This is the archive for April 2012
MISCELLANEOUS
Colt Necessities is having an end of the year sale. Starting today, take $2 off all hats and apparel. We are open every day this week in the Career Center during 4th & 5th lunch.
Yearbooks are on sale every day at lunch. Prices are $65 with ASB, and $75 without ASB. All prices will go to up to $80 with ASB and $90 without ASB after May 11th. Get your book today!
Logan Spirit Squad tryouts for the 2012-2013 season! Clinics will be held on April 30th in the Dance Studio from 4 to 6:30 p.m., May 1 in the Al Rod Gym from 4 to 6:30 p.m., May 2 in the Choir Room from 4 to 6:30 p.m., May 3 in the Choir Room from 4 to 7 p.m., and May 4 in the Choir Room from 4 to 8 p.m. Pre-tryouts meeting will be April 26th in the Spot at 7 p.m.
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From Wikipedia:
Percy Heath (April 30, 1923 – April 28, 2005) was an American jazz bassist, brother to tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath and drummer Albert Heath, with whom he formed the Heath Brothers in 1975. Heath also worked with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Wes Montgomery and Thelonious Monk.
Learn more about Percy Heath, free from allaboutjazz.com.
Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month with The Courier.
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From Wikipedia:
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and big-band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions. In the opinion of Bob Blumenthal of
The Boston Globe "In the century since his birth, there has been no greater composer, American or otherwise, than Edward Kennedy Ellington." A major figure in the history of jazz, Ellington's music stretched into various other genres, including blues, gospel, film scores, popular, and classical. His career spanned more than 50 years and included leading his orchestra, composing an inexhaustible songbook, scoring for movies, composing stage musicals, and world tours. Several of his instrumental works were adapted into songs that became standards. Due to his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, and thanks to his eloquence and extraordinary charisma, he is generally considered to have elevated the perception of jazz to an art form on a par with other traditional genres of music. His reputation increased after his death and the Pulitzer Prize Board bestowed on him a special posthumous honor in 1999.
Visit DukeEllington.com.
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By Tierra Negra, Courier Special Correspondent
A few years ago, when I attended a conference that talked about the brain, I came to the realization that teachers can benefit from its innate nature to solve problems. The presenter also helped me find the answer to the question most commonly posed by my students: why do I need to learn a subject matter I would never use in the future? To create new connections that eventually raises the ability among the neurons to communicate therefore processing information more efficiently.
Since then, I no longer merely gave data but tried to question students so they would come with the answers on their own. I provided examples that would feed their brains making them naturally think about solutions to problems.
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Margrete Blossom Dearie (April 28, 1924 – February 7, 2009) was an American jazz singer and pianist, often performing in the bebop genre and remembered for her girlish voice. One of the last supper club performers, she performed regular engagements in London and New York City over many years.
Dearie was born on April 28, 1924, in East Durham, New York to a father of Irish-Scottish descent and a mother of Scandinavian descent. As a child she studied classical piano but switched to jazz in her teens.
Learn more about Blossom Dearie, free from National Public Radio.
Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month with The Courier.
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By James Sarmiento and Gene Romero,
Courier Staff Writers
Are you worrying about Junior Prom and Senior Ball? Well, here are some tips and advice you could use to prepare yourself for this "magical" event.
Worrying about who you are going to take and how you are going to ask them? No problem, remember you don’t need a date to go to prom. Just go alone! Going alone has its perks, no stress about what color should to match, how much money is going to spent on two people, and you will have much more fun being alone not having to worry about your date during the dance.
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From Wikipedia:
Earl Roderick Anthony (April 27, 1938 – August 14, 2001) was a left-handed American professional bowler who amassed records of 41 titles and six bowler of the year awards on the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour. His title count was amended to 43 in 2008, when the PBA chose to include ABC Masters titles earned by a PBA member as PBA Tour titles. He is widely credited (along with Dick Weber) for having increased bowling's popularity in the United States. He was the first bowler to earn over $100,000 in a season (1975) and $1,000,000 in lifetime earnings (1982). His ten professional major titles -- six PBA National Championships, two Firestone Tournament of Champions titles, and two American Bowling Congress (which became part of the United States Bowling Congress) Masters titles -- are the most by any bowler.
Learn more about Earl Anthony, free from Bowlersparadise.com.
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By Jack Bragg,
Courier Editor in Chief
One of the most popular indie bands in the world, New Mexico’s The Shins, have come back with their first album since 2007’s
Wincing the Night Away, as well as the first on the Shins own record label, Aural Apothecary.
Port of Morrow features a great mix of new sounds, especially those that revolve around the use of electronic influences and synthesizers. The band however stays very anchored to their classic indie sound and acoustic based music.
The album was largely the brainchild of frontman James Mercer, who not only writes, sings, and plays on all the songs, but also helped to co-produce the album and give criticism on the album’s artwork. It’s Mercer’s essential return to the Shins after a brief hiatus with his side project, Broken Bells, in which he performs with producer Danger Mouse.
Port of Morrow is heavily influenced by the electronic style that Broken Bells was based around.
