This is the archive for May 2012
MISCELLANEOUS
Don’t forget! Adult School will be having Driver’s Ed classes June 18, 19 & 20, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cost is $125. Applications are available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77.
Job Alert! The 2012 summer work permit applications are available to download at the James Logan High School website. The work permit is good June 20th through September 20th. Be sure to read part I for instructions and bring a signed copy of your Social Security Card to the main office receptionist for processing.
A reminder: we can no longer accept checks for the remainder of the school year. All payments must be cash or money orders ONLY.
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From Wikipedia:
John Albion Andrew (May 31, 1818 – October 30, 1867) was a U.S. political figure. He served as the 25th Governor of Massachusetts between 1861 and 1866 during the American Civil War. He was a guiding force behind the creation of some of the first U.S. Army units of black men—including the famed 54th Massachusetts Infantry.
John A. Andrew was born in Windham, Maine. His father, Jonathan Andrew was a descendant of an early settler of Boxford, Massachusetts and a small but prosperous trader in Windham. His mother, Nancy Green Pierce, was a teacher at Fryeburg Academy. John Albion was the eldest son. His mother died in 1832.
Read more about John Albion Andrew, free from Project Gutenberg.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Job Alert! The 2012 summer work permit applications are available to download at the James Logan High School website. The work permit is good June 20th through September 20th. Be sure to read part I for instructions and bring a signed copy of your Social Security Card to the main office receptionist for processing.
A reminder: we can no longer accept checks for the remainder of the school year. All payments must be cash or money orders ONLY.
Are you getting a D or an F this semester? Do you need to make up a class from last semester? Then you need to sign up for summer school! There is still space, but it is filling up fast. Pick up an application in any house office and return it to your counselor….do it soon! Tentative schedules will be mailed in the first week of June. Summer school starts on June 25th and ends on August 2nd. Classes run Monday through Thursday only! See the Logan website for more details. (click on the Summer School link on the homepage)
Posted by courier at 11:46 AM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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Sockeye Salmon
Image:Bureau of Land Management
BOISE, Idaho — Sockeye entered the Columbia River in recent weeks, beginning a 900-mile migration that very nearly ended 20 years ago.
Only four Snake River sockeye made their way through eight dams and past nets and predators in 1992, a year after the fish that makes its home in Idaho's Sawtooth Valley was listed as endangered. Only one male completed the final climb up the Snake and Salmon rivers to a weir on Redfish Lake Creek on Aug. 4.
Allyson Coonts, the 7-year-old daughter of Sawtooth Hatchery technician Phil Coonts, named the sockeye Lonesome Larry. When then-Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus put the stuffed fish on his office wall, Lonesome Larry became the symbol of the entire Snake and Columbia salmon restoration program.
Posted by courier at 11:37 AM. Filed under: News
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Sold by Patricia McCormick
Reading level: Ages 18 and up
Paperback: 263 pages
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH (April 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0786851724
ISBN-13: 978-0786851720
In the book,
Sold, by Patricia McCormick, Lakshmi is a Tibetan girl who dreams of a big city and has only recently become a woman in her culture. Her father died when she was young, so her mother had to remarry in order to take care of her daughter. Since then, she had a son, Lakshmi’s little brother, which makes ends harder to meet for them. At the age of thirteen, Lakshmi is expected to get married to a boy her age and she’s supposed to leave home, but when a terrible drought comes that destroys the family’s crops and her step-father spends away their money on gambling, her dowry has to be sold to pay rent and keep her and her little brother healthy.
Then, her step-father meets a woman who is offering to take Lakshmi to the Big City, only a myth to Lakshmi. She tells Lakshmi to call her ‘Auntie’. Then, her step-father, for some reason, gets some money from the woman, more than Lakshmi had ever seen. Lakshmi goes with her in order to go to the city, and the woman promises to send back money to her family while she works in the city.
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From Wikipedia:
Cornelia Otis Skinner (May 30, 1899 – July 9, 1979) was an American author and actress.
Skinner was the daughter of the actor Otis Skinner and his wife Maud (Durbin) Skinner. After attending the all-girls' Baldwin School and Bryn Mawr College (1918–1919) and studying theatre at the Sorbonne in Paris, she began her career on the stage in 1921. She appeared in several plays before embarking on a tour of the United States from 1926 to 1929 in a one-woman performance of short character sketches she herself wrote. She wrote numerous short humorous pieces for publications like
The New Yorker. These pieces were eventually compiled into a series of books, including
Nuts in May, Dithers and Jitters, Excuse It Please!, and
The Ape In Me, among others.
Read more about Cornelia Otis Skinner and her work.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Job Alert! The 2012 summer work permit applications are available to download at the James Logan High School website. The work permit is good June 20th through September 20th. Be sure to read part I for instructions and bring a signed copy of your Social Security Card to the main office receptionist for processing.
A reminder: we can no longer accept checks for the remainder of the school year. All payments must be cash or money orders ONLY.
Posted by courier at 11:18 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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"Max Payne 3"
Reviewed for: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
Also available for: Windows PC
From: Rockstar Games
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore, intense
violence, partial nudity, strong language,
strong sexual content, use of drugs and alcohol)
Price: $60
If there's a story-driven third-person shooter checklist for "Max Payne 3," rest assured every box is filled. In terms of gunplay and presentation, it's bloody, beautiful, cinematic and all kinds of refined.
But for those who loved the first two "Max Payne" games because they dared to be weird and were proudly unrefined in exactly the right ways, the polished but mostly disposable "MP3" may ultimately amount to little more than a bloody, beautiful, cinematic and refined bucket of cold water.
