Benazir Bhutto
wikipedia photo>By VOA News
Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis crowded an emotional funeral Friday for assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Throngs of people lined the streets as the coffin holding Ms. Bhutto's body was taken to her final resting place and lowered into a grave next to her father at the family mausoleum in southern Sindh province.
Angry Bhutto supporters continued street protests Friday - attacking police stations and government offices, and torching cars. At least 23 people have died since Ms. Bhutto was killed on Thursday.
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By Samuel Jue, Courier Sports Editor
The James Logan
Boys Basketball(7-3) team currently own a three-game win streak and have won seven of their last eight games, which featured winning their first league game over Irvington on Dec. 18. The Colts have rebounded well after dropping their first two games to Castro Valley and Monte Vista. In the Overall Standings, Logan rank 2nd behind Newark Memorial(7-1). They are currently playing in the Torrey Pines Tournament. Logan’s next home game is on Jan. 4 when they host Kennedy.
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From wikipedia:
Nichelle Nichols (born Grace Nichols on December 28, 1932) is an American singer, actress, and voice actress. She sang with Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton before turning to acting. Her most famous role may be that of communications officer Lieutenant Uhura aboard the USS Enterprise in the popular
Star Trek television series, as well as the succeeding motion picture spinoffs, where her character was eventually promoted in Starfleet to the rank of commander. In 2006, she added executive producer to her resume.
Nichols was born in Robbins, Illinois, near Chicago, to Lishia Parks and Samuel Earl Nichols, a factory worker who was both the town mayor of Robbins and its chief magistrate. She studied in Chicago as well as New York and Los Angeles. During her time in New York, Nichols appeared at the famous "Blue Angel" and Playboy Clubs, as a singer. She also appeared in the role of Carmen for a Chicago stock company production of
Carmen Jones. Between acting and singing engagements, Nichols did occasional modeling work. She posed in a 1960 catalog for Hollywood fetish clothing seller Fine Craft, Inc. She also did a provocative layout in the December 1960 issue of the men's magazine
Escapade. And in January 1967 she was featured on the cover of
Ebony magazine.
Visit Nichelle Nichol's official website, uhura.com.
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Rihanna and Soulja Boy
wikipedia photos,
Courier Special Correspondent
As the year is coming to an end, it is time to reflect. From Rihanna to Hannah Montana, there have been a handful of stand-outs this year.
The No. 1 single of the year belongs to "Umbrella" by Rihanna (featuring Jay-Z). That song blew up the charts all around the world. On the radio stations, it was hard to get away from the catchy beat of "stand under my umbrella-ella-ella, eh-eh-eh." Besides, who could do it better than Rihanna? Becasuse of her smash hit single, she is beginning to become a household name.
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By Julia Prodis Sulek, Barbara Feder Ostrov, Kim Vo and Leslie Griffy
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)
Family and friends of Carlos Sousa Jr. gathered at his mother's San Jose, Calif., apartment Wednesday, devastated and angry that he was mauled to death by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day.
His parents said they didn't know the 17-year-old junior at Independence High School was the victim of the mauling until the San Francisco coroner's office called Wednesday morning.
"I can't believe it," said father, Carlos Sousa Sr. "I just want to wake up tomorrow and start all over again. This never should have happened."
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From wikipedia:
Sir George Cayley, 6th Baronet (December 27, 1773 – December 15, 1857)"Father of Aerodynamics" was a prolific English engineer from Brompton-by-Sawdon, near Scarborough in Yorkshire. He was a pioneer of aeronautical engineering, though he worked over a century before the development of powered flight. He served for the Whig party as Member of Parliament for Scarborough from 1832 to 1835, and helped found the Royal Polytechnic Institution (now University of Westminster), serving as its chairman for many years. He was a founding member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and was a distant cousin of the mathematician Arthur Cayley.
Learn more about Sir George Cayley's early glider designs, free from flyingmachines.org.
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Note: Each week, The Courier spotlights books newly arrived, or expected to arrive, in the James Logan Media Center.
Dairy Queen, by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Graphia; 288 edition (June 4, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0618863354
ISBN-13: 978-0618863358
From the publisher:
When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.
Welcome to the summer that D.J. Schwenk of Red Bend, Wisconsin, learns to talk, and ends up having an awful lot of stuff to say. In Dairy Queen, an extraordinary debut novel full of humor, football, and dairy farming, Catherine Gilbert Murdock introduces one of the most likable young adult heroines to come along in quite some time.
