This is the archive for November 2011
MISCELLANEOUS
New volunteering opportunities for December. Check listings on Logan website, or pick up a flyer in the Career Center.
Are you looking for information on college visits, SAT’s, college fairs, community service, military or scholarship opportunities? This and more is just a click away on Logan’s website under College & Career info. Bar. Visit it often as updates are made daily.
Looking for a place to do school work? Need help?? There’s a place from 9:00 – 12:00 this Saturday December 3rd in room 77. Please enter by the carpeted hall near the library.
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By By Rick La Plante,
New Haven Schools Director of Community and Parent Relation
Michael Ritchie, who has served on site councils at two schools and is one of the founding members of the New Haven Boosters Association, was selected tonight to fill an upcoming vacancy on the Board of Education.
Mr. Ritchie will complete the term being vacated by Board Clerk Kevin Harper, who is resigning, effective at the end of the calendar year, because he and his wife are moving out of the District. Mr. Ritchie will serve through the November 2012 election, when the seat will be one of three on the ballot.
Posted by courier at 12:04 PM. Filed under: News
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By Ramin Mostaghim and Alexandra Zavis
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
TEHRAN, Iran — In scenes that evoked the seizing of the U.S. Embassy in 1979, hundreds of demonstrators stormed two British diplomatic compounds in Tehran on Tuesday, hurling gasoline bombs, ransacking offices and tearing down the British flag.
The hours-long attacks, which followed a move by the Iranian parliament to expel Britain's ambassador over new sanctions, marked a sharp escalation in the tension between Iran and the West over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.
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Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
by Agatha Christie
Harper Collins, 544 pages, $29.99
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
In time for the holiday season, the 1977 autobiography of mystery writer Agatha Christie has been reissued with an introduction by her grandson, Matthew Prichard.
"An Autobiography" is the history of a unique upbringing in a time long gone. It's a portrait of a childhood and young womanhood that vanished with World War I.
What makes this edition special is a CD of Christie dictating parts of the autobiography. The recordings were made from tapes found by Prichard after her death, and painstakingly restored.
Agatha Christie was born in September 1890 during the last years of Queen Victoria's reign. Her happy childhood dominates the first part of the book with rich evocative detail.
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From wikipedia:
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (November 30, 1825 – August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau was a traditionalist; in his realistic genre paintings he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of Classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau was born in La Rochelle, France on November 30, 1825, into a family of wine and olive oil merchants. He seemed destined to join the family business but for the intervention of his uncle Eugène, a Roman Catholic priest, who taught him classical and Biblical subjects, and arranged for Bouguereau to go to high school. He showed artistic talent early on. His father was convinced by a client to send him to the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, where he won first prize in figure painting for a depiction of Saint Roch. To earn extra money, he designed labels for jams and preserves.
Learn more about William Bouguereau and see examples of his work at www.bouguereau.org.
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"Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary"
For: Xbox 360
From: 343 Industries/Bungie/Microsoft
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore, violence)
Price: $40
Though "Halo: Combat Evolved's" impact has been exhaustively documented, there may be no finer point than the realization that the 2011 holiday season's best new first-person shooter may very well be a 10-year-old game with a fresh coat of paint.
At least on the solo (or two-player co-op) side, that's what "Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary" is — a pretty carbon copy of the game that launched with the original Xbox in 2001 and subsequently formed the foundation of a video game juggernaut.
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MISCELLANEOUS
New volunteering opportunities for December. Check listings on Logan website, or pick up a flyer in the Career Center.
Are you looking for information on college visits, SAT’s, college fairs, community service, military or scholarship opportunities? This and more is just a click away on Logan’s website under College & Career info. Bar. Visit it often as updates are made daily.
Posted by courier at 12:02 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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by Lauren Mascarenhas,
Managing Editor
On October 24, an incident involving a student in the house two office left House Principal Yvonne Hull’s office in disarray.
According to Hull, the incident, which took place during second period, involved a student who came to the office with a referral.
A student witness, whose name
The Courier is withholding, reported the commotion lasted all period.
Posted by courier at 11:59 AM. Filed under: News
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From wikipedia:
Amos Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and avoided traditional punishment. He hoped to perfect the human spirit and, to that end, advocated a vegan diet before the term was coined. He was also an abolitionist and an advocate for women's rights.
Born in Connecticut in 1799, Alcott had only minimal formal schooling before attempting a career as a traveling salesman. Worried about how the itinerant life might negatively impact his soul, he turned to teaching. His innovative methods, however, were controversial, and he rarely stayed in one place very long. His most well-known teaching position was at the Temple School in Boston. His experience there was turned into two books:
Records of a School and
Conversations with Children on the Gospels. Alcott became friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson and became a major figure in transcendentalism. His writings on behalf of that movement, however, are heavily criticized for being incoherent. Based on his ideas for human perfection, Alcott founded Fruitlands, a transcendentalist experiment in community living. The project was short-lived and failed after seven months. Alcott continued to struggle financially for most of his life. Nevertheless, he continued focusing on educational projects and opened a new school at the end of his life in 1879. He died in 1888.
Visit the Amos Bronson Alcott network.
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MISCELLANEOUS
New volunteering opportunities for December. Check listings on Logan website, or pick
up a flyer in the Career Center.
ACTIVITIES
Reminder! Auditions for the Spring musical, Footloose, are November 30th in Room 722
in the Center for Performing Arts.
Posted by courier at 11:38 AM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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By Adam Tschorn
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
What should a man smell like?
This is not an inquiry to be undertaken lightly — particularly at this time of the year when the gantlet of parties, events and mixers that stretches from Thanksgiving into the new year is destined to put the fragrance profiles of near strangers beneath our noses as surely as stockings dangle from the fireplace mantle.
Posted by courier at 11:19 AM. Filed under: Features
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From wikipedia:
Gregorio Perfecto (November 28, 1891 – August 17, 1949) was a Filipino journalist, politician and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 1945 to 1949. A controversial figure who was described as an “apostle of liberal causes”, Perfecto was notable for his libertarian views, his colorful writing style, and the frequency of his dissenting opinions while on the Supreme Court.
Perfecto was born in Mandurriao, Iloilo. When he was a youth, his family moved to Ligao, Albay, where he received his primary education. He finished his secondary education at San Beda College in Manila. Perfecto entered Colegio de San Juan de Letran, where he received his Bachelor in Arts degree. He then enrolled in the law program of the University of Santo Tomas, where he received his law degree. Perfecto passed the bar examinations and was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 1916.
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Read U.S. v. Perfecto and Mendoza, a Philippine Supreme Court decision.
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MISCELLANEOUS
New volunteering opportunities for December. Check listings on Logan website, or pick
up a flyer in the Career Center.
Get paid for a WORLD CLASS education! If your GPA is above a 3.5, or better yet,
closer to a 4.0, you may want to consider one of the military academies. U.S. Air Force,
U.S. Naval, U.S. Coast Guard or West Point. To find out more about if you have what
it takes to be accepted into an Academy, sign up in the Career Center. The Naval, Air
Force and Coast Guard Academies will all be coming to Logan during the month of
November. These presentations are open to serious students of all grade levels.
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From wikipedia:
Buffalo Bob Smith (born Robert Emil Schmidt; November 27, 1917 – July 30, 1998) was the host of the children's show
Howdy Doody.
Born in Buffalo, New York, he attended Masten Park High School. Buffalo Bob got his start in radio as a singer and musician, appearing on many top shows of the time before becoming nationally known for the
Howdy Doody Show. The final NBC episode aired in 1960. Later, 1976, Smith reunited with longtime show producer Roger Muir and several of the original cast to produce a new daily syndicated Howdy Doody show.
Watch an interview with Buffalo Bob Smith, free from the Archive of American Television.
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In
ArtBreak,
The Courier presents artworks created by James Logan students and other members of the James Logan community.