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From Wikipedia:
Harry Gordon Frankfurt (born May 29, 1929) is an American philosopher. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University and has previously taught at Yale University and Rockefeller University. He obtained his B.A. in 1949 and Ph.D. in 1954 from Johns Hopkins University. His major areas of interest include moral philosophy, philosophy of mind and action, and 17th century rationalism. His 1986 paper
On Bullshit, a philosophical investigation of the concept of "bullshit", was republished as a book in 2005 and became a surprise bestseller, leading to media appearances such as Jon Stewart's
The Daily Show. In 2006 he released a companion book,
On Truth, which explores society's loss of appreciation for truth.
Watch Harry Frankfurt on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Posted by courier at 08:15 AM. Filed under: In Quotes
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MISCELLANEOUS
Job Alert! The 2012 summer work permit applications are available to download at the James Logan High School website. The work permit is good June 20th through September 20th. Be sure to read part I for instructions and bring a signed copy of your Social Security Card to the main office receptionist for processing.
A reminder: we can no longer accept checks for the remainder of the school year. All payments must be cash or money orders ONLY.
Attention all Powderpuff participants: Jerseys need to be turned in or paid $20.00 by today to avoid being billed for your jersey. Also, all ticket money must be turned in by today as well to avoid being billed.
Posted by courier at 11:53 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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From Wikipedia:
Papa John Creach (b. John Henry Creach, May 28, 1917, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania; d. February 22, 1994, Los Angeles, California) was a blues violinist who played for Jefferson Airplane (1970–1975), Hot Tuna, Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Starship - The Next Generation, the San Francisco All-Stars (1979–1984), The Dinosaurs (1982–1989), and Steve Taylor. Creach was also a frequent guest at Grateful Dead concerts.
Creach began playing violin in Chicago bars when his family moved there in 1935, and eventually joined a local cabaret band, the Chocolate Music Bars. Moving to Los Angeles in 1945, he played in the Chi Chi Club, spent time working on an ocean liner, appeared in several films, and performed as a duo with Nina Russell.
Listen to Papa John Creach, free from wolfgangsvault.com.
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From Wikipedia:
Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet, most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".
Born Julia Ward in New York City, she was the fourth child of banker Samuel Ward and occasional poet Julia Rush Cutler. Among her siblings was Samuel Cutler Ward. Her father was a well-to-do banker. Her mother, granddaughter of William Greene (August 16, 1731 – November 30, 1809), Governor of Rhode Island and his wife Catharine Ray, died when Julia was five after having borne seven children by the age of 27.
Download the ebook of Modern Society by Julia Ward Howe, free in a variety of versions from gutenberg.org.
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From Wikipedia:
William Otto Miessner (May 26, 1880 - May 27, 1967) was an American composer and music educator.
Born in Huntingburg, Indiana, Miessner was the son of Charles Miessner and Mary Miessner (née Reutepohler). He graduated from Huntingburg High School in 1898. He earned a diploma from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where he studied music theory with A. J. Gantvoort, piano with Frederick Hoffman, and singing with Adolph Devin-Duvivier. He later pursued further studies in New York with Frederick Bristol (singing), A. J. Goodrich (harmony and counterpoint), and Edgar Stillman Kelley (composition). He also studied voice in Berlin, taking lessons in 1910 with Alexander Heinemann. He then taught music from 1900 until 1904 at a school in Boonville, Indiana, before going to Connersville to teach elementary and high school music; he stayed there from 1905 until 1909. Miessner has been quoted as saying that "The idle mind is the devil’s workshop. But this is my workshop and I’ll not tolerate an idle mind as long as there’s excitement in music."
Learn more about W. Otto Meissner.
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By Ben Fritz
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES — The Men in Black are invading theaters this weekend with a mission that others have failed to achieve: knock "The Avengers" off the No. 1 box-office perch.
Sony Pictures' big-budget 3-D sequel "Men in Black 3" is on track to gross about $250 million worldwide over the long Memorial Day weekend, most of which should come from overseas markets.
In the U.S. and Canada, the film is expected to generate about $80 million over the four-day holiday period from Friday through Monday, said people who have seen pre-release tracking surveys.
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From Wikipedia:
Theodore Roethke (May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm, rhyming, and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book,
The Waking, and he won the annual National Book Award for Poetry twice, in 1959 for
Words for the Wind and posthumously in 1965 for
The Far Field.
Roethke was born in Saginaw, Michigan and grew up on the west side of the Saginaw River. His father, Otto, was a German immigrant, a market-gardener who owned a large local 25 acre greenhouse, along with his brother (Theodore's uncle). Much of Theodore's childhood was spent in this greenhouse, as reflected by the use of natural images in his poetry. The poet's adolescent years were jarred, however, by his uncle's suicide and by the death of his father from cancer, both in early 1923, when Theodore (Ted) was only 15. These deaths shaped Roethke's psyche and creative life.
Visit Gawow.com to learn more about Theodore Roethke and his work.
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The scene on the sidelines
Photo: Ronnell Coaster
The annual Girls Powderpuff game, which pitted senior and junior girls against each other on the gridiron while boys from their respective classes cheered them on, went on here at Logan Friday evening.
The players, the cheerleaders and the audience displayed much school spirit during the game. You could get a feel of the intensity from the crowd as possession of ball kept changing from each team, back and fourth.
This year, the Senior girls attempted and made the first field goal in Powderpuff history. That field goal, kicked by senior Nikki Stewart, made the Class of 2010 the winners by three points.
Posted by courier at 12:20 PM. Filed under: Sports
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
If voters reject a statewide tax initiative on the November ballot, the New Haven Unified School District faces the loss of an additional $1.3 million over previous estimates for the 2012-13 budget, the result of revisions to the state budget announced last week by Gov. Brown.
“We now must plan to reduce our budget by more than $12 million,” Superintendent Kari McVeigh wrote Wednesday in an e-mail to employees.
“When the Governor announced his May budget revisions last week, it appeared public education had been spared further cuts, or at least those cuts would be relatively minor,” the Superintendent wrote. “But as details of the revisions became clear, it became evident that two key pieces of the funding model had been impacted.”
