a running back for the NFL Cleveland Browns from 1957 to 1965. In 2002, he was named by Sporting News as the greatest professional football player ever. He is considered to be one of the greatest professional athletes the U.S. has ever produced.
Learn more about Jim Brown at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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Go Ask Alice
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0689817851
ISBN-13: 978-0689817854
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Courier Music Editor
The 1971 release of
Go Ask Alice directs the reader into the life of an adolescent female who undergoes the melodrama of a drug-induced time period where the influence of drug usage reigns supreme and the plight of withdrawal deems control.
The diary's creditability is questionable as it was published anonymously, but it did reach a worldwide audience of readers and spread the actuality of such behavior.
An anonymous fifteen-year-old girl begins the diary as an attempt to deal with ordinary teenage issues such as weight loss, relationships, sexuality, relating to her parents and peer acceptance. She writes in her diary to express the difficulties of having no social companions, while dealing with moving to a different home. This then escalated to a life that even fate could not predict.
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Today marks the fourth day of Achievement Week, where we celebrate academic achievement! Today we are honoring all of our students who are on the Superintendent’s Honor Roll with GPAs of 4.0 and above! We will be honoring these amazing academic stars in a special ceremony today in the CPA at 1:30. Congratulations! You have achieved our highest honor!
All students! Mark your calendars for tonight, which is Academic Achievement Night, starting at 6:00 p.m. All students are welcome to come with their parents. We have an NCAA workshop for student athletes, community colleges, 4-year colleges, and lots of great information. Food! Performances! A chance to connect with your teachers! Please come! There will be a barbeque at 5:00 p.m. Come and support the Marketing Academy!
Homework – Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Take advantage of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work with peers, and a welcome atmosphere, too. Enter by carpeted hallway near the Media Center to Rooms 77 and 78.
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Bill Doggett (February 16, 1916 – November 13, 1996) was an American jazz and rhythm and blues pianist and organist.
William Ballard Doggett was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, a church pianist, introduced him to music when he was 9 years old. By the time he was 15, he had joined a Philadelphia area combo, playing local theaters and clubs while attending high school.
He later sold his band to Lucky Millinder, and worked during the 1930s and early 1940s for both Millender and arranger Jimmy Mundy. In 1942 he was hired as The Ink Spots' pianist and arranger.
Listen to a clip of Bill Doggett and his band, one of several from him and other artists,
free from theatreorgans.com.
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Today marks the second day of Achievement Week, where we celebrate academic achievement! Today we are honoring all of our students who are on the Honor Roll with a 3.0 to 3.74 GPA. We are proud that you are maintaining a high GPA and striving for success!
All students! Mark your calendars for Thursday night! All students are welcome to come with their parents. We have an NCAA workshop for student athletes, community colleges, 4 year colleges, and lots of great information. Food! Performances! A chance to connect with your teachers! Please come! There will be a bbq at 5:00. Come and support the Marketing Academy!
Congratulations and good luck Varsity Girls Soccer for making NCS and hosting. Come support the Lady Colts tonight at 7:00 p.m. in Logan’s stadium.
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By Omar Alimi,
Courier Correspondent
In the world of synthesizers, DJ’s, and house music, the OP-1 by Teenage Engineering has become the object of desire for many not only because of its sleek look or compactness, but because of the new capabilities it brings as a synthesizer.
The OP-1 was scheduled for an early 2011 date, priced at $800 in the United States. In just a few weeks, Teenage Engineering has already run out of stock for this wonderful synthesizer. The synthesizer started out ten years ago as a from a group of dedicated Swedish musicians and engineers who came together to make something that no one else has. The group has surely made something in a new completely new category.
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By Jeremy Roebuck
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)
PHILADELPHIA — She wished in her personal blog that she could call students "ratlike," "frightfully dim" or "dunderheads" on their report cards. But administrators at Central Bucks High School East wish she had never said anything at all.
Principal Abram Lucabaugh assured students at an assembly Thursday that the blog posts English teacher Natalie Munroe made did not reflect the attitude of the school's faculty.
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Dead Space 2
Reviewed for: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
Also available for: Windows PC
From: Visceral Games/Electronic Arts
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore,
intense violence, strong language)
Everyone makes third-person shooters now. But nobody has made anything like 2008's "Dead Space," which took a suddenly oversaturated genre, doused it in ingredients normally reserved for horror games, and turned that combination into a brutally claustrophobic shooter with a fiction that puts most contemporary science fiction to shame.
