This is the archive for March 2010
MISCELLANEOUS
Congratulations go out to Teresa Jong for winning the PCS Metro Scholarship! Nice job Teresa!
Tomorrow, Friday, April 2nd, there will be NO OFF CAMPUS ROP CLASSES in Fremont. Fremont School District is closed for Spring Break.
Summer School Applications Now Available! Students, do you need to make up a failed class, or improve a pesky “D” you may have on your transcript? Well, summer school applications are now available in the counseling center. Adult School offerings will be limited this summer, so be sure to submit your signed summer school application by April 30th for preferred placement and registration. We have some interesting new offerings available this year, so check it out. See your counselor, Mr. Brar or Mr. Smith for more information.
Posted by courier at 09:43 AM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb
G.P. Putnam's Sons (2010)
356 pages
$26.95 (hardcover)
For the growing legion of J.D. Robb fans, the countdown is down to single digits: Roarke and Eve return in a matter of days.
"Fantasy In Death" is the latest of Eve's compelling murder cases ... and is another opportunity for fans to conjure their own fantasies about her rich, powerful, sexy and outrageously handsome husband, Roarke.
If you haven't become addicted to this series, it's because you haven't read a word of it yet. How can a romance reader not become an instant fan of a series with such compelling lead characters, a fearless, smart and fiercely capable heroine who depends on only one person _ her brilliant, powerful and enigmatic husband.
Posted by courier at 08:32 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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By Alyssa Pimentel, Courier School News Editor
Last school year, the administration somewhat set up student connect but they did not announce it to the student body so it was not really used. It was not until this year’s pre-registration process that they made it open to the student body. This year’s was the first time they fully implemented the online process of selecting classes for next year.
The administration and counselors announced to the students that they were to sign up for the classes next year through student connect. The students were given instructions that were printed out in the student catalog they were given during the informative pre-registration assembly. In an effort to also involve the parents in this process, the administration phoned home to inform them.
Posted by courier at 04:45 AM. Filed under: News
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From wikipedia:
John Arthur ("Jack") Johnson (March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946), nicknamed the “Galveston Giant”, was an American boxer, the first black world heavyweight boxing champion (1908-1915).
Johnson was born in Galveston, Texas, the third child and first son of Henry and Tina "Tiny" Johnson, former slaves who worked at blue-collar jobs to raise six children and taught them how to read and write. Jack Johnson had just five years of formal schooling. Johnson's father was born a slave in Tennessee. He dropped out of school after five or six years of education, to get a job.
Read more about Jack Johnson, free from When the Ship Comes In.
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Summer School Applications Now Available! Students, do you need to make up a failed class, or improve a pesky “D” you may have on your transcript? Well, summer school applications are now available in the counseling center. Adult School offerings will be limited this summer, so be sure to submit your signed summer school application by April 30th for preferred placement and registration. We have some interesting new offerings available this year, so check it out. See your counselor, Mr. Brar or Mr. Smith for more information.
Attention Students: As detailed in the Student Handbook, inappropriate displays of affection or sexual contact between two persons are not allowed. Parent contact will be made for those students unwilling to cooperate. Defiance of this policy will result in suspension.
Posted by courier at 11:36 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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By Omar Alimi, Courier Staff Writer
After 2 years of construction, confusion and anticipation, the new Performing Arts Center at Logan will finally be open to the public, starting with the official Dedication Ceremony, which begins tomorrow at 4:30 pm.
Posted by courier at 09:54 AM. Filed under: News
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Former Logan Principal
Don Montoya
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After 36 long years of service to New Haven Unified School District Don Montoya is retiring at the end of the 2009-2010 school year, in June.
Montoya had been planning on retiring for a few years, but “stretched out” his retirement date a few years. He is currently the Director of Student Services after seven years as principal of James Logan High. Montoya spent 22 years as an administrator in the district after 12 years as a science teacher at Logan and graduating from Logan in 1969. He will be replaced as Director of Student Services, though he says that “the job responsibilities will likely get divided-up a bit. That is still an ongoing conversation, so it is too soon to state exactly what will occur”. New Haven has experienced significant financial problems lately and has had to cut many staff and put even more work on the remaining workers.
Posted by courier at 09:37 AM. Filed under: News
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Alexys Cran illustration
Powder Puff practice for seniors started Monday at 4:30 P.M. for both cheerleaders and football players. Both practices for seniors go from 4:30 to 6:30 P.M. at the big green and the football field, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. There are no practices on Wednesdays because of track meets. Powder Puff practice for juniors is every weekday from 5:00 to 7:00 P.M.
Many juniors and seniors did join the Powder Puff activities, however there are more than 100 girls who joined the senior football team and cuts will be made because there are only 99 jerseys available. Cuts will be determined by attendance, as 10 hours of practice is the minimum amount of hours to be on the team. They will also be decided on commitment and ability.
Posted by courier at 09:06 AM. Filed under: Sports
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By Steve Alexander
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)
MINNEAPOLIS — Two senators are pushing legislation that would force the makers of consumer file-sharing programs to warn users how much information they may be giving away.
A bill introduced by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., seeks to protect consumers who don't understand that peer-to-peer Internet file-sharing programs may inadvertently open their computers to ID theft or other harmful snooping by unscrupulous users of such programs.
Posted by courier at 04:41 AM. Filed under: Features
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God of War III
For: Playstation 3
From: Sony Computer Entertainment Santa
Monica Studio
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore, intense
violence, nudity, strong language, strong
sexual content)
An uncommonly high number of games that owe an uncommon amount of debt to "God of War" rolled out quickly and furiously in the early going of 2010, and upon completion of "God of War III," it's pretty clear why they did.
They wanted to get out of this thing's way, and with good reason.
To keep the conversation grounded: No, "GOW3" doesn't shake up the formula — brutal third-person melee combat combined with ambitious environmental puzzle-solving — that made its predecessors among the best games in the Playstation 2's and Playstation Portable's libraries.
Posted by courier at 03:49 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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By Misti Crane
The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio (MCT)
Honeybees continue to struggle for survival throughout the nation, putting in peril the well-being of everything from California almonds to backyard cucumbers.
As the weather has warmed, Ohio beekeepers checking into their hives have been finding significant numbers of dead bees, sometimes in the 70 percent range, said Barry Conrad, a Canal Winchester, Ohio, beekeeper.
"It might be the worst in history," said Conrad, who like other beekeepers has come to expect a 30-percent loss over the winter, up from the 10 percent he used to expect.
Posted by courier at 04:26 PM. Filed under: News
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CHICAGO — A coalition of health professionals, parents and corporate accountability advocates is calling for Ronald McDonald to retire as a spokesman for the nation's largest restaurant chain, saying he has too much influence on kids.
Corporate Accountability International, which has waged campaigns against bottled water companies and tobacco companies, said it plans to present the results of a survey Wednesday showing that most Americans agree.
Posted by courier at 03:46 PM. Filed under: News
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Summer School Applications Now Available! Students, do you need to make up a failed class, or improve a pesky “D” you may have on your transcript? Well, summer school applications are now available in the counseling center. Adult School offerings will be limited this summer, so be sure to submit your signed summer school application by April 30th for preferred placement and registration. We have some interesting new offerings available this year, so check it out. See your counselor, Mr. Brar or Mr. Smith for more information.
Attention Students: As detailed in the Student Handbook, inappropriate displays of affection or sexual contact between two persons are not allowed. Parent contact will be made for those students unwilling to cooperate. Defiance of this policy will result in suspension.
Posted by courier at 09:03 AM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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From wikipedia:
Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an American actress and singer. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in
St. Louis Woman in 1946.[1] She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of
Hello, Dolly! in 1968. In 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special,
Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale.
Her rendition of "Takes Two to Tango" hit the top ten in 1952.
Watch Pearl Bailey sing on the Bob Hope show, free from YouTube.com.
Posted by courier at 08:57 AM. Filed under: In Quotes
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William Harvey Carney (March 28, 1842 – March 20, 1908) was an African American soldier during the American Civil War who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Fort Wagner.
His actions at Fort Wagner preceded those of any other black recipient but he was not presented with the honor until nearly 37 years later. He was the 21st African-American to be awarded the Medal, the first recipient having been Robert Blake, in 1864.
