This is the archive for October 2011
MISCELLANEOUS
PACT study guides have arrived. Pick up your copy at the student windows in the mall office. PACT tickets will be sold until Nov. 7th at the student windows in the main office at both lunches.
Hallways at Lunch: Students, the 60s and 70s hallways are closed during lunch time. Because of disruption to instruction and learning, students are requested to not use the hallways during lunch. Please make sure you exit the hallways as quickly as possible,and do not use the 60s and 70s hallways during lunch. The 80s hallway is open every day if you’d like to go to the other side!
Logan Students: Just a reminder that you are not to be on other school campuses during their school hours. This causes a disruption for the other schools and may lead to a consequence.
Posted by courier at 11:20 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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By Gurpreet Bhasin and Kayleen Garingin,
Courier Staff Writers
Editor's Note: One of the writers participated in the rally
It was a beautiful sunny afternoon at James Logan High as the whole school started to pour into the football field. As every one got seated in the bleachers, the noise level began to get louder and before you knew it, the whole school was in one spot, together, like one big family. As the rally began, class officers from all levels began to gather in different areas of the field, wearing their respective class colors. Seniors were wearing black, juniors white, sophomores green, and freshman were wearing yellow. Games were played and floats were displayed. The fact that everyone was there and showing off their school spirit felt great.
Posted by courier at 12:01 PM. Filed under: News
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From wikipedia:
Juliette Gordon Low (born Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon in Savannah, Georgia, October 31, 1860 – January 17, 1927) was an American youth leader and the founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA in 1912.
Juliette Gordon Low's mother's family came from Chicago and her father was a Confederate Captain in the American Civil War and a Brigadier General in the United States army during the Spanish-American War. She was always called by her nickname "Daisy" to her friends and family. Another one of her nicknames was "Little Ship." She acquired this nickname while staying with her maternal grandparents John H. Kinzie and Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie in Chicago at the end of the Civil War. The families of Confederate officers were required to leave Savannah after the December 1864 surrender to General William T. Sherman. Daisy went with her mother, Eleanor Kinzie Gordon, and her sisters, Alice and Nelly. Daisy loved to hear the story about her great-grandmother, who was captured by Native Americans. Even though she was a captive, she was always joyful, so the Native Americans started calling her "Little-Ship-Under-Full-Sail." She was the adopted daughter of the Seneca chief Cornplanter in the years she dwelt with the tribe. Eventually, the Seneca said they'd give Juliette's great-grandmother whatever gift she wanted, and she chose to go back home. The Seneca let her go. The shorter version of the nickname was bestowed on young Juliette. Daisy was always jumping into new games, hobbies, and ideas.
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earn more about Juliette Gordon Low, free from girlscouts.org.
Posted by courier at 07:35 AM. Filed under: In Quotes
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Randomness by Christine Campa, Courier Comic Artist
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From Wikipedia:
Zoë Akins (30 October 1886 – 29 October 1958) was an American playwright, poet, and author.
Born in Humansville, Missouri, Akins was educated in Illinois and later in St. Louis, where she began her writing career. While living in the city, she wrote poetry and criticism for various magazines and newspapers.
Read three of Zoë Akins' poems, free from About.com.
Posted by courier at 12:54 AM. Filed under: In Quotes
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From Wikipedia:
Antonio Luna y Novicio (October 29, 1866 - June 5, 1899) was a Filipino pharmacist and general who fought in the Philippine-American War. He was also the founder of the Philippines's first military academy.
Antonio Luna was born in Urbiztondo, Binondo, Manila. He was the youngest of seven children of Joaquín Luna, from Badoc, Ilocos Norte, and Spanish mestiza Laureana Novicio, from Luna, La Union. His father was a traveling salesman of the products of government monopolies. His older brother, Juan, was an accomplished painter who studied in the Madrid Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Another brother, José, became a doctor.
Learn more about Antonio Luna y Novicio, free from wikipilipinas.org.
Posted by courier at 12:34 AM. Filed under: In Quotes
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By Maria Saldana and Amandeep Singh, Courier Staff Writers
After school on October 6th, two older men attacked a James Logan student on his way home from school as he entered a bathroom at Kennedy Park just yards away from campus.
The men robbed him of some of his belongings and left him bruised and scared and terrified.
A few days later, Logan art teacher Victoria Jackson and House Three Principal Jessica Lange each sent out e-mails asking staff members to inform their students about the attack and advise them on how to keep themselves safer.
Posted by courier at 12:54 PM. Filed under: News
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MISCELLANEOUS
PACT study guides have arrived. Pick up your copy at the student windows in the mall office. PACT tickets will be sold until Nov. 7th at the student windows in the main office at both lunches.
Hallways at Lunch: Students, the 60s and 70s hallways are closed during lunch time. Because of disruption to instruction and learning, students are requested to not use the hallways during lunch. Please make sure you exit the hallways as quickly as possible, and do not use the 60s and 70s hallways during lunch. The 80s hallway is open every day if you’d like to go to the other side!
Posted by courier at 12:18 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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By Paul Tran,
Courier Staff Writer
Through classical Disney movies, such as the Little Mermaid, Pocahontas, and Beauty and the Beast, as well as more recent movies, such as Princess and the Frog, children are taught from an early age to accept people who are different than themselves, judging them not from how society teaches us to see them, but to decide for ourselves what people are like.
Posted by courier at 12:04 PM. Filed under: Opinion
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By Ann Givens
Newsday (MCT)
MELVILLE, N.Y.— Nassau County district attorney investigators are expected to arrest at least four more former high school students as early as next week in connection with an SAT cheating scandal that has gripped Long Island, sources said.
Sources close to the case say the former students have been told they will be asked to surrender to prosecutors soon. The total number of students who will be arrested in the investigation's second wave was not clear Thursday, nor was it clear whether any accused test-takers would be among them.
Posted by courier at 11:12 AM. Filed under: News
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By Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
CHICAGO — "Anonymous" contends William Shakespeare was a lying, scheming, boorish clown who never generated a word of the plays attributed to him. Written by John Orloff and directed by Roland Emmerich, the picture follows the main argument put forth by what's known as Oxfordian theory — that the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, convinced Shakespeare to claim authorship while the politically connected courtier, de Vere, continued his literary and theatrical career in secret.
Posted by courier at 11:01 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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From Wikipedia:
Eliphalet Remington (October 28, 1793 – August 12, 1861) designed the Remington rifle.
He was born in 1793 in the town of Suffield, Connecticut, to parents whose origins lay in Yorkshire, England. He was a blacksmith, and at 23, he hand-made a revolutionary sporting rifle using a firing mechanism bought from a dealer, producing the barrel himself.
Read more about Eliphalet Remington.
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By Jack Bragg,
Courier Entertainment Editor
For a band that has broken up and gotten back together on a more consistent basis than possibly any band not named Oasis, Jane’s Addiction’s second comeback album,
The Great Escape Artist, is essentially flawless in its approach. The new album shows a new approach to the band’s sound without abandoning their old sound. Rather, the new album sounds undoubtedly like a Jane’s Addiction album, which at the same time weaving a new modern sound throughout the song’s influences.
Posted by courier at 12:23 PM. Filed under: Entertainment
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By Lauren Mascarenhas,
Courier Managing Editor
Logan students practiced the old duck–and-cover Thursday as they participated in “The Great California Shakeout”, and their preparedness came in handy as the bay area experienced two real earthquakes later in the day.