"Dead Space 2" expands its playing field from a solitary spaceship under siege to an enclosed space city that's been left in ruin by the invading mutant Necromorphs (who, depending on your interpretations of the first game's events, are either evil incarnate or victims of fanaticism gone obscenely wrong). But while the environment is larger and more diverse — a point driven home by portions of the game that take place in wide-open, zero-gravity space — the storytelling is considerably more personal.
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From wikipedia:
Leland Devon Melvin (February 15, 1964, Lynchburg, Virginia) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. He served on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis as a mission specialist on STS-122, and as mission specialist 1 on STS-129.
Melvin attended the Heritage High School and then went on to the University of Richmond on a football scholarship, where he received a bachelor's degree in Chemistry. In 1991, he received a Master of Science degree in Materials Science Engineering from the University of Virginia. His parents, Deems and Grace Melvin, reside in Lynchburg, Virginia. His recreational interests include photography, piano, reading, music, cycling, tennis, and snowboarding.
Read an interview with Leland Melvin, free from National Public Radio.
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Today marks the second day of Achievement Week, where we celebrate academic achievement! Today we are honoring all of our students who are on the Honor Roll with a 3.0 to 3.74 GPA. We are proud that you are maintaining a high GPA and striving for success!
All students! Mark your calendars for Thursday night! All students are welcome to come with their parents. We have an NCAA workshop for student athletes, community colleges, 4 year colleges, and lots of great information. Food! Performances! A chance to connect with your teachers! Please come! There will be a bbq at 5:00. Come and support the Marketing Academy!
Congratulations to the varsity Wrestling Team for a runner-up finish at the NCS Team Dual Championship this past weekend. The Colts beat San Leandro 77-0 in the 1st Round, beat Liberty of Brentwood 30-28 in the semifinal, before falling to DeLaSalle in the finals. Great job, Colts!
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From
The Courier's Archives
The Tao of Valentines by Idy Tao,
Courier Daily Editor
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A USGS staff member collecting data
in the salt marshes of San Francisco Bay.
(photo USGS/K. Thorne)
Five years into the first significant construction to restore thousands of acres of former industrial salt ponds around San Francisco Bay back to wetlands, dozens of species of fish and birds — from herring and anchovies to pintail ducks — are expanding their range across the bay, with some clearly growing in population.
That was among the key conclusions from scientists at a recent conference held at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., to assess the status of the massive salt pond project.
"So far, so good," said Jim Hobbs, a fisheries biologist with University of California, Davis.
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Charlotta Bass and Paul Robeson,
Los Angeles, 1949
wikipedia photo (February 14, 1874 – April 12, 1969) was an American educator, newspaper publisher-editor, and civil rights activist. Bass was probably the first African American woman to own and operate her own newspaper in the United States; she published the
California Eagle from 1912 until 1951. In 1952 Bass became the first African American woman nominated for Vice President, as a candidate of the Progressive Party.
Read more about Charlotta Bass, free from the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research.
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Homework – Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Take advantage of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work with peers, and a welcome atmosphere, too. Enter by carpeted hallway near the Media Center to Rooms 77 and 78.
Colt Necessities is selling alumni sweaters, James Logan hoodies, adjustable hats, flat hats and many more on Monday, Wednesday and Friday during both lunches.
Need Driver’s Ed? Your place is at the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday; April 4, 5 & 6, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
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It's a Lulu by Lulu Zhong, Courier Comics Editor
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Eddie Gay Robinson (not short for Edward) (born February 13, 1919, in Jackson, Louisiana) spent 56 years as the head college football coach at Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana, from 1942 through 1997.
He was affectionately known simply as "Coach" throughout college football. During his tenure, Robinson established himself as the winningest coach in college football history becoming the first coach to record 400 wins. (John Gagliardi holds the current record of 443). Robinson retired with a record of 408 wins, 165 losses and 15 ties. Even during the era of segregation in the American South, Robinson's talent was praised by many white coaches especially by that of Alabama coach Bear Bryant.
Visit the Eddie Robinson Picture Gallery, free from www.gramblingstateuniversity.com.
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By Arthel Cargill,
Courier Staff Writer
Director Dominic Sena's adventurous tale "Season of the Witch" is about a Crusader in the Holy Wars who deserts his cause after taking the life of an innocent girl and realizing that what he fights for is no longer in the name of God.