After the war he worked at the post office and was a guest speaker at public events until his death in 1908.
Read an account of William Harvey Carney's heroics, free from usflagsonline.com.
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From wikipedia:
Sarah Lois Vaughan (March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century". She had a contralto vocal range.
Nicknamed "Sailor" (for her salty speech), "Sassy" and "The Divine One", Sarah Vaughan was a Grammy Award winner. The National Endowment for the Arts bestowed upon her its "highest honor in jazz", the NEA Jazz Masters Award, in 1989.
Read a 1972 interview with Sarah Vaughan, free from Jazzprofessional.com.
Posted by courier at 05:16 AM. Filed under: In Quotes
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Umi Sushi Boat
6225 Jarvis Ave
Newark, CA 94560
(510) 494-8944
,
Courier Managing Editor
After a long afternoon spent strolling around the lovely streets of San Francisco, my parents, sisters, and I were in search of local Japanese cuisine to satiate our hunger. First, we drove to Nameki Sushi in Union City, but upon being informed of the 30-minute wait, we promptly left in search for another restaurant. When we arrived at Kioku Sushi in Newark, we found that the restaurant was full as well, but rather than giving up and settling on another type of cuisine, we walked into Umi Sushi Boat across the street with no expectations.
Posted by courier at 06:55 PM. Filed under: Entertainment
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Courier Staff Report
James Logan's Varsity Baseball team beat Kennedy of Fremont 9-0 in its Mission Valley Athletic League season opener Wednesday.
Logan Pitcher Brandon Yau, a junior, led the way to victory by pitching six shut-out innings. He gave up five hits and struck out five Kennedy batters en route to the victory.
Posted by courier at 10:31 AM. Filed under: Sports
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By Nicolas Petelo,
Commissioner of Public Relations
I’m sure you’ve all thought, at one point or another, “I think Logan should…” or “I wish Logan had a…” or something similar.
The school has set up a couple of suggestion boxes around the school to let the teachers, administrators, counselors, technicians, and other district employees for the school know what could, or even should, be considered, improved, added, or even subtracted.
However, it seems that a couple of factors lead to an incredible lack of attention to these boxes. The number of entries submitted to the boxes around the campus is so low that for a reasonably long period of time, they were disregarded. In addition, suggestions were much too broad, much too specific, or impossible due to space or money limitations. Some suggestions weren’t really even suggestions at all; they were simply complaints about various aspects of school life, including teachers and the campus itself, to name a few.
Posted by courier at 09:38 AM. Filed under: ASB News
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By Shamal Asnani, Courier Film Critic
Everyone once in a while, you might be in a mood to enjoy a comedy that provides you with nonstop, unintelligent laughs. One movie that perfectly fits that description is The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard. The movie stars Jeremey Piven, as Don Ready, a highly enthusiastic car salesman, with his own team of salesman following his lead. The plot revolves around the failing dealership of Ben Selleck (James Brolin), an elderly and beloved car salesman.
Due to the failing nature of his business, he is forced to hire Don, in hopes that his team will have the capability of bringing his business up. In the first day of their new partnership, Ben’s dealership sells an amazing amount of cars. Due to his success, Don is quite happy, until Ben’s future son-in-law, Paxton (Ed Helms), shows up to the dealership with an offer to buy it.
Posted by courier at 09:20 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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By Julie Mendoza, Courier Staff Writer
In 1990 Cry-Baby premiered and was recognized as one of Johnny Depp's most memorable break-out roles. His performance is phenomenal as the young, handsome, polite but rebellious, Wade Walker, otherwise known as Cry-Baby. Setting in the year 1954, satire is expressed between stereotypical squares and the bad-ass outsiders in high school. Society standards are defied when Allison Vernon-Williams, a square, takes an unexpected interest in Cry-Baby Walker. Despite the disapproval of her close-minded former boyfriend and uptight grandmother, Allison allows herself to be free for one night in the arms of Cry-baby.
Posted by courier at 07:03 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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From wikipedia:
Hugh Mulzac (March 26, 1886–1971) was an African-American member of the United States Merchant Marine. He earned a Master rating in 1918 which should have qualified him to command a ship, but this did not happen until 1942 because of racial discrimination.
Born on March 26, 1886 on Union Island in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, his life at sea started right after high school when he served on British schooners.
Read more about Captain Hugh Mulzac, free from the the United States Merchant Marine.
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Summer School Applications Now Available! Students, do you need to make up a failed class, or improve a pesky “D” you may have on your transcript? Well, summer school applications are now available in the counseling center. Adult School offerings will be limited this summer, so be sure to submit your signed summer school application by April 30th for preferred placement and registration. We have some interesting new offerings available this year, so check it out. See your counselor, Mr. Brar or Mr. Smith for more information.
Attention Students: As detailed in the Student Handbook, inappropriate displays of affection or sexual contact between two persons are not allowed. Parent contact will be made for those students unwilling to cooperate. Defiance of this policy will result in suspension.
Posted by courier at 11:10 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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By Anar Salayev, Courier Correspondent
Utopian Trap, made up of Bay Area residents Chandra Garud (guitar), Vinod Bhat (guitar/lyrics), Jai Dhar (drums), Anand Kannan (Vocals), and Sidharth Thakur (Bass/backing vocals), just recently came out with their debut album,
Fiction Fades Into Reality.
The symbolic name of the band, Utopian Trap, represents how something so perfect and pure could lead one to confusion and frustration and, essentially, trap them within their own minds.
Posted by courier at 05:42 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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From wikipedia:
Toni Cade Bambara (March 25, 1939 – December 9, 1995) was an American author, social activist, and college professor.
Bambara was born Miltona Mirkin Cade on March 25, 1939. She grew up in Harlem, Brooklyn, and Jersey City. She attended schools in New York City and the southern United States. She said that she would change her name to Toni while in kindergarten, and in 1970 added "Bambara" when she learned that her grandmother had taken that name as well.
Read In Praise of Toni Cade Bambara by Alice Lovelace, free from inmotionmagazine.com.
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By Larry Gordon
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
SAN FRANCISCO — University of California leaders on Wednesday apologized to black students at the University of California, San Diego for recent racial incidents at the campus and proposed changes in admissions policies aimed at boosting enrollment of minorities across the system.
UC President Mark G. Yudof and other UC regents acknowledged that the UC San Diego episodes, including an off-campus student party that mocked Black History Month, has brought attention to the low enrollment of black students on the campus.
Posted by courier at 06:14 PM. Filed under: News
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Summer School Applications Now Available! Students, do you need to make up a failed class, or improve a pesky “D” you may have on your transcript? Well, summer school applications are now available in the counseling center. Adult School offerings will be limited this summer, so be sure to submit your signed summer school application by April 30th for preferred placement and registration. We have some interesting new offerings available this year, so check it out. See your counselor, Mr. Brar or Mr. Smith for more information.
Attention Students: As detailed in the Student Handbook, inappropriate displays of affection or sexual contact between two persons are not allowed. Parent contact will be made for those students unwilling to cooperate. Defiance of this policy will result in suspension.
ns. If you do not turn in a form, your name will appear on your diploma as it is listed in school records.
Posted by courier at 06:09 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies:
Dawn of the Dreadfuls"
by Steve Hockensmith;
Quirk Books, Philadelphia
(288 pages, $12.95)
At least this time Jane Austen doesn't get a Zombie wedgie.
In "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls" author Steve Hockensmith doesn't have to contend with adding zombie mayhem to an existing revered text. He makes the most of this prequel, set four years before, to concentrate on how the Bennet girls — Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia — became the excellent zombie killers.
Zombies, or "Dreadfuls," have only one interest in life: killing the living and eating their brains. They were stopped for decades by the simple precaution of decapitating the dead. Unfortunately this was stopped and the zombie plague re-emerged — literally — from the tombs, graveyards, basements, local ponds and wherever there might be a dead body.
Posted by courier at 09:56 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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From the Smithsonian Institution:
Janet Waterford Bragg (1907-1993), became one of America's first black women pilots after enrolling in the Curtiss Wright Aeronautical School in 1933. There she helped form the Challenger Air Pilots Association, which later evolved into the Coffey School of Aeronautics.
Read more about Janet Bragg, free from the University of Arizona.