The Courier is grateful to the James Logan High School art teachers for their assistance.
Untitled by Binaypreet Singh, James Logan Artist
Untitled by Pedro Dominguez, James Logan Artist
Artbreak is edited by Rae Atabay.
If you'd like your work considered for inclusion, or have comments or questions, contact her at courier@nhusd.k12.ca.us.
Posted by courier at 11:45 AM. Filed under: Showcase
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By Tierra Negra,
Courier Correspondent
Society has created all sorts of assertions to make our reality more palatable. Part of pursuing happiness has to deal with discovering our "own" truth and, the difficulty of this task merely depends on a shot of luck produced by the gender born with and the set of beliefs designed for the culture in which an individual is raised.
These ideas, found in every stage of life, range from being small and harmless to a degree where it becomes necessary to invest years of stern reasoning, reflection and experimentation to prove them wrong and, by the time this takes place it might be too late in life. Overall, they aim to force people to do "the right thing" as if we were born evil when it has been demonstrated we are void of any biased information when we are brought into life.
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From wikipedia:
Mary Edwards Walker (November 26, 1832 – February 21, 1919) was an American feminist, abolitionist, prohibitionist, alleged spy, prisoner of war and surgeon. She is the only woman ever to receive the Medal of Honor.
Prior to the American Civil War she earned her medical degree, married and started a medical practice. The practice didn't do well and she volunteered with the Union Army at the outbreak of the American Civil War and served as a female surgeon. She was captured by Confederate forces after crossing enemy lines to treat wounded civilians and arrested as a spy. She was sent as a prisoner of war to Richmond, Virginia until released in a prisoner exchange.
Learn more about Mary Edwards Walker, free from the National Library of Medicine.
Posted by courier at 07:16 AM. Filed under: In Quotes
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By Zohal Sharif,
Courier Staff Writer
Toddlers and Tiaras is a popular show on TLC about little girls and boys who enter in pageants and are judged on their beauty, personality, and costumes. Aside the sparkly outfits, spray-on tans, and poofy hair, are these children victims of child abuse?
Here is a video of a mother bribing her child with a bag of candy when getting her eyebrows waxed. Not only was the little girl crying and begging not to have the cloth strip ripped of, but then her mother commented that normally she would have held her down while the waxer ripped it off.
Posted by courier at 07:59 PM. Filed under: Entertainment
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By By Rick La Plante,
New Haven Schools Director of Community and Parent Relations
Two fund-raising events are scheduled this weekend for the family of a Conley-Caraballo High School student who was killed last Sunday in a train accident.
Enrique Cisneros, a CCHS senior was killed when he was struck by a freight train while walking on the tracks near Smith Street, apparently on his way to work at the Texas Roadhouse restaurant in Union Landing, a restaurant employee said. The restaurant, 32115 Union Landing Blvd., is holding a car wash from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and a baked goods sale from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, with donations and proceeds to be donated to the family to help pay final expenses.
Posted by courier at 07:46 PM. Filed under: News
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By Tiffany Hsu and Jim Puzzanghera
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES — The end might be near for AT&T Inc.'s proposed $39-billion purchase of T-Mobile USA Inc.
Facing growing opposition, telecommunications giant AT&T announced Thursday that it is withdrawing its merger plan from further consideration by the Federal Communications Commission. Instead, it said it would concentrate first on winning approval from the U.S. Justice Department, which sued to stop the purchase. And, in case the deal collapses, the company said it is setting aside the $4 billion it would owe in breakup fees to T-Mobile's German owner, Deutsche Telekom.
The company's decision was announced days after FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said he opposed the merger, which would create the nation's largest wireless company. Genachowski proposed an administrative hearing — a rare and lengthy process last used for a major deal in the 1960s.
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From wikipedia:
Benjamin Barr Lindsey (November 25, 1869 - March 26, 1943) was an American judge and social reformer based in Denver, Colorado during the Progressive Era.
Benjamin Barr Lindsey was born in Jackson, Tennessee. He was educated in the public schools at Jackson and at Notre Dame, Indiana. His father, Landy Tunstall Lindsey, committed suicide when Ben was 18, leaving him the sole support of his mother and her three younger children. He obtained employment in a real-estate office in Denver, Colorado, where he studied law in his spare time. In despair over his slow progress in his law studies, he attempted suicide, but his gun misfired. In 1894, he entered the practice of law in Denver. In his work, he was often assisted by his wife Henrietta, whom he had married in 1914.
Read The doughboy's religion and other aspects of our day, by Ben Lindsey, free from the OpenLibrary.org.
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From wikipedia:
Cass Gilbert (November 24, 1859 – May 17, 1934) was a prominent American architect. An early proponent of skyscrapers in works like the Woolworth Building, Gilbert was also responsible for numerous museums (Saint Louis Art Museum) and libraries (Saint Louis Public Library), state capitol buildings (the Minnesota, Arkansas and West Virginia State Capitols, for example) as well as public architectural icons like the United States Supreme Court building. His public buildings in the Beaux Arts style reflect the optimistic American sense that the nation was heir to Greek democracy, Roman law and Renaissance humanism. Gilbert's achievements were recognized in his lifetime; he served as president of the American Institute of Architects in 1908-09.
Gilbert was a conservative who believed architecture should reflect historic traditions and the established social order. His design of the new Supreme Court building (1935), with its classical lines and small size contrasted sharply with the very large modernist Federal buildings going up along the National Mall in Washington, D.C., which he disliked.
See examples of Cass Gilbert's work, free from archinform.net.
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By By Rick La Plante,
New Haven Schools Director of Community and Parent Relations
A fund has been established to give the New Haven community the opportunity to assist the family of a Conley-Caraballo High School student who was killed in a weekend train accident.
Enrique Cisneros, a CCHS senior whose mother, Mary Rodriguez, is a campus monitor at Alvarado Middle School, was killed at about 11:30 a.m. Sunday after being struck by a freight train as he walked on the tracks near Smith Street, according to the Alameda County Coroner.
Union City Police called the incident “a tragic accident,” noting that the victim was wearing headphones and walking with his back to the train.
Posted by courier at 12:46 PM. Filed under: News
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Leftovers By Laura Weiss
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: MTV Books
ISBN-10: 1416546626,
Courier Staff Writer
Leftovers written by Laura Weiss is a novel about two teenage best friends named Ardith and Blair. Ardith is the more motivated character because her parents are alcoholics. She tries desperately not to fall into their footsteps and works extremely hard in school with a perfect record under her belt. On the other hand, Blair is the rich one with her mother being a workaholic and super strict. She and Ardith are not allowed to be friends because of their family backgrounds, but in the end they always find their way back to one another.
This book is very family orientated. It shows how girls get over hardships, like heartache and sexual abuse, drugs, alcohol, and drama.
Leftovers prove how valuable friendship is in a person’s life and how family can influence you in either a good or bad way. It shows how broken families bounce back from the worst and how determination can really change ones life.
Posted by courier at 12:43 PM. Filed under: Entertainment
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Looking For Alaska by John Green
Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
ISBN-10: 0525475060,
Courier Staff Writer
Looking for Alaska by John Green is a wonderful debut novel for this promising author’s writing career. The story follows a boy named Miles “Pudge” Halter as he tries to find himself and his independence by leaving home and going to a boarding school.
The novel is split into two parts, before and after. It follows his first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School. There he meets Alaska Young, and Pudge’s life changes drastically as she soon begins to take over his whole world.
Pudge, who was born in Florida, finds himself bored with his little hometown. With almost no friends to socialize with, he spends most of his time memorizing famous people’s last words. When his parents throw him a going away party, he’s not shocked when only two people show up and quickly leave. Looking for a way to leave his boring lifestyle, he asks his dad if he can go to the same Preparatory school as him, and his Dad quickly agrees. His Mother pressed on as to why he wanted to leave, he simply told them François Rabelais’s last words—“I look for the Great Perhaps.”