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Charles Francis Richter (April 26, 1900 - September 30, 1985), was an American seismologist and physicist. Richter is most famous as the creator of the Richter magnitude scale which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, quantified the size of earthquakes. Inspired by Kiyoo Wadati's 1928 paper on shallow and deep earthquakes, Richter first used the scale in 1935 after developing it in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg; both worked at California Institute of Technology. The quote "logarithmic plots are a device of the devil" is attributed to Richter.
Read an interview with Charles Richter, free from the United States Geological Service.
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By Ronnell Coaster, Courier Staff Writer
James Logan HS had a dual meet against Irvington last week and won it.
Irvington had a lot of great runners but Logan was still able to prevail over them.
Willie Latin, Rufus Wollo, Damond Beasley, and Karsten Weighthington took first place in the 4-by-100-meter relay race.
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"Joe Golum and the Drowning City"
by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden
St. Martin's Press ($25.99)
Stir in a little Lovecraft and magic, season it with apocalyptic gloom, and you have "Joe Golum and the Drowning City."
Horror author Christopher Golden and artist Mike Mignola, creator of the comic "Hellboy," have collaborated on an illustrated novel.
New York is "The Drowning City" set in an alternate world where earthquakes in 1922 start disasters that culminate with half of Manhattan under water.
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Ella Fitzgerald photographed
by Carl Van Vechten in 1940.
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as "Lady Ella" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th Century.
With a vocal range spanning three octaves, she was noted for her purity of tone, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. She is widely considered to have been one of the supreme interpreters of the Great American Songbook.
Listen to Ella Fitzgerald perform "Sing Me a Swing Song," recorded in 1936, free from npr.org.
Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month with The Courier.
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Courier Staff Report
A Logan student is in serious but stable condition in a local hospital tonight after being shot while off campus during school early Tuesday afternoon. The shooting resulted in a lockdown of the campus for more than an hour.
Union City police say that the Logan student, identified as African-American by school officials, was shot at H Street and 14th by what witnesses say was a Hispanic male in his early twenties, who then fled the scene. The victim ran toward the campus and collapsed in the driveway near the Little Theatre, according to police.
According to Principal Amy McNamara, the student was in Eden Hospital in serious but stable condition as of 5:15 p.m.
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Courier Staff Report
At 12:14 p.m., James Logan Principal Amy McNamara announced that the school was being locked down and that all students and teachers should take refuge in the classrooms and other rooms.
"This is not a drill," McNamara said.
By 12:18 p.m. the outdoor areas of the campus was largely clear.
An email to staff from House Principal Jessica Lange said "There is currently a lockdown at Logan. UCPD reported to us minutes ago that there is a suspect in the area that they are working to get into custody. We have been directed into lockdown until cleared by UCPD."
The lockdown ended at 1:26 with an announcement to the school by McNamara via the public address system. She said that there had been a shooting on H Street near the campus, and that H Street was closed. Students who had to leave school before the 3:20 dismissal had to do so through the Myers Street gate at the back of the sprawling campus.
McNamara thanked the students and staff for their cooperation during the more-than-hour-long
lockdown.
The school is on a special schedule for the day, due to STAR testing. The lockdown started at the beginning of the students' lunch period, making necessary the provision of a special 30-minute lunch period. Second period classes, which were occuring at an unusual time because of the special schedule, were cancelled. Shortened sixth and seventh period classes followed the shortened lunch period.
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By Mike Swift
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Facebook's monthly user population has passed 900 million people, increasing the size of its regular user base by one-third in the past year, while about half a billion people access the social network through a smartphone or tablet.
But while Facebook's first-quarter revenues jumped by 45 percent compared to the same quarter last year, profit fell as the social networking company spent heavily on research and development. Facebook Inc. disclosed the numbers Monday in an addendum to its IPO filing.
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"Supremacy MMA Unrestricted"
For: Playstation Vita
From: Kung Fu Factory/505 Games
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood, partial
nudity, sexual themes, strong language,
use of drugs, violence)
Price: $40
By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)
"Supremacy MMA Unrestricted" is, without a doubt, the best mixed martial arts game in the Playstation Vita's library.
Unfortunately, that's partly because it's also the only one. And while some MMA action is better than nothing, there's enough working against "Unrestricted" to temper the enthusiasm serious fans may have for the sport's Vita debut.
Most glaring is the uphill battle against UFC's and EA Sports' games for fighter name recognition — a problem "Unrestricted" arguably eschews by opting for a mostly fictional roster of fighters based on real-life fighters whom casual fans likely wouldn't recognize anyway.
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From Wikipedia:
David Harold Blackwell (April 24, 1919 – July 8, 2010) was Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem. Born in Centralia, Illinois, he was the first African-American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, and the first black tenured faculty member at UC Berkeley.
Blackwell entered the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with the modest intent to teach elementary school mathematics. In 1938 he earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics, a master's degree in 1939, and was awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1941 at the age of 22, all by the University of Illinois.
Learn more about David Blackwell, free from the Mathematical Association of America.
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By Michael Doyle
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON — Immigration politics will hit the Supreme Court this week as justices consider how much border-control clout the states can deploy.