3.8 million people in schools, communities, and businesses across California participated in the Shakeout, a statewide earthquake drill at 10:20 am. Logan students were in their third period classes when the drill started, and were instructed to walk out to the designated evacuation areas in and around campus.
Posted by courier at 12:11 PM. Filed under: News
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MISCELLANEOUS
Student volunteers are very badly needed for tomorrow’s Halloween Carnival at
Emanuele Elementary. If you’d like to help, pick up a flyer in the Career Center, or
check Logan’s web page.
Congratulations to the Cross Country Team MVAL Champions: Girls & Boys Varsity,
Boys Frosh/Soph, and Girls & Boys Junior Varsity. The first time in school history to
win all 5 divisions!
Logan Students: Just a reminder that you are not to be on other school campuses during
their school hours. This causes a disruption for the other schools and may lead to a
consequence.
Posted by courier at 11:14 AM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom
wikipedia photo
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom railed against tuition increases and said Wednesday that the state's master plan for higher education is outdated, promising "a different narrative" for higher education by the end of the year.
It was unclear what the plan might contain or how Newsom, a Democrat, might propose funding it.
"We're going to come up with some out-of-the-box recommendations, is our hope and expectation," he told
The Sacramento Bee's Capitol Bureau.
Posted by courier at 09:25 AM. Filed under: News
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From Wikipedia:
Juan Nepomuceno Seguín (October 27, 1806 – August 27, 1890) was a 19th-century Texas Senator, Mayor, Judge, and Justice of the Peace and a prominent participant in the Texas Revolution.
Juan Seguín was born in San Antonio de Bexar on October 27, 1806. He was the older of two sons of Erasmo Seguín and María Josefa Becerra. As the son of a postmaster, he would assist his mother in the business, while his father was off writing the Mexican Constitution of 1824. In 1825, he married María Gertrudis Flores de Abrego. They had ten children. He was elected an alderman in December, 1828 and served on numerous electoral boards before becoming the San Antonio alcalde (mayor) in December 1833. He then served as political chief of Bexar in 1834, when the previous chief became ill. In 1835, he led a relief force to Monclova, when the Federalist Governor appealed for help.
Learn more about Juan Seguin, free from the Handbook of Texas Online.
Posted by courier at 07:38 AM. Filed under: In Quotes
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MISCELLANEOUS
Logan Students: Just a reminder that you are not to be on other school campuses during their school hours. This causes a disruption for the other schools and may lead to a consequence.
College presentations are still taking place here at Logan, and USF is coming November 9th. Interested students should sign up in the Career Center.
Logan Students: Halloween is Monday, October 31, and we all like to dress up for fun. However, keep in mind that ALL costumes must be appropriate and follow Logan dress codes. There should be no masks, no complete face paintings, and no imitation weapons of any kind. These will be confiscated.
Posted by courier at 11:40 AM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
SBN-10: 0609810405,
Courier Staff Writer
In the book,
How Soon is Never by Marc Spitz, Joe Green is a 30 year old cocaine addict who falls in and out of love his whole life. Joe is a protagonist most people can agree with, but by the end of the book no meaningful lesson is learned, and for all the Smiths fans, Morrissey never even shows up.
This book is very underwhelming and hard to follow if you are not a Smiths fan. There are many song and band member allusions throughout the book, which can make it very confusing. Even if you are a Smiths fan, the book is very disappointing because Joe never meets with Morrissey to interview him, which was the main goal of the book.
Posted by courier at 11:35 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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Paperback: 407 pages
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN-10: 0812550846,
Courier Staff Writier
Judith Tarr, a writer, who has written for many years now creating many great works of fantasy novels, demonstrates once again her talent of commanding narrative writing to contemplate ancient history.
Her book
King and Goddess, a fairly well written novel, possesses all of the building blocks that make up a good story. The novel informatively describes the life of Maatkare Hatshepsut, a notorious Egyptian queen who is given a vision that she was destined to rule. Tarr's in-depth knowledge of Egyptian culture shows insight to the social lives of all of her characters within the story, and gives the reader a taste of ancient civilization in ancient Egypt. Readers explore the life of how common people operated and lived in Egypt, and observe the drastic contrast of those who live in the royal palace.
Posted by courier at 11:21 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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From wikipedia:
Mahalia Jackson (October 26, 1911 – January 27, 1972) was an African-American gospel singer. Possessing a powerful contralto voice, she was referred to as "The Queen of Gospel". Jackson became one of the most influential gospel singers in the world, and was heralded internationally as a singer and civil rights activist; entertainer Harry Belafonte called her "the single most powerful black woman in the United States". She recorded about 30 albums (mostly for Columbia Records) during her career, and her 45 rpm records included a dozen "golds"—million-sellers.
Read or listen to Mahalia Jackson: Voice Of The Civil Rights Movement, by Sonari Glinton, free from NPR.org
Posted by courier at 09:43 AM. Filed under: In Quotes
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By Ronnell Coaster, Courier Sports Editor
Back on their home turf, James Logan played a great Homecoming game as they smashed Irvington 64-0, continuing their rampage through the Mission Valley Athletic League.
While running back Miles Long carried much of the offensive load during the Colts’ previous crushing of American (69-7) and Mission San Jose (63-0), this time running back Damond Beasley carried more of the load.
Posted by courier at 12:18 PM. Filed under: Sports
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By Paul Tran,
Courier Staff Writer
The Easy Bake Oven is a popular children’s toy that allows kids to safely create their own confections.
It’s a very common toy for little girls to have, however, parents often refuse to buy them for their boys due to gender stereotyping. After interviewing 40 Logan students, 20 girls and 20 boys, out of the 15 girls that wanted Easy Bake Ovens in their childhood, 14 of them had them. Of the 17 boys that wanted ovens, only 7 of them received one, and 6 of the 7 shared them with their sisters.
Posted by courier at 11:58 AM. Filed under: Opinion
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MISCELLANEOUS
Logan Students: Halloween is Monday, October 31, and we all like to dress up for fun.
However, keep in mind that ALL costumes must be appropriate and follow Logan dress
codes. There should be no masks, no complete face paintings, and no imitation weapons
of any kind. These will be confiscated.
MVROP open house is Oct. 27th at 6 p.m. at their Fremont site next to Kennedy High
School. This is a great time to get out, walk through the ROP classrooms, and meet the
teachers and current students. In general, find out what ROP is really about.
Posted by courier at 11:29 AM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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By Greg Kot
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
Artists and fans discuss the impact of the iPod:
HOW WE LISTEN:
Alex White, singer-guitarist in White Mystery: "The iPod created a new format for the music-listening public, and a new way for bands to get in their fans' heads, literally, in the form of two white earbuds. My question is, what's the product cycle for portable music players? Was there a 10th anniversary celebrating the CD-playing Discman? Is it the iTunes marketplace that actually makes the iPod so prolific?"
Posted by courier at 11:24 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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"Ace Combat: Assault Horizon"
For: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
From: Namco Bandai
ESRB Rating: Teen (alcohol reference, blood,
language, mild suggestive themes, violence)
Price: $60
Have a seat, "Ace Combat" fans, because this might hurt.
"Ace Combat: Assault Horizon" is a startling departure that trades in the series' mild-mannered temperament and fictional universe for a crank-it-to-11 summer blockbuster set in our world, and the change of pace — along with how effectively "Horizon" pulls it off — will shock and thrill many who play it expecting the same old aerial dogfighting game.