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Come, Thief: Poems by Jane Hirshfield
Hardcover: 112 pages
Publisher: Knopf
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307595420
ISBN-13: 978-0307595423
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VOA News
Award-winning American poet Jane Hirshfield has just published a new collection of poems. "Come, Thief" features themes of love, compassion, contemplation and the poignancy of a human life fully lived.
Hirshfield sits in an anteroom at Poets House in New York about an hour before she appears before a large crowd to read from her seventh collection of poem.
“The title is a signal of welcoming what is inevitable into our lives,” says Hirshfied, who adds that the “‘thief” could have many meanings. “But what it primarily means in this book is time; time which brings us everything that we will ever experience and takes from us from us everything that we will ever experience, and one of the main threads of this book is simply saying ‘yes’ to that process. Yes to whatever comes, the difficult, the ecstatic, and yes to whatever goes – everything we will ever love and finally ourselves.”
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From wikipedia:
Theodore Dwight Weld (November 23, 1803 – February 3, 1895), was one of the leading architects of the American abolitionist movement during its formative years, from 1830 through 1844.
Weld played a role as writer, editor, speaker, and organizer. He is best known for his co-authorship of the authoritative compendium,
American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, published in 1839. Harriet Beecher Stowe partly based
Uncle Tom’s Cabin on Weld's text and it is regarded as second only to that work in its influence on the antislavery movement. Weld remained dedicated to the abolitionist movement until slavery was ended by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865.
Read American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, by Theodore Dwight Weld, free from the University of North Carolina.
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b>"Saints Row: The Third"
Reviewed for: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
Also available for: Windows
From: Volition/THQ
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore, drug
reference, intense violence, partial nudity,
sexual content, strong language)
Price: $60
Three chapters into a series that began as a straight-faced "Grand Theft Auto" wannabe, "Saints Row: The Third" commences by almost immediately giving you a reaper drone as your first weapon upgrade and letting you call in (and control) missile airstrikes at will from that moment forward.
And with that — and following an opening sequence in which you lead a bank robbery that somehow culminates in an airborne shootout that includes skydiving into and through the windshield of a crashing airplane — we are off to the races.
Before we get carried away with how out of control this fable gets, it's worth stopping and emphasizing how solid "SR3's" underpinnings are. The game's third-person shooting controls are far more versatile than what "Grand Theft Auto IV" produced, and the driving (and, eventually, biking and flying) controls are what you expect — loose and arcade-y, but with enough weight that driving a sports car, street sweeper and tank (yes, there are tanks) are markedly different experiences. The graphics aren't always easy on the eyes, but they certainly suffice, considering how big, busy and free of load times the open world is.
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By Daniel Vasquez
Sun Sentinel (MCT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Students are finding clever ways to take a bite out of the cost of going to college, many getting help from local companies and the latest Web-based technologies. Some are doing so before they even settle on a school.
After choosing the path to higher education, the biggest decision for college-bound students — and parents — is what campus to select and how to pay for it.
Some students earn A-pluses for using the Web to cut down on time spent selecting colleges as well as costs for applying and attending — from travel expenses to book fees.
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From wikipedia:
Wiley Hardeman Post (November 22, 1898 – August 15, 1935) was a famed American aviator, the first pilot to fly solo around the world. Also known for his work in high altitude flying, Post helped develop one of the first pressure suits. His Lockheed Vega aircraft, the Winnie Mae, was on display at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center from 2003 to 2011. On August 15, 1935, Post and American humorist Will Rogers were killed when Post's aircraft crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow, in Alaska.
Read more about Wiley Post, free from acepilots.com.
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By Hannah Allam and Mohannad Sabry
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
CAIRO — Egypt's civilian Cabinet resigned Monday to protest the military's harsh crackdown on demonstrators as an uprising against the ruling military council swelled into a third day of running battles in downtown Cairo.
Analysts openly debated whether the military council could survive the rising tide of protest, which bore striking resemblance to the 18 days of violence that led to the resignation of former President Hosni Mubarak in February. But they were also uncertain about what could come next in a country where the military has been the dominant political force for six decades.
The turmoil comes just days before crucial parliamentary elections, set for Monday, the first since Mubarak was toppled from office.
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By Rick La Plante,
New Haven Schools Director of Community and Parent Relations
All nine people who applied to fill an upcoming vacancy on the Board of Education are legally eligible to serve, the New Haven Unified School District announced today, and all are being invited to interview for a provisional appointment.
Board member Kevin Harper is resigning, effective at the end of the calendar year, because he and his wife are moving out of the District. The Board decided to appoint a replacement to serve the remainder of Mr. Harper’s term, until after the November 2012 election, when the seat will be one of three on the ballot.
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By Paul Tran,
Courier Staff Writer
The James Logan Garden Club recently became active for the year, their first project inspired by the death of a student, Jessica Diaz. After consulting with principal McNamara, they were finally permitted to work in the Colt Court planters, beginning to construct the “Hope Garden,” aimed at memorializing the deceased and providing spiritual rest for the struggling loved ones they've left behind.
Students ignorant to the meaning, however, demolish the garden, purposely stomping on, uprooting, and turning over their plants. The planters continue to be littered with milk cartons, empty bottles, and wrappers. The club has been forced to protect their baby garden with a small wooden fencing, but the garden is still being disrespected by students.
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From wikipedia:
Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green (November 21, 1834 – July 3, 1916) was an American businesswoman, remarkable for her frugality during the Gilded Age, as well as for being the first American woman to make a substantial impact on Wall Street.
Birth and early years
Hetty Green was born Henrietta Howland Robinson in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Her family were Quakers who owned a large whaling fleet but did not maintain an opulent lifestyle. At the age of two, she was living with her grandfather Gideon Howland. Because of his influence and that of her father, Edward Mott Robinson, and possibly because her mother Abby Howland was constantly ill, she took to her father's side and was reading financial papers to her father by the age of six. When she was 13, Hetty became the family bookkeeper. At the age of fifteen, Hetty went to a school in Boston.
Read more about the Witch of Wall Street, Hetty Green, free from Ron Shuler's Parlor Tricks.
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From The Courier's Archives
The Tao of Sunday by Idy Tao, Courier Comic Artist
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From Wikipedia:
Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953)[1] was an American astronomer who profoundly changed the understanding of the universe by confirming the existence of galaxies other than our own, the Milky Way. He also considered the idea that the degree of "Doppler shift" (specifically "redshift") observed in the light spectra from other galaxies increased in proportion to a particular galaxy's distance from Earth. This relationship became known as Hubble's law. The Doppler shift interpretation of the observed redshift had been proposed earlier by Vesto Slipher, whose data Hubble used.
Edwin Hubble himself, however, doubted the interpretation of these data which lead to the theory of the Metric expansion of space.
See Hubble: The Man and His Telescope, an online gallery of photographs from Life magazine.
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L'elefant by Christine Porcuna, James Logan Artist
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By Tierra Negra, Courier Correspondent
A few years ago, before denying the visas for my children you took the time to call me in order to find out more about our situation. I am almost certain that you not only granted those last tourist visas, making it possible for us to reunite again for a whole summer but, you probably were the one that recommended my case to be revisited because I cannot find any other explanation that would have expedited my asylum petition stagnated since the tragic incident of September 11th.
I made an attempt to send some thank you flowers through my kids upon their return to Mexico and their belated requested visit to the consulate. Unfortunately, they were deterred by the guard who informed them that it was completely inappropriate since it would send the wrong message to whoever would notice this gesture.
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From wikipedia:
John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 - February 9, 1979) was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944.