Posted by courier at 12:04 PM. Filed under: News
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MISCELLANEOUS
Job Alert! The 2012 summer work permit applications are available to download at the James Logan High School website. The work permit is good June 20th through September 20th. Be sure to read part I for instructions and bring a signed copy of your Social Security Card to the main office receptionist for processing.
A reminder: we can no longer accept checks for the remainder of the school year. All payments must be cash or money orders ONLY.
Attention all Powderpuff participants: Jerseys need to be turned in or paid $20.00 by Tuesday May 29th. to avoid being billed for your jersey. Also, all ticket money must be turned in by Tuesday as well to avoid being billed.
Posted by courier at 11:52 AM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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From Wikipedia:
Joan Micklin Silver (born May 24, 1935) is an American director.
She was born in Omaha, Nebraska and received her B.A. From Sarah Lawrence College.
Her early low budget film
Hester Street received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for actress Carol Kane. Her 1977 film
Between the Lines was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. She is also known for the film
Crossing Delancey which was released in 1988 and stars Amy Irving. She also conceived and directed the musical revue
A... My Name Is Alice with Julianne Boyd.
Read more about Joan Micklin Silver.
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Yearbooks are now on sale! From May 9 until May 25, prices are $65 with ASB and $75 without. After May 25th, prices are $80 with ASB and $90 without. Get yours before prices increase.
Union City PD is hosting National Night Out on Tuesday August 7th from 5PM-9PM. Contact Officer Seto or the SRO if you are interested in Community Service Hours. 510-675-5263.
Are you looking for information on college visits, SAT’s, college faires, 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 11:49 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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By Nedra Rhone
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (MCT)
Vanessa Williams could have easily written a memoir at several points over the last 30 years.
In 1984, when she became the first African-American woman crowned Miss America; when nude photos surfaced, leading her to resign six weeks before her reign ended; when she reinvented herself four years later as a successful R&B singer, and later, an actress. And so on and so on.
Instead, Williams, starring on the final season of ABC's "Desperate Housewives," opted to wait until now. Not only has she finally written a tell-all memoir, she co-wrote it with her mom, Helen Williams. The result, "You Have No Idea: A Famous Daughter, Her No-Nonsense Mother and How They Survived Pageants, Hollywood, Love, Loss (and Each Other)" (Gotham Books, $28), hit stores in April.
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From Wikipedia:
Margaret Wise Brown (May 23, 1910 – November 13, 1952) was a prolific American author of children's literature, including the books Go
odnight Moon and
The Runaway Bunny, both illustrated by Clement Hurd.
The middle child of three whose parents suffered from an unhappy marriage, Brown was born in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, and in 1923 attended boarding school in Woodstock, Connecticut, while her parents were living in Canterbury. She began attending Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1926, where she did well in athletics. After graduation in 1928, Brown went on to Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia.
Visit MargaretWiseBrown.com.
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By Salvador Rodriguez
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES — Google Chrome surpassed Internet Explorer last week as the world's most used Web browser, according to a statistic released Monday.
The Google Web browser received more usage than Microsoft's browser during the week of May 14 to May 20, marking the first time Chrome has received the highest traffic for a full seven days.
Chrome is now ahead of Internet Explorer, with Firefox in third place and Apple's Safari a distant fourth, according to the website StatCounter.
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From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Self Portrait, Mary CassattMary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists.
Cassatt (pronounced ca-SAHT) often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.
See more of Mary Cassatt's paintings, free from the Webmuseum.
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From Wikipedia:
Simon Fraser (20 May 1776 – 18 August 1862) was a fur trader and an explorer who charted much of what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia. Fraser was employed by the Montreal-based North West Company. By 1805, he had been put in charge of all the company's operations west of the Rocky Mountains. He was responsible for building that area's first trading posts, and, in 1808, he explored what is now known as the Fraser River, which bears his name. Simon Fraser's exploratory efforts were partly responsible for Canada's boundary later being established at the 49th parallel (after the War of 1812), since he as a British subject was the first European to establish permanent settlements in the area.
Read Simon Fraser's journal, free from the Quesnel Museum.
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By Tierra Negra,
Courier Special Correspondent
I have two last names in Mexico. The first in order comes from my father and the second one is inherited from my mother’s family. It has created some issues with my children because in this country nobody “recognizes” the mother’s last name therefore I currently do not share any surname with them.
There was an old custom in my country -now becoming obsolete, of using the husband’s name after the first and last name attached to the word “de” as if automatically the husband would be in possession of the wife (i.e. Maria Lopez de Tejeda would literally mean Tejeda’s Maria Lopez)
I never used it because I concluded that I was nobody’s property and I had the right, at the very least, to own my whole name. Sadly, after I went through a lot of thinking and research, what I considered once a female surname is only an illusion because there are none within a patriarchal society.
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From Wikipedia:
Hồ Chí Minh (19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), born Nguyễn Sinh Cung and also known as Nguyễn Tất Thành and Nguyễn Ái Quốc, was a Vietnamese Marxist-Leninist revolutionary leader who was prime minister (1945–1955) and president (1945–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). He was a key figure in the foundation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, as well as the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the Việt Cộng (NLF or VC) during the Vietnam War.
Read Ho Chi Minh's obituary, free from the New York Times.
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By David Siders
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — University of California regents warned Wednesday of more potential tuition increases, while student protesters again disrupted a meeting of the university's governing board.
The UC system, which raised tuition last year by about 18 percent, is considering a 6 percent tuition increase this year.
Frustrated students, who have clashed with administrators over fees and service cuts for months, forced regents to break unexpectedly from the public portion of their meeting when about 18 protesters wearing prison garb started marching in a circle in the audience.
The students at the meeting, at the Sacramento Convention Center, complained they had been "sentenced to debt."
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From Wikipedia:
Carl Mydans (May 20, 1907 – August 16, 2004) was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration and
Life magazine.