Problem is, the series' most ardent fans may not be among that many.
Before we get carried away, let's clarify: "Horizon" isn't completely unrecognizable. Most of its missions still take place in a wide-open sky in which the objective is to track, chase and shoot down enemy aircraft. The campaign offers a nice selection of planes to fly, and a few special weapons complement the standard-issue machine gun and homing missiles.
Posted by courier at 10:56 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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From wikipedia:
Katharine Edgar Byron (October 25, 1903 – December 28, 1976), a Democrat, was a U.S. Congresswoman who represented the 6th congressional district of Maryland from May 27, 1941 to January 3, 1943. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Maryland.
Read more about Katharine Byron, free from the U.S. House of Representatives.
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MISCELLANEOUS
MVROP open house is Oct. 27th at 6 p.m. at their Fremont site next to Kennedy High School. This is a great time to get out, walk through the ROP classrooms, meet the teachers and current students. In general, find out what ROP is really about.
ASVAB permission slips are now available in the Career Center. Remember to get your teachers and parents to sign the permission slip or you WILL NOT be testing.
Posted by courier at 02:50 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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From wikipedia:
Saunders Terrell, better known as
Sonny Terry (24 October 1911 - 11 March 1986) was a blind American Piedmont blues musician. He was widely known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers, and imitations of trains and fox hunts.
Terry was born in Greensboro, Georgia. His father, a farmer, taught him to play basic blues harp as a youth. He sustained injuries to his eyes and lost his sight by the time he was 16, which prevented him from doing farm work himself. In order to earn a living Terry was forced to play music. He began playing in Shelby, North Carolina. After his father died he began playing in the trio of Piedmont blues-style guitarist Blind Boy Fuller. When Fuller died in 1941, he established a long-standing musical relationship with Brownie McGhee, and the pair recorded numerous songs together. The duo became well-known among white audiences, as they joined the growing folk movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This included collaborations with Styve Homnick, Woody Guthrie and Moses Asch, producing Folkways Records (now Smithsonian/Folkways) classic recordings.
Learn more about Sonny Terry, free from allmusic.com.
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It's a Lulu by Lulu Zhong, Courier Comics Editor
Z equals F by Christine Campa, Courier Comic Artist
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From wikipedia:
John William Heisman (October 23, 1869 – October 3, 1936) was a prominent American football player and college football coach in the early era of the sport and is the namesake of the Heisman Trophy awarded annually to the season's best college football player.
Early life
He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but grew up in Titusville, Pennsylvania, where he played football for Titusville High School, graduating in 1887. He went on to play football at Brown University 1887-1889 and at the University of Pennsylvania 1890-1891. He coached at Oberlin College in 1893, went to the University of Akron in 1894, and returned to Oberlin the next year. In 1895, he became the fifth coach at Auburn University, where he stayed for five years. With all these schools combined, he lost only five games.
Read John Heisman, the Coach Behind the Trophy, free from the New York Times.
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Image: Jessica Prum, Courier Contributor
Do you support the nationwide occupy movement?
Such was the question on the Bay Area News Group paper this weekend inviting to express in a letter the reasoning behind a yes or a no for an answer.
Are there any other alternatives that would force the change needed to address current issues in a fair way? Everything has been permeated by corporations’ greed leaving hardly anything that can be done by (once considered) a middle class majority.
While the “educated” ones do not seem to be producing any clear benefit to society, they do create financial bubbles, increase the health costs and look with “contempt” to the lower classes that are the ones growing, harvesting, contributing and serving them altogether. However, in order to maintain the status quo they must design laws that would prevent taking care of the problems because that would mean giving up their power, royalties and benefits.
Posted by courier at 04:23 AM. Filed under: Opinion
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John Silas "Jack" Reed (Portland, Oregon, October 22, 1887 – Moscow, October 17, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist, best remembered for his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution,
Ten Days that Shook the World. He was married to writer and feminist Louise Bryant.
Read Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed, free from Project Gutenberg.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Hallways at Lunch: Students, the 60s and 70s hallways are closed during lunch time. Because of disruption to instruction and learning, students are requested to not use the hallways during lunch. Please make sure you exit the hallways as quickly as possible and do not use the 60s and 70s hallways during lunch. The 80s hallway is open every day if you’d like to go to the other side!
Posted by courier at 03:29 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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By Kayleen Garingan, Mark Godoy, Rae Atabay ,
Courier Staff Writers
The senior class of 2012 was a class divided between dressing traditionally and appropriately for Spirit Week.
Wednesday was originally supposed be toga day, a Spirit Week tradition for Logan seniors, but it was replaced this year by CEO day because some teachers and administrators deemed it inappropriate.
Monique Walton, the activities director, said, "I didn't want Logan students to come to school dressed in just sheets, or worse, nothing."
Posted by courier at 03:02 PM. Filed under: News
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By Fred Jedder, Courier Staff Writer
If you've ever traveled down Van Ness Avenue to get to the Golden Gate Bridge, you may have noticed a rather ostentatiously painted eating establishment on the corner of Geary and Van Ness called Tommy's Joynt.
This week, I finally got a chance to stop in when I attended an event nearby with a friend.
My friend and I had wandered the nearby neighborhood south of Van Ness, an area we were unfamiliar with, looking for a place to eat before the event began. Not wanting Thai food - there are several Thai restaurants in the area - and eschewing chowing down in the more seedy, scary establishments, we were despairing of eating at all before we spotted Tommy's Joynt a couple of blocks away. It's hard to miss with the bright paint job and the rather large red "The Original Tommy's Joynt" wrapping around the building.
Posted by courier at 12:31 PM. Filed under: Entertainment
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By Ivan Magana, Courier Staff Writer
Santa Clara's Great America amusement park has undergone a temporary makeover, pumping up the scary with mazes and haunted houses to augment the usual assortment of thrill rides.
There are so many added attractions that I was only able to go through three of the six mazes.
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From wikipedia:
William McKendree Carleton (21 October 1845 – 18 December 1912) was an American poet. Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life.
Born in rural Lenawee County, Hudson, Michigan, Carleton was the fifth child of John Hancock and Celeste (Smith) Carleton. In 1869, he graduated from Hillsdale College and delivered on that occasion the poem,
Rifts in the Cloud.
Read William Carleton's poetry, free from allpoets.net.
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By Jack Bragg,
Courier Entertainment Editor
Few albums have so large an impact that they change the scope of the genre they encapsulate. In 1991, Nirvana’s smash-hit album Nevermind did just that. Before
Nevermind, grunge rock was a strange subgenre of alternative rock. By 1992, the success of Nirvana’s debut made grunge rock the most talked about and influential format for a rock band in the early 90’s. Now twenty years later, we still can see the many artistic and aesthetic features that made Nirvana one of the biggest bands in history.
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From wikipedia:
Arthur Buchwald (October 20, 1925 – January 17, 2007) was an American humorist best known for his long-running column in
The Washington Post, which in turn was carried as a syndicated column in many other newspapers. His column focused on political satire and commentary. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary in 1982 and in 1986 was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
Buchwald was also known for the Buchwald v. Paramount lawsuit, which he and partner Alain Bernheim filed against Paramount Pictures in 1988 in a controversy over the Eddie Murphy film
Coming to America; Buchwald claimed Paramount had stolen his script treatment. He won, was awarded damages, and then accepted a settlement from Paramount. The case was the subject of a 1992 book,
Fatal Subtraction: The Inside Story of Buchwald V. Paramount by Pierce O'Donnell and Dennis McDougal.