Tate was born near Winchester, Kentucky to John Orley Tate, a businessman, and Eleanor Parke Custis Varnell. In 1916 and 1917 Tate studied the violin at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
He began attending Vanderbilt University in 1918, where he met fellow poet Robert Penn Warren. Warren and Tate were invited to join a group of young Southern poets under the leadership of John Crowe Ransom; the group were known as the Fugitive Poets and later as the Southern Agrarians. Tate contributed to the group's magazine The Fugitive and to the agrarian manifesto
I'll Take My Stand published in 1930, and this was followed in 1938 by
Who Owns America? Tate also joined Ransom to teach at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
Read Allen Tate’s 1938 "Commentary on his 'Ode to the Confederate Dead.'"
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Chef Herve LeBiavant and his
students served breakfast to the
Logan staff. Courier staff photo
James Logan's teachers and other staff members were treated to breakfast this morning, courtesy of the school's administration and Chef Herve LeBiavant's ROP Foods students.
"We will be serving all staff breakfast on Friday in the staff lounge,"wrote Principal Amy McNamara in an email invitation to the event. "Every year, the administrative team sends [the staff] off to Thanksgiving break with a few extra calories" under their belts."
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By Rick La Plante,
New Haven Schools Director of Community and Parent Relations
Nine people have applied to be considered for a provisional appointment to the New Haven Unified School District Board of Education. Pending a review to confirm their eligibility, the names of the applicants will be announced next week.
The Board is seeking a replacement for member Kevin Harper, who is resigning at the end of the calendar year because he and his wife are moving out of the District. The replacement will serve the remainder of his term, until after the November 2012 election, when the seat will be one of three on the ballot.
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By Paul Tran,
Courier Staff Writer
The Twilight Saga, a book series that has recently become popular with the general crowd of teenage girls, is hardly the literary accomplishment one would assume by it’s success. Looking at the book’s content, Stephanie Meyer appears to write in order to live a wild life outside of her rigid religious regime. However, what her readers are getting from the books may be harmful to their outlook on relationships.
As Stephen King said, “Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.”
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Snow White by Marianne Stokes
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES — Those who make our living following the entertainment business tend to look for rivalries because, well, it's fun and because Hollywood is enough of a copycat place that it's impossible to avoid the competition even if we wanted to.
But they didn't have to look hard to find a battle between Universal Pictures and Relativity Media over the last year as each raced to mount Snow White movies. The fight had more story lines than the Grimm Brothers could come up with: Two movies, each putting a new spin on the virginal beauty and the mirror-gazing villain, were pushing forward at the same time.
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By Kathy Boccella
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)
PHILADELPHIA — With college tuitions at record highs and families in a mood for bargains, a handful of institutions are doing what once seemed unthinkable: cutting prices.
Cabrini College, a small, private Catholic school in Radnor, Pa., announced it was reducing tuition 12.5 percent, from $33,176 to $29,000. The price will take effect for the 2012-13 school year and remain at that level through May 2015. Housing and fees are about $13,000 extra.
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From wikipedia:
Asa Gray (November 18, 1810 – January 30, 1888) is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century.
He was instrumental in unifying the taxonomic knowledge of the plants of North America. Of Gray's many works on botany, the most popular was his
Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States,from New England to Wisconsin and South to Ohio and Pennsylvania Inclusive. This book, known simply as
Gray's Manual, has gone through a number of editions with botanical illustrations by Isaac Sprague, and remains a standard in the field.
Read a letter from Charles Darwin to Asa Gray.
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MISCELLANEOUS
2 New volunteering opportunities for Dec. 2nd & 3rd. Check listings on Logan website, or pick up a flyer in the Career Center.
Looking for a place to do school work? Need help? There’s a place from 9-12 this Saturday, November 19th – Room 77. Please enter by the carpeted hall near the library.
ACTIVITIES
Come out and see the Naval Academy 4-piece band perform in Colt Court during both lunches today! This is a professional band that performs at the White House, and many other official government functions. Genre is Top 40 of Rock, Hip Hop and Country music!
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Julian Gutierrez
Photo from Facebook,
Courier Editor-in-Chief
Family and friends joined together Wednesday night to celebrate the life of Julian Gutierrez by playing his favorite game, soccer.
The soccer game was dedicated to celebrating his life and passion for the game. His family played in his honor on the alumni team against the Union City Fighting Cocks, who was also composed of his family and friends.
In a pregame ceremony, head coach James Williams spoke to the crowd about Gutierrez and his lasting legacy.
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From wikipedia:
Isamu Noguchi (November 17, 1904 – December 30, 1988) was a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces, some of which are still manufactured and sold.
In 1947, Noguchi began a collaboration with the Herman Miller company, when he joined with George Nelson, Paul László and Charles Eames to produce a catalog containing what is often considered to be the most influential body of modern furniture ever produced, including the iconic Noguchi table which remains in production today. His work lives on around the world and at the Noguchi Museum in New York City.
Visit the Noguchi Museum online.
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MISCELLANEOUS
2 New volunteering opportunities for Dec. 2nd & 3rd. Check listings on Logan website, or pick up a flyer in the Career Center.
Looking for a place to do school work? Need help? There’s a place from 9-12 this Saturday, November 19th – Room 44. Please enter by the carpeted hall near the library.
ACTIVITIES
What are you thankful for? Come out to Colt Court today and sign the “Thankful Wall” sponsored by the Youth Alive Club.
Do you want to see a wonderful, comedic and heartfelt play? Come see The Diviners this Thursday through Saturday at 7:00 p.m. in the Center for Performing Arts. Tickets are $10, $8 with ASB.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Community and Parent Relations
The Board of Education on Tuesday night approved a format for interviewing candidates for a provisional appointment to the Board, to fill the vacancy that will be created when Board member Kevin Harper’s resignation becomes effective at the end of the calendar year. Mr. Harper announced his resignation last month because he and his wife are moving out of the District.
Following the application deadline this Thursday, applicants will be screened for eligibility, then eligible applicants will be invited to interview in front of the full Board on Nov. 29.
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By Zohal Sharif, Courier Staff Writter
The annual event known as, “No Shave November”, or “Noshember” for short, is where both genders agree not to shave throughout the entire month. This event is to raise awareness of prostate cancer, but also for men’s health in general. The movement began in 2003, inspired by breast cancer awareness efforts, and it has grown into a worldwide phenomenon.
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Paperback: 234 pages
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN-10: 080213422X
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Courier Staff Writer
The Painted Bird, by Jerzy Kosiński, gives a creepy and deeply disturbing look into the psychological impact of war and how it can make even the most innocent people do the most horrid unimaginable things.
The book starts off in the fall of 1939. A nameless black-haired, young boy is separated from his parents at the beginning of World War II. Walking around the the more rural area of the country, the boy is mistaken for a Gypsy or a Jew by fair-haired, blue-eyed farmers and is then shunned. Even those who usually gave him a home and fed him, started to treat him with cruelty.
This is not an uplifting book at all. The cruelty the boy witnesses and experiences often breaks down his imagination and takes away from him being "just a kid". Kosinski does not attempt to censor his gruesome descriptions, and he shouldn't because it would take away from the story. To simply go over the terrible events of World War II would be an injustice to those who suffered through it. Though the book is not autobiographical, events like this did actually happen during the war.
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"Chinese Ghost Stories: Curious
Tales of the Supernatural"
by Lafcadio Hearn;
Tuttle Publishing, North Clarendon, VT
96 pages, $9.95
"Chinese Ghost Stories" will broaden your appreciation of the supernatural.
Lafcadio Hearn was a Victorian-era writer who, after a long colorful life, ended up in Asia, spending the last 14 years in Japan. An Irishman, he was a journalist, fiction writer and poet with a taste for the eerie.
Working off various translations from the Chinese, he wrote ghost stories that are very different from the European or American variety.
Instead of terrifying ghosts who bedevil their victims, Hearn's spirits are more aligned with Asian culture, with an emphasis on filial piety, self-sacrifice and death.
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From Wikipedia:
William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was a blues composer and musician. He was widely known as the "Father of the Blues".