The court must decide whether Arizona went too far with a crackdown that includes ordering police to routinely check the legal residency status of people they stop. The court's ruling answer this election year could ignite Capitol Hill, other states and, especially, Hispanic voters.
"This is a huge case, of great importance," said Andrew I. Schoenholtz, a visiting professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center.
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From Wikipedia:
Robert Marshall (Bobby) Rosengarden (April 23, 1924 – February 27, 2007, Sarasota, Florida) was a jazz drummer, percussionist and bandleader. A native of Elgin, Illinois, he was a solid and versatile contributor on countless recording sessions and playing in TV network orchestras and talk-show bands.
Rosengarden began playing drums when he was 12, and later studied at the University of Michigan. After playing drums in Army bands in World War II, he moved to New York City, working in several groups between 1945 and 1948 before becoming a busy studio musician. He played at NBC-TV (1949–1968) and ABC (1969–1974) on
The Steve Allen Show, The Ernie Kovacs Show, Sing Along With Mitch, Johnny Carson's Tonight Show Band, and led the band for
The Dick Cavett Show.
Learn more about Bobby Rosengarden, free from boston.com.
Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month with The Courier.
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Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.
Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music. Yet Mingus avoided categorization, forging his own brand of music that fused tradition with unique and unexplored realms of jazz.
Watch Charles Mingus perform "Sue's Changes," free from YouTube.
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By Tierra Negra, Courier Special Correspondent
Now days, individuals may improve standards of living within a relatively short period of time. This ability originated with the abundance of opportunities to buy things on credit. It started with the acquisition of cars and was followed by the popularization of credit cards. One of my stored ideas, for a future book, is to analyze the social mobility within my own family from a feminine perspective during the last century because we are the ones usually closer to poverty and discrimination.
After my great-grandmother left Lebanon –by herself arriving to Mexico in search of the father of her two children without knowing a word of Spanish, my grandmother –her daughter, ended up living in a small town where she raised nine children and all males were able to attend college in the city.
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Edmund Gerald “Pat” Brown, Sr. (April 21, 1905 – February 16, 1996) was the 32nd governor of California from 1959 to 1967, and the father of current Governor of California Jerry Brown.
Brown was born in San Francisco, California, one of four children of Edmund and Ida Schuckman Brown. His father was an Irish Catholic, his mother a German Protestant. He acquired the nickname "Pat" during his school years; the nickname was a reference to his Patrick Henry-like oratory. When he was 12 and selling Liberty Bonds on street corners, he would end his spiel with, "Give me liberty, or give me death."
Learn more about Edmund G. "Pat" Brown.
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From Wikipedia:
Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Like Red Norvo, he was one of the first jazz vibraphone players. Hampton ranks among the great names in jazz history, having worked with a who's who of jazz musicians, from Benny Goodman and Buddy Rich to Charlie Parker and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
Lionel Hampton was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1908, and was raised by his grandmother. Shortly after he was born, he and his mother moved to her hometown Birmingham, Alabama. He spent his early childhood in Kenosha, Wisconsin before he and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1916. As a youth, Hampton was a member of the Bud Billiken Club, an alternative to the Boy Scouts of America, which was off limits because of racial segregation. During the 1920s—while still a teenager—Hampton took xylophone lessons from Jimmy Bertrand and started playing drums. Hampton was raised Roman Catholic, and started out playing fife and drum at the Holy Rosary Academy near Chicago.
Learn more about Lionel Hampton, free from the University of Idaho.
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From Wikipedia:
Gene Leis (April 19, 1920 – March 15, 1993) was an American jazz guitarist, teacher, bandleader, composer, producer and entrepreneur. Known primarily for his influential publications and recorded guitar courses in the 1960s, Gene was also a popular performer and a mentor to a large number of musicians through his teaching studios in Manhattan Beach, California.
Gene was born into a musical family in Sedgwick, Kansas, just outside Witchita. His parents had a family band and played at local dances, weddings and other events. At 9, Gene joined the family group on mandolin, an instrument whose neck was small enough for him to play comfortably. In his early teens he took up tenor guitar and began playing with other small groups. His father wanted him to play cello, and Gene negotiated a series of banjo lessons in exchange.
Visit GeneLeis.com.
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"Cloudland" by Joseph Olshan
Minotaur Books ($24.99)
The effect of violence on small communities continues to be one of the most provocative themes for mystery fiction. Joseph Olshan expands that plot device for an in-depth character study of a woman who is emotionally stagnant because of her inability to forgive those she loves.
Olshan, best known for his non-genre fiction such as "The Conversation" and "Clara's Heart," makes a bold and quite effective foray into crime fiction in "Cloudland." Using the hunt for a serial killer as his foundation, Olshan's sturdy plot builds on his believable characters. Olshan's greatest risk — and his most persuasive — is creating a lead character who is unlikable yet also intriguing enough to make readers want to delve into "Cloudland."
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MISCELLANEOUS
Students are required to display their ID badge to gain entry onto the school campus each day. If you have lost your ID, you can get a replacement in Room 65.