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The Watchmen graphic novel is being
made into a film due in 2009.
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — The graphic novel, whose secret identity is a lengthy comic book, has grown up.
Why? The appeal of graphic novels now stretches well beyond these books' traditional market of teenagers and 20-something males.
The popularity has surfaced in movie theaters. Films such as "X-Men," "30 Days of Night," "Sin City," and "300" all had their origins in graphic novels, regular comic books, or both.
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Apple's iPhone is the coolest
With the New Year upon us, our thoughts turn to bubbles and the year that was.
To many observers, 2007 was a cork-popper on par with the last tech bubble, which had its influential and enduring byproducts — Google, foremost among them — and many more flashes that quickly faded. Kozmo.com ring a bell?
So, what of 2007 will have a lasting impact and what will drift quietly into obscurity?
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Plastic clamshell packaging
can be a challenge to open.
ORLANDO, Fla. — On Christmas morning, Lisa Addy's Orlando house resembles an assembly line. Her 5-year-old daughter unwraps a present, then hands it to Addy or her husband to open, a task that increasingly involves tools more suited for an electrician than a child.
"The worst I have found is the Barbies or any doll packaging," said Addy, 39. "Because they sew the hair to the box. You have to cut out the plastic things, so you get your wire cutters. And they have a wire wrapped around each wrist and ankle and sometimes around the body of the doll. I don't understand what the point is."
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From wikipedia:
Evangeline Cory Booth (December 25, 1865 – July 17, 1950) was the 4th General of The Salvation Army (1934-1939).
She was born in South Hackney, London, England, the seventh of eight children born to William Booth and Catherine Mumford, who had earlier in the year founded The Christian Mission, which became The Salvation Army in 1878.
In 1887, at 21 years of age, she became the officer of the corps in Marylebone. She was appointed as Field Commissioner throughout Great Britain in 1888. She served that post until 1891, when her father appointed her to train cadets in London.
Read The War Romance of the Salvation Army by Evangeline Booth and Grace Livingston Hill, free from Project Gutenberg.
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By Christine Surna Khayat, Courier Staff Writer
This time of year can seem extremely overwhelming to many of us. Winter Break is here, which means mass amounts of family get togethers and other plans we may find difficult to follow through with. Not to mention the fact that the semester is coming to an end, and the stresses of finals and other work may be building up. The realization that the school year is nearly half over shocks many of us, and relieves others.
Regardless, each and every one of us, during our lives, encounter obligations, from spending time with our families and friends, to being present at important functions in the lives of the people who we care for and who form our community. Often, these obligations are actually fun and fulfilling, and we want to be there. At the same time, we all sometimes experience resistance to meeting these obligations, especially when they pile up all at once and we begin to feel exhausted, longing for nothing so much as a quiet evening at home. At times like these, we may want to say no but feel too guilty at the idea of not being there. Still, our primary obligation is to take care of ourselves, and if saying no to someone else is what we have to do, then we do not need to feel bad about it.
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From wikipedia:
George Crabbe (December 24, 1754 - February 3, 1832) was an English poet and naturalist.
He was born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, the son of a tax collector, and developed his love of poetry as a child. In 1768 he was apprenticed to a local doctor, who taught him little, and in 1771 he changed masters and moved to Woodbridge. There he met his future wife, Sarah Elmy, who accepted his proposal and had the faith and patience not only to wait for Crabbe but to encourage his verse writing. His first major work, a poem entitled "Inebriety", was self-published in 1775. By this time he had completed his medical training, and had decided to take up writing seriously. In 1780, he went to London, where he had little success, but eventually made an impression on Edmund Burke, who helped him have his poem,
The Library, published in 1781. In the meantime, Crabbe's religious nature had made itself felt, and he was ordained a clergyman and became chaplain to the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire.
Read George Crabbe's book of poetry, The Library, one of
seven of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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By Samuel Jue, Courier Sports Editor
Logan Girl's Soccer team capitalized on Mission San Jose’s ignorance of a referee’s warning to finish the game in a 2-2 tie on the road Tuesday night.
Chris Garingan had a goal and an assist and Jody Leung and Celena Allen also picked up points in the stalemate.