Handy remains among the most influential of American songwriters. Though he was one of many musicians who played the distinctively American form of music known as the blues, he is credited with giving it its contemporary form. While Handy was not the first to publish music in the blues form, he took the blues from a regional music style with a limited audience to one of the dominant national forces in American music.
Learn more about W.C. Handy, free from the National Park Service.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Get paid for a WORLD CLASS education! If your GPA is above a 3.5, or better yet closer to a 4.0, you may want to consider one of the military academies…..U.S. Air Force, U.S. Naval, U.S. Coast Guard or West Point. To find out more about if you have what it takes to be accepted into an academy, sign up in the career center. The Naval, Air Force and Coast Guard academies will all be coming to Logan during the month of November. These presentations are open to serious students of all grade levels.
Calling all sign language lovers. Want a warm sign language hoodie sweatshirt? Then stop by Room 418 by Friday, November 18 to place your order.
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By Candace Laxamana,
Courier News Editor
The James Logan Girl's Varsity Water Polo Team is the first team in Logan's history to win a league title in this sport. Under the supervision of Martin Munoz, their coach, the team worked very hard and played diligently to achieve their goal.
This season marked the first time a team from our school made it to an NCS water polo game. They also advanced to the semifinals in NCS.
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The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
Media: Video Game
Release Date: November 11, 2011,
Courier Entertainment Editor
This Veteran’s Day marked the release of one of the most highly anticipated video games in the history of the industry. The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, from long time Elder Scrolls and Fallout developer Bethesda, takes on the staggering amounts of monumental hype leading up to the game’s release and delivers fully to its expecting fans.
The game is the fifth installment of the highly acclaimed Elder Scrolls series. The game takes place in a land called Skyrim, full of a vast array of characters, from the Viking-like Nords, to the ruthless Orcs, to feeble Wood-Elves, cat-like Kahjiit, as well as giants, mammoths, bears, and an entire world full of widely varying creature and beasts.
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"The Lord of the Rings: War in the North"
Reviewed for: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
Also available for: Windows PC
From: Snowblind Studios/WB Games
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore,
intense violence)
Price: $60
Snowblind Studios gets kudos for telling a new "Lord of the Rings" story — set chronologically parallel to J.R.R. Tolkien's story and featuring his iconic characters, but starring a new set of characters created expressly for the game — instead of retreating to yet more recreations of the same old battles.
The flip side, of course, is that Tolkien's most ardent fans will be first in line to pick apart "War in the North's" fiction. Andriel the Elven Loremaster wields magic that's pretty out of step with Gandalf's arsenal. A giant talking eagle, while a very well-developed character who is great fun to summon in battle, will nonetheless remind some of Sean Connery voicing a dragon in "Dragonheart" more than anything from the "LOTR" universe. Finally, while the fellowship occasionally checks in with your party, the result of those check-ins often leaves you feeling like a second-string hero. "North" tells a comprehensive side story with branching quests and numerous mandatory and elective dialogue paths, but it's one that will strike some as a dungeon crawler with Tolkien trimmings instead of the other way around.
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From wikipedia:
Franklin Pierce Adams (November 15, 1881, Chicago, Illinois – March 23, 1960, New York City, New York) was an American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit, best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's
Information Please. A prolific writer of light verse, he was a member of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s.
Read examples of Franklin Pierce Adams' poetry, free from the University of Toronto's Representative Poetry Online.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Calling all sign language lovers. Want a warm Sign Language hoodie sweatshirt? Then stop by Room 418 by Friday, November 18 to place your order.
Are you looking for information on college visits, SATs, college fairs, community service, military or scholarship opportunities? This and more is just a click away on Logan’s website under the College & Career Info bar. Visit it often as updates are made daily.
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By Gurpreet Bhasin,
Courier Staff Writer
The cold weather took a while to hit the Bay Area this year. Usually, the month of October is a cold one and the weather is just perfectly chilly. Sadly, October was nowhere near cold, reaching temperatures in the 90s.
Personally, I was so tired of the warm weather because it makes me frustrated irritated. I prefer cold weather because you can always bundle up and be warm, but when it's hot, it's not really preventable. This is also the time of the year when all my favorite holidays come, like Halloween, Thanksgiving, and last but not least, Christmas. So it's a win-win situation.
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By Zohal Sharif,
Courier Staff Reporter
The beloved “Sesame Street” Youtube channel was hacked. On Oct. 16th, the channel hacker uploaded porn to the kid-friendly page. Youtube immediately took the content down, as they always do when some thing’s offensive.
The page indicated the names of two Youtube users as the hackers, but both denied claims that they hacked the page.
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The new Bay Bridge (left) being built
beside the current Bay Bridge.
Courier Staff Photo
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The spire of the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge eastern span climbs hundreds of feet above the bay, an emerging icon of California's engineering and aesthetic prowess.
Scheduled for completion in 2013 at a projected cost of $6.3 billion, the bridge is the largest public works project in state history. Its designers placed one quality above all others: the strength to withstand the strongest anticipated earthquake.
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The U.S. Supreme Court
wikipedia photo
Tribune Washington Bureau (MCT)
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide the fate of President Obama's health-care law and its requirement that all Americans have basic health insurance by 2014.
The justices said they would rule on constitutional challenges to the entire law brought by top Republican officials from 26 states, who contend the Democratic-controlled Congress overstepped its authority in passing the measure.
The high court is likely to rule on the issue by late June as the presidential campaign moves into high gear.
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From Wikipedia:
Gregorio del Pilar y Sempio (November 14, 1875—December 2, 1899) was one of the youngest generals in the Philippine Revolutionary Forces during the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine-American War. He is most known for his role and death at the Battle of Tirad Pass. Because of his youth, he was called the "Boy General."
Born on November 14, 1875 to Fernando H. del Pilar and Felipa Sempio of Bulacan, Bulacan, del Pilar was the nephew of propagandist Marcelo H. del Pilar and Toribio H. del Pilar, who was exiled to Guam for his involvement in the 1872 Cavite Mutiny.
Learn more about Gregorio Del Pilar, from the Torn and Frayed in Manila website.
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It's a Lulu, by Lulu Zhong, Courier Comics Editor
What I Did this Week, by Christine Campa, Courier Comic Artist
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From Wikipedia:
Ariadna Vladimirovna Tyrkova-Williams (November 13, 1869, Saint Petersburg - January 12, 1962, Washington, DC,
Ariadna Borman during the first marriage) was a liberal politician, journalist, writer and feminist[citation needed] in Russia during the revolutionary period until 1920. Afterwards she lived as a writer in Britain (1920-1951) and the United States (1951-1962).
Revolutionary beginnings
Ariadna Vladimirovna Tyrkova was born on 13 November 1869, the daughter of Vladimir Tyrkov, a landowner whose hereditary estate was Vergezhi in the Novgorod region. She studied in Saint Petersburg.
Read From liberty to Brest-Litovsk: the first year of the Russian revolution By Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, free from Google Books.
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By Jessica Li,
Courier Staff Writer
New is not always better. That’s what I have learned from my childhood. I saw the world through the eyes of a curious, childish, fun-loving, imaginative person who thirsted for knowledge and possibilities. As I approach graduation from high school, I'm looking back, and the past looks surprisingly good.
Though people might not acknowledge it, children can be rather observant. I have observed that many people think that “new” means improvement, and an assurance of up-to-date quality and satisfaction. However, I beg to differ. Of course, I cannot assert that the world hasn't made improvements and is totally inferior to its past, but every period has its ups and downs or good and bad parts.
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Carnival Entrance Sign and
Julie Ballard, Winner of
Chili Cook-off
Pictures by: Justyna Torres,
Courier Editor-in-Chief
Logan’s extracurricular activities rallied together for the New Haven Boosters Association’s “Carnival of Thanks.” The event helped the boosters raise funds towards the New Haven School’s Foundation, which helped save the extracurricular activities when they were in danger of being terminated due to budget cuts last year.