STAR testing will be from April 23rd - 25th and 30th and May 1st, 3rd, and 4th. Please arrive to school on time for testing. Testing will occur in 3rd period classes, with some students testing in alternate locations. Check with your third period teacher if there are any questions.
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Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0440237688
ISBN-13: 978-0440237686,
Courier Book Editor
The Giver by Lois Lowry is a novel set in the near future, where the world is split up into different communities. In this society, not only are people not allowed to have children, they aren’t allowed to choose who they marry or the way they live their own lives. At the age of twelve, they are assigned a job that they will have for the rest of their lives. At a certain age, when the adults in the family unit have served their purpose, and they are sent to housing for childless adults. There, they wait out their days until they are ‘released’ outside of the community.
The story is told in third person point-of-view, and follows a boy named Jonas. Jonas lives in a standard family unit, consisting of a mother, a father, and a sister. None of them are biologically related, but they hold a strong bond like any other family. Since they live in this community, they are told to show no emotion and to be the same as others. While the children grow up, they are watched carefully by the Council of Elders. They choose the jobs based on the child’s special abilities. Jonas fears the day this comes, more and more every day.
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Courier Staff Report
James Logan's Lady Colts softball team beat MVAL rivals Newark Memorial 5-1 Tuesday afternoon at the Peter Mendoza sports complex.
The Newark Memorial Cougars struck first with a lead-off double that a subsequent single turned into a run, making the score 1-0 after the first half inning.
The Lady Colts got even in the second after they loaded the bases with no outs. The Cougars made a play at home plate to get the first out, but, with the bases still loaded, gave up a walk to junior Clarissa Blaquera to even the score at 1-1. Sophomore outfielder Alexis Mattos flied out to center field for the second out of the inning, but junior Kimberly Goulart hit a pitch into right field that fell a few feet in front of the Cougar fielder, allowing two Lady Colts to score. Goulart was caught in a run-down on her way to second base, ending the inning with the score 3-1.
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From Wikipedia:
James McCune Smith (April 18, 1813 – November 17, 1865) was an American physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author. He is the first African-American to earn a medical degree, and the first to run a pharmacy in the United States. Smith wrote forcefully in refutation of the common misconceptions about race, intelligence, medicine, and society in general. His friends and colleagues in this movement were often famous and consisted of many noted abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass.
Read James McCune Smith's essay on chess, free from thechessdrum.net.
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MISCELLANEOUS
STAR testing will be from April 23rd - 25th and 30th and May 1st, 3rd, and 4th. Please arrive to school on time for testing. Testing will occur in 3rd period classes, with some students testing in alternate locations. Check with your third period teacher if there are any questions.
Attention off-campus ROP students: This Friday is a furlough day for Logan, but not for Fremont ROP. Therefore, you must attend your Fremont classes, and yes, busing will be provided as usual. Next week is STAR testing and off-campus ROP students will be remaining on Logan’s campus on Monday and Tuesday for the STAR tests. Fremont ROP is aware of our STAR testing schedule, and you will be excused from your Fremont classes on those 2 days only. On Wednesday, ROP busing will start up again and everyone is to follow both the Logan and Fremont ROP schedules. There are no conflicts on this day, or any of the remaining STAR testing dates. If you have any doubts what to do, remember that Logan classes always take precedence over off-campus ROP classes, and when this occurs, Fremont ROP administration and teachers are well aware of the situation and you will be excused from your off-campus classes.
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"Xenoblade Chronicles"
For: Wii
From: Monolith Soft/Nintendo
ESRB Rating: Teen (blood, mild language,
partial nudity, use of alcohol and tobacco,
violence)
Price: $50
No single gaming genre is mired in a longer slump than the Japanese role-playing game, which (scattered exceptions aside, naturally) has been consistently reeling for years.
"Xenoblade Chronicles" is the arguable slumpbuster — a massive adventure that arrives with significant fanfare and, instead of using that hype as a crutch, cashes it in to teach a tired genre some overdue new tricks. It liberally adopts concepts that have propelled Western RPGs forward, but merges them with a flavor and storytelling approach that leaves no doubt where its lineage lies.
Crucially, "Chronicles" lays most of it — a monstrous open world, versatile side quests, customizable armor and weaponry run wild — almost immediately at your feet following an opening sequence that's similarly generous with its combat system.
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From Wikipedia:
Donald Christopher 'Chris' Barber (born 17 April 1930, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England) is best known as a jazz trombonist. As well as scoring a UK top twenty trad jazz hit he helped the careers of many musicians, notably the blues singer Ottilie Patterson, who was at one time his wife, and vocalist/banjoist Lonnie Donegan, whose appearances with Barber triggered the skiffle craze of the mid 1950s and who had his first transatlantic hit, "Rock Island Line", while with Chris Barber's band. His providing an audience for Donegan and, later, Alexis Korner makes Barber a significant figure in the British rhythm and blues and "Beat boom" of the 1960s.
The son of a statistician father and headmistress mother, Barber was educated at St Paul's School in London and the Guildhall School of Music.