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A big “THANK YOU” to the students who eat lunch in the 400s during 4th period for throwing away their garbage. On Friday there was only one confused seagull wondering what happened to all the trash. Good job! Keep it up!
Summer School Applications Now Available! Students, do you need to make up a failed class, or improve a pesky “D” you may have on your transcript? Well, summer school applications are now available in the counseling center. Adult School offerings will be limited this summer, so be sure to submit your signed summer school application by April 30th for preferred placement and registration. We have some interesting new offerings available this year, so check it out. See your counselor, Mr. Brar or Mr. Smith for more information.
Posted by courier at 11:52 AM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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By Alexys Cran,
Courier Staff Writer
If Congress passes President Obama's proposed 2011 budget, then American astronauts will not return to the moon by 2020 as planned. The budget would cancel NASA's Constellation Program which also intended to explore the concept of establishing a moon colony.
Still, the budget reinvests in space science research and even focuses on nations to work together on space exploration. Although it cuts the Constellation program, the proposal would actually increase NASA's overall budget by $6 billion over the next five years.
Posted by courier at 09:10 AM. Filed under: Opinion
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From the New Haven E-News
Services will be held this week in memory of former James Logan High School teacher and coach Al Roderigues, who died Friday morning after a long battle with cancer. Mr. Roderigues, beloved by colleagues and former students and after whom the “old gym” on the Logan campus is named, was 67.
Visitation will be at 5 p.m. Wednesday at Our Lady of the Rosary, 703 C Street, Union City, to be followed by a rosary at 7 p.m. A funeral mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Thursday at Our Lady of the Rosary, followed by a reception in the church hall.
Posted by courier at 06:47 AM. Filed under: News
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By Jessica Guynn and David Pierson
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
SAN FRANCISCO — With negotiations over censorship at an impasse, Google Inc. shut down its search engine operation in China on Monday and redirected users to uncensored results — a move certain to anger the Chinese government and jeopardize Google's future in the world's most populous country.
In taking the extraordinary action, Google said it was making good on a promise it made two months ago, when it said it would not self-censor the site as demanded by Chinese officials. At the time, Google also complained that it had been a victim of a sophisticated cyber attack originating from China.
Posted by courier at 06:40 AM. Filed under: News
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"Battlefield: Bad Company 2"
For: Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC
From: DICE/EA
ESRB Rating: Mature
(blood, strong language, violence)
All the important bullet points that were present in 2008's "Battlefield: Bad Company" — and, fundamentally, just about every "Battlefield" game in the series' magnificent lifetime — are present in "Bad Company 2" as well. Mechanically, there might not be a better military first-person shooter, and the multiplayer component that is the franchise's hallmark has only improved with the refinements DICE has made.
This is good, maybe essentially so, because the single-player campaign that was such a major surprise in the first "Bad Company" has taken a slight turn into sophomore slump country this time around.
Posted by courier at 06:28 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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From wikipedia:
Wendell Smith (March 23, 1914 - November 26, 1972) was a noted African American sportswriter was influential in the choice of Jackie Robinson to become the first African American player in Major League Baseball in the 20th century.
Read more about Wendell Smith and his efforts to integrate baseball, free from the Charleston Gazette.
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Summer School Applications Now Available! Students, do you need to make up a failed class, or improve a pesky “D” you may have on your transcript? Well, summer school applications are now available in the counseling center. Adult School offerings will be limited this summer, so be sure to submit your signed summer school application by April 30th for preferred placement and registration. We have some interesting new offerings available this year, so check it out. See your counselor, Mr. Brar or Mr. Smith for more information.
Attention Students: As detailed in the Student Handbook, inappropriate displays of affection or sexual contact between two persons are not allowed. Parent contact will be made for those students unwilling to cooperate. Defiance of this policy will result in suspension.
Posted by courier at 11:27 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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By David Lightman and William Douglas
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives Sunday passed by a 219 to 212 vote the biggest overhaul of the nation's health care system in more than four decades, sweeping changes expected to make coverage easier and cheaper to obtain.
The largely party-line vote — 219 Democrats voted "yea" while all 178 Republicans and 34 Democrats voted no — meant President Barack Obama's biggest domestic initiative neared the end of its yearlong political and legislative odyssey.
"We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things," Obama said late Sunday from the White House.
Posted by courier at 10:15 AM. Filed under: News
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From wikipedia:
Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy (March 22, 1869 – February 6, 1964) was a Filipino general, politician, and independence leader. He played an instrumental role in Philippine independence during the Philippine Revolution against Spain and the Philippine-American War that resisted American occupation.
In the Philippines, Aguinaldo is considered to be the country's first and the youngest Philippine President, though his government failed to obtain any foreign recognition.
Read the True Version of the Philippine Revolution by Emilio Aguinaldo, free from Project Gutenberg. Also available in Spanish.
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Summer School Applications Now Available! Students, do you need to make up a failed class, or improve a pesky “D” you may have on your transcript? Well, summer school applications are now available in the counseling center. Adult School offerings will be limited this summer, so be sure to submit your signed summer school application by April 30th for preferred placement and registration. We have some interesting new offerings available this year, so check it out. See your counselor, Mr. Brar or Mr. Smith for more information.
Attention Students: As detailed in the Student Handbook, inappropriate displays of affection or sexual contact between two persons are not allowed. Parent contact will be made for those students unwilling to cooperate. Defiance of this policy will result in suspension.
Posted by courier at 11:30 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
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From wikipedia:
Ruby Muhammad, born Ruby Macie Graier (née Pittman), is an African-American, who is known as the "Mother of the Nation of Islam". She was born in Sandersville, Georgia, but grew up in Americus, Georgia. No birth certificate exists to confirm her age, and it has been reported with significant disparity, although she has claimed in newspaper interviews that she was born Ruby Macie Grayer on March 20, 1897. Recent research has suggested that Ruby Muhammad was actually born in 1907, as a listing of Ruby Macie Grier, aged 3, is in the 1910 census.
Read about Mother Ruby Muhammad's performance at the annual Sacramento Community Women of Color Day on March 7, free from the Sacramento Bee.
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By Allen Chan,
Courier Staff Writer
In their second match of the week, the Colt's Boy's Varsity Volleyball team played a tough match against the MSJ Warriors. It was evident before the match had begun that the guys were pumped for the match. But unfortunately the boys' lost the match 1-3 with the scores as following: 25-18, 21-25, 16-25, and 13-25.
The first game was the type of match you'd expect from two excellent teams in NCS. It was nearly the same during the second game and everyone knew that it could be anyone's match. But the final two games caused many to wonder if this was the same team that played excellent games in the first half. "[All the determination] from the beginning of the match just died out towards the end," said volleyball manager Allison Quiros.
Posted by courier at 09:34 AM. Filed under: Sports
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By Julie Mendoza, Courier Staff Writer
Fairytales have always been an essential part of childhood in most cultures. Childhood is about magic, and the ability to believe in the impossible. For years, stories have taught children the importance of honesty and the value of living honorably. Every protagonist fairytale character faces difficult obstacles regardless of the circumstances. Pan's Labyrinth is no exception.
The movie combines reality and fantasy, creating conflict in both. The film takes place in Mexico where little Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live with her cold, prideful, and menacing step father. Upon arriving to her new and unfamiliar home, Ofelia comes across a fairy-like creature. Curiously, she follows the fairy through a mysterious labyrinth and into an underground room. Within the walls of this secret room a faun approaches her. The faun proposes that she is a reincarnated princess returning to claim her place beside her father in a magical kingdom.
Posted by courier at 09:26 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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By Shamal Asnani, Courier Film Critic
It is not quite often that a movie is able to fulfill its task in keeping its viewers entertained from start to finish. Anyone who is looking for a movie that accomplishes this in the comedy genre should definitely either purchase, or rent,
The Hangover, which is currently available on both Blu-Ray and DVD.
The film follows four friends, Doug (Justin Bartha), Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), and Alan (Zach Galifianakis). Since Doug is engaged to Alan’s sister, the four friends decide to take a trip to Las Vegas for a bachelor’s party. Doug’s future father in-law lends him his car for the trip. The four friends waste no time in partying once they arrive to Las Vegas.
Posted by courier at 09:11 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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Courier Staff Report
James Logan coaching legend Alfonso Roderigues passed away this morning after a long battle with cancer.