Mydans became devoted to photography while in college at Boston University. While working on the
Boston University News as an undergraduate, his first reporting jobs were for
The Boston Globe and the
Boston Herald. After college, he went to New York as a writer for
American Banker and then in 1935 to Washington to join a group of photographers in the Farm
Security Administration.
Learn more about Carl Mydans, free from digitaljournalist.org.
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MISCELLANEOUS
It’s almost summer, the sun is out, and the weather is warm. But remember, this is school, not the pool! Please dress appropriately for school; tops must have straps and cover cleavage, the stomach and midriff, and bottoms not too short. This goes for both boys and girls. Please review our Student Handbook for specifics. Thank you!
Yearbooks are now on sale! From May 9 until May 25, prices are $65 with ASB and $75 without. After May 25th, prices are $80 with ASB and $90 without. Get yours before prices increase.
Former Cesar Chavez Middle School students: Is your blue promotion gown just taking up space in your closet? Make them useful again by donating it to a current 8th grader. Bring your promotion gown to House 1 in Colt Court.
Posted by courier at 12:02 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
The vast majority of nearly 1,000 parents who responded to an electronic survey say the New Haven Unified School District meets their children’s academic and social needs, provides a safe learning environment, practices equity and communicates effectively. And the District’s marks in virtually every area have improved – sometimes dramatically so – in comparison to a similar survey taken in 2010.
A total of 952 parents responded to District-wide and school-specific automated phone invitations to participate in the survey, which was open from April 10 through May 4. The response rate – roughly13 percent of the District’s approximately 7,500 households – is about average for such surveys.
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From Wikipedia:
Archibald Cox, Jr., (May 17, 1912 – May 29, 2004) was an American lawyer and law professor who served as U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy. He became known as the first special prosecutor for the Watergate scandal. During his career, he was a pioneering expert on labor law and also an authority on constitutional law.
The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Cox as one of the most cited legal scholars of the 20th century.
Cox was the son of Archibald and Frances Perkins Cox. His mother was the sister of Maxwell Perkins, an editor at the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons. A native of Plainfield, New Jersey, Cox attended the Wardlaw School, and St. Paul's School. He graduated from Harvard College in 1934 and from Harvard Law School in 1937 where he was a member of Phi delta phi legal fraternity. He was a clerk for U.S. Judge Learned Hand of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. After his clerkship, he joined the Boston law firm of Ropes, Gray, Best, Coolidge and Rugg, now known as Ropes & Gray. During World War II, he was appointed to the National Defense Board, and then to the Office of the Solicitor General.
Learn more about Archibald Cox, free from Columbia University.
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MISCELLANEOUS
It’s almost summer, the sun is out, and the weather is warm. But remember, this is school, not the pool! Please dress appropriately for school; tops must have straps and cover cleavage, the stomach and midriff, and bottoms not too short. This goes for both boys and girls. Please review our Student Handbook for specifics. Thank you!
Yearbooks are now on sale! From May 9 until May 25, prices are $65 with ASB and $75 without. After May 25th, prices are $80 with ASB and $90 without. Get yours before prices increase.
Former Cesar Chavez Middle School students: Is your blue promotion gown just taking up space in your closet? Make them useful again by donating it to a current 8th grader. Bring your promotion gown to House 1 in Colt Court.
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"Rain Dragon" by Jon Raymond;
Bloomsbury ($16)
FADE IN: A car idles in the foggy pre-dawn, pointed at the end of a cul-de-sac. Inside, an attractive 30-ish couple, DAMON and AMY, are worn from travel. She is dark-haired, pale-skinned and tense, and she leans against the passenger window. Behind the wheel, he carefully watches her mood as they evaluate the appearance of an owl in front of them. Good omen or bad? They can't decide, and continue on, lost.
This is the opening scene of "Rain Dragon," the second novel by Jon Raymond, who earned devoted fans with 2004's "The Half-Life." Since then, he's gone into screenwriting, earning an Emmy nomination for his work on the 2011 HBO miniseries "Mildred Pierce."
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
The Board of Education on Tuesday night approved a plan to designate the District’s Independent Study Program as its own school, to be located on the campus of the New Haven Adult School.
The Independent Study Program, currently headquartered at the Cabello Student Support Center, includes independent study for James Logan High students as well as independent study for kindergarten through eighth grade students and home schooling for kindergarten through 12th grade students. It is estimated that the new school will serve about 300 students, the vast majority in grades 9 to 12.
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From Wikipedia:
Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.
Terkel was born to Samuel Terkel, a Russian Jewish tailor and his wife, Anna Finkelin in New York City, New York. At the age of eight he moved with his family to Chicago, Illinois, where he spent most of his life. He had two brothers, Ben (1907–1965) and Meyer (1905–1958).
Visit StudsTerkel.org.
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"Prototype 2"
For: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
From: Radical Entertainment/Activision
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore,
drug reference, intense violence, sexual
themes, strong language)
Price: $60
From its core out to the fringes, "Prototype 2" has a lot — arguably too much — in common with "Prototype."
But the one significant change — outside of a new main character, and more on that in a bit — is a good one. This time, all that's good and fun about "Prototype 2" isn't completely torn down by the horrifying A.I. and difficulty balancing meltdowns that made its predecessor one of 2009's most obnoxious games.
Conceptually, it's business as usual. As James Heller, you're still taking on both military and mutant forces. And despite filling a new set of shoes, you're still a superpowered one-man army who can jump 50 feet per bound, sprint up the side of a New York City skyscraper, throw a car like a baseball and fully consume other people to shapeshift into them and acquire their memories and abilities.
Posted by courier at 12:15 PM. Filed under: Entertainment
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MISCELLANEOUS
It’s almost summer, the sun is out, and the weather is warm. But remember, this is school, not the pool! Please dress appropriately for school; tops must have straps and cover cleavage, the stomach and midriff, and bottoms not too short. This goes for both boys and girls. Please review our Student Handbook for specifics. Thank you!