The hero of the tale, Behmen (played by Nicolas Cage), sets out towards his homeland alongside his trusted friend Felson (actor Ron Perlman), but what the two find is a land cursed with a dark plague.
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Daniel "Chappie" James Jr. (11 February 1920 - 25 February 1978) was a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force, who in 1975 became the first African American to reach the rank of four star General.
Early life
Daniel James was born in 1920, in Pensacola, Florida, where he graduated from Washington High School in June 1937. From September 1937 to March 1942, he attended Tuskegee Institute, where he received a bachelor of science degree in physical education and completed civilian pilot training under the government-sponsored Civilian Pilot Training Program.
Read an interview with Lt. Gen. Daniel James III, son of Chappie James, about his father, free from garynorth.com.
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Homework – Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Take advantage of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work with peers, and a welcome atmosphere, too. Enter by carpeted hallway near the Media Center to Rooms 77 and 78.
Need Driver’s Ed? Your place is at the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday; April 4, 5 & 6, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
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By Kimmai Nguyen,
Courier Staff Writer
During tonight's Academic Achievement Night, the Logan library will host their first ever Adopt-A-Book event.
Carla Colburn, Logan's librarian, said she would like to emphasize how admirable donating is because it would help the library grow.
Contributing in this event is easy. First, students either choose a book from a list provided by the library or let the librarian choose. Second, the student sends the library $15, then has their name placed on a donation book plate.
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By Thalia Hedges,
Courier Staff Writer
The first semester of Logan Live seemed longer than the required five minutes, inciting annoyance from many teachers.
“It bothers me," said Robert Eppler, a Logan math teacher. "It takes away from class time, but to be completely honest, it gives me time to get class ready and I take advantage of the extra time to get stuff ready.”
Although many other teachers seem to think otherwise and actually favor and don’t mind the extra accidentally added minutes.
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Students gather in Colt Court
to raise awareness about human
enslavement and trafficking.
James McDonald/Courier Photo
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Courier Music Editor
Humanitarian Assistance Club gathered in Colt Court yesterday to raise awareness about human enslavement and trafficking.
The idea, “Free2Play”, allows students to write onto white boards about anything that the students feel they do not have the freedom to do. The student would take a picture, which would be added together in conjunction with the many other pictures, in order to concoct a collage to be hung around the school.
“Free2Play” is an attempt at spreading awareness about human trafficking. Senior Tom Hu, who is president of the club, said that he derived the idea from a past student at Logan. In addition, many other college campuses across the nation have done the same thing.
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Price in 1953
Photo by Carl Van Vechten (born February 10, 1927, in Laurel, Mississippi in the United States) is an American operatic soprano. She is best known for the title role of Verdi's Aida. Born in the segregated Deep South, she rose to international fame during a period of racial change in the 1950s and 60s, and was the first African-American to become a leading prima donna at the Metropolitan Opera.
Watch Leontyne Price sing "O Patria Mia," free from YouTube.
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The Time Traveler's
Wife by Audrey
Niffenegger
Hardcover: 560 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN-10: 0547119798
ISBN-13: 978-0547119793
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Courier Staff Writer
Audrey Niffenegger’s debut novel
The Time Traveler’s Wife is a beautiful tale of the love shared by Henry DeTamble and Clare Abshire, and their struggle to be with one another despite the bounds of time.
Henry DeTamble is an ordinary librarian who suffers from a rare, out-of-the-ordinary genetic disorder known as Chrono-Displacement that causes him to travel involuntarily through time. Clare Abshire meets him when she's six as a result of his time traveling. She's an artist that unsuspectingly falls in love with him eventually.
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Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an African-American author and feminist who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for
The Color Purple.
Early life
Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, United States; as well as being African American, her family has Cherokee, Scottish and Irish lineage. After high school, Walker attended Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia and graduated in 1965 from Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers (Bronxville postal zone), New York. During her junior year, she spent a summer as an exchange student in Uganda.
Watch "I am a Renegade, an Outlaw, a Pagan" - Author, Poet and Activist Alice Walker in Her Own Words, an hour-long interview of Alice Walker by Amy Goodman, streaming free from www.democracynow.org.
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By Kimmai Nguyen,
Courier Staff Writer
The SOGo emailing system for the New Haven Unified School Distict will be switched to Google also recognized as Gmail.