Coach Roderigues, for whom the Alfonso Roderigues Gymnasium (sometimes called the “old gym”) is named, died peacefully at about 5 a.m. with his family at his bedside.
“A true teaching, coaching and community icon has left us,” wrote friend and colleague Tom Rosenthal, Logan’s athletic director, “His memory is embedded in our hearts forever."
Funeral arrangements are pending.
Posted by courier at 08:45 AM. Filed under: News
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Jackie “Moms” Mabley (19 March 1894 – 23 May 1975) was an American standup comedienne and a pioneer of the so-called "Chitlin' Circuit" of African-American vaudeville.
Mabley was born Loretta Mary Aiken into a large family of twelve children in Brevard, Transylvania County, North Carolina. Her father, James P. Aiken, owned and operated several businesses while her mother, Mary, kept home and took in boarders. Her father died a sudden accidental death when she was eleven. By the age of fifteen Mabley had been raped twice and had two children that were given up for adoption. After being forced by her stepfather to marry a much older man she despised and being encouraged by her grandmother to strike out on her own, she ran away to Cleveland, Ohio with a travelling minstrel show where where she began singing and entertaining.
Learn more about Moms Mabley from wfmu.org.
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Happy Birthday to our 10th President, John Tyler, born this day in 1790.
Summer School Applications Now Available! Students, do you need to make up a failed class, or improve a pesky “D” you may have on your transcript? Well, summer school applications are now available in the counseling center. Adult School offerings will be limited this summer, so be sure to submit your signed summer school application by April 30th for preferred placement and registration. We have some interesting new offerings available this year, so check it out. See your counselor, Mr. Brar or Mr. Smith for more information.
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Akur Varadarajan, who has more than 15 years of extensive experience in budgeting, financial analysis and school business operations, has been hired as Chief Business Officer of the New Haven Unified School District. The Board of Education confirmed his appointment Tuesday night.
Mr. Varadarajan, Assistant Superintendent of Business Service for the Salinas City Elementary School District for the past three years, will start work in New Haven on April 5.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
Due to the continued volatility of state funding for education, which has forced the District to issue layoff notices to teachers, classified and administrative employees for the 2010-11 school year, the Board of Education on Tuesday night voted to postpone the reopening of Barnard-White Middle School.
The Board approved a staff recommendation to postpone the reopening until such time that financial projections show that the District has the necessary resources to balance the budget without additional layoffs and cuts to programs such as co-curricular activities, site administrative ratios and class-size reduction. Postponement also reduces the possibility that the District would be reopening the middle school at the same time it may be forced to consider -- as outlined in the budget assumptions adopted March 2 -- the closing of an elementary school.
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From wikipedia:
William Johnson (March 18, 1901–1970) was an African American painter born in Florence, South Carolina.
In 1944 his wife, Holche Krake, a Danish textile artist, died from breast cancer. To deal with his grief, he took work in a Navy Yard, and in 1946 left for Denmark to be with his wife's family. He soon fell ill himself, from the effects of advanced syphilis, and returned to New York in 1947 to enter the Central Islip State Hospital on Long Island, where he spent the remainder of his life. He stopped painting in 1956 and died in 1970.
See examples of William Johnson's work, free from artcyclopedia.com.
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Hourglass by Claudia Gray
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: HarperTeen
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061284416
ISBN-13: 978-0061284410,
Courier Books Editor
Lucas shifted until he sat next to me. His tall frame, well-muscled but wiry, made me feel small and delicate, and his dark gold hair looked brilliant even in these dingy surroundings. His warmth made me imagine that I was in front of a fireplace in winter. As he put one arm around my shoulders, I rested my aching head against him and closed my eyes. That way I could pretend that there weren't a couple dozen people around us, talking and laughing. That we weren't in some grey, ugly warehouse that smelled like rubber. That there was nobody in the world but Lucas and me. Into my ear, he murmured, "I'm worried about you.' "I'm worried about me too.' "Lockdown's not going to go on much longer. Then we can get you some---something to eat, I mean---and you and I can figure out what to do next.
That short excerpt is from the third book in Claudia Gray's
Evernight series, which follows the adventures of young students attending a high school for vampires. This came out on March 9th.
If I could sum up this book in one word I would go with "fascinating."
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Happy Birthday to our 22nd and 24th President, Grover Cleveland, born this day in 1837.
Attention Students: As detailed in the Student Handbook, inappropriate displays of affection or sexual contact between two persons are not allowed. Parent contact will be made for those students unwilling to cooperate. Defiance of this policy will result in suspension.
Attention Students: The front parking lot nearest the new Performing Arts Center is for staff and visitor parking ONLY. Students MAY NOT park in this lot.
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By T.J. Matsumoto, Courier Sports Editor
The James Logan varsity baseball team continued their pre-season with a victory over visiting team Galena High School, winning with a score of 6-2. Galena came all the way from Nevada to play against three California teams. The Colts had a strong pitching effort by freshman Alex Martinez, who pitched 4 plus innings and only allowed two runs. He showed a lot of maturity by pitching out of a bases loaded jam with nobody out in the second inning. He got through the inning without allowing another run.
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By Allen Chan, Courier Staff Writer
Yesterday, our boy's varsity volleyball team faced off against Moreau Catholic High School to start off their league season.
What a start it was: they managed to defeat the Mariners in only three games out of five. The final scores from each game were the following: 25-24; 25-26; 25-12.
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Quirk Books
ISBN-10: 1594743347
ISBN-13: 978-1594743344
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith is a very unexpected book. I should start this out by saying that I have never read Austen’s original Pride and Prejudice, nor do I intend to. So while I can’t accurately compare the two books, I am quite sure the original does not contain much of the “ultraviolent zombie mayhem”, and I’m not even sure how much between the two plots is the same.
England has fallen prey to a strange plague in the novel, where the dead come back to life as zombies. Anyone the zombies bite and don’t kill also becomes a zombie. This plague creates the need for a class of zombie hunters sworn to protect the English population and exterminate the zombies. Elizabeth Bennet and her sisters are part of this warrior class.
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From wikipedia:
Bayard Rustin (March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was an American civil rights activist, important largely behind the scenes in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and earlier, and the main organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He counseled Martin Luther King, Jr. on the techniques of nonviolent resistance. He became an advocate on behalf of gay and lesbian causes in the latter part of his career; however, his homosexuality was the basis for attacks from government officials and agencies as well as from interest groups.
Learn more about Bayard Rustin, free from stateofthereunion.com.
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Attention Students: As detailed in the Student Handbook, inappropriate displays of affection or sexual contact between two persons are not allowed. Parent contact will be made for those students unwilling to cooperate. Defiance of this policy will result in suspension.
Attention Students: The front parking lot nearest the new Performing Arts Center is for staff and visitor parking ONLY. Students MAY NOT park in this lot.
Treat yourself to a fresh, toasty bag of delicious popcorn. The popcorn stand is located outside the Career Center during 4th & 5th period lunches.
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By
Alyssa Pimentel,
Courier School News Editor
Regina Irvin, House 9 Counselor, in charge of putting together the fourth semi-annual Student Shadow Day that occurred on March 9, 2010 said it was another successful turn out.
A few of the fourteen teachers that participated this year were Shane Henderson, Alida Lombardi, Matt Smith, Abigail Noche, Francis Rojas and Amy McNamara.
Names of the students that were shadowed were not revealed by the administration to protect their privacy.
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By Beatrice Esteban, Courier Managing Editor
James Logan High School has implemented the use of online class pre-registration via Zangle.
Students had their annual pre-registration meetings, where they were provided with information about college and how to utilize Zangle in the pre-registration process. In addition to being given a course catalog and pre-registration form, students were also asked to register online so as to ease the burden of scheduling for counselors.
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Aliens vs. Predator
For: Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and
Windows PC
From: Rebellion/Sega
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore,
intense violence, strong language,
suggestive themes)
There are moments in each of "Aliens vs. Predator's" three single-player campaigns where the game flashes some honest-to-goodness greatness that other first-person games can't touch.
The brightest of these flashes happens straight away in the marine campaign, which outfits players as a standard soldier in a world crawling with aliens and, eventually, the Predator. "AvP" drops players into an environment where light is a precious commodity, and the game doesn't waste time with dull shootouts against grunt enemies. The aliens are the enemy, and each one alone can easily take a player from healthy to dead. In packs and in darkness, they're a nightmare.