Yearbooks are now on sale! From May 9 until May 25, prices are $65 with ASB and $75 without. After May 25th, prices are $80 with ASB and $90 without. Get yours before prices increase.
Former Cesar Chavez Middle School students: Is your blue promotion gown just taking up space in your closet? Make them useful again by donating it to a current 8th grader. Bring your promotion gown to House 1 in Colt Court.
Posted by courier at 11:55 AM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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By Kim Ode
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)
Dust always needs a place to land. Take the record turntable, rarely used, but there when you want to listen to some classic vinyl. Or the transistor radio. The sound quality is awful, but it'll come in handy if a storm knocks out the power. The telephone? Well, every once in a while, it does ring.
Sometimes you might even see it sporting a blinking light — if you ever looked.
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From Wikipedia:
Lyman "L." Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost" novels, 82 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works predicted such century-later commonplaces as television, laptop computers (
The Master Key), wireless telephones (
Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (
Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (
Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work).
Read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, free from Project Gutenberg.
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Heald College will be tabling during lunch today in Colt Court. Heald offers associate degrees and certification programs in healthcare, business, legal and technology fields. Stop by their table to see for yourself.
It’s almost summer, the sun is out, and the weather is warm. But remember, this is school, not the pool! Please dress appropriately for school; tops must have straps and cover cleavage, the stomach and midriff, and bottoms not too short. This goes for both boys and girls. Please review our Student Handbook for specifics. Thank you!
Yearbooks are now on sale! From May 9 until May 25, prices are $65 with ASB and $75 without. After May 25th, prices are $80 with ASB and $90 without. Get yours before prices increase.
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From Wikipedia:
Sidney Bechet (May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.
He was one of the first important soloists in jazz (beating cornetist/trumpeter Louis Armstrong to the recording studio by several months and later playing duets with Armstrong), and was perhaps the first notable jazz saxophonist of any sort. Forceful delivery, well-constructed improvisations, and a distinctive wide vibrato characterized Bechet's playing.
However, Bechet's mercurial temperament hampered his career, and not until the late 1940s did he earn wide acclaim.
Listen to Sidney Bechet's performance in The Sheik, free from redhotjazz.com.
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It’s almost summer, the sun is out, and the weather is warm. But remember, this is school, not the pool! Please dress appropriately for school; tops must have straps and cover cleavage, the stomach and midriff, and bottoms not too short. This goes for both boys and girls. Please review our Student Handbook for specifics. Thank you!
Yearbooks are now on sale! From May 9 until May 25, prices are $65 with ASB and $75 without. After May 25th, prices are $80 with ASB and $90 without. Get yours before prices increase.
Former Cesar Chavez Middle School students: Is your blue promotion gown just taking up space in your closet? Make them useful again by donating it to a current 8th grader. Bring your promotion gown to House 1 in Colt Court.
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From Wikipedia:
Georges Braque (13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art style known as Cubism.
Georges Braque was born on 13 May 1882, in Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise. He grew up in Le Havre and trained to be a house painter and decorator like his father and grandfather. However, he also studied artistic painting during evenings at the École des Beaux-Arts, in Le Havre, from about 1897 to 1899. In Paris, he apprenticed with a decorator and was awarded his certificate in 1902. The next year, he attended the Académie Humbert, also in Paris, and painted there until 1904. It was here that he met Marie Laurencin and Francis Picabia.
See examples of Georges Braque's art, free from the Museum of Modern Art.
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By Tierra Negra, Courier Special Correspondent
Never has been more obvious the lack of purpose of a government in this country as it is now days. It is not because of the way it was originally designed or intended but as a result of the people currently holding positions that behave irresponsibly while merely aiming to profit personally and for those that finance their candidacy to stay in power.
According to the principles that inspired the creators of the Declaration of Independence and in order to secure certain unalienable rights that make us all equal “…Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...” But, how would I be willing to consent a government that exacts more taxation from me in order to privilege those with the capital?
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From Wikipedia:
Lincoln Ellsworth (May 12, 1880 – May 26, 1951) was an polar explorer from the United States.
He was born on May 12, 1880 to James Ellsworth and Eva Frances Butler in Chicago, Illinois. He also lived in Hudson, Ohio as a child.
Lincoln Ellsworth's father, James, a wealthy coal man from the United States, spent US$100,000 to fund Roald Amundsen's 1925 attempt to fly from Svalbard to the North Pole. The craft were forced down onto the ice short of their goal, and the explorers spent 30 days trapped on the surface.
Learn more about Lincoln Ellsworth.
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By Carla Rivera
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES — The number of eligible California high school graduates entering the state's public four-year universities has plunged in the last five years, as budget-strapped institutions increasingly adopt practices to reduce enrollment, a new study has found.
At University of California and California State University campuses, enrollment rates dropped by one-fifth, to fewer than 18 percent of all state high school graduates in 2010, from about 22 percent in 2007.
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Martha Graham
by Yousuf Karsh (1948)
(May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on modern visual arts, Stravinsky had on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture.
She danced and choreographed for over seventy years. Graham was the first dancer ever to perform at the White House, travel abroad as a cultural ambassador, and receive the highest civilian award of the USA: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In her lifetime she received honors ranging from the Key to the City of Paris to Japan's Imperial Order of the Precious Crown. She said, "I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable."
Visit the website of the Martha Graham Dance Company.
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The winners of the Logan Honors Convocation Scholarships are in! Congratulations go out to Leticia Paredes as the winner of the Peter Mendoza Memorial Scholarship. Ashley Hu is the winner of the James Logan Family Scholarship. Rushdi Kayed won the CSEA Scholarship, and Victoria Okumura is the winner of the Oral Care Associates Scholarship.
Students: Today is the LAST DAY we can accept checks for any type of payment or purchase.
Yearbooks are now on sale! From May 9 until May 25, prices are $65 with ASB and $75 without. After May 25th, prices are $80 with ASB and $90 without. Get yours before prices increase!