Read Art Buchwald's columns in the Washington Post.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Director of Parent and Community Relations
The Board of Education on Tuesday night received a presentation from representatives of a group of parents, teachers, classified employees, administrators and business/community leaders advocating for the District to make another attempt to pass a parcel tax, to relieve some of the budget pressures caused by the state’s ongoing financial crisis.
Posted by courier at 11:40 AM. Filed under: News
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By Rick La Plante,
New Haven Director of Parent & Community Relations
UNION CITY (Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2011) – Kevin Harper, a member of the New Haven Unified School District Board of Education for the past seven years, is moving out of the District and will resign his position, effective at the end of the calendar year, he announced at the Board meeting Tuesday night.
Posted by courier at 11:11 AM. Filed under: News
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Students: Do you have photos that you want to submit to the yearbook staff for the book? Log on to www.hjeshare.com and upload your digital photos absolutely free. Just type in Logan’s code 2052129 and share your photos with us. All this information and more is available on our Facebook page: James Logan High School Yearbook 2011-2012. Invite your Logan friends today. Yearbooks are still on sale every day at lunch at the attendance windows. The cost is $65 w/ASB and $70 w/o ASB.
Posted by courier at 11:05 AM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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"Origami Architecture: Papercraft
Models of the World's Most Famous
Buildings" by Yee
Tuttle Publishing, North Clarendon, VT
144 pages, $24.95)
By Tish Wells
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
Want a challenge?
Most people are familiar with folded paper origami cranes or napkin swans. Some paper folders have graduated to folding elephants, crabs or geometric shapes
Then there are true papercraft artists whose creations are above and beyond a hobbyist's skill. In this case, you have Yee.
"Origami Architecture" is for anyone who aspires to be the type of artist who is meticulous, exacting and fascinated by complexity. A budding architect would find hours of work putting together even one of icons of world architecture in this book.
Readers might also want to keep a ready supply of Band-aids and iodine close at hand just in case the blade slips.
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From wikipedia:
Cassius Marcellus Clay (October 19, 1810 – July 22, 1903), nicknamed "The Lion of White Hall", was an emancipationist from Madison County, Kentucky, United States who served as the American minister to Russia. He was a cousin of Henry Clay and Alabama governor Clement Comer Clay.
Emancipationist
Cassius Clay was a paradox - a southern aristocrat who became a prominent anti-slavery crusader. He was a son of Green Clay, one of the wealthiest landowners and slaveholders in Kentucky. Clay worked toward emancipation, both as a Kentucky state representative and as an early member of the Republican Party.
Learn more about Cassius Marcellus Clay, free from Kentucky Educational Television.
Posted by courier at 07:28 AM. Filed under: In Quotes
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"X-Men Destiny"
Reviewed for: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
Also available for: Wii and Nintendo DS
From: Silicon Knights/Activision
ESRB Rating: Teen (mild language,
mild suggestive themes, violence)
Price: $60
Bad news, X-Men: It appears your destiny
is to appear in what very likely might be
the year's lamest full-priced game
The bad vibes rush in almost instantly, too, during the breakdown of what should be a good idea. "X-Men Destiny's" premise drops you into the shoes of your own custom-designed mutant — except it doesn't, because outside of a few choices regarding attack strategy, you're not allowed to design your character at all. "Destiny" provides three rather bland character designs from which to choose, quickly punting away whatever point there was to playing as an unknown mutant instead of the powered-up X-Men who adorn the box. Even a pitifully rudimentary character creator would have done wonders for this game getting off on the right foot.
Then again, once the action commences, those issues start feeling small compared to what follows.
"Destiny's" quest structure is pretty straightforward: Numerous recognizable X-Men show up to poke fun at your inexperience and hand out objectives during an attack by an anti-mutant force known as The Purifiers, and a stock morality system allows you to fight alongside or turn against the X-Men.
Posted by courier at 01:01 PM. Filed under: Entertainment
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Students: Do you have photos that you want to submit to the yearbook staff for the book? Log on to www.hjeshare.com and upload your digital photos absolutely free. Just type in Logan’s code 2052129 and share your photos with us. All this information and more is available on our Facebook page: James Logan High School Yearbook 2011-2012. Invite your Logan friends today. Yearbooks are still on sale every day at lunch at the attendance windows. The cost is $65 w/ASB and $70 w/o ASB.
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Logan Seniors Pose for Nerd Day
Photo Credit: Candace Laxamana,
Courier Staff Writer
Logan students and staff show their school pride during the traditional Spirit Week, which leads up to the big homecoming game on Friday night. Spirit Week kicked off this Monday with a pretty exciting turn out of students dressing up according to their class themes.
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From wikipedia:
Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English satirist and author.
Peacock was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. He wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting — characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day.
He worked for the British East India Company.
Read more about Thomas Love Peacock, and read his books, free from the Thomas Love Peacock Society.
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PACT tickets are on sale until Nov. 7th. Tickets cost $25 and can be purchased at the
ticket window in the main office.
STUDENTS
Students: Do you have photos that you want to submit to the yearbook staff for the book? Log on to www.hjeshare.com and upload your digital photos absolutely free. Just type in Logan’s code 2052129 and share your photos with us. All this information and more is available on our Facebook page: James Logan High School Yearbook 2011-2012. Invite your Logan friends today. Yearbooks are still on sale every day at lunch at the attendance windows. The cost is $65 w/ASB and $70 w/o ASB.
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Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
SEATTLE — Bow-and-arrow hunters already have shot 17 of Montana's once-threatened wolf population since a controversial wolf hunt started at the beginning of September, while 60 wolves have been killed in neighboring Idaho.
Now, big game rifle-hunting season is about to start, bringing thousands of hunters into the mountains at a time when early snowfall will make wolves much easier to spot and chase. Conservation groups went to court Monday seeking an emergency injunction to block the hunts until a federal appeals court can decide whether they're legal to begin with.
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From wikipedia:
Jupiter Hammon (born October 17, 1711 – died 1806?) was a Black poet and the first published Black writer in America, with a poem appearing in print in 1760. He is considered one of the founders of African American literature.
Hammon was a slave his whole life, owned by several generations of the Lloyd family on Long Island, New York. However, he was allowed to attend school, and thus (unlike many slaves) was able to read and write.
Read Jupiter Hammon's
An address to the Negroes in the state of New-York, free from the University of Virginia library.
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Mine! by Christine Campa, Courier Staff Artist
Krazy Cat by George Herriman
Toonerville Folks by Fontaine Fox
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From wikipedia:
Noah Webster (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American educator, lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education." His blue-backed speller books taught five generations of American children how to spell and read, and made their education more secular and less religious. According to Ellis (1979) he gave Americans "a secular catechism to the nation-state." His name became synonymous with "dictionary," especially the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as
An American Dictionary of the English Language.
Learn more about Noah Webster and his writings, free from lexrex.com.
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By Tierra Negra,
Courier Correspondent
It was hard not to notice the death of Steve Jobs last week. Everybody in the media immediately afterward would be highlighting the “great” contributions this mogul of technology was able to achieve, among which are the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad, and the computer animation needed to create the Pixar characters of the movie industry.