But once the scene changes to less intimidating pastures and the aliens resort to less frightening tactics, "AvP" regresses to also-ran status.
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From wikipedia:
Thomas Lee Flanagan (16 March 1930, – 16 November 2001, New York City) was an American jazz pianist born in Detroit, Michigan, particularly remembered as an accompanist of Ella Fitzgerald.
He played on a number of critically acclaimed recordings, such as John Coltrane's
Giant Steps, Sonny Rollins'
Saxophone Colossus,
The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery, and Art Pepper's Straight Life.
Read more about Tommy Flanagan, free from jazztimes.com'.
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Attention Students: The front parking lot nearest the new Performing Arts Center is for staff and visitor parking ONLY. Students MAY NOT park in this lot.
Attention Students and Staff: Starting today, cars that do not have a City permit will receive warnings if parked on Meyers Drive. Starting April 1 they will be ticketed. The City’s parking plan includes paid parking around the BART station, and as part of this plan Meyers Drive will become a permit-only parking area, with non-permitted cars limited to two hours.
Drop-In homework/tutoring in Room 77. Daily before school 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Tuesday-Friday 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., and Saturdays 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
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By Thomas H. Maugh Ii
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES — It seemed like a good idea at the time. Diabetics are at an unusually high risk of heart disease, heart attacks and strokes, so treating them intensively to sharply reduce blood pressure, cholesterol levels and sugar levels should be highly beneficial. But a decade of studies in thousands of patients show that is not the case.
Two new reports from a major nationwide trial called ACCORD released Sunday show lowering either blood pressure or cholesterol levels below current guidelines do not provide additional benefit and, in fact, increase the risk of side effects. A third arm of the study, released two years ago, shows lowering blood sugar levels excessively actually increases the risk of heart disease.
The results are very disappointing, researchers say, because they suggest clinicians may have reached the limit for what they can do for diabetic patients without the development of totally new therapeutic approaches.
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Statue of Lightnin' Hopkins
in Texas. (March 15, 1912 — January 30, 1982) was a country blues guitarist, from Houston, Texas, United States.
Born in Centerville, Texas, Hopkins' childhood was immersed in the sounds of the blues and he developed a deeper appreciation at the age of 8 when he met Blind Lemon Jefferson at a church picnic in Buffalo, Texas. That day, Hopkins felt the blues was "in him" and went on to learn from his older (somewhat distant) cousin, country blues singer Alger "Texas" Alexander. Hopkins began accompanying Blind Lemon Jefferson on guitar in informal church gatherings. Jefferson supposedly never let anyone play with him except for young Hopkins, who learned much from and was influenced greatly by Blind Lemon Jefferson thanks to these gatherings. In the mid 1930s, Hopkins was sent to Houston County Prison Farm for an unknown offence. In the late 1930s Hopkins moved to Houston with Alexander in an unsuccessful attempt to break into the music scene there. By the early 1940s he was back in Centerville working as a farm hand.
Read about Lightnin' Hopkins' statue in the Houston Chronicle.
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Bubble Jim by Sabina Singh, Courier Comics Editor
FauxReal by Christine Moon, Courier Staff Artist
It's A Lulu by Lulu Zhong, Courier Staff Artist
Shorts by Devante Harris,
Courier Staff Writer
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Attention Students: The front parking lot nearest the new Performing Arts Center is for staff and visitor parking ONLY. Students MAY NOT park in this lot.
Attention Students and Staff: Starting March 15th, cars that do not have a City permit will receive warnings if parked on Meyers Drive. Starting April 1 they will be ticketed. The City’s parking plan includes paid parking around the BART station, and as part of this plan Meyers Drive will become a permit-only parking area, with non-permitted cars limited to two hours.
Drop-In homework/tutoring in Room 77. Daily before school 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Tuesday-Friday 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., and Saturdays 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
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From wikipedia:
Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American music conductor, record producer, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is best known as the producer of the album
Thriller, by pop icon Michael Jackson, which has sold over 110 million copies worldwide, and as the producer and conductor of the charity song “We Are the World”.
Visit the official Quincy Jones website.
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From wikpedia:
Roy Owen Haynes (born March 13, 1925 in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts) is an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Haynes is one of the most recorded drummers in jazz and in his over 60-year career has played in a wide range of styles ranging from swing and bebop to jazz fusion and avant-garde jazz. He has a highly expressive, personal style ("Snap Crackle" was a nickname given him in the 1950s) and is known to foster a deep engagement in his bandmates.
One of the few jazz musicians alive today whose roots touch the origins of jazz itself, the drum legend has been “hard swinging” since 1944, when he made his professional debut at the age of seventeen in his native Boston. In the last sixty years, Roy Owen Haynes has shaped some of the most important recordings in Jazz history, transforming the role of the percussionist from timekeeper to front-line collaborator.
Learn more about Roy Haynes, and listen to his music, free from Drummerworld.com.
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By Julie Mendoza, Courier Staff Writer
The Beatles left a legacy of peace and good music before their band's bitter end in 1969. After entertaining thousands of fans, their unique genre inspired the 2007 film,
Across the Universe. The movie generates around the existence of the Beatles. Each character, place, and song is significantly connected to the English rock band. Jude, named after the song Hey Jude, leaves Liverpool in order to find his father at Princeton University. Liverpool is where The Beatles originated in 1960. Jude then meets Max Carrigan, the reckless and charming college drop out. What do they do then? What any irresponsible, unmotivated, drop-out would do. Go to New York, like tonight.€
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By Shamal Asnani, Courier Film Critic
Anyone who is a fan of watching classic movies remade will be glad to hear that The Wolf man was released in theatres February 12. The film is a remake of the classic that was made in 1941.
Benicio del Toro stars as Lawrence Talbot, an actor who returns to his ancestors house in England in order to figure out the whereabouts of his missing brother. Upon arrival, his father, John Talbot, informs him that his brother’s body has been found and that a funeral will be arranged. To Talbot’s surprise, his brother’s body is found in torn pieces. He decides to go into a town, in which his brother hung out, in order to investigate further details about his death.
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From wikipedia:
Billie Thomas (William Thomas, Jr.) (March 12, 1931 – October 10, 1980) was an American child actor best remembered for portraying the character of Buckwheat in the Our Gang (Little Rascals) short films from 1934 until the series' end in 1944. He was a native of Los Angeles, California.
Our Gang
Although the character he played was often the subject of controversy in later years for containing elements of the "pickaninny" stereotype, Thomas always defended his work in the series, pointing out that Buckwheat and the rest of the black Our Gang kids were treated as equals to the white kids in the series. The 1980s
Little Rascals animated series adapted from the Our Gang comedies addressed the problem by changing Buckwheat into a clever inventor who is always building ingenious machines for the gang.
Watch Billie Thomas perform as Buckwheat.
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Attention Students: The front parking lot nearest the new Performing Arts Center is for staff and visitor parking ONLY. Students MAY NOT park in this lot.
Attention Students and Staff: Starting March 15th, cars that do not have a City permit will receive warnings if parked on Meyers Drive. Starting April 1 they will be ticketed. The City’s parking plan includes paid parking around the BART station, and as part of this plan Meyers Drive will become a permit-only parking area, with non-permitted cars limited to two hours.
Drop-In homework/tutoring in Room 77. Daily before school 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Tuesday-Friday 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., and Saturdays 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
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By Jericho Faustino, Courier Staff Writer
Ludacris’s latest album, “The Battle Of The Sexes”, is basically sex, drugs, parties, and texting all in one CD consisting of 15 tracks of club party music on which Ludacris demonstrates his trademark humor and energetic style.
Overall, this album of raunchy erotica you can snap your fingers to deserves 3.5 out of 5 stars, strictly because, while his album starts out strong with his intro, which to me should have been a song on its own, and his instant club banger, “How Low”, the strength of the album diminishes almost instantaneously, a decline exemplified by the song “Sexting”.
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By Julie Mendoza, Courier Staff Writer
Life is a beautiful and fragile gift often taken for granted. There are countless experiences to be fulfilled and only a lifetime to live. Everyone wants to feel something rare and spectacular while living on planet earth. But how many people actually find the opportunity to do so? After years of living with restrictions, rules, standards, and expectations it makes you wonder how many of your decisions are made by you. Or is the average life lived the way society intends it to be? Hopefully not.