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Against Me! singer Tom Gabel, second
from left, plans to change gender.
LOS ANGELES — Tom Gabel, the lead screamer of Florida band Against Me!, has come out as transgender and plans to undergo sexual reassignment surgery, according to excerpts from an interview published Tuesday night on the website of
Rolling Stone magazine. The singer, 32, founded Against Me! in 1997, and over the course of the past 15 years it has risen to become one of the most successful of a new wave of punk rock bands.
According to
Rolling Stone, Gabel, who is married, will soon begin the process of becoming a woman by taking hormones and receiving electrolysis treatments. He will take the name Laura Jane Grace.
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From Wikipedia:
James Gordon Bennett, Jr. (May 10, 1841 – May 14, 1918) was publisher of the
New York Herald, founded by his father, James Gordon Bennett, Sr., who emigrated from Scotland. He was generally known as Gordon Bennett to distinguish him from his father, and has been linked to the anachronistic expletive "Gordon Bennett!"
Bennett was educated primarily in France. In 1866, the elder Bennett turned control of the
Herald over to him. Bennett raised the paper's profile on the world stage when he provided the financial backing for the 1869 expedition by Henry Morton Stanley into Africa to find David Livingstone in exchange for the
Herald having the exclusive account of Stanley's progress.
Learn more about James Gordon Bennett, Jr.
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By Yari Nieves-Rivera,
Courier Book Editor
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Poppy
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316122386
ISBN-13: 978-0316122382 by Jennifer E. Smith was a really great book to read in my spare time, considering that it was everything that I wasn’t expecting. I picked it up because John Green, my favorite author, suggested it. Oddly enough, it has become one of my favorite books to read. It’s new, and a great read for teenagers.
It’s set in an airport, in the span of one day. Hadley Sullivan is a seventeen year old girl on her way to her father’s wedding, in London. Considering that her mother and father are divorced, she’s forced to go by herself. It was supposed to be a pretty normal flight across the country, until she misses her flight. At first, she thinks of it as a sign of good luck, and fate telling her to not go to the wedding. Still, she re-schedules the flight so that she can get to the wedding just on time.
Then, she has to go to the bathroom. When people don’t want to watch her suitcases for her, she decides to take a bunch of her stuff with her. That’s when Oliver walks into her life, a British gentleman going to Yale.
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Students: Tomorrow is the LAST DAY we can accept checks for any type of payment or purchase.
Yearbooks are now on sale! From May 9 until May 25, prices are $65 with ASB and $75 without. After May 25th, prices are $80 with ASB and $90 without. Get yours before prices increase!
Former Cesar Chavez Middle School students: Is your blue promotion gown just taking up space in your closet? Make them useful again by donating it to a current 8th grader. Bring your promotion gown to House 1 in Colt Court.
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"Home" by Toni Morrison;
Alfred A. Knopf ($24)
I've long admired Toni Morrison as a moral visionary, but her fiction, not so much. Of her nine novels, three — "Song of Solomon" (1977), "Beloved" (1987) and 2008's "A Mercy" — are masterpieces, yet the others, particularly the post-Nobel books "Paradise" (1997) and "Love" (2003) can be so stylized as to veer dangerously close to self-parody. Anyone who's read her in any depth may understand what I'm referring to: those stentorian rhythms, the biblical cadences, the characters who function more as archetypes than flesh-and-blood.
I say this not to minimize her achievements — three masterpieces in a lifetime are three more than most authors produce. Still, more often than not, her stature (the most recent American Nobel literature laureate, she was named last week as one of 13 recipients of this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom) prevents us from seeing her as a writer, which is to say as fallible, prone as all writers are to the excitations and limitations of, in Faulkner's phrase, her "own little postage stamp of native soil."
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From Wikipedia:
Henry John Kaiser (May 9, 1882 – August 24, 1967) was an American industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding. He established the Kaiser Shipyard which built Liberty ships during World War II, after which he formed Kaiser Aluminum and Kaiser Steel. Kaiser organized Kaiser Permanente health care for his workers and their families. He led Kaiser-Frazer followed by Kaiser Motors, automobile companies known for the safety of their designs. Kaiser was involved in large construction projects such as civic centers and dams, and invested in real estate. With his acquired wealth, he initiated the Kaiser Family Foundation, a charitable organization.
Visit the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation website.
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Students: Friday, May 11th is the LAST DAY we can accept checks for any type of payment or purchase.
Yearbooks are now on sale! From May 9 until May 25, prices are $65 with ASB and $75 without. After May 25th, prices are $80 with ASB and $90 without. Get yours before prices increase!
Former Cesar Chavez Middle School students: Is your blue promotion gown just taking up space in your closet? Make them useful again by donating it to a current 8th grader. Bring your promotion gown to House 1 in Colt Court.
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"Devil May Cry HD Collection"
For: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
From: Capcom
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood, suggestive
themes, violence)
Price: $40
On the precipice of a full-scale "Devil May Cry" reboot, Capcom has given in to another popular trend by rereleasing the series' three Playstation 2 entrants in high definition.
Or rather, it kind of does that, if you don't count the parts of "Devil May Cry" and "Devil May Cry 2" that remain in slightly blurry fullscreen. The standard-definition content is relegated to menus and cutscenes, and all gameplay in all three games is presented in widescreen with aged but HD-friendly graphics. But the strange first impression this oversight gives is an unintentional sign of things to come if you fully plunder "Devil May Cry HD Collection's" depths.
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From Wikipedia:
Norman Thomas "Turkey" Stearnes (May 8, 1901 – September 4, 1979) was an African American center fielder in the Negro leagues. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000.
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Stearnes acquired his nickname at an early age from his unusual running style. He began his career in professional baseball in 1921 with the Montgomery Grey Sox, then played for the Detroit Stars, beginning in 1923. In 1931, the Stars failed to pay Stearnes his salary because of the Great Depression, so he moved from team to team for the remainder of his career, retiring in 1942 as a member of the Kansas City Monarchs.