There is a curious phenomenon in our society of generally flattering a dead person, bringing to light only the positive things without saying a word about what was not that good. Perhaps this might be because the deceased is unable to defend himself or herself, as the case may be.
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Varian Fry and Miriam Davenport, c.1940 (October 15, 1907 – September 13, 1967) was an American journalist. Fry ran a rescue network in Vichy France that helped approximately 2,000 to 4,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to escape Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
Varian Fry was educated at Hotchkiss and Taft School and Harvard University. He founded Hound & Horn, an influential literary quarterly, in 1927 with Lincoln Kirstein while a Harvard undergraduate. He married Kirstein's sister, Eileen.
While working as a foreign correspondent for the American journal
The Living Age, Fry visited Berlin in 1935 and personally witnessed Nazi abuse against Jews on more than one occasion and wanted to help.
Read Varian Fry in Marseille by Pierre Sauvage, free from VarianFry.org.
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By Amandeep Singh and Maria Saldana,
Courier Staff Writers
Known by some as the “King of Technology,” Steve Jobs died on Wednesday, at the age of 56.
The death of Jobs affected people around the word and here at Logan as well.
“I’m sad about [his death] because we lost a brilliant mind and anytime that happens I think there’s a reason to mourn," said James Logan Principal Amy McNamara said, "I think he’ll be remembered forever. I think he’ll be in history books as somebody who transformed technology all over the world.”
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Editor's Note: Four of The Courier's staff recently dined out together.
By Candace Laxamana, Rae Atabay, Mark Godoy, and Gurpreet Bhasin,
Courier Staff Writers
Madfish is a little Japanese and sushi restaurant located right on Mowry Avenue in Fremont. The ambiance of the restaurant is very modern and clean and quite spacious. This place is usually packed on Friday and Saturday Nights due to its "Happy Hour" menu bargains.
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Colt Necessities is now open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in the Career Center during 4th & 5th lunch. Come buy Logan merchandise and school supplies.
PACT tickets are on sale until Nov. 7th. Tickets cost $25 and can be purchased at the ticket window in the main office.
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By Jessica Li,
Courier Features Editor
Video games have long been the center of controversy for their portrayal of graphic violence, sex, criminal behavior, gender biases or stereotypes, references, and questionable themes. They have also been studied for correlations to aggressive behavior, addiction, increased physiological arousal, and decreased helpful behavior.
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From wikipedia:
Dorothy Kingsley (October 14, 1909 – September 26, 1997) was an American screenwriter, who worked extensively in film, radio and television.
Born in New York City, Kingsley was the daughter of newspaperman and press agent Walter J. Kingsley, and silent film actress Alma Hanlon. Following their divorce, Hanlon remarried to director Louis Myll, when they had been living at Bayside, Queens for the last two years; later moving with Dorothy to the affluent suburb of Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
Read an interview with Dorothy Kingsley, part of Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950sby Patrick McGilligan, which is free from Google Books.
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Image: wikipedia
James Logan Juniors who traveled to Nicaragua last July say they learned much during the trip, even while enduring challenging conditions.
Seventeen Logan students made the trip to the Central American country this summer as part of the Global Glimpse program, experiencing life from a different cultural perspective while earning community service credit toward graduation.
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Colt Necessities is now open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in the Career Center during 4th & 5th lunch. Come buy Logan merchandise and school supplies.
PACT tickets are on sale until Nov. 7th. Tickets cost $25 and can be purchased at the ticket window in the main office.
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By Jack Bragg,
Courier Entertainment Editor
Mark, Tom, and Travis are back and better than ever with their sixth studio album -and first since 2003’s self-titled album Blink-182- Neighborhoods. Long time fans of the band will be pleased with the new material as will fans of the many spin-off bands will find like +44, Angels and Airwaves, and Boxcar Racer will find these influences prevalent in the new album.
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Photo: California Department of
Water Resources
LOS ANGELES — The imperiled fish that has been at the center of California's water wars may be at its highest numbers in a decade, judging by the results of a recent survey.
Every month in the fall, state biologists tow nets in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, sampling for the threatened delta smelt to estimate the native fish's population. The September catch this year, though still small by historic standards, was the biggest since 2001, when the numbers of smelt and other delta fish started to plunge to dangerously low levels, triggering cutbacks to water customers in the Central Valley and Southern California.
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By Patrick Hannigan,
Courier Advisor
After watching veteran rocker Nick Lowe stand alone with his guitar and a microphone for nearly all of his Monday night show at the Great American Music Hall, I've come to think that there are two main routes that aging rockers can take.
One seems to be that of the megahit group reformed to attempt to re-connect with their glory days. What they've lost in vocal range, range of motion, or range of creativity, they make up with bombast and production. Because a band like, say, Def Leppard relies so heavily on its past to draw an audience, they sometimes respond by attempting to recreate that past, which can't be done. To hedge their bets and ensure the big payday, they set off a few more explosive devices, or other such camouflage.
It can be entertaining, but, ultimately, empty of anything but cheap thrills and the regret that we all can't be young again.
Nick Lowe takes the other route. At his show on Monday, he stripped his music down to nothing but his acoustic guitar, his supple voice, and a bit of reverb. And he didn't rely on his past commercial successes for the bulk of his material. It definitely wasn't a trip down memory lane.
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From wikipedia:
Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an English writer and explorer who greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and African people.
Kingsley was born in Islington, London on 13 October 1862. She was the daughter and oldest child of traveller and writer George Kingsley and Mary Bailey, and was the niece of novelists Charles Kingsley and Henry Kingsley. The family moved to Highgate less than a year after her birth, the same home where her brother Charley was born in 1866. Her father was a doctor and worked for George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke and other aristocrats, often away from home on his excursions. During these voyages he was able to collect information for his studies.
Read Travels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley, free from Project Gutenberg.
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PACT tickets are on sale until Nov. 7th. Tickets cost $25 and can be purchased at the ticket window in the main office.
12 – 14 Volunteers needed to help with Senior Parent Night this Thursday, October 13th. To sign up, see Mrs. Hart in the Career Center.
Kitayama needs 6 volunteers for Literacy Night. Check Logan’s website or pick up a flyer in the Career Center.
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By Zohal Sharif,
Courier Staff Reporter
National Coming Out Day is not just for people who are part of the LGBT community; the day sends a message to us all. The day represents love and acceptance of everyone. No one should be afraid to be who they are but, unfortunately, we live in a society where people are becoming more selfish and are less concerned with other people's well being. This day unites a community to stand strong and to never give up. Like the campaign says,
"It Gets Better".
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By Deborah Netburn
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES — Getting lost in a corn maze is supposed to be fun.
But it turned into a nightmare for a Massachusetts couple who got so turned around that they had to be rescued by the police.
It all started late Monday afternoon, when the couple entered a corn maze at Connors Farm in Danvers, Mass., about 23 miles north of Boston.
After about an hour in the maze, darkness began to fall. The couple, who were there with their 3-week-old baby, could not find a way out. As the mosquitoes started to descend, they placed a desperate call to 911 asking to be rescued.
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"Crafting with Cat Hair: Cute Handicrafts
to Make With Your Cat" by Kaori Tsutaya,
translated from the Japanese by
Amy Hirschman;
Quirk Books, Philadelphia
96 pages, $14.95
According to the Humane Society, there are approximately 86.4 million cats owned in the United States.