Visit ChrisBarber.net
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Courier Staff Report
The early dismissal of students on Wednesdays to give teachers time to collaborate should continue next year, Logan's teachers have decided.
In a vote taken last week, mostly during Monday's department meetings, teachers were asked to either endorse or oppose the current daily bell schedule, which was adopted last year to provide a weekly time for teachers to voluntarily collaborate with each other to develop curriculum, brainstorm, receive training or other activities.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Reminder to all Students: Friday, April 20th there will be no school because it is a furlough day for staff.
Over 800 students have bills for missing library books. Check your school e-mail, log in to your library account, or check the list outside the library.
Creative Writing Club is accepting donations of used books until April 27th. Drop off books in Room 311 or 213.
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By Becky Yerak
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
CHICAGO — Move over, mortgages. Get out of the way, Greece. Another economic doomsday scenario is emerging.
Student loan debt has reached about $870 billion, exceeding credit cards and auto loans, and balances are expected to continue climbing, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said last month. In February, the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys referred to a "student loan 'debt bomb'" and wondered if it was shaping up to become "America's next mortgage-style economic crisis." Such a burden could crimp an already weak economy.
"Student debt poses a large and growing threat to the stability of our economy," Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan testified March 20 before a U.S. Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing in Washington on the looming student debt crisis.
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From Wikipedia:
Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), better known as Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flutist and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarinets (including bass clarinet), but Mann was among the first jazz musicians to specialize on the flute and was perhaps jazz music's preeminent flutist during the 1960s. His most popular single was "Hijack," which was a Billboard number-one dance hit for three weeks in 1975.
Mann emphasized the groove approach in his music. Mann felt that from his repertoire, the "epitome of a groove record" was
Memphis Underground or
Push Push, because the "rhythm section locked all in one perception."
Learn more about Herbie Mann and his music, free from National Public Radio.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Over 800 students have bills for missing library books. Check your school e-mail, log in to your library account, or check the list outside the library.
Students: STAR testing for 9th, 10th & 11th graders will begin on Monday, April 23rd. The schedule is posted on the Logan web home page.
Creative Writing Club is accepting donations of used books until April 27th. Drop off books in Room 311 or 213.
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From Wikipedia:
eden ahbez (born
George Alexander Aberle; April 15, 1908 – March 4, 1995) was an American songwriter and recording artist of the 1940s-1960s, whose lifestyle in California was influential on the hippie movement. He was known to friends simply as ahbe.
Ahbez composed the song "Nature Boy," which became a #1 hit for eight weeks in 1948 for Nat "King" Cole and has since become a pop and jazz standard.
Living a bucolic life from at least the 1940s, he traveled in sandals and wore shoulder-length hair and beard, and white robes. He camped out below the first L in the Hollywood Sign above Los Angeles and studied Oriental mysticism. He slept outdoors with his family and ate vegetables, fruits, and nuts. He claimed to live on three dollars per week.
Listen to "Surf Rider" by eden ahbez, with pictures, free from YouTube.com.
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From Wikipedia:
Milton “Shorty” Rogers (April 14, 1924 – November 7, 1994), born Milton Rajonsky in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was one of the principal creators of West Coast jazz. He played both the trumpet and flugelhorn, and was in demand for his skills as an arranger. Rogers worked first as a professional musician with Will Bradley and Red Norvo. From 1947 to 1949, he worked extensively with Woody Herman and in 1950 and 1951 he played with Stan Kenton.
Rogers appeared on the 1954 Shelly Manne album
The Three and the Two along with Jimmy Giuffre. Much of the music he recorded with Giuffre showed his experimental side, resulting in an early form of avant-garde jazz. He also made notable recordings with Art Pepper and Andre Previn, among others.
Read an interview with Shorty Rogers, free from JazzProfessional.com.
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By Amy Kaufman
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES _ There's only one rival that may be able to trip up the seemingly unstoppable "The Hunger Games" at the box office this weekend: a trio of out-of-shape goofballs. Although the fantasy epic starring Jennifer Lawrence looks primed to claim the No. 1 spot for the fourth consecutive weekend, it may face some competition from a new spin on "The Three Stooges."
After 21 days in release, the adaptation of Suzanne Collins' best-selling novel has already grossed more than $300 million domestically and could take in $18 million to $20 million more this weekend, according to those who have seen pre-release audience surveys.
"The Three Stooges" probably is headed for a debut of $15 million to $18 million, giving the PG-rated comedy a healthy shot at the top position.
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THE KID WITH A BIKE
4 stars
Rating: PG-13 for thematic elements,
violence, brief language and smoking
If true art is achieving profound results with economy of means, there may be no finer artists in film than brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Their beautifully observed, scrupulously realistic dramas distill the lives of working-class Belgians into experiences that are moving and universal.
With its small cast, minuscule budget and compressed story, "The Kid With a Bike" could have been a minor film. It is a major achievement. The subject is 11-year-old Cyril (Thomas Doret) and the lives he touches on his search for the father who abandoned him to state care. An emotionally volatile firecracker with more energy than maturity, he bolts from school, literally running into a potential guardian, Samantha (Cecile De France, "Hereafter"), a hairdresser. Unmarried, childless, she takes on the troublesome boy as a foster parent and the pair negotiate a sometimes rocky relationship.