Learn more about Turkey Stearnes, free from the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Don’t forget, tonight is Food Truck Friday! There will be food trucks in the Logan parking lot from 4:30 to 9:00 p.m. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to help our schools!
Attention Powder Puff players and fans: Save money by pre-ordering your Powder Puff Game DVD for only $10! Stop by Coach Zuber’s Room 306 by May 15th and hurry, there is a limited supply.
Need help in Algebra I, Geometry, or Algebra II? Starting after school this Wednesday, May 9th, there will be FREE tutoring in Room 442. One-on-one help will be available at no cost!
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By Phillip Reese
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
SACRAMENTO — Fed up with tuition increases and frustrated by rejection at packed California universities, more high school graduates than ever are leaving the state to attend college.
Enrollment of Californians at Boise State rose tenfold in the past decade. Arizona State doubled its enrollment of freshmen from California. The University of Oregon has quadrupled it, with freshman enrollment from California growing from 280 in 2000 to 1,100 in 2010.
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From Wikipedia:
Varina Banks Howell Davis (May 7, 1826 – October 16, 1906) was an American author who is best known as the second wife of President Jefferson Davis and the First Lady of the Confederate States of America.
Varina Banks Howell was born at Natchez, Mississippi, the daughter of William Burr Howell and Margaret L. Kempe. Her father was from a distinguished family in New Jersey: his father Richard Howell served several terms as Governor of New Jersey and died when William was a boy. His mother was a relative of Jonathan Edwards and Aaron Burr. As a young woman, Varina attended school in Philadelphia and got to know many of her northern Howells family; she carried on a lifelong correspondence with some, and called herself a "half-breed" for her connections in both regions.
Read a letter written by Varina Davis.
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Are you taking any AP tests? Here are some important updates for you:
Review AP roster: A roster of all tests Students have signed up for has been posted on the Logan website. Click on the AP Test link on Logan’s home page, and review the registration info to see that it’s correct. Any mistakes should be reported to Mr. Brar or Ms. Hull in House 2 by May 4. Drop a note or e-mail with name/ID number and correction.
AP Test Schedule: An updated schedule with room locations is posted on the Logan website on the AP Test page. Students should show up at least 15 minutes before the start of each test.
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From Wikipedia:
Theodore Harold White (May 6, 1915 – May 15, 1986) was an American political journalist, historian, and novelist, known for his wartime reporting from China and accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1980 presidential elections.
Born May 15, 1915, in Dorchester, Boston, the son of a lawyer named David White. In his book In Search of History: A Personal Adventure, White describes his life growing up as a Jew in Boston's Jewish ghetto, attending Hebrew school (where he developed an interest in Tanakh and could still recall many of its phrases decades later in their original language) and helping form one of the early Zionist collegiate organizations during his time in college. Based upon his academic achievements at Boston Latin School, from which he graduated in 1932 and where he was driven to succeed in the wake of his father's death, White received a scholarship to Harvard University in 1934.
Watch a panel discussion on the influence of Theodore H. White, free from C-Span.
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By Tierra Negra, Courier Special Correspondent
The evolution of our brain has come with a high cost because it now roughly consumes twenty five percent of the energy produced in the body. It has been found that is constantly making combinations of a group of length waves that ultimately indicate the state of the mind: deep thinking, half asleep, deep dreaming, etc. Such waves must thrive in a competitive space already full of information from all kind of signals sent to be captured back by a myriad of artifacts (i.e. cell phones and TV receivers).
Sometimes I compare this space to a huge board –must be my profession as a teacher, that we all suppose to use responsibly to solve our whole human kind problems. Many might go by in life without ever giving it a try when having the opportunity while few fight real hard to have a chance to write something important because is always full of old data that must be compressed and/or erased to accommodate new information. After all, does it matter if anyone is able to come up with answers when those in power are engaged in trying to maintain the status quo? My “own” theory of how our turns to the board are programed is as follows.
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From Wikipedia:
Leo Joseph Ryan, Jr. (May 5, 1925 – November 18, 1978) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He served as a U.S. Representative from California's 11th congressional district from 1973 until he was murdered in Guyana by members of the Peoples Temple shortly before the Jonestown Massacre in 1978.
After the Watts Riots of 1965, then-Assemblyman Ryan took a job as a substitute school teacher to investigate and document conditions in the area. In 1970, he investigated the conditions of California prisons by being held, under a pseudonym, as an inmate in Folsom Prison, while presiding as chairman of the Assembly committee that oversaw prison reform. During his time in Congress, Ryan traveled to Newfoundland to investigate the practice of seal hunting.
Read more about Leo J. Ryan, free from Freedom magazine.
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By Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
CHICAGO — Timing is everything, and when it comes to the mysterious quantum physics of comic timing, it's really everything.
No moviegoer on the planet plans on buying into "The Avengers" this weekend for a lesson in light-fingered comic delicacies. It's a machine, and in the 10-ton franchise genre, a pretty good one. Yet writer-director Joss Whedon's machine contains one particularly funny sight gag, a capper to one of its many climactic battle sequences within the extended climax.
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From Wikipedia:
Elizabeth Earle "Betsy" Rawls (born May 4, 1928) is an American professional golfer.
Rawls was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina. After attending the University of Texas, Rawls joined the LPGA Tour in its second season in 1951. She won 55 tournaments on the tour, including eight major championships. She topped the money list in 1959 and finished in the top ten nine times between its introduction in 1957 and 1970.
Following her retirement from tournament play, she became a tournament director for the LPGA Tour.
Learn more about Betsy Rawls at the World Golf Hall of Fame.
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Are you taking any AP tests? Here are some important updates for you:
Review AP roster: A roster of all tests Students have signed up for has been posted on the Logan website. Click on the AP Test link on Logan’s home page, and review the registration info to see that it’s correct. Any mistakes should be reported to Mr. Brar or Ms. Hull in House 2 by May 4. Drop a note or e-mail with name/ID number and correction.