On Sunday November 6th, from 11 am to 5 pm, the carnival occupied the small parking lot in front of the Dan Oden Swim Complex. Football, wrestling, cheerleading, drama, track and field, cross country, and softball all set up booths which they had activities or sold food to the attendants. Everything was paid for by purchasing tickets in the front of the carnival for $0.50 each.
Other organizations came out to show their support as well including The District’s Health Education and Resource Team, the American Cancer Society, and the New Haven’s Teacher’s Association.
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By Tierra Negra, Courier Correspondent
A grade should reflect students learning throughout a school year however not all the teachers configure it exactly alike and, at times, it ends up proving meaningless.
My grade not only tries to reflect what the student has learned on the subject during each semester, it also takes into consideration how this was accomplished. It measures attendance, punctuality, responsibility to meet date lines and, willingness to follow the classroom rules behaving with respect towards me -the adult in the room, as well as the classmates.
I used to be concerned only about academic content but then with time I realized how impressionable their young minds are which made me reconsider the true impact I have in their lives.
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From Wikipedia:
Thaddeus William Harris (November 12, 1795 – January 16, 1856) was an American entomologist and botanist. For the last few years of his life Harris was the librarian of Harvard University.
Harris was a native of Dorchester, Massachusetts. His father, Thaddeus Mason Harris, was a Unitarian minister who had also for a time served as librarian of Harvard. Harris himself received his undergraduate education at Harvard, and then went on to study medicine there, receiving his M.D. in 1820. He went into medical practice with a Mr. Holbrook, whose daughter Catherine he married. Thaddeus and Catherine had 12 children.
Read Thaddeus William Harris' description of the "measure worm," free from Google Books.
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(Left to right)
Sam Caldera and his brother,
Jesus Caldera, watch the Veterans Day Parade
from a parking deck in Columbia, South Carolina,
Friday.Kim Kim Foster-Tobin/The State/MCT
WASHINGTON — After the speeches ended, after the bagpiper played "Amazing Grace," Bob Hamilton went searching for one of the 58,272 names on the polished black granite wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Hardly a day goes by that he doesn't think about Ray George, a fellow helicopter pilot who was killed in Vietnam when he subbed for Hamilton one day four decades ago.
But Veterans Day, a friend had reminded him, is about thanking those standing in front of the wall, tracing their fingers over the names of the brothers they lost.
So Hamilton, 62, and his fellow veteran Bob Poe, 67, rode their motorcycles from Louisville, Ky., into the nation's capital with their flags flying for the ceremony. They were celebrating not only their service as veterans, but what journalist and war correspondent Joe Galloway on Friday called an "obligation to live each day to its fullest potential ... for our having lived, and their having died."
"Veterans Day is your day," Galloway told hundreds of veterans gathered at the memorial on a chilly but bright, blue-skied day.
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By Michael Bowman, VOA NEWS
The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved legislation to combat joblessness among military veterans and eliminate a barrier to government contracting of private firms. The measures are the first elements of President Barack Obama’s jobs plan to receive significant bipartisan support in the politically-divided legislature.
On the eve of the U.S. Veterans Day holiday, lawmakers voted 94 to 1 to promote civilian employment of those who wore a uniform in defense of the nation.
“The unemployment rate among all veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan is now 30 percent higher than the national unemployment rate," said Democratic Senator Chris Coons of Delaware. "That means nearly a quarter-million veterans are unemployed. We must do more to appreciate, to support the service of our returning heroes and to help them recover from their service abroad by returning to meaningful employment in the civilian sector.”
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From Wikipedia:
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American writer of the 20th century. He wrote such works as
Cat's Cradle (1963),
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) and
Breakfast of Champions (1973), blending satire, gallows humor and science fiction. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to third-generation German-American parents, Kurt Vonnegut, Sr. and Edith Lieber. Both his father and his grandfather Bernard Vonnegut attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology and were architects in the Indianapolis firm of Vonnegut & Bohn. His great-grandfather Clemens Vonnegut, Sr. was the founder of the Vonnegut Hardware Company, an Indianapolis institution. Vonnegut graduated from Shortridge High School in Indianapolis in May 1940 and matriculated to Cornell University that fall. Though majoring in chemistry, he was Assistant Managing Editor and Associate Editor of
The Cornell Daily Sun. He was a member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity, as was his father. While at Cornell, Vonnegut enlisted in the U.S. Army. The Army transferred him to the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of Tennessee to study mechanical engineering. On Mothers' Day in 1944, when Vonnegut was 21, his mother committed suicide with sleeping pills.
Visit Vonnegut.com
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By Michael Doyle
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON — The old men, soldiers once upon an awful time, stood as proud as age would allow.
They were former machine gunners, such as Frank Kageta. He's now 91. They were former intelligence agents, such as George Yoji Kiyomoto, who's 90, and James Iso, chipper at 87.
They were, and are, nisei, second-generation Japanese-Americans who in World War II fought tenaciously for the very country that had interned them and their family members.
"We had a duty to prove, beyond any shadow of a doubt, our patriotism," Iso said.
Point proved.
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By Jack Bragg,
Courier Entertainment Editor
Solo projects and bands formed from the remains of once popular acts often face a troubling dilemma. Does the new project keep the sound that got the act famous to begin with? or do they deviate and risk alienating old fans in favor of newer listeners. Former Distillers frontwoman Brody Dalle’s new project, Spinnerette, hits that long-sought-after perfect balance with their self-titled debut.
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From Wikipedia:
Winston Churchill (November 10, 1871 - March 12, 1947) was an American novelist.
Churchill was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Edward Spalding and Emma Bell (Blaine) Churchill. He attended Smith Academy in Missouri and the United States Naval Academy, where he graduated in 1894. At the Naval Academy, he was conspicuous alike in scholarship and in general student activities. He became an expert fencer and he organized at Annapolis the first eight-oared crew, of which he was for two years captain. After his graduation, he became an editor of the Army and Navy Journal. He resigned from the navy to pursue a writing career. In 1895, he became managing editor of the
Cosmopolitan Magazine, but in less than a year he retired that he might have more time for writing. While he would be most successful as a novelist, he was also a published poet and essayist.
Read The Complete Works of Winston Churchill, free from Project Gutenberg.
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Publisher: Harper Perennial
Modern Classics
ISBN-10: 0060931418,
Courier Staff Writer
Part of being human is that we all look for spiritual fulfillment. We are born into the control of others; as adolescents we develop into adults while others, our peers and authority figures in our lives, pervasively condition us with their systems of values and beliefs. We end up struggling with those beliefs and values when they conflict with our commitment to satisfy our own human needs. But when we finally break free of the control and influence that ties us down in our relationships and conditions us to to their way of thinking, we can begin to gain our own spiritual fulfillment.
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From wikipedia:
Elijah Parish Lovejoy (November 9, 1802 – November 7, 1837) was an American Presbyterian minister, journalist, newspaper editor and abolitionist. He was murdered by an opposition mob in Alton, Illinois during their attack on his warehouse to destroy his press and abolitionist materials.
Lovejoy's father was a Congregational minister and his mother a devout Christian. He attended Waterville College (now Colby College) in his home state of Maine. He traveled west and in 1827 settled in St. Louis, Missouri. He worked as an editor of an anti-Jacksonian newspaper, the
St. Louis Observer and ran a school. Five years later, he studied at the Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey and became an ordained Presbyterian preacher. Returning to St. Louis, he set up a church and resumed work as editor of the
Observer. His editorials criticized slavery and other church denominations.
Learn more about Elijah Lovejoy, free from the Alton, Illinois website.
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By Joseph Agharanya,
Courier Staff Writer
“We made it to NCS!” said Nella Ioramo, a senior this year at James Logan High School and captain of the girls volleyball team.