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From wikipedia:
Nellallitea 'Nella' Larsen (born Nellie Walker (April 13, 1891 – March 30, 1964), was an American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance. First working as a nurse and a librarian, she published two novels and a few short stories. Though her literary output was scant, she earned recognition by her contemporaries. A revival of interest in her writing has occurred since the late twentieth century, when issues of racial and sexual identity and identification have been studied.
She was born Nellie Walker in Chicago, Illinois, on April 13, 1891, the daughter of Marie Hanson, a Danish immigrant, and Peter Walker, a West Indian man of predominantly African descent from Saint Croix, who soon disappeared from her life. Her mother was a domestic worker.
Learn more about Nella Larsen, free from the College of Staten Island Library.
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Zeddie Little (left)
Image: King of Games/Flickr
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you look when they take your picture. For 25-year-old Zeddie Little of New York, an affable smile amidst the pain of long-distance running that was captured during a 10k race in Charleston, S.C. turned him into a viral phenomenon knows as "Ridiculously Photogenic Guy." Nearly 1.4 million people have view the photo in recent days on Flickr and it has been uploaded countless times to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. A simple photo captured the hearts of many, how did this even happen?
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The Advanced Choir performing at the
Dec. 13 Winter Concert
Image: YouTube,
Courier Staff Writer
The James Logan Advanced and Chamber choirs held their kickoff concert in the Performing Arts Center, giving a preview of the sets that they will perform in competion tomorrow in Anaheim.
With each choir performing three songs, the show was about 45 minutes long and only cost $5 per ticket, but it was definitely worth the money and the time. The students were able to showcase how hard they have worked by performing beautifully in each song.
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From Wikipedia:
Johnny Dodds (April 12, 1892 – August 8, 1940)[1] was an American New Orleans based jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist, best known for his recordings under his own name and with bands such as those of Joe "King" Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Lovie Austin and Louis Armstrong. Dodds (pronounced "dots") was also the older brother of drummer Warren "Baby" Dodds. The pair worked together in the New Orleans Bootblacks in 1926.
Born in Waveland, Mississippi, United States, he moved to New Orleans in his youth, and studied clarinet with Lorenzo Tio. He played with the bands of Frankie Duson, Kid Ory, and Joe "King" Oliver. Dodds went to Chicago and played with Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, with which he first recorded in 1923.
Learn more about Johnny Dodds.
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"When I Was a Child I Read Books"
by Marilynne Robinson;
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
($24)
Marilynne Robinson is not only an award-winning novelist but an outstanding essayist. Her newest book collects 10 incisive essays on an array of topics, though common themes thread their way throughout, including education, religion and the nature of humanity.
When I read a book for review, I underline passages that strike me with their insight, the beauty of their language or their troublesome nature. Typically, by the end of my reading I've underlined a dozen or two passages at most. My copy of this book, however, is filled with such markings. There are few spreads without something underlined.
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From Wikipedia:
Dominic James "Nick" LaRocca (April 11, 1889 – February 22, 1961), was an early jazz cornetist and trumpeter and the leader of the Original Dixieland Jass Band. He is the composer of one of the most recorded jazz classics of all-time, "Tiger Rag". He was part of what is generally regarded as the first recorded jazz band, a band which recorded and released the first jazz recording, "Livery Stable Blues" in 1917.
Nick LaRocca was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of poor Sicilian immigrants. His father was Girolamo LaRocca of Salaparuta, Sicily and his mother was Vita De Nina of Poggioreale, Sicily. Young Nick was attracted to the music of the brass bands in New Orleans and covertly taught himself to play cornet against the wishes of his father who hoped his son would go into a more prestigious profession. LaRocca at first worked as an electrician, playing music on the side.
Read "The Nick LaRocca Story," free from ODJP.com.
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By Brandon Bailey
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson unveiled a much-anticipated reorganization plan on Tuesday, in a memo that said the struggling Internet pioneer will focus its efforts in three main divisions that he hopes will build closer ties with consumers and advertisers.
Thompson planned to discuss the changes during an "all-hands" meeting with employees Tuesday, a week after he announced plans for to cut 2,000 jobs, or about 14 percent of Yahoo's workforce. The new CEO is under pressure to return the Sunnyvale, Calif., company to growth after a period in which revenue and profit have steadily declined.
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"Ninja Gaiden 3"
For: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
From: Tecmo Koei
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore,
intense violence, strong language,
suggestive themes)
Price: $60
The more credit you give "Ninja Gaiden 3" for respecting your ability to play it, the likelier it is to make you rue the thought.
That alone makes "NG3" — a beautiful, blazingly fast action game that's also a descendent of one of the most perfect action games ever made — a crushing letdown.
Superficially, "NG3" looks a lot like 2004's "Ninja Gaiden," a game so cherished that Tecmo keeps reissuing it (most recently, for the Vita in February). Ryu Hayabusa (that's you) remains one of gaming's most agile action heroes. The places you'll visit are beautiful and diverse, and while many of the enemies you face look like reskinned versions of enemies you saw already, the bosses — from a T-Rex to a giant witch whose body becomes a level unto itself — are satisfactorily outrageous.