The main reason for this change was user satisfaction. Chris Hobbs, directory of technology at NHUSD, said, “The biggest obstacle initially was performance and reliability, which took us several weeks to get resolved... there are also issues around features that our users are used to that are missing or non-intuitive in the new system. The combination of these led to the dissatisfaction."
Logan previously used the GroupWise system, but made the transition to SoGO last school year. However, users are still less than impressed with SoGO.
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By Beatrice Esteban,
Courier Editor-in-Chief
Monday kicks off Logan’s introduction of its first-ever Academic Achievement Week to celebrate and encourage classroom success.
This year, Principal Amy McNamara replaced the annual Open House in favor of a week celebrating the achievements of Logan students all across the board.
“This is a week we are celebrating achievement and taking time to encourage all of our students to continue after graduation to educate themselves,” said McNamara in a staff email Monday.
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By Alonyia Godfrey,
Courier Staff Writer
Recently, there has been controversy over the effects of parenting styles that are prominent in certain cultures. The topic surfaced after Yale law professor Amy Chua published her novel
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, arguing in favor of strict, unwavering discipline that she calls a "Chinese way of parenting". This, she believes, is the best method of raising children so that they may reach their fullest potential and be able to take advantage of all that life has to offer.
Chua has received a lot of criticism from people who do not agree with her and believe that her methods are harsh and unnecessary. In other cultures parents use various techniques to ensure that their children grow up to be successful adult. However, the underlying question is whether or not these parenting stereotypes are as common as they are made out to be.
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Homework – Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Take advantage of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work with peers, and a welcome atmosphere, too. Enter by carpeted hallway near the Media Center to Rooms 77 and 78.
Need Driver’s Ed? Your place is at the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday; April 4, 5 & 6, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
Chinese, Vietnamese, Punjabi, Farsi/Pashto and Spanish speaking students needed to volunteer as translators for Academic Achievement night on Feb. 17th. To sign up see Mrs. Hart in the Career Center.
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From wikipedia:
Claro Mayo Recto, Jr. (February 8, 1890 – October 2, 1960), was a Filipino politician, jurist, poet and one of the foremost statesmen of his generation. He is remembered mainly for his nationalism, for "the impact of his patriotic convictions on modern political thought".
He was born in Tiáong, Tayabas (now known as Quezon province) of educated, upper middle-class parents, namely Claro Recto [Sr.] of Rosario, Batangas, and Micaela Mayo of Lipa, Batangas. He studied Latin at the Instituto de Rizal in Lipa, Batangas from 1900 to 1901. Further schooling was at the Colegio del Sagrado Corazón of Don Sebastián Virrey. He moved to Manila to study at the Ateneo de Manila where he consistently obtained outstanding scholastic grades, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree maxima cum laude. He received a Masters of Laws degree from the University of Santo Tomás.
Read Remembering Claro M. Recto by Tony P. Fernandez, free from emanila.com.
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Senior Tom Hu flashes a grin
while showing off his eccentric
haircut.
Julia Ortiz/Courier Photo
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Courier Staff Writer
Logan senior Tom Hu recently donned a friar tuck-style hairdo around school, both in advertisement of the school play and as a display of good humor.
Hu's enthusiasm for performance was already evident from his performance in the last play, "Taming of the Shrew". However, after earning a part in the school production of "Camelot" and spending time with his church group, Hu showed up to school with his eccentric haircut.
"I thought it would be funny and good advertisement for the musical,” he said. “And it’s fun showing my friends at school, especially teachers who are actually bald.”
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Girls show off their outfits
at Logan's 21st annual Sabor
Latino dance.
Leslie Rodriguez/Courier Photo
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Courier Staff Writer
Logan students and teachers alike attended the school's highly-anticipated Sabor Latino Dance last Friday.
The dance was energetic and lively, with people constantly going to the dance floor. By 7:30 p.m it seemed like everyone had already arrived, but people kept coming. There were girls rocking out in stilettos, with boys in boots and sombreros joining them.
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Homework – Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Take advantage of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work with peers, and a welcome atmosphere, too. Enter by carpeted hallway near the Media Center to Rooms 77 and 78.
Need Driver’s Ed? Your place is at the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday; April 4, 5 & 6, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
Chinese, Vietnamese, Punjabi, Farsi/Pashto and Spanish speaking students needed to volunteer as translators for Academic Achievement night on Feb. 17th. To sign up see Mrs. Hart in the Career Center.