And most of them shed.
Blogger / writer Kaori Tsutaya, a cat lover from Japan, has found a use for all that fine fur that usually ends up on an owner's pants, shirts, bedspreads, chairs and carpets.
In "Crafting with Cat Hair", she shows you how to create crafts — finger puppets, book covers, tote bags and pin cushions — that use your feline's contribution.
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From wikipedia:
Dīng Líng was the pseudonym of Jiǎng Bīngzhī, also known as Bīn Zhǐ (October 12, 1904 - March 4, 1986), a Chinese woman author from Linli in Hunan province. She was awarded the Soviet Union's Stalin second prize for Literature in 1951.
Ding Ling was born into a gentry family in Hunan province. Her father's health was poor, and he died when Ding was three. Ding Ling's mother, who raised her children alone while becoming an educator, was Ding's role model, and she would later write an unfinished novel, titled Mother, which described her mother's experiences. Following her mother's example, Ding Ling became an activist at an early age. Ding Ling early repudiated traditional Chinese family practices by refusing to marry her cousin who had been chosen to become her husband. She rejected the commonly accepted view that parents as the source of the child's body are its owners, and she ardently asserted that she owned and controlled her own body.
Read Ding Ling's fiction: ideology and narrative in modern Chinese literature, by Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker, free from Google Books.
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The S.S. Montebello
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Trying to learn once and for all whether a 440-foot-long oil tanker sunk by a Japanese submarine in 1941 off the Central California coast still poses a risk of a catastrophic oil spill, a team of scientists is preparing to probe the wrecked ship with high-tech gear.
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Need Driver’s Ed? Check out the Adult School! Cost is $125. December 19, 20 & 21, 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.
PACT tickets are on sale until Nov. 7th. Tickets cost $25 and can be purchased at the ticket window in the main office.
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By Lauren Mascarenhas,
Courier Managing Editor
As Logan falls into the rhythm of the new school year, the freshman in the Institute of Community Leaders settle into a different swing of things.
The Institute of Community Leaders, or ICL, which has started out with about one hundred and eighty freshman this year, runs differently from the rest of the school to accommodate its unique mission.
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"Rage"
Reviewed for: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
Also available for: Windows PC
From: id/Bethesda
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore,
intense violence, strong language)
Price: $60
John Carmack is to game programming what Steve Jobs is to consumer electronics, so when a new game releases under his watch and brings with it a new game engine over which he also presided, it's a bellwether moment for the future of game design and technology.
And if you don't care about any of that, "Rage" is a pretty good time as well.
"Rage" will draw superficial comparisons to "Fallout" insofar as it's a first-person, open-world shooter set primarily in a post-apocalyptic wasteland teeming with mutants, oppressive authority figures and some colorful settlers bent on fighting both groups back.
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From wikipedia:
François Mauriac (11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French author; member of the Académie française (1933); laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur (1958).
He was born François Charles Mauriac in Bordeaux, France. He studied literature at the University of Bordeaux, graduating in 1905, after which he moved to Paris to prepare for postgraduate study at the École des Chartes.
On 1 June 1933 he was elected a member of the Académie française, succeeding Eugène Brieux.
Read Francois Mauriac's Nobel Prize Banquet Speech, free from nobelprize.org.
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By Zohal Sharif,
Courier Staff Writer
There is a memorial of pink roses and a photo of Jessica Diaz placed on a table in Colt Court. Unfortunately, some students who sit at her table are rude and place their belongings upon the picture and crush the roses. I thought a memorial garden would be a fantastic addition to Logan in honor of the students who have passed away.
My main inspiration to this memorial garden was the memorial table for Diaz. If we had a garden, we wouldn’t have that conflict of others messing up memorials.
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Courier Staff Report
The James Logan Colts crushed the Mission San Jose Warriors in varsity football action Saturday, the second straight Mission Valley Athletic League opponent the Colts annihilated.
This time, the Colts shut out the hapless Warriors, 63-0. Last week, American High School got the rough treatment.
The romp started with the Colts scoring 36 points in the first quarter, including scores on their first three offensive plays.
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By Gurpreet Bhasin, Courier Staff Writer
My alarm rings loudly at 5:15 am waking me up in a state of shock. I hastily press the snooze button and close my eyes again, instantly falling asleep. “DIIIIIIING!” A short while after, it rings again. It’s a Monday morning and as I struggle to fight the urge to go back to sleep and forget about everything, I kick off the covers and jump out of my bed. I look outside the window and everything seems so still.
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Need Driver’s Ed? Check out the Adult School! Cost is $125. December 19, 20 & 21, 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.
School pictures are now in! Please pick them up from the main office windows during lunch.
PACT tickets are on sale until Nov. 7th. Tickets cost $25 and can be purchased at the ticket window in the main office.
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By Rick La Plante,
New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
Continuing a tradition he started six years ago, a local real estate agent is making certain that every third-grade student in the New Haven Unified School District has a dictionary. For the second year in a row, Sunil Sethi and his partners are supplying the students with thesauruses, too.
And this year, Mr. Sethi – with the help of fellow agent and former New Haven teacher Steven Fong – also is inviting students to participate in an essay contest.
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From wikipedia:
Lilly Daché (10 October 1898 – 31 December 1989) was a French milliner and fashion designer.
She was born in Bègles, Gironde, France, and began her fashion career there at the age of 15 as a milliner, apprenticed under Caroline Reboux and Suzanne Talbot. Although she is said to have emigrated to the United States in 1924, the 1930 U.S. Census reports her as having entered this country in 1919; in any case, she settled in New York City. On 13 March 1931, Daché married French-born Jean Despres who was an executive at the large cosmetics and fragrance company, Coty, Inc. Their mutual love and successful supportive professional lives and collaboration endeared them to those around them.
Learn more about Lilly Daché, free from FuschiaWoman.com.
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Exclusion Policy: Did you know that the exclusion policy has been updated this year? Do you remember….we covered that when we went through the Student Planner during the first few days of school! Make sure you review it, as it now applies to the full year. It’s on page 10 of the planner, and also on the school website. And remember, there are no appeals! So, stay off exclusion. We all want to attend that dance at the end of the year. And since the truancy notices count period attendance (not the full day), you may get your third truancy notice before you realize how many times you’ve cut class!
Hallways at Lunch: Students, the 60s and 70s hallways are closed during lunch time. Because of disruption to instruction and learning, students are requested to not use the hallways during lunch. Please make sure you exit the hallways as quickly as possible and do not use the 60s and 70s hallways during lunch. The 80s hallway is open every day if you would like to go to the other side!
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Twisted by Rae Atabay, Courier Comic Artist
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From wikipedia:
Alfred Dreyfus (9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French artillery officer of Jewish background whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most tense political dramas in modern French and European history. Known today as the Dreyfus Affair, the incident eventually ended with Dreyfus's complete exoneration.
Born in Mulhouse (Mülhausen) in Alsace, Dreyfus was the youngest of nine children born to Raphael and Jeannette Dreyfus (née Libmann). Raphael Dreyfus was a prosperous, self-made, Jewish textile manufacturer who had started as a peddler. The family moved to Paris from Alsace after the Franco-Prussian War, when in 1871 Alsace-Lorraine was annexed by the German Empire. The Dreyfus family had long been established in the area that traditionally had been German-speaking, and Raphael spoke Yiddish and conducted business affairs in the German language. The first language of most of Alfred's elder brothers and sisters was German or one of the Alsatian dialects. Alfred and his brother were the only children to receive a fully French education.