Logan drew first blood as Garingan connected on a goal from a Leung pass to give the Colts a 1-0 lead inside the first fifteen minutes of play.
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[Insert Catchy Title] by The Cartoonminator
Peanut Butter and Jelly by Raman Rataul (Originally appeared Dec. 23, 2006)
Foofy Express, by Bryant Yuen (Originally appeared Dec. 23, 2006)
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Vernon Eddins' middle
school graduation picture
Police have identified the James Logan High School freshman murdered on the Barnard-White Middle School campus Friday as Vernon Matthew Eddins.
According to school and police officials, Eddins was murdered shortly after school was dismissed at the middle school on Whipple by a gunman who was part of a group of Latino students who were confronting a group of black students. One of the Latino students pulled a handgun and shot at least twice, hitting Eddins in the chest.
Despite attempts to keep him alive, he died on the doorstep of the Barnard-White administration office.
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From wikipedia:
Otto Soglow (December 23, 1900-April 3, 1975) was an American cartoonist best known for his comic strip The Little King.
Born in Yorkville, Manhattan, Soglow studied with John Sloan at the Art Students League of New York. He published his first cartoon in 1919 and throughout the 1920s he published them in numerous magazines. Most notably he was a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, where his character The Little King first appeared in 1931.
Read more about Otto Soglow and his comic strip, The Little King, free from Toonopedia.com.
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Compiled from staff and wire reports
A 14-year-old James Logan freshman died at the entrance of Barnard-White Middle School after being shot in the chest in what may be the latest episode of an ongoing race-based gang war in the community.
The freshman, whose name The Courier is withholding until it is officially released by the police department, was gunned down just outside the Barnard-White administration office, where efforts to save his life failed.
Anyone with information regarding this incident should call the Union City Police Department at 510-471-1365.
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Courier Opinion Editor and bassist David Collins,
and fellow senior Kyle Chan on lead guitar helped
entertain the crowd at the first assembly.
Courier Photo,
Courier Managing Editor
The talent show that Logan put on for the students the Friday before winter break began this afternoon was perhaps their best effort yet. Not only were each of the acts enjoyable to watch for all involved, they were diverse as well. From Tahitian dancers to beat boxing to amazing cover songs, the performers were talented and obviously prepared. The sound system in the Pavilion was also up to the challenge, which meant that, for once, it was actually possible to hear the acts introduced as well as to hear the performers sing (if their act involved singing).
While in past years there have been many complaints about poor acoustics, poor performances and just poor planning in general, this year gave very few things at which to nit-pick.
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From wikipedia:
Frank Billings Kellogg (December 22, 1856 – December 21, 1937) was an American lawyer, politician and statesman who served in the U.S. Senate and as U.S. Secretary of State. He co-authored the Kellogg-Briand Pact, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1929.
He was born in Potsdam, New York, and his family moved to Minnesota in 1865. He began practicing law in Rochester, Minnesota, in 1877. He was city attorney of Rochester 1878 – 1881 and county attorney for Olmsted County, Minnesota, from 1882 – 1887. He moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1887.
Read Frank B. Kellogg's Acceptance Speech on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1929, free from NobelPrize.org.
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Courier Staff Report
The killing of a Union City boy near Barnard-White Middle School prompted Logan Principal Don Montoya to tell his staff to be especially vigilant as school let out for a long winter holiday.
Without mentioning the specific school site or circumstances, Montoya told the Logan teachers to stand at their classroom doors for at least 10 minutes after the 3:30 dismissal time because of a fatal shooting at Barnard-White Middle School.
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By Christina La,
Courier Editor-in-Chief
I Am Legend directed by Francis Lawrence, is set in a spooky empty future Manhattan of New York. The stunning glimpses of what a city could look like when a plague wipes out human life are around every corner - forests of weeds thrusting through city pavement, disrepair and emptiness in the streets.
The story shows three years earlier, when doctors came up with a cure for cancer. It worked but unleashed another more virulent plague, which may have killed 90% of the world’s population.
Robert Neville (Will Smith) is the last man on earth as far as he can tell. As a scientist, he continues to search for a cure. As a man, he’s searching for a human companionship, food, and safety.