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By Nataniel Lazaga,
Courier Staff Writer
This year, Logan students participated in the annual CAHSEE test, expressing mixed sentiments about the test's usefulness and content.
Every February, sophomores take the mandatory California High School Exit Exam, which is required for graduation and a diploma. Students who have not passed must also retake it.
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By Linh-Chi Nguyen,
Courier Music Editor
Logan students have the opportunity to apply at nearby community colleges Chabot and Ohlone for early decision, which offers a filling period that begins mid-February and extends until the 15th of March.
Applying early would guarantee that applicants will receive the classes they sign up for and gives priority registration for seniors rather than new students. All applicants are admitted regardless of grades or standardized test scores; the only requirement is a high school diploma.
Barbara Hart, counselor at Logan's Career Center, strongly encourages students to take advantage of this opportunity.
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Dr. An Wang (February 7, 1920 – March 24, 1990) was a Chinese American computer engineer and inventor, and co-founder of computer company Wang Laboratories.
A native of Kunshan County in Suzhou Prefecture, he was born in Shanghai, China, and graduated from Chiao Tung University with a degree in electrical engineering in 1940. He emigrated to the United States in June 1945 to attend Harvard University for graduate school, earning a PhD in applied physics in 1948. After graduation, he worked at Harvard with Dr Howard Aiken on the design of the Mark IV, Aiken's first fully electronic computer. Wang co-invented the pulse transfer controlling device with Way-Dong Woo, a schoolmate from China who fell ill before their patent was issued. The new device implemented write-after-read which made magnetic core memory possible. Harvard reduced its commitment to computer research in 1951, prompting Wang's departure.
Read more about Dr. An Wang and Wang Laboratories, free from oldcalculatormuseum.com
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It's a Lulu by Lulu Zhong, Courier Comics Editor
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Homework – Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Take advantage of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work with peers, and a welcome atmosphere, too. Enter by carpeted hallway near the Media Center to Rooms 77 and 78.
Colt Necessities is selling alumni sweaters, James Logan hoodies, adjustable hats, flat hats and many more on Monday, Wednesday and Friday during both lunches.
Need Driver’s Ed? Your place is at the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday; April 4, 5 & 6, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
Chinese, Vietnamese, Punjabi, Farsi/Pashto and Spanish speaking students needed to volunteer as translators for Academic Achievement night on Feb. 17th to sign up see Mrs. Hart in the Career Center.
Mission Valley ROP is offering a course in Game Design/Interactive Media Arts for the 2011-2012 school year. If you are interested in applying for this course with limited seats, attend an information session at the Mission Valley ROP on February 9th from 4:00 - 5:00 PM or see Mrs. Hart in the Career Center for the application. Applications are due by February 16th by 4:00 PM
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Bob Marley, center, with Bunny
Wailer, left, and Peter Tosh of
the Wailers in the 1960s.
Robert Nesta Marley, February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is the most widely known performer of reggae music, and is famous for popularising the genre outside Jamaica. A faithful Rastafari, Marley is regarded by many as a prophet of the religion.
Marley is best known for his ska, rocksteady, and reggae songs, which include the hits "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Three Little Birds", "Exodus", "Could You Be Loved", "Jamming", "Redemption Song", and one of his most famous love songs, "One Love". His posthumous compilation album
Legend (1984) is the best-selling reggae album ever, with sales of more than 12 million copies.
Visit bobmarley.com, the official Bob Marley site with video and song samples, and more.
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Punjabi Club President
Manpreet Braich and Vice
President Navdip Samra,
dressed in traditional
Punjabi garb.
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Courier Staff Writer
Dancing, singing and laughing the night away were some adjectives describing students this year at Logan's annual Lohri Celebration.
Last Friday evening, the Logan community held a special event open to all in the tradition of Lohri, a Punjabi holiday celebrating the end of winter. Logan's Punjabi Club organized and delivered an outstanding event.
One of the most iconic ways to celebrate this holiday is by the lighting of a bonfire, where everyone gathers around and dances in traditional Punjabi Folk style (Bhangra and Giddha). A small wood fire was ignited in Colt Court, setting the mood for the entire evening.