Learn more about Alfred Dreyfus.
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By Tierra Negra, Courier Correspondent
The system of Social Security, created in the late thirties to take care of the elders, will run out of funds by the time the generation of “baby boomers” fully start collecting what they have been contributing throughout their life. It is going broke mainly as a result of one pervasive cancer we have now days in our society: being oblivious of the cost of goods.
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From wikipedia:
Harriet Taylor Mill (née
Harriet Hardy) (8 October 1807 – 3 November 1858) was a philosopher and women's rights advocate. Her second husband was John Stuart Mill, one of the pre-eminent thinkers of the 19th century. Her extant corpus of writing is very small, and she is largely remembered for her influence upon John Stuart Mill.
Harriet Hardy married her first husband, John Taylor, in 1826, when she was eighteen. With him, she had three children: Herbert, Algernon, and Helen. John and Harriet Taylor both became active in the Unitarian Church and developed radical views on politics. They became friendly with William Fox, a leading Unitarian minister and early supporter of women's rights. Harriet Taylor moved in radical circles and in 1830 she met the philosopher John Stuart Mill.
Read an excerpt from Harriet Taylor Mill's "Enfranchisement of Women," first published in the Westminster Review in July 1851.
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The Girls Water Polo team
Ronnell Coaster/Courier Photo
Last night, in James Logan's Dan Oden Swim Comples, the Lady Colts took on the water polo team from Mission San Jose, hoping to bolster its bid for its first Mission Valley Athletic League title. Instead, they fell to the Warriors by two goals.
Before the game, Colts Coach Martin Munoz said, "James Logan is off to its best start in the 16 year history of the water polo program. James Logan has never won a Girls Water Polo league title and today’s game vs. Mission San Jose could put us in the driver's seat for the crown. "
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By Candace Laxamana, Courier News Editor
Members of the James Logan Choir, steamed after learning that their annual Spring Concert is scheduled June 1, the same Friday night as the Senior Ball, took their complaints to the Senior Class meeting Wednesday.
On Monday, the seniors of James Logan learned about the activities planned for their final year.
The Spring concert has been planned around that time of the year for about 13 years. Last year, the choir director, Erin McShane, set a date that wouldn't conflict with any of the school dances at Logan.
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By Rae Atabay, Courier Staff Writer
Dozens of students Tuesday donated something precious to them — their own blood — to help people who need it even more.
Every year, sometimes even twice a year, James Logan is visited by the American Red Cross and their team of phlebotomists, surveyors, food givers, and equipment. The blood drive is usually held in the Guy Emmanuel Gym, but this year the October 4 blood drive was conducted in the the old band room.
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From wikipedia:
Joe Hill, born
Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, and also known as
Joseph Hillström (October 7, 1879 or 1882 – November 19, 1915) was a Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, also known as the Wobblies). He was executed for murder after a controversial trial. After his death, he was memorialized by several folk songs.
Read more about Joe Hill, free from the AFL-CIO.
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By Ronnell Coaster,
Courier Sports Editor
The girls' varsity volleyball played home against Washington was particularly important because both teams, up to this point, were undefeated and number one in the league.
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By Jack Bragg,
Courier Entertainment Editor
Traditionally, punk rock is the music format for bringing significant change and bringing scope to important social issues. Rise Against’s latest single, “Make It Stop (September’s Children)”, is the latest song to make such a strong attempt to bring a magnifying glass to the issue of bigotry against LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) people.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
A higher percentage of James Logan High School graduates enroll in a college or university than in Alameda County in general or in the state as a whole – and the trend holds regardless of ethnicity, race, socioeconomics, language or disabilities – according to data released today by the California Department of Education
Data from the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) was matched with postsecondary enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC). According to the results, 83.2 percent of Logan graduates in 2008-09 – the most recent data available – enrolled in a postsecondary institution in the United States. The college-going rate was 70.9 percent in Alameda County and 74.4 percent in the state as a whole.
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Looking for a place to do school work? Need help? There’s a place from 9 – 12 this Saturday, October 8th, in Room 77. Please enter by the carpeted hallway near the library.
School pictures are now in! Please pick them up from the main office windows during lunch.
PSAT ticket sales have been extended to Oct. 10th, and PACT ticket sales until Nov. 7th. Tickets cost $25 and can be purchased at the ticket window in the main office.
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By Hadiyah Hassan,
Courier Staff Writer
The new all boy group Mindless Behavior is starting to become very popular this year, with their new hit single "My GIrl" and one of their other hits "Mrs.Right" featuring another new young rap artist Diggy Simmons.
The group is called Mindless Behavior because it shows individuality and an effortless way of thinking yet still stand out, according to their publicity.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director Parent and Community Relations
The Board of Education on Tuesday night received a presentation from Superintendent Kari McVeigh about the ongoing work to create a Union City Kids’ Zone.
The product of discussions initiated by the Superintendent that led to a partnership involving the District and several other agencies and community organizations, the Kids’ Zone would provide cradle-to-career services for the District’s most vulnerable students and their families. Starting point for the effort would be the Decoto neighborhood.
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From wikipedia:
Johanna Maria Lind (6 October 1820 – 2 November 1887), better known as
Jenny Lind, was a Swedish opera singer, often known as the "Swedish Nightingale". One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she is known for her performances in soprano roles in opera in Sweden and across Europe, and for an extraordinarily popular concert tour of America beginning in 1850. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music from 1840.
Lind became famous after her performance in
Der Freischütz in Sweden in 1838. Within a few years, she had suffered vocal damage, but the singing teacher Manuel García saved her voice. She was in great demand in opera roles throughout Sweden and northern Europe during the 1840s, becoming the protégée of Felix Mendelssohn. After two acclaimed seasons in London, she announced her retirement from opera at the age of 29.
Learn more about Jenny Lind, free from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Looking for a place to do school work? Need help? There’s a place from 9 – 12 this Saturday, October 8th, in Room 77. Please enter by the carpeted hallway near the library.
School pictures are now in! Please pick them up from the main office windows during lunch.
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White Giraffe by Lauren St. John
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Dial; First Edition edition
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0803732112
ISBN-13: 978-0803732117,
Courier Staff Writer
On the night of her eleventh birthday, Martine Allen was enjoying a night with her parents, Veronica and David, in her nice home in England. That night, she had a strange dream about a majestic place of granite cliffs and green forests. She remembered seeing children running around, but all of a sudden the sky turned an angry red color, and thunder voiced the clouds. One child found a goose with a broken wing, and the rest of the children began to hurt it and torture it.
Martine squeezed through the crowd and cradled the poor goose in her arms. All of a sudden, her hands turned warm and glowed, and it immediately sent a crackling of electricity from her to the bird. The bird suddenly jumped from her hands and took to the sky. Martine felt good that she helped the goose, but the rest of the children began to chant "Witch! Witch!". Martine ran into the forest, but the children chased her. She felt a sudden warmness and a hand grabbed her, and she woke up screaming. When she awoke, she realized that her house had been on fire, so she jumped out from her window, with her parents still inside, burning alive. Martine was scarred for life.