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From Wikipedia:
Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is a noted American labor leader and civil rights activist who, along with César Chávez, co-founded the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta has received numerous awards for her community service and advocacy for workers', immigrants', and womens' rights, including the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Outstanding American Award and the United States Presidential Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights. As a role model to many in the Latin community, Huerta is the subject of many corridos (ballads) and murals.
Visit the Dolores Huerta Foundation website.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Do you know about the food truck Mafia? Every Tuesday, there will be food trucks in the Logan parking lot from 4:30 – 9:00 p.m. New Haven teachers and the Food
Truck Mafia are bringing this to help support our schools. Come have a good meal, visit with friends, listen to music…and help our schools! Trucks will rotate every week. See you there!
ASB Elections will be the week of April 16th. If you desire to run for an ASB office for the 2012-2013 school year, applications will be available for you to pick up on Monday, April 9th. All paperwork must be submitted at the meeting on April 12th after school in Room 67.
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Meredith Ballard, a 22-year-old
economics major at Colorado College
in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Tom Kimmell/MCT
Meredith Ballard is an economics major at Colorado College. But when she began her senior year last fall, she started feeling she was spending more time traveling to job interviews than going to class.
"It got stressful," said Ballard, 22, of Green Oaks, Ill. "I had to work on my thesis on top of having a very difficult class while trying to land a job."
The employment market may be picking up, but graduating seniors like Ballard — who landed a job with a Chicago advertising agency and will start next month — have in many cases known nothing during their college careers but economic turbulence and high unemployment.
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From wikipedia:
Joseph "Sharkey" Bonano (he sometimes billed himself as
Sharkey Banana or
Sharkey Bananas) (April 9, 1904 – March 27, 1972) was a jazz trumpeter, band leader, and vocalist.
Sharkey was known for playing searing hot and technically virtuoso trumpet with a beautiful tone. His great musical abilities were sometimes overlooked in part because of his love of being an entertainer; he would often sing silly lyrics in a high raspy voice and break into dance routines on stage.
Learn more about Sharkey Bonano.
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From wikipedia:
Dionisio "Dennis" Chavez (April 8, 1888 – November 18, 1962) was a Democratic politician from the U.S. State of New Mexico who served in the United States House of Representatives, and in the United States Senate from 1935 to 1962.
Chavez was born in Los Chaves, Valencia County, New Mexico. His parents, David and Paz Chavez, were members of families that had lived in Los Chaves for generations. In 1895, David Chavez moved his family to the Barelas section of Albuquerque where Dennis attended school until financial hardships necessitated that he work. His first job was delivering groceries at the Highland Grocery store. Later on, he studied engineering and surveying at night, and worked as an engineer for the City of Albuquerque for several years.
Learn more about Dennis Chavez, free from the Library of Congress.
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Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría Rodríguez (April 7, 1917 in Havana, Cuba – February 1, 2003 in Miami, Florida) was a rumba quinto master and an Afro-Cuban Latin jazz percussionist. He is most famous for being the composer of the jazz standard "Afro Blue," recorded by John Coltrane among others. In 1950 he moved to New York where he played with Perez Prado, Tito Puente, Cal Tjader, Fania All Stars, etc. He was an integral figure in the fusion of Afro-Cuban rhythms with R&B and soul, paving the way for the boogaloo era of the late 1960s. His 1963 hit rendition of Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998.
Listen to Mongo Santamaria, free from Last.fm
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Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger. Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history – playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz – he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. Mulligan's pianoless quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the more important cool jazz groups. Mulligan was also a skilled pianist and played several other reed instruments. Mulligan reportedly had a relationship with actress Judy Holliday until she died in 1965, and with actress Sandy Dennis from 1965 until they broke up in 1976.
Visit GerryMulligan.com.
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By Christine Cortes,
Courier Staff Writer
2NE1's new Japanese album
Collection does not fail to impress. 2NE1 is a South Korean girl group that is at the top of the Korean music industry. Making an unforgettable debut in May of 2009 with their first single "Fire", they rose the standards of idol groups. Straying from the usual cute and innocent image, they prove that women can be and are strong in most of their music and performances. They grabbed the attention of Black Eyed Peas' Will.i.am, who is currently helping in the production of 2NE1's American debut album.
Starting in 2009, Koreans began to try and break their way into the Japanese music industry, many of their idol groups released singles in Japan. 2NE1 joined in the trend in 2011, attempting to make their debut in spring. The first attempt was canceled due to the earthquake that hit, they left almost immediately after they arrived, as they were in Japan at that time. In September 2011, they returned to Japan.
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From wikipedia:
Lord Richard Buckley (
Richard Myrle Buckley; April 5, 1906 - November 12, 1960, New York City) was an American stage performer, recording artist, monologist, and hip poet/comic. Buckley's unique stage persona never found more than a cult audience during his life, but anticipated aspects of the Beat Generation sensibility, and influenced figures as various as Bob Dylan, Ken Kesey, George Harrison, Tom Waits and Dizzy Gillespie.