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From wikipedia:
Cicely (changed to
Cicily)
Isabel Fairfield (December 21, 1892–March 15, 1983), better known by her pen name
Dame Rebecca West, DBE, was a British-Irish suffragist and writer famous for her novels, literary criticism, travel literature and for her relationship with H. G. Wells. A prolific, protean author, she wrote for The New Yorker, The
New Republic, The Sunday Telegraph, and
The New York Herald Tribune. She also was an important correspondent for
The Bookman.
Read The Return of the Soldier, by Rebecca West, free from Google Books.
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Turkey with Mashed Potatoes and Gravy,
Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
Logan’s “Laughing All The Way”, Improv’s first show of the year is TONIGHT at 7 pm in the Little Theater. Doors open at 6:30.
Don’t be caught cold without a James Logan beanie on your head! Come to the Colt Necessities Store, located in the Career Center during both lunches.
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By Rechie Cruz, Courier Staff Writer
As of this moment, there are 4036 students attending classes at Logan.
The result is crowding in the hallways and people bumping into one another.
There has been much controversy on whether James Logan should be the only high school in this area. Is it possible that Union City might need another high school? Can construction of another campus be a more effective way of making more room at Logan?
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By Marijke Rowland
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
Not too many bands have hit singles before they have albums out.
And not too many hit singles break Billboard chart records before the bands behind them are even household names.
But that's the unusual road OneRepublic is on with the unexpected cart-before-the-horse success of its debut single, "Apologize." The Los Angeles-based band, formed in 2004, broke the one-week Top 40 airplay record with more than 10,600 spins (besting Nelly Furtado's previous record of 10,330). A remix of the sensitive single with hot producer/rapper Timbaland hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent 16 weeks on the charts. The band's debut album, "Dreaming Out Loud," was released Nov. 20.
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Apple Computer Inc. (MCT)
Top 10 albums on iTunes Music Store for Dec. 11:
1. "Noel," Josh Groban
2. "Let It Snow!" Michael Buble
3. "Christmas #1's," various artists
4. "Dreaming Out Loud," OneRepublic
5. "As I Am," Alicia Keys
6. "Audio Day Dream," Blake Lewis
7. "Christmas with the Rat Pack," Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr.
8. "Carnival, Vol. 11: Memoirs of an Immigrant," Wyclef Jean
9. "A Charlie Brown Christmas," Vince Guaraldi Trio
10. "August Rush (Music from the Motion Picture)," various artists
For more information, please visit the iTunes Web site at www.apple.com/itunes/.
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
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From wikipedia:
Moss Hart (1904 – December 20, 1961) was an American playwright and director of plays and musical theater. Hart recalled his youth, early career and rise to fame in his autobiography,
Act One, adapted to film in 1963, with George Hamilton portraying Hart.
Hart grew up at 74 East 105th Street in Manhattan, “a neighborhood not of carriages and hansom cabs, but of dray wagons, pushcarts, and immigrants” (Bach 1). Early on he had a strong relationship with his Aunt Kate, whom he later lost contact with because of a falling out between her and his parents, and her weakening mental state. She got him interested in the theater and took him to see performances often. Hart even went so far as to create an "alternate ending" to her life in his book
Act One. He writes that she died while he was working on out-of-town tryouts for
The Beloved Bandit. Later, Kate became quite eccentric, vandalizing Hart's home, writing threatening letters and setting fires backstage during rehearsals for
Jubilee. But his relationship with Kate was life-forming. He understood that the theater made possible "the art of being somebody else… not a scrawny boy with bad teeth, a funny name… and a mother who was a distant drudge." (Bach 13).
Read more about Moss Hart and the stamp in his honor, free from the U.S. Postal Service.
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By Rick La Plante,
New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
The Board of Education on Tuesday night received an update on the New Haven Strategic Plan and approved minor changes suggested by the Planning Team, which reassembled last month to review progress made during the first two years of the plan and consider whether revisions were necessary.
The 25-member team of students, parents, teachers, classified employees administrators and other community members - the majority of whom were members of the original Planning Team in 2005, reiterated and validated the Strategic Plan. The team recommended that implementation continue on existing elements rather than adding any new initiatives.
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By Sarena Bains, Courier Staff Writer
Jasmine, by Bharati Mukherjee
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Grove Press (April 5, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0802136303
ISBN-13: 978-0802136305
In the novel
Jasmine, by Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine "Jyoti" is born in a village in Punjab and like most Indian women, she is controlled and dominated by her father and brothers.