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By Hadiyah Hassan and Kayleen Garingan,
Courier Staff Writers
Activities director Monique Walton says she created the new “Fear the Colts” program in order to give Logan student’s better deals and also generate money for our school.
Walton told The Courier that last year she felt like the students weren’t given good enough deals for the ASB stickers, so she created this program that includes more savings for students who buy the ASB stickers.
She said she hopes this new program will entice the student body to participate in school activities and help generate money for Logan. So far, more than 300 stickers have been sold.
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From wikipedia:
Henry Chadwick (October 5, 1824 – April 20, 1908), often called the "father of baseball," was a sportswriter, baseball statistician and historian.
Born in Exeter, England, and raised on cricket, Chadwick was one of the prime movers in the rise of baseball to its unprecedented popularity at the turn of the 20th century. Chadwick moved to Brooklyn with his family at the age of 12, and became a frequent player of early ball games such as rounders. He began covering cricket for numerous local newspapers such as the Long Island Star. It is said Chadwick first came across baseball in 1856 in New York as a young cricket reporter, while watching a match between New York's Eagle and Gotham clubs. In 1857 he focused his attention as a journalist and writer on baseball after joining the
New York Clipper, and was also soon hired on to provide coverage for other New York papers including the
Sunday Mercury. A keen amateur statistician and professional writer, he helped sculpt the public perception of the game, as well as providing the basis for the records of team's and player's achievements in the form of baseball statistics.
Visit the Henry Chadwick exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame website.
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School pictures are now in! Please pick them up from the main office windows during lunch.
This Thursday, Oct. 6th from 12 pm to 12 am is the University of California System Day on the College Week Live website. You’ll be able to connect live with all 9 UC campus admissions officers. For more info on this and other College Day events log onto CollegeWeekLive.com or pick up a flier in the Career Center.
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By Jessica Li,
Courier Staff Writer
999 : Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors is a Japanese text-based adventure game developed by Chunsoft for the Nintendo DS. It was released in North America last November and it is rated M for mature, or 17 and up.
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The iPhone 4s
Photo: Apple
CHICAGO — With the expected release Tuesday of the next iPhone, some owners of the current version of Apple Inc.'s hit phone won't sit home and grumble. They'll sell, then upgrade.
Smartphones and other tech gear that are rendered obsolete by the latest version, or just get a little old, certainly are far too valuable to stash in a drawer and forget about. In fact, with an iPhone, you might be able to sell it for nearly the price you paid. But you have to know how to play the "recommerce" game to get top dollar.
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"The ICO and Shadow of the
Colossus Collection"
For: Playstation 3
From: Sony
ESRB Rating: Teen (Blood, Violence)
Price: $40
By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)
With respect to the excellent high-definition remaster collections that preceded it over the last year or so, "The ICO and Shadow of the Colossus Collection" is and probably will remain this movement's high-water mark. Among the thousands of games that have appeared since "ICO" and "Shadow of the Colossus" first appeared, none has done what they do quite like how they do it. If you've wanted to play something like them in HD, only the genuine articles can help get it done.
To this day, "ICO" remains one of a very precious few games that found a way to make escort missions — those traditionally dreadful sections where you have to drag some defenseless person around and fail the mission if the dead weight wanders off and dies — fun.
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From wikipedia:
Alfred Damon Runyon (October 4, 1880 – December 10, 1946) was a newspaperman and writer.
He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from the Brooklyn or Midtown demi-monde.
Read more about Damon Runyon, free from Talkin' Broadway.
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School pictures are now in! Please pick them up from the main office windows during lunch.
Students and Staff: Smile! Picture makeup day is tomorrow. Students, if you still haven’t taken your official school I.D. picture, please come to the Pavilion lobby when you receive a pass. For students who still need to take your school picture for the yearbook, or want to make a new purchase of school pictures, please come in during your lunch. Staff, please come take your pictures anytime up through 6th period.
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By Candace Laxamana and Mark Godoy,
Courier Staff Writers
Logan's campus was filled with parents rushing to and from classes during Back to School Night. James Logan High School's Back to School Night was held Wednesday, September 27, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. This is a time for parents to get to know what classes their child is talking and how to contact teachers.
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By Ronnell Coaster, Courier Sports Editor
Something like a football game took place at the James Logan High School stadium Friday night as the Colts took on, or took out, the demoralized American High School Eagles by a score of 67 to 7.
The Colts kicked off to the Eagles to start the game. After numerous penalties on both teams, the Colts' Marquise Carpenter intercepted the ball from the Eagles.
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From wikipedia:
Alexander Young Jackson, CC, CMG (October 3, 1882 – April 5, 1974) was a Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven.
As a young boy, Jackson worked as an office boy for a lithograph company, after his father abandoned his family of six children. It was at this company that Jackson began his art training. In the evenings, he took classes at Montreal's Monument-National.
In 1905, Jackson worked his way to Europe on a cattle boat, returning by the same means and travelling on to Chicago. In Chicago, he joined a commercial art firm and took courses at the Art Institute of Chicago. He saved his earnings and, by 1907, was able to visit France to study Impressionism. In France, Jackson decided to become a professional painter, studying at Paris' Académie Julian under J.P. Laurens.
See examples of A.Y. Jackson's art, free from the Bert Christensen's Cyberspace Gallery.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Did you know that the exclusion policy has been updated this year? Do you
remember…we covered that when we went through the Student Planner during the first few days of school! Make sure you review it as it now applies to the full year! It’s on Page 10 of the planner and also on the school website. And remember, there are no appeals! So, stay off exclusion; we all want to attend that dance at the end of the year! AND since the truancy notices count period attendance (not the full day), you may get your third truancy notice before you realize how many times you’ve cut class!
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It's a Lulu by Lulu Zhong, Courier Comics Editor
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From wikipedia:
Martha Brookes Hutcheson (October 2, 1871 – 1959) was an American landscape architect, lecturer, and author, active in New England, New York, and New Jersey.
Hutcheson was born in New York City as Martha Brookes Brown, and as a child spent her summers on a family farm near Burlington, Vermont.
From 1893-1895 she studied at the New York School of Applied Design for Women, and in the late 1890s toured Europe where she studied gardens in England, France, and Italy. As Hutcheson later wrote in
The Spirit of the Garden:
"About 1898, one day I saw the grounds of Bellevue Hospital in New York, on which nothing was planted, and was overcome with the terrible waste of opportunity for beauty which was not being given to the hundreds of patients who could see it or go to it, in convalescence. In trying to find out how I could get in touch with such authorities as those who might allow me to plant the area of ground, I stumbled upon the fact that my aim would be politically impossible, but that there was a course in Landscape Architecture being formed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the first course which America had ever held."
Learn more about Martha Brookes Hutcheson, free from the Historical Marker Database.
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From wikipedia:
Josiah Edward Spurr (1870-1950) was an American geologist, explorer, and author.
He led the first United States Geological Survey expedition to map and chart the interior regions of Alaska, starting with the Yukon Territory in 1896 and continuing with the Kuskokwim River region in 1898. His books were seen as the definitive work on Alaskan minerals during the Alaska Gold Rush. They read like an adventure including the expedition's experiences with ice dams bearing down on them and lost provisions, as well as interactions with native Indians and missionaries. His last book, "Geology as applied to Selenology", published just a year before his death, has been criticised, but was influential in the new field.
Read more about Josiah Spurr, free from the New York Times.
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