For the first time, since 2005, the girls volleyball team at Logan has won the Mission Valley Athletic League (MVAL). They beat Washington, Irvington, Mission, Newark, Kennedy, and American, and will head undefeated into the NCS playoffs this upcoming Wednesday.
Steve Burmaster, the new head coach and also a P.E. coach at Logan, will be leading the team into the NCS tournament. The team will commence the NCS playoffs by playing San Leandro High School here at Logan on Wednesday.
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MISCELLANEOUS
In need of school supplies? Composition books, 3-hold binder paper, white out, presentation folders, stretch book covers, binders and much more! Stop by the Colt Necessities store in the Career Center. Hours are Monday, Wednesday and Friday during both lunches.
Are you chilly in the morning? Are you chilly at night? Get an authentic Logan hoodie to warm you up just right. Stop by Colt Necessities store in the Career Center on Monday, Wednesday and Friday during 4th & 5th periods.
Tomorrow is the ASVAB. Please report at the start of 1st period to the Al Rodrigues Gym for check-in. Gym doors will close and the test will begin promptly at 8:30. No late-comers will be admitted. Only students who have previously turned in their parent & teacher signed permission slips will be allowed to test.
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Photo by Candace Laxamana,
Courier Staff Writer
According to Ms. Galaria, trash left around the school is not the big issue. She noticed walking around San Francisco, Union City, or even going to a Starbucks in Fremont that there was an unbelievable amount of trash littered everywhere.
Galaria told us that she wondered if this is a Bay Area or even a Claifornia problem. She made it clear this was not a problem in most other states.
Last year, a grant was given to the school to get new waste bins. These bins had three sections for three different kinds of waste: one for recycling, compost, and trash.
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"Battlefield 3"
Reviewed for: Xbox 360 and
Playstation 3
Also available for: Windows PC
From: DICE/EA
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood, intense
violence, strong language)
Price: $60
No use wasting time being cordial: "Battlefield 3's" single-player campaign is a bummer. Military first-person shooters have increasingly valued flash over substance since "Call of Duty" dumbed it down and became the market leader, and the less said about "BF3's" me-too attempt — too many restrictive corridors, quick-time events, gimmicky diversionary missions that imitate instead of innovate, and stiflingly controlled scenarios that allow the psychic enemy A.I. to absolutely brutalize you if you dare attempt to ignore the continuous interface prompts and flex some creativity — the better. It's technically polished but imaginatively bankrupt, and DICE — which proved it could construct good single-player campaigns with the "Battlefield: Bad Company" offshoots — should know better.
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From wikipedia:
Hermann Rorschach (8 November 1884 – 1 April 1922) was a Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, best known for developing a projective test known as the Rorschach inkblot test. This test was reportedly designed to reflect unconscious parts of the personality that "project" onto the stimuli. Individuals were shown 10 inkblots, one at a time, and asked to report what objects or figures they saw in each of them.
Rorschach was born in Zürich and spent his childhood and youth in Schaffhausen. He became known to his high school friends as Klecks, or "inkblot" since, like many other young people in his native country, he enjoyed Klecksography, the making of fanciful inkblot "pictures." Unlike his classmates, however, Rorschach would go on to make inkblots his life's work.
See Hermann Rorschach's Ten Inkblots.
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Are you looking for information on college visits, SATs, college fairs, community service, military or scholarship opportunities? This and more is just a click away on Logan’s website under the College & Career Info bar. Visit it often as updates are made daily.
In need of school supplies? Composition books, 3-hold binder paper, white out, presentation folders, stretch book covers, binders and much more! Stop by the Colt Necessities store in the Career Center. Hours are Monday, Wednesday and Friday during both lunches.
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Michelle Galaria
displays her award,
Courier News Editor
Michelle Galaria, a freshmen biology teacher returned from the National Association of Biology Teachers, or NABT, Conference in Anaheim, California and received an award from Animalearn.
Animalearn is a non profit organization that provides money to schools to learn about animals.
The NABT Conference consisted of science lectures and discussion groups help by teachers and organization representative.
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From wikipedia:
Andrew Dickson White (November 7, 1832 – November 4, 1918) was a U.S. diplomat, historian, and educator, who was the co-founder of Cornell University.
Andrew Dickson White was born on November 7, 1832 in Homer, New York to Clara (née Dickson) and Horace White. Clara was the daughter of Andrew Dickson, a New York State Assemblyman, and Horace was the son of Asa White, a farmer from Massachusetts whose once successful farm was ruined by a fire when Horace was 13. Horace, despite little formal education and an impoverished background, became a wealthy merchant and, in 1839, opened a successful bank in Syracuse. Andrew Dickson White thus entered the world, never to experience the poverty his father and grandfather had. He was baptized in 1835 at the Calvary Episcopal Church on the town green in Homer.
Visit the Cornell University website.
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It's a Lulu by Lulu Zhong, Courier Comics Editor
Trick-or-Treat by Christine Campa, Courier Comic Artist
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From wikipedia:
Charles Henry Dow (November 6, 1851 – December 4, 1902) was an American journalist who co-founded Dow Jones & Company with Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser.
Dow also founded
The Wall Street Journal, which has become one of the most respected financial publications in the world. He also invented the Dow Jones Industrial Average as part of his research into market movements. He developed a series of principles for understanding and analyzing market behavior which later became known as Dow theory, the groundwork for technical analysis.
Visit the Wall Street Journal online.
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Untitled by Devin Rae Atabay, Courier Staff Artist
Fro by Devin Rae Atabay, Courier Staff Artist
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By Tierra Negra, Courier Correspondent
Last June, the Assembly of California approved a bill that will now make the new textbooks add all the “valuable” contributions to history done by members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Imagine that! We painstakingly have been making improvements in regards to leveling the plane of gender inequality but it did not take too long to recognize and grant “belated” respect and acknowledgement to the gay community! Who are their friends?
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From wikipedia:
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850 – October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was " Soiltude", which contains the lines: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone". Her autobiography,
The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death.
Ella Wheeler was born in 1850 on a farm in Johnstown, Wisconsin, east of Janesville, the youngest of four children. The family soon moved north of Madison. She started writing poetry at a very early age, and was well known as a poet in her own state by the time she graduated from high school.
Visit the Ella Wheeler Wilcox website.
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By John Horn
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
Eddie Murphy had a simple suggestion about six years ago: Why not make an all-black version of "Ocean's Eleven"?
Director Brett Ratner and producer Brian Grazer loved the comedian's idea, and before long, the trio were throwing around ideas about who could star opposite Murphy: Jamie Foxx, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Tracy Morgan and Chris Tucker headed the list.
The resulting movie, Universal Pictures' "Tower Heist," arrives in theaters this weekend, where it will face solid competition from Warner Bros.' "A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas." But after more than five years of development, Murphy's original pitch has been transformed into a different film, with the all-black conceit replaced by an ensemble cast led by Ben Stiller and including Casey Affleck and Matthew Broderick.
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Are you looking for information on college visits, SATs, college fairs, community service, military or scholarship opportunities? This and more is just a click away on Logan’s website under the College & Career Info bar. Visit it often as updates are made daily.
In need of school supplies? Composition books, 3-hold binder paper, white out, presentation folders, stretch book covers, binders and much more! Stop by the Colt Necessities store in the Career Center. Hours are Monday, Wednesday and Friday during both lunches.
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By Rick LaPlante,
New Haven Schools Director of Community and Parent Relations
Baseball and softball players can show off their throwing arms, golfers can test their putting skills and bowlers can roll for strikes and spares Sunday (Nov. 6) when New Haven Unified School District families celebrate the preservation of after-school activities at the New Haven Boosters Association’s “Carnival of Thanks.”
The event, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the parking lot at James Logan High, will help the Boosters raise funds toward the New Haven Schools Foundation’s $100,000 donation that helped save sports, band, colorguard, forensics and other activities for the 2011-12 school year.