What if circumstances were different and you only had one day to live? What would your last most important experiences be? Would you sky dive or write a novel? Would you leave something behind? Or take something with you? What do you want to do before you die?
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
Since 1990, young people dancing with the Ballet Folklórico de James Logan High School have served as representatives of both the high school and the wider community comprising the New Haven Unified School District, celebrating Latino culture throughout the Bay Area and beyond. And when the troupe commemorates its 20th anniversary this spring, the New Haven Schools Foundation is going to help.
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By Victoria Johnson, Courier Staff Writer
As a former member of boy group B2K, Omarion didn't inspire fans to have much confidence in his achieving success as a solo act. However, his album
The Ollusion exceeds many fans’ low expectations.
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From wikipedia:
Dock Phillip Ellis, Jr. (March 11, 1945 – December 19, 2008) was a Major League Baseball player who pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates, among other teams. His best season was 1971, when he won 19 games for the World Series champion Pirates and was the starting pitcher for the National League in the All-Star Game. However, he is perhaps best remembered for the claim that he threw a no-hitter in 1970 while under the influence of LSD.
No-Hitter
Ellis pitched a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres on June 12, 1970 despite being, as he would admit in 1984, under the influence of LSD throughout the course of the game. Ellis had been visiting friends in Los Angeles under the impression he had the day off and was still high when his friend's girlfriend told him he had to pitch a game against the Padres that night. Ellis boarded a shuttle flight to the ballpark and threw a no-hitter despite not being able to feel the ball or clearly see the batter or catcher. Ellis claims catcher Jerry May wore reflective tape on his fingers which helped Ellis to see his target. Ellis walked eight, struck out six, and was aided by excellent fielding plays by second baseman Bill Mazeroski and center fielder Matty Alou. During the game, teammates are reported to have commented to Ellis on the bench between innings that he was pitching a no-hitter, despite the superstition that discourages mentioning a no-hitter while it is in progress. Because the no-hitter was the first game of a double header, Ellis was forced to keep track of the pitch count for the night game.
Read Dock Ellis' career statistics, free from baseball-almanac.com.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Attention Students: The front parking lot nearest the new Performing Arts Center is for staff and visitor parking ONLY. Students MAY NOT park in this lot.
Attention Students and Staff: Starting March 15th, cars that do not have a City permit will receive warnings if parked on Meyers Drive. Starting April 1 they will be ticketed. The City’s parking plan includes paid parking around the BART station, and as part of this plan Meyers Drive will become a permit-only parking area, with non-permitted cars limited to two hours.
CSF registration is taking place this week. See Mr. Ustick in Room 456. Bring your CSF letter.
Staff Sergeant Crockett from the Air Force will be in Colt Court today during lunch.
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By Farah Habad, Courier Staff Writer
This past Saturday, the James Logan forensics team hosted the Golden Gate Speech Association state qualifying tournament at Alvarado Middle School. Hundreds of students from dozens of schools came to the tournament in hopes of attending the 2010 California High School Speech Association State Championships.
Rounds began at 10 am, and lasted until 6pm, with students speaking their hearts out in hopes of hoisting the qualifier trophy. The Logan team is notorious for sweeping this tournament, and this year was no different. Logan had at least two qualifiers in each of the events with a grand total of 36 qualifiers in individual events.
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Stargazer by Claudia Gray
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: HarperTeen
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061284408
ISBN-13: 978-0061284403“At midnight, the storm arrived. Dark clouds scudded across the sky, blotting out the stars. The quickening wind chilled me as strands of my red hair blew across my forehead and cheeks. I pulled up the hood of my black raincoat and tucked my messenger bag beneath it. Despite the gathering storm, the grounds of Evernight still weren't completely dark. Nothing less than total darkness would do. Evernight Academy's teachers could see in the night and hear through the wind. All vampires could. Of course, at Evernight, the teachers weren't the only vampires. When the school year began in a couple of days, the students would arrive, most of them as powerful, ancient, and undead as the professors. I wasn't powerful or ancient, and I was still very much alive. But I was a vampire, in a way—born to two vampires, destined to become one myself eventually, and with my own appetite for blood. I'd slipped past the teachers before, trusting in my own powers to help me, as well as some dumb luck. But tonight I waited for that darkness. I wanted as much cover as possible. I guess I was nervous about my first burglary.”
Stargazer is the second book in the
Evernight series of teen vampire books written by Claudia Gray . Beyond being the title of the series, Evernight is an old, creepy looking school in which the series of stories is centered.Gray describes the school as an ancient, gothic- looking place, but if you read the first book you know that’s because the school is full of vampires.
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From wikipedia:
Hallie Quinn Brown (March 10, 1849 – September 16, 1949) was an African American educator, writer and activist. She attended Wilberforce University in Ohio, gaining a Bachelor of Science degree. After graduating she became a teacher and later returned to Wilberforce to teach. Throughout her life, Brown was an activist for civil rights for women and African Americans.
Read Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction, by Hallie Q. Brown, free from the University of North Carolina.
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Attention Students: The front parking lot nearest the new Performing Arts Center is for staff and visitor parking ONLY. Students MAY NOT park in this lot.
CSF registration is taking place this week. See Mr. Ustick in Room 456. Bring your CSF letter.
Drop-In homework/tutoring in Room 77. Daily before school 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Tuesday-Friday 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., and Saturdays 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Need Drivers Education? Your place is the Adult School! Cost is $125. April 5, 6 & 7, M – W, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details. Hurry, classes fill up fast!
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Bioshock 2
For: Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC
From: 2K Marin/Digital Extremes/2K
Games ESRB Rating: Mature (blood,
intense violence, sexual themes,
strong language)
The game-playing public spent roughly two years wringing its collective hands over why anyone would dare make a sequel to a game so perfectly complete as "Bioshock."
2K Marin, which assumed primary development duties this time around, needs roughly five minutes to render that worry mostly worthless.
This isn't to say the worries lacked any merit. "Bioshock 2's" storyline picks up 10 years later, but a decade isn't nearly enough time to dramatically change the landscape in Rapture, the brilliantly-realized underwater not-quite-utopia that supplied the stage for "Bioshock's"
arguably groundbreaking storytelling. The sequel takes players into new areas of Rapture, but the overall visual presentation, combined with a reliance on the same mechanics that made "Bioshock" its own creation, can't help but leave "Bioshock 2" feeling superficially like an imitation product barreling down pre-blazed trails.
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From wikipedia:
Ornette Coleman (born March 9, 1930) is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s.
Coleman's timbre is easily recognized: his keening, crying sound draws heavily on blues music. His album
Sound Grammar received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music.
Early career
Coleman was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, where he began performing R&B and bebop initially on tenor saxophone. Seeking a way to work his way out of his home town, he took a job in 1949 with a Silas Green from New Orleans traveling show and then with touring rhythm and blues shows. After a show in Baton Rouge, he was assaulted and his saxophone was destroyed.
Learn more about Ornette Coleman at ornettecoleman.com.
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P.E. Clothes and BART tickets will only be sold after school from 3:30 to 4:00 p.m. No exceptions! Plan ahead! Check or EXACT CHANGE ONLY.
Attention TAs – Most TA passes are ready to be picked up from Mrs. Whitaker in the main office.
Drop-In homework/tutoring in Room 77. Daily before school 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Tuesday-Friday 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., and Saturdays 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Need Drivers Education? Your place is the Adult School! Cost is $125. April 5, 6 & 7, M – W, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details. Hurry, classes fill up fast!
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Cupcakes Created by Idle Hands Baking Co.
image:idlehandsbakingcompany.com
For my birthday, I was treated to a vegan cake and cupcakes, all of which were delightfully decadent and rich. The company supplying my tasty treats was Idle Hands Baking Company, based in Oakland. The company features an extensive, completely vegan-friendly selection of everything from peanut butter cupcakes to strawberry shortcake. The company was started and is currently run by Rachael Devlin, it's self-taught sole proprietor, whose environmentally conscious outlook and love of baking have created a sustainable and delicious small business. I had the chance to interview her, and her well-formed opinions and personal experience have showed me that you can get a job or start a business where you can get paid the big bucks and still love what you do, all while lightening your carbon footprint, so right on!