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Henry Aaron (February 5, 1934 in Mobile, Alabama) is a retired American baseball player and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Aaron is best known for setting the Major League record for most home runs in a career (755), surpassing the previous mark of 714 held by Babe Ruth. Aaron also holds the career marks for runs batted in (2,297), extra base hits (1,477), total bases (6,856), and consecutive seasons with 150 or more hits (17). He won one World Series ring with the Milwaukee Braves in 1957, and the National League Most Valuable Player Award the same year. He also earned three Gold Glove Awards and made 24 All-Star appearances.
Visit Henry Aaron's page at the Baseball Hall of Fame website.
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By Julia Ortiz,
Courier Staff Writer
Arthur and his queen, Guinevere, ruled over Camelot in peace when the idea of the Round Table emerged. Lancelot travels all the way from France to be a part of it. Some scandals later, this has the making for and interesting story.
Last night, Logan opened their showing of Camelot, pulling together the school's award-winning choir, drama and band programs to get it off the ground.
About 45 people attended, which can be considered good for a weeknight. Tension and expectations of excellence piled on the performers once the instructors finally left back stage.
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By Beatrice Esteban,
Courier Editor-in-Chief
New York City, ballet dancers, French accents and homoerotic fantasies are just a few distinctive features of 2010’s
Black Swan.
Directed by Darren Aronofsky—of
The Wrestler fame—this movie is definitely one that viewers don’t want to see with their parents or siblings. Rather than presenting the audience with a fluffy story of young women in tutus, Aronofsky’s film instead explores the dark transformation of a sweet girl into a mysterious, seductive woman.
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From wikipedia:
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American seamstress and civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement".
Parks is famous for her refusal on December 1, 1955 to obey bus driver James Blake's demand that she relinquish her seat to a white passenger. Her subsequent arrest and trial for this act of civil disobedience triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the largest and most successful mass movements against racial segregation in history, and launched Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the organizers of the boycott, to the forefront of the civil rights movement. Her role in American history earned her an iconic status in American culture, and her actions have left an enduring legacy for civil rights movements around the world.
Visit montgomeryboycott.com for a complete audio/video and newspaper archive of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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By James McDonald,
Courier Staff Writer
Logan English teacher Ross Minor has been selling lumpia at school in mass amounts for a few months.
The idea for lumpia sales comes from Minor's wife Cristel, who is a member of a group called Elpida (which means "hope" in Greek). The group has been together for three years and has a handful of members. It is generally a discussion group, but Elpida also helps the community by donating to the HERS Breast Cancer Foundation. The group has raised $400 from the past three months of sales at Logan.
Lumpia is a Filipino pastry similar to spring rolls. There are a number of different varieties. Generally, however, it is understood that the term "lumpia" refers to "lumpiang shanghai", small rolls that can be eaten as finger foods.
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Homework – Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Take advantage of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work with peers, and a welcome atmosphere, too. Enter by carpeted hallway near the Media Center to Rooms 77 and 78.
Colt Necessities is selling alumni sweaters, James Logan hoodies, adjustable hats, flat hats and many more on Monday, Wednesday and Friday during both lunches.
Need Driver’s Ed? Your place is at the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday; April 4, 5 & 6, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
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From wikipedia:
Blas Fajardo Ople (February 3, 1927–December 14, 2003) was a Filipino journalist and politician who held several high-ranking positions in the executive and legislative branches of the Philippine government, including as Senate President from 1999 to 2000, and as Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 2002 until his death. Perceived as a leftist-nationalist at the onset of his career in public service, Ople was, in his final years, a vocal supporter for allowing a limited United States military presence in the Philippines, and for American initiatives in the War on Terror including the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Ople's most enduring role was his nineteen years as Secretary (later Minister) of Labor and Employment during the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos, when Philippine labor laws were overhauled through the enactment of the Labor Code of the Philippines that he had helped author.
Read more about Blas Fajardo Ople.
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By Farah Ali,
Courier Staff Writer
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden tells the tale of a young Japanese girl named Chiyo Sakamoto. Chiyo lives in a tipsy house on the cliffs of the Japanese sea in a small village in Yoroido. She always had big dreams of leaving Yoroido and becoming successful to make her parents happy, but tragedy had struck when her father found out that Chiyo's mother was diagnosed with a fatal bone disease. The family prayed as much as they could, until the doctor told Chiyo's father that time had run out. Chiyo and her older sister Satsu were told that they would transported to the bigger and wealthier city of Gion. This came as a shock to Chiyo and Satsu, who didn't want to leave their tipsy house and parents. But what Chiyo didn't know was that her future would become more and more bright as the days passed on.