AP Test Schedule: An updated schedule with room locations is posted on the Logan website on the AP Test page. Students should show up at least 15 minutes before the start of each test.
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By August Brown
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES — The nine young women of Girls' Generation sauntered onto the performance stage of "Late Show With David Letterman." Flanked by a DJ and live drummer, the South Korean pop group wore lacy black mini-dresses and thigh-high leather boots, as if they were hosting a goth cocktail party. It was a rare American network television performance from a South Korean music group.
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Septima Poinsette Clark (May 3, 1898–December 15, 1987) was an American educator and civil rights activist. Clark developed the literacy and citizenship workshops that played an important role in the drive for voting rights and civil rights for African Americans in the American Civil Rights Movement." She became known as the "Queen mother" or "Grandmother of the American Civil Rights Movement" in the United States.
Clark was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1898. Her father, Peter Poinsette, was born a slave on the Joel Poinsette farm between the Waccamaw River and Georgetown. After the Civil War, he got a job as a caterer. Her mother, Victoria Warren Anderson Poinsette, was born in Charleston but raised in Haiti by her uncle, who took her and her two sisters there in 1864. Victoria Poinsette had never been a slave. She returned to Charleston after the Civil War and worked as a launderer. Clark's mother did not work directly for whites, and refused to allow their daughters to work in white houses in order to protect them from sexual harassment.
Listen to and read an interview with Septima Poinsette Clark, free from the University of North Carolina.
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Snitch
By Allison van Diepen
Reading level: Ages 14 and up
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Simon Pulse
ISBN-10: 1416950303
By Alexa Ceja, Courier Staff Writer
"In the school run by gangs, staying out was harder than joining. We knew who our friends were, and were careful what we said. If people thought we were haters it would be a matter of time."
Julia DiVino, the main character in
Snitch, a novel by Allison van Diepen attends an inner city high school in Brooklyn. The school is dominated by gangs, a lifestyle Julia intends to avoid, but can't.
Her mother is dead and her father is usually either working or with his girlfriend, leaving Julia to fend for herself most of the time. For years, she has managed to get along without being part of a gang, but then she meets Eric, a mysterious new boy at school. Trying to protect him, gets Julia branded as a snitch and suddenly joining a gang doesn’t seem like such a bad idea.
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
In response to an outpouring of concern about how state budget cuts might affect the District’s music program, Board of Education members Tuesday night urged an audience of more than 100 people to get involved in efforts to pass Measure H on the June 5 ballot.
More than 20 students and parents spoke during the public comment portion of the Board’s regular meeting, concerned about how the possible reduction or elimination of elementary school specialists and middle school electives might impact the music program, particularly at James Logan High.
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Are you taking any AP tests? Here are some important updates for you:
Review AP roster: A roster of all tests Students have signed up for has been posted on the Logan website. Click on the AP Test link on Logan’s home page, and review the registration info to see that it’s correct. Any mistakes should be reported to Mr. Brar or Ms. Hull in House 2 by May 4. Drop a note or e-mail with name/ID number and correction.
AP Test Schedule: An updated schedule with room locations is posted on the Logan website on the AP Test page. Students should show up at least 15 minutes before the start of each test.
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"iDisorder: Understanding
Our Obsession with Technology
and Overcoming its Hold on Us"
by Larry D. Rosen
Palgrave/Macmillan ($25)
No matter where we go — to a restaurant, a movie, a public restroom, and yes, even a funeral — people are seen clutching and using a slim device that allows them to do just about anything they can do from an Internet-enabled computer at home. Who hasn't attended a so-called business meeting in which every person is staring at a MacBookPro and talking on a cellphone simultaneously (while someone else plays a PowerPoint)?
Called a "wireless mobile device" (WMD — how ironic is that?), this object has for many become an obsession, something they check endlessly regardless of where they are or who they are with.
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From wikipedia:
Emma Darwin (née
Wedgwood) (2 May 1808 – 7 October 1896) was the wife and first cousin of Charles Darwin, the English naturalist, scientist and author of
On the Origin of Species. They were married on 29 January 1839 and were the parents of 10 children, three of whom died at early ages.
Read Emma Darwin's diaries.
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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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"The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings:
Enhanced Edition"
Reviewed for: Xbox 360
Also available for: Windows PC
From: CD Projekt/WB Games
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore,
intense violence, nudity, strong language,
strong sexual content, use of drugs)
Price: $60
If it's possible for anything to emerge triumphant from the fallout over "Mass Effect 3's" roundly disappointing (and, according to no less than the Better Business Bureau, misleading) ending, you're looking right at it. Save for Bethesda's games, no game anywhere gives you the power to carve your destiny as measurably as does "The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings." And even Bethesda's endgames don't pay off on the choices you make as satisfyingly as this one does.
That's a credit to "Kings" taking the concept of role-playing to a certain limit but not past it. Though dauntingly thick with side quests and opportunities to explore freely, "Kings" still subtly guides players through a narrative that's more Bioware (cutscenes, dialogue trees, significant story decisions that fork the road) than Bethesda. You're playing as Geralt, the titular Witcher, and while his destiny rests in your hands, his personality and physical makeup come pre-designed (and for good reason).
Within that structure, though, things can get wonderfully messy.
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From Wikipedia:
Henry Demarest Lloyd (May 1, 1847 – September 28, 1903) was a 19th-century American progressive political activist and pioneer muckraking journalist. He is best remembered for his exposés of the Standard Oil Company, which was written before Ida M. Tarbell's series for McClure's Magazine.
Henry Demarest Lloyd was born on May 1, 1847 in the home of his maternal grandfather on Sixth Avenue in New York City. Henry was the first child of Aaron Lloyd, a graduate of Rutgers College and Theological Seminary and minster of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Maria Christie Demarest.
Learn more about Henry Demarest Lloyd.
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