What made you decide to start your own baking company?
When I was 23 I started a vegan donut business with a friend. After moving on from that, it was only natural that I would do my own thing.
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From wikipedia:
Mississippi John Hurt (July 3, 1893 or March 8, 1892 — November 2, 1966) was an influential country blues singer and guitarist. He sang in a loud whisper, to a melodious finger-picked guitar accompaniment.
Born John Smith Hurt in Teoc, Carroll County, Mississippi and raised in Avalon, Mississippi, Hurt learned to play guitar at age 9. He spent much of his youth playing old time music for friends and dances, earning a living as a farm hand into the 1920s. In 1923 he partnered with the fiddle player Willie Narmour as a substitute for his regular partner Shell Smith. When Narmour got a chance to record for Okeh Records as a prize for winning first place in a 1928 fiddle contest, Narmour recommended John Hurt to Okeh Records producer Tommy Rockwell.
Read an interview with Mississippi John Hurt.
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Drop-In homework/tutoring in Room 77. Daily before school 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Tuesday-Friday 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., and Saturdays 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Need Drivers Education? Your place is the Adult School! Cost is $125. April 5, 6 & 7, M – W, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details. Hurry, classes fill up fast!
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Bubble Jim by Sabina Singh,
Courier Comics Editor
It's a Lulu, by Lulu Zhong,
Courier Staff Artist
Wonderful World by Laurel Brodzinsky, Courier Staff Writer/Artist
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From wikipedia:
Lee Young (March 7, 1914 – July 31, 2008) was an American jazz drummer and singer.
Young was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. His older brother was famed saxophonist Lester Young.
In 1944 he was the drummer at Norman Granz's first Jazz at the Philharmonic concert, which also featured guitarist Les Paul, trombonist J.J. Johnson, and saxophonist Jean-Baptiste "Illinois" Jacquet, amongst others.
Read Lee Young's obituary in the New York Times.
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By Marc Benjamin
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
FRESNO, Calif. — Three students at Clovis West High School thought it was the perfect prank — a fake Facebook page for Principal Ben Drati.
The teens didn't make a serious effort to hide the comical intent of the page, which first surfaced in October. One entry, for example, told students that if they disliked the mega-hit vampire flick "Twilight," they should "get the hell out of Clovis West."
Drati, however, was not amused. In a district document provided to the families, he contended the Facebook page stole his identity and threatened his authority at the school, which is in Fresno.
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From wikipedia:
Furry Lewis (March 6, 1893 - September 14, 1981) was a country blues guitarist and songwriter from Memphis, Tennessee. Lewis was one of the first of the old-time blues musicians of the 1920s to be brought out of retirement, and given a new lease of recording life, by the folk blues revival of the 1960s.
Walter E. Lewis was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, but his family moved to Memphis when he was aged seven. Lewis acquired the nickname "Furry" from childhood playmates.
Read more about Furry Lewis and listen to samples of his music, free from the National Park Service.
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By Eric Brown, Courier Music Editor
I am a native son of Union City, California. This means that as a senior at James Logan High School I am nearing the completion of my thirteenth school year in the New Haven Unified School District system. The time I have spent undergoing my primary public education has been undeniably formative, but it has also been filled with chaos and vast shortcomings. New Haven Unified has done its job as a center of public education, giving me a satisfactory education using taxpayer dollars. However, when I begin to question the vast potential of the educational opportunities the district has squandered, both for myself and my fellow classmates, I am awestruck; the whims of a handful of irresponsible board members and superintendents have negatively affected and damaged the educations of thousands of Union City students for more than a decade.
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Image: http://www.papillonrestaurant.com
Before entering the Papillon, you may be apprehensive about the restaurant's possibly pompous or extravagant environment. The restaurant is altogether the opposite. Stepping inside, you will be greeted by obliging, friendly waiters and your uneasiness will most likely disappear as mine had. This was Friday night when my boyfriend took me out to dinner here, and the wait to be seated was only about 5 minutes. Looking around the restaurant I noticed the customers at the bar and tables were laughing and talking comfortably. No one was dressed overly fancy, so in general I felt no sense of arrogance in the environment. Their choice of paintings, intricate wallpaper, ornate ceiling fans, and the overall color themes within the separate rooms were all tastefully put together and created a pleasant atmosphere for dining with friends, family, or a date.
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By Shamal Asnani, Courier Film Critic
Anyone who is looking to watch a movie that will take them through a rollercoaster of action and violence should definitely check out From Paris with Love, starring John Travolta, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. The movie was released February 5, 2010, and follows James Reece (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), who is a personal assistant to the U.S. ambassador of France. Although that is his primary job, he takes great pride in his side job as a low level operative for the CIA. Because he is a low level operative, he strives to receive a higher position in the CIA, and immediately jumps at the opportunity when he is offered his first high leveled assignment, however, he is caught off guard when he learns his partner is Charlie Wax (John Travolta), a rebellious, loudmouth, unorthodox, and extremely violent operative. To make matters even worse for Reece, he discovers that Wax and he are working to prevent a terrorist attack from occurring, and that he himself is also a target of the crime.
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By Alexa Rocero, Courier Staff Writer
This past weekend, I went to watch the movie
Legion. Now, going into the theater, I had very high hopes. After watching the Red Band trailer online and looking up the movie's basic plot, I was highly anticipating a film of epic proportions. Perhaps I was hyping it up too much.
Personally, I find movies that deal with some kind of apocalypse fascinating, and Legion's story line of a "war against God" promised 2 hours of action and thought-provoking dialogue. Unfortunately, what the audience got more of were plot holes, covered up by overly dramatic, so-profound-it-will-go-in-the-trailer line after line.
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From wikipedia:
Tommy Tucker (born Robert Higginbotham, 5 March 1933 - 22 January 1982) was an American blues singer-songwriter and pianist. He was born in Springfield, Ohio. He is best known for the 1964 hit song, "Hi-Heel Sneakers", that went to number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Tucker's follow-up release, "Long Tall Shorty", was less successful. Nevertheless, famous musicians that have played on his albums include Louisiana Red, Willie Dixon and Donny Hathaway.
Listen to Tommy Tucker perform "High Heel Sneakers, free from last.fm.
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Courier Staff Report
James Logan's students, teachers and administrators joined others around the state in protesting ongoing cuts to education budgets and the resulting crowded classrooms, reductions in services and staff lay-offs besetting the high school and other education institutions.
The day started with teachers passing out protest fliers (right) to parents and others as they dropped students off for their day at school.
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By Alyssa Pimentel, Courier School News Editor
The semi-annual musical presented by the drama and choir program,
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, was a hilarious treat for the audience.
The musical was about six kids competing in the spelling bee, all hoping to be the winner. Each character’s background story was performed as an aside as the spelling bee competition progressed.
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By Megha Satyanarayana and Jennifer Squires
Santa Cruz Sentinel (MCT)
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — The student-led strike and campus shutdown at the University of California, Santa Cruz, continued Thursday with a rally at the main campus entrance in which students with signs, drums and bullhorns marched down the street, carrying with them a giant paper puppet of the school's mascot, the banana slug, covered in slogans decrying privatization of the University of California system. Cars drove by, honking in support.
Speakers from university unions, faculty and grass-roots organizations congratulated the roughly 200 students, staff and faculty for their role in shutting down campus.
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Logan Senior Jared Espinoza discusses
education cuts with teacher Brenda
Moreno, who distributed fliers on
Thursday. Courier Staff Photo
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Attention AP Students: Time to sign up for AP testing. Come to the main office between February 22 and March 12. See Sarah Muse to pay for your exams at lunch or after school until 4:15. Your AP teacher has detailed information.
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Kevin Notohamiprodjo
and Eric Brown
Hubert Notohamiprodjo photo
February 18 to 21 was the 2010 CBDA All State Honor Band convention, where the best players of the state accepted by audition met in Fresno and after an intense few days of practicing performed a concert.
Eric Brown and Kevin Notohamiprodjo from James Logan participated in the event. It was Notohamiprodjo’s first year accepted, and Brown’s second, though they are both seniors. Brown plays B-flat clarinet and E-flat clarinet; Notohamiprodjo plays bassoon and piano.