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Homework – Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Take advantage of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work with peers, and a welcome atmosphere, too. Enter by carpeted hallway near the Media Center to Rooms 77 and 78.
Colt Necessities is selling alumni sweaters, James Logan hoodies, adjustable hats, flat hats and many more on Monday, Wednesday and Friday during both lunches.
Need Driver’s Ed? Your place is at the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday; April 4, 5 & 6, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
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Rick La Plante, Director of Parent & Community Relations, NHUSD
The Board of Education on Tuesday night approved a resolution calling for a May 3 special election asking New Haven voters to approve a parcel tax to offset some of the cuts that continue to be forced on the District because of the ongoing state budget crisis.
The measure would raise approximately $3 million annually to preserve quality instructional time, maintain educational and after-school activities and minimize increases in class sizes and reductions to the school year.
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From wikipedia:
Duane L. Jones (February 2, 1936 – July 22, 1988) was an American actor, best known for his role as Ben in the 1968 horror film
Night of the Living Dead. He was director of the Maguire Theater at the State University of New York at Old Westbury. He was the artistic director of the Richard Allen Center for Culture and Art in Manhattan.
He was born on February 2, 1936, and he had a sister, Marva Jones Brooks.
A graduate of the Sorbonne, Jones studied acting in New York City.
Read How Casting a Black Actor Changed 'Night of the Living Dead, free from thewrap.com.'
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Homework – Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Take advantage of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work with peers, and a welcome atmosphere, too. Enter by carpeted hallway near the Media Center to Rooms 77 and 78.
Colt Necessities is selling alumni sweaters, James Logan hoodies, adjustable hats, flat hats and many more on Monday, Wednesday and Friday during both lunches.
Need Driver’s Ed? Your place is at the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday; April 4, 5 & 6, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
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By Andrea Higares,
Courier Film Editor
The biggest new thing on the James Logan High School Campus happens to also be one of the smallest. Students all around school can be seen playing ukuleles all around the school.
Whether it is for show or for the soft music that it plays, it is the new "it" thing. They can come in all different size but one thing is for sure: nearly everyone has one or knows how to play them. Even some performers play them on stage, such as Nevershoutnever and James Hill.
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By Justyna Torres,
Courier School News Editor
With three games left in MVAL, the James Logan Varsity soccer team hopes to take turn their second place spot into an MVAL Championship, then an NCS Championship.
“This season has been up and down, but overall good,” said head coach James Williams said. “The team continues to improve and build toward NCS.”
This may not be an impossible feat for the team this year. They have an impressive overall record with 11 wins, five losses and two ties. In the league they are 6-1, with their only loss to the league's first place team, Newark Memorial High School.
Posted by courier at 12:21 PM. Filed under: Sports
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Mass Effect 2
Reviewed for: Playstation 3
Also available for: Xbox 360 and Windows PC
From: Bioware/EA
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood, drug reference,
sexual content, strong language, violence)
Ports don't arrive much later to the party than "Mass Effect 2," which makes its Playstation 3 debut a week shy of a year after it appeared on the Xbox 360.
But it's nowhere near too late to get acclimated with a game as good as "ME2," which deservedly won a museum's worth of year-end awards from critics and fans alike. And like any good party guest, it compensates for its tardiness by bearing gifts.
For starters, because the first "Mass Effect" remains non-existent on the Playstation platform, Bioware has given the uninitiated a significantly better means of catching up to the story than it did for players on other platforms. An in-game interactive comic book details the important events of that first game, and through a handful of "Choose Your Own Adventure"-style moments, readers can shape the comic's story in much the same way players charted their narrative course through the game. The Xbox/PC versions of "ME2" allowed players to use save files from the first game to affect how the second game's story began, and this comic has the same effect.
Posted by courier at 11:25 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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From wikipedia:
Leila Alice Denmark, M.D. (née Daughtry; born February 1, 1898) is, at 113 years, an American pediatrician who became the oldest practicing pediatrician in the world, retiring at the age of 103 in May 2001. She is one of very few supercentenarians known for reasons other than for longevity. She is currently one of the 11th oldest known living people.
Read more about Dr. Leila Denmark, free from the National Library of Medicine.
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