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From wikipedia:
Thomas Sterling North (November 4, 1906 – December 22, 1974) was an American author of books for children and adults, including 1963's bestselling
Rascal. North, who professionally went by "Sterling North", was born on the second floor of a farmhouse on the shores of Lake Koshkonong, a few miles from Edgerton, Wisconsin, in 1906, and died in Morristown, New Jersey in 1974. Surviving a near-paralyzing struggle with polio in his teens, he grew to young adulthood in the quiet southern Wisconsin village of Edgerton, which North transformed into the "Brailsford Junction" setting of several of his books.
Learn more about Sterling North, free from Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Community and Parent Relations
Applications will be available starting Friday (Nov. 4) for eligible New Haven Unified School District residents interested in being considered for a provisional appointment to fill an upcoming vacancy on the Board of Education.
President Michelle Matthews outlined during the Board meeting this week the procedure to be followed to replace member Kevin Harper, who has resigned his position, effective at the end of the calendar year, because he is moving out of the District.
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By Elizabeth Wellington
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)
Boyz II Men have always straddled two generations: Twenty years ago, the Grammy-winning teenage quartet crooned with the passion of old-school swooners. Dressed in urban-preppy ice-blue jeans and letter jackets, the young boys of R&B kept their sounds fresh with a new jack swing baseline.
These days Boyz II Men are a trio: Wanya Morris, Nathan Morris (no relation), and Shawn Stockman. (Former baritone Michael McCrary has been in a running dispute with the group.) They are the older cats in a cyber-driven industry dominated by electronic beats. They still sing love songs with voices like well-tuned instruments, but instead of infusing up-tempo tracks with hip-hop, the group is embracing technology: Think Boyz II Men Facebook page and app.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Community and Parent Relations
The Board of Education on Tuesday night agreed to move ahead with the process of calling a special election next May, to ask New Haven voters to approve a parcel tax to relieve some of the budget pressures caused by the state’s ongoing financial crisis.
The Board also approved commissioning a community survey to gauge which priorities are most important to voters and the tax level they would be willing to support. The survey likely would take place during the first week of January, so that results could be available before the election filing deadline, Feb. 2.
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From Wikipedia:
Calvin Fairbank (November 3, 1816 - October 12, 1898) was an American abolitionist minister who spent more than 17 years in prison for his anti-slavery activities.
Born in Pike, in what is now Wyoming County, New York, Fairbank grew up in an intensely religious family environment. Listening to the stories told by two escaped slaves whom he met at a Methodist quarterly meeting, he became strongly anti-slavery. He began his career freeing slaves in 1837 when, piloting a lumber raft down the Ohio River, he ferried a slave across the river to free territory. Soon he was delivering runaway slaves to the Quaker abolitionist Levi Coffin for transportation on the Underground Railroad to northern U.S. cities or to Canada.
Read Rev. Calvin Fairbank during slavery times: how he "fought the good fight" to Prepare "the Way." By Calvin Fairbank and Laura Smith Haviland, free from Google Books.
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Courier Staff Report
Former
Courier News Editor Fariba Nawa will discuss her journey from high school journalist to internationally acclaimed foreign correspondent Saturday afternoon at the Newark Library.
Nawa, who joined
The Courier staff as a reporter in 1988 before rising to News Editor in 1991.
Since then, she’s been busy establishing a reputation for herself as one of the foremost English-language reporters on Afghan issues in the world.
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In need of school supplies? Composition books, 3-hold binder paper, white out, presentation folders, stretch book covers, binders and much more! Stop by the Colt Necessities store in the Career Center. Hours are Monday, Wednesday and Friday during both lunches.
Are you chilly in the morning? Are you chilly at night? Get an authentic Logan hoodie to warm you up just right. Stop by Colt Necessities store in the Career Center on Monday, Wednesday and Friday during 4th & 5th periods.
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.
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Harry Potter: Page to Screen The Complete
Filmmaking Journey by Bob McCabe;
Harper Design, NY
Harry Potter fans, rejoice!
An oversized coffee-table behemoth of a book, "Harry Potter: Page to Screen" by Bob McCabe is a wonderful wallow. The 504 pages are rich with photographs, drawings and anecdotes from the movies. It is aimed squarely at the "Harry Potter" fan who has it all, and it hits the bull's-eye.
The film world of "Harry Potter" started in 1997 when producer David Heyman was introduced to the manuscript of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" _ the British title for "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." The manuscript had been retrieved from a slush pile in the office, and while skeptical, Heyman started reading and fell in love. Twelve years later, they wrapped the eighth and final movie of a blockbuster series of films.
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From wikipedia:
Conrad Weiser (November 2, 1696 – July 13, 1760), born Johann Conrad Weiser, Jr., was a Pennsylvania German (a.k.a., Pennsylvania Dutch) pioneer, interpreter and effective diplomat between the Pennsylvania Colony and Native Americans. He was a farmer, soldier, monk, tanner, and judge as well. He contributed as an emissary in councils between Native Americans and the colonies, especially Pennsylvania, during the 18th century's tensions of the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War).
Read Conrad Weiser and the Indian policy of colonial Pennsylvania, by Joseph Solomon Walton, free from Google Books.
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TOP 10 STATE 529'S
Based on five-year investment performance
1. Kansas
2. Michigan
3. Alaska (Univ. of Alaska)
4. Maryland
5. Nevada
6. Wisconsin
7. Alaska (T. Rowe Price)
8. Utah
9. Virginia
10. Ohio
Source: SavingforCollege.com
By Claudia Buck
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ With three school-age daughters, Rob Lindgren, a stay-at-home dad whose wife is a Sacramento State University professor, is sure that all his kids will attend college someday. But how to pay for it? That's not quite so clear.
A decade ago, the couple opened an investment account for their oldest daughter, Bonnie, who's now 15, but it got beat up by the stock market's slump in 2000-01. They still have the account, but "when things went south, it was pretty discouraging."
The Lindgrens are now motivated to get going again. "Tuition and fees are rapidly increasing, loan rates are increasing. ... We need to set aside some money to address those future costs," said Lindgren.
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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.
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.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
The New Haven Unified School District is one of a select group of U.S. public school districts being recognized for increasing access to Advanced Placement tests, while at the same time maintaining a high level of student success.
New Haven was named today to the AP Honor Roll selected by the College Board, a group of more than 5,900 schools, colleges, universities and other educational organizations who share the standardized tests used to measure a student's readiness for post-secondary education.
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"Batman: Arkham City"
Reviewed for: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
Also available for: Windows PC
From: Rocksteady Studios/WB Games
ESRB Rating: Teen (alcohol reference, blood,
mild language, suggestive themes, use of
tobacco, violence)
Price: $60
When "Batman: Arkham Asylum" wowed us in 2009, most praised it for prioritizing quality over scope and giving us a polished Batman experience in a confined space instead of one spread thin across yet another open world.
Two years and incalculable more polish later, "Batman: Arkham City" has arrived to make us all look foolish.
As the title implies and story explains, "City" takes place in a much larger space. The prison city of Arkham is walled off from the rest of Gotham City, but it's extremely spacious as prison cities go. "Asylum" nailed the fun of gliding, rappelling and ziplining as Batman, and "City" makes it that much more fun by giving you more room to move freely. The Batmobile remains absent, but given how fast you can bound across and around rooftops, it would have felt passe anyway.
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From wikipedia:
Grantland Rice (November 1, 1880 – July 13, 1954) was an early 20th century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. His writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio.
Henry Grantland Rice was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the son of Bolling H. Rice, a cotton dealer, and his wife, Beulah Grantland Rice. His grandfather Major H. W. Rice was a Confederate veteran of the Civil War.
Read "The Four Horsemen" by Grantland Rice, free from the University of Notre Dame.
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