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By Farah Habad, Courier Staff Writer
Chris Brown released his newest mixtape a few weeks ago, and, mind you, I've been a Chris Brown basher since the first time I heard his high pitched wail that passes for singing.
Things change. I downloaded his mixtape "In My Zone" last night and I was blown away. I actually listened to the entire thing and I did not have suicidal thoughts afterward. In fact, I even enjoyed it!
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From wikipedia:
Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr. (March 4, 1877 - August 27, 1963) was an African American inventor who originated a respiratory protective hood (similar to the modern gas masks), credited with being the inventor of the traffic light for which he holds a patent, and invented a hair-straightening preparation. He is renowned for a heroic rescue in which he used his hood to save workers trapped in a tunnel system filled with fumes. He is credited as the first African-American in Cleveland to own an automobile.
Read about Garrett Morgan's rescue of trapped workers, and the racism that kept him from getting his due praise for heroism.
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Amy Koss is the author
of Side Effects and other
novels for young adults.
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
As a novelist, I am used to having complete control over the world on my computer screen. Life, death, sin, redemption: My characters' lives are in my hands. But last week, I got yet another reminder of my utter powerlessness once the book leaves home. Amazon.com took away my "buy" button.
I'm not the only author I know who obsessively checks her Amazon rankings. It's not that I have any real idea what they mean: how they translate into how many books have sold or what kind of royalties I can expect. Nevertheless, I compare my numbers with those of my friends and enemies, charting the ups and downs and drinking accordingly.
Evernight by Claudia Gray
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: HarperTeen (May 27, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061284394
ISBN-13: 978-0061284397,
Courier Books Editor
Fire. The old, dry wood of the meetinghouse ignited in an instant. Dark, oily smoke filled the air, scratching my lungs and making me choke. Around me, my new friends cried out in shock before grabbing weapons, preparing to fight for their lives. This is because of me. Arrow after arrow sliced through the air, stoking the flames higher. Through the haze of ash, I desperately sought Lucas's eyes. I knew he would protect me no matter what, but he was in danger, too. If something happened to Lucas while he was trying to rescue me, I could never forgive myself. Coughing from the soot-thick air, I grabbed Lucas's hand and ran with him toward the door. But they were ready for us. Silhouetted against the flames, a dark, forbidding line of figures stood just beyond the edge of the meetinghouse. None of them brandished weapons; they didn't have to in order to make their threat clear. They had come for me. They had come to punish Lucas for breaking their rules. They had come to kill. This is all happening because of me. If Lucas dies, it will be my fault. There was nowhere to go, no place to run. We couldn't remain here, not with the blaze around us roaring, already so hot that it stung my skin. Soon the ceiling would collapse and crush us all. Outside, the vampires waited."
I know I put in a long quote this time, but that is only because this book has so much in it and everything written is just so empowering. This book, the first in a series, is truly spectacular. I could easily see this being just as big as
Twilight if more people hear about it.
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Attention AP Students: Time to sign up for AP testing. Come to the main office between February 22 and March 12. See Sarah Muse to pay for your exams at lunch or after school until 4:15. Your AP teacher has detailed information.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
Forced because of the ongoing state financial crisis to make another round of drastic budget cuts, the Board of Education on Tuesday night accepted a recommendation that will save – for only one year, unless a new revenue stream is identified – the co-curricular and extra-curricular activities that are so vital to the New Haven community.
The Board approved staff recommendations totaling $3.6 million in new reductions for 2010-11, on top of $1.6 million in reductions previously approved for next year. As a result, class sizes will be larger in kindergarten through third grade in 2010-11, and the District no longer will offer transportation for elementary and middle school students.
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Adapted from wikipedia:
Margaret Allison Bonds (March 3,1913 – April 26,1972) was an American composer and pianist. One of the first black composers and performers to gain recognition in the United States, she is best remembered today for her frequent collaborations with Langston Hughes.
A native of Chicago, Bonds grew up in a home visited by many of the leading black intellectuals of the era; among houseguests were soprano Abbie Mitchell and composers Florence Price and Will Marion Cook. Bonds showed an early aptitude for composition, writing her first work, Marquette Street Blues, at the age of five. Her first study in music came when she took piano lessons from her mother. While still in school, she studied composition with Price and with William Dawson. Bonds worked as an accompanist for dances and singers in various shows and supper clubs around Chicago; she also copied music parts for other composers, and became involved with the National Association of Negro Musicians.
Listen to a sample of Margaret Allison Bonds performing.
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Attention AP Students: Time to sign up for AP testing. Come to the main office between February 22 and March 12. See Sarah Muse to pay for your exams at lunch or after school until 4:15. Your AP teacher has detailed information.
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By Ocar Avila
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
CHICAGO — Kitchen worker Carlos Garcia envies the waiters who make more money and suffer fewer aches than those like him in the "back of the house." The very term, common in restaurants, speaks to a divide that is conspicuous yet often overlooked by diners.
The division of labor plays out in Chicago steakhouses and sports pubs: Taking the order or seating the clients is the girl next door or a suave older man, most likely white, while a cadre of young Mexican men construct the meal behind the scenes.
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Dante's Inferno
Reviewed for: Playstation 3 and
Xbox 360 Also available for: PSP
From: Visceral Games/EA
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore,
intense violence, nudity, sexual content)
It isn't very original to half-dismiss "Dante's Inferno" as a "God of War" knockoff, but guess what? "Dante's Inferno" isn't very original, either, because guess what? In every way beyond the source material that inspired its storyline, "Inferno" is the "God of War" knockoff to end all "God of War" knockoffs.
It's good to preface this by stating that this isn't necessarily a bad thing or even a criticism, because for the most part, "Inferno" pays pretty good tribute to the game that so obviously provided its blueprint. Dante executes his arsenal of moves with the same fluidity as does Kratos, and "Inferno" tosses nine circles' worth of demons, behemoths and the damned at him without any wear whatsoever on the action, which cruises along at the same rock steady frame rate for which "War" is so well known (and, to Visceral Games' credit, few "War" imitators get remotely right).
Though some will never see the transformation of the 14,000-line, 14th century Divine Comedy into a high-octane video game as anything short of blasphemous (and though they certainly have an argument), "Inferno" doesn't trample the poem's memory as it so easily could.
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Haotian Wang (left) and Christina Wang
Courier Staff Photos
The National Merit Scholarship is one of the most prestigious and acknowledged awards for students, but is also one of the simplest to qualify for. Christina Chang and Haotian Wang, both seniors at James Logan, are both National Merit Finalists.
To qualify for the scholarship, you must be a US citizen or legal resident and take the PSAT/NMSQT no later than your junior year in high school. This test is commonly taken as preparation for the SAT, which is used in college admittance, but the high scores of every year are also all it takes to be in the first cut of National Merit students. The PSAT measures critical reading, math problem solving skills, and writing skills.
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From wikipedia:
Edward Davis (March 2, 1922–November 3, 1986), who performed and recorded as Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
He played with Cootie Williams, Lucky Millinder, Andy Kirk, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie, as well as leading his own bands and making many recordings as a leader. He played in the swing, bop, hard bop, Latin jazz, and soul jazz genres. Some of his recordings of the 1940s also could be classified as rhythm and blues.
His 1946 band, Eddie Davis and His Beboppers, featured Fats Navarro, Al Haig, Huey Long, Gene Ramey and Denzil Best.
Watch Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis perform with Count Basie, free from YouTube.com.
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Congratulations to the Varsity Wrestling Team as they earned a Third Place Banner at the NCS Wrestling Championships this past weekend. Congratulations to Danny Mai, NCS Champion; Toni Pole, Runner-Up, Allen Chan, 3rd; Artemio Flores, 4th, and Matt Haney 5th. Top 4 qualify for the State Meet next weekend!
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Ralph Ellison (March 1,1913 – April 16, 1994) was a scholar and writer. He was born Ralph Waldo Ellison in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, named by his father after Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ellison was best known for his novel
Invisible Man (ISBN 0-679-60139-2), which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote
Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social and critical essays, and
Going to the Territory (1986). Research by Lawrence Jackson, Ellison's biographer, has established that he was born a year earlier than had been previously thought.
Read The Paris Review's interview with Ralph Ellison.
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