Born to English immigrants in Tuolumne, California, Buckley's earliest years are unclear, although he's referred to as an "ex-lumberjack". By the mid-1930s he was performing as emcee in Chicago at Leo Seltzer's dance marathons at the Chicago Coliseum, and worked his own club, Chez Buckley, on Western Avenue through the early 1940s. During World War II Buckley performed extensively for armed services on USO tours, where he formed a lasting friendship with Ed Sullivan.
Visit LordBuckley.com.
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"The Stranger Within Sarah Stein"
by Thane Rosenbaum;
Texas Tech University Press
$19.95,
ages 8 and older
Young adult novelists are increasingly tackling darker subjects: kidnappings, drugs, rape. But few have delved into so many dark subjects as novelist Thane Rosenbaum, who ventures into YA territory with his latest, "The Stranger Within Sarah Stein," a novel revolving around divorce, Sept. 11, homelessness and the Holocaust.
What might be most odd about this combination of subjects is that the book isn't glum at all. Told through the eyes of the perky, bike-riding 12-year-old Sarah Stein, the daughter of a candy-making mother and an artist-painter father, it works as more of a fantasy than as a dark rumination on tragedy. There is sadness between the lines, but also a bright fairy-tale aspect, a kind of "Willy Wonka" meets "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close."
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From wikipedia:
Emmett Williams (4 April 1925 – 14 February 2007) was an American poet and visual artist.
Williams was born in Greenville, South Carolina, and grew up in Virginia, and lived in Europe from 1949 to 1966. Williams studied poetry with John Crowe Ransom at Kenyon College, studied anthropology at the University of Paris, and worked as an assistant to the ethnologist Paul Radin in Switzerland.
Visit Emmett-Williams.com.
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"Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City"
For: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
From: Slant Six/Capcom
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore,
intense violence, strong language)
Price: $60
If you assembled a focus group of people who've never played a "Resident Evil" game and tasked them with designing the next one, very well might be what they conceive by day's end.
That isn't damning criticism so much as faint praise, because "City" at least with competency. It holds no candle to a traditional "RE" game. But as a cover-based, co-op-capable third-person squad shooter that hits every bullet point an online, experience points-driven, competitive/cooperative shooter needs to hit? Sure, why not.
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Herbert Eugene Caen (April 3, 1916 – February 1, 1997) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning San Francisco journalist whose daily column of local goings-on, social and political happenings, local anecdotes, and insider gossip -- often poking fun, but rarely if ever hostile or ill-willed -- appeared in the
San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty years, except during a relatively short stint at the
San Francisco Examiner. His name was a household word throughout the San Francisco Bay Area for decades; his funeral was one of the best-attended in San Francisco history, and republications of his old columns remain a prominent
Chronicle feature many years after his death.
Read Herb Caen's columns, archived by SFgate.com.
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Alexander Graham Bell Family Tree
source: Library of Congress
LOS ANGELES — The federal government unlocked a treasure trove of U.S. history Monday, allowing researchers, genealogists and the public free online access to detailed information from the 1940 census.
Every 10 years, a decennial census becomes public, once a legally required 72-year waiting period has elapsed. But this one is different, officials say, not least because it's the first time the records have been made available online.
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By Rae Atabay and Hadiya Hussain,
Courier Staff Writers
This whole week students have been encouraged to register to vote if they are already eighteen, or will be eighteen by November, to help our school by voting for prop 1522.
Proposition 1522 would generate about $3.5 billion for schools in California annually by imposing a 15% fee on the extraction of natural resources. This money actually belongs to the people of California, and not the oil corporations. By closing the oil extraction tax loophole, this could help our education in so many good ways that teachers would be put back to work, kindergarten through twelve grade classrooms would not be overcrowded, class sections would be reintroduced in all types of California colleges, tuition in Community Colleges would be able to be free again, and CSU and UCs would be affordable to students.
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Walter Percy Chrysler (April 2, 1875 – August 18, 1940) was an American machinist, railroad man, automotive industry executive, and founder of the Chrysler Corporation.
He was born in Wamego, Kansas and grew up in Ellis, Kansas.
Visit the Walter Chrysler Museum online at chryslerheritage.com.
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From wikipedia:
Alberta Hunter (April 1, 1895 – October 17, 1984) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse. Her career had started back in the early 1920s, and from there on, she became a successful jazz and blues recording artist, being critically acclaimed to the ranks of Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith. In the 1950s, she retired from performing and entered the medical field, only to successfully resume her singing career in her 1980s.
1910s – 1940s
Born in Memphis, she left home while still in her early teens and settled in Chicago, Illinois.There, she peeled potatoes by day and hounded club owners by night, determined to land a singing job. Her persistence paid off, and Hunter began a climb through some of the city's lowest dives to a headlining job at its most prestigious venue for black entertainers, the Dreamland ballroom. She had a five-year association with the Dreamland, beginning in 1917, and her salary rose to $35 a week.
Learn more about Alberta Hunter, free from RedHotJazz.com.
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