This is taken place in 1989, following the establishment of independence in India. However, Jasmine marries a modern and educated husband with a United States based modern‑thinking. He establishes his dreams upon her to study American things.
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By Vicente Marcelo, Courier Sports Writer
The James Logan boy’s basketball team opened up the league with a win over Irvington High. They won by a score of 70-61.
Logan jumped out to a 20-12 lead in the first quarter and maintained that intensity. The Colts took advantage of Irvington mistakes, scoring on all five Vikings' turnovers in the first quarter. Irvington turned the ball over 21 times overall.
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Chicken Caesar Wrap, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
All-Veggie Pizza
ACTIVITIES:
Logan’s “Laughing All The Way”, Improv’s first show of the year is this Friday at 7 pm in the Little Theater. Doors open at 6:30. Tickets are $3 in advance, $5 at the door.
Don’t be caught cold without a James Logan beanie on your head! Come to the Colt Necessities Store, located in the Career Center during both lunches.
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By Abhishek Saluja, Courier Book Reviewer
Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics (April 1, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0140434011
ISBN-13: 978-0140434019
David Balfour, barely of age, sees his parents die and his life take on a terrible twist. Now he must confront his only living relative, his Uncle Ebenezer Balfour, a stingy, greedy, and selfish man who may not be trusted.
In
Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson, the author portrays an intriguing protagonist by the name of David Balfour. David in search of his fare share of an estate arrives at his Uncle’s house to begin the story.
Read Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, free from Project Gutenberg.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday. Dec. 8, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.
(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2007 by Reed Elsevier, USA)
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. T Is for Trespass. Sue Grafton. Putnam, $26.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
2. The Darkest Evening of The Year. Dean Koontz. Bantam, $27
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 2
3. For One More Day. Mitch Albom. Hyperion, $21.95
Last Week: 15; Weeks on List: 34
4. Double Cross. James Patterson. Little, Brown, $27.99
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 4
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead, $25.95
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 29
6. World Without End. Ken Follett. Dutton, $35
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 9
7. Playing for Pizza. John Grisham. Doubleday, $26.95
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 11
8. Stone Cold. David Baldacci. Grand Central, $26.99
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 5
9. Home to Holly Springs. Jan Karon. Viking, $26.95
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 6
10. The Choice. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central, $24.99
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 11
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Note: Each week, The Courier spotlights books newly arrived, or expected to arrive, in the James Logan Media Center.
Deogratias, A Tale of Rwanda by J.P. Stassen
Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: First Second; 1st American Ed edition (May 2, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1596431032
ISBN-13: 978-1596431034
From the publisher:
Deogratias is just a boy. Benina is just a girl. Teenagers like teenagers everywhere. Only he is a Hutu, and she is a Tutsi — so say their ID cards.
We are in Rwanda in the days leading to a swift and gruesome genocide; the world will watch and do nothing. In less than a hundred days, eight hundred thousand human beings will be hacked to death.
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By Jamie Maxfield,
Courier Staff Writer
"Talking With", written by Jane Martin, is a great play that allows us to get into the character's minds. This all female cast performed four nights in a row, from December 6th to December 9th.
There were nine monologues ranging from a woman talking about her mother's dying days, to a woman who is obsessed with McDonald's. Each of the cast members really got into character and they all picked out their own costumes that went along perfectly with their part.
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From wikipedia:
Bernice Pauahi Bishop (December 19, 1831 – October 16, 1884) was a Hawaiian woman, a direct descendant of the royal House of Kamehameha, aliʻi, and philanthropist. She was the great-granddaughter of King Kamehameha I and the last surviving descendant of his royal line. Her estate is the largest private landowner in the state of Hawaiʻi. The revenues from these lands are used to operate the Kamehameha Schools, which were established in 1887 according to her last will and testament.
Born in Honolulu to Aliʻi Paki and princess Aliʻi Konia, Pauahi was raised by kuhina nui (prime minister) Kīnaʻu and was later educated by Protestant missionaries.
Read The Memoirs of Hon. Bernice Pauahi Bishop
By Mary Hannah Krout, free from Google Books.
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ACTIVITIES:
Swimmers, would you like to have Athletic PE second semester? If so, sign up with Mr. Lockwood in Room 75 today.
Interested in track & field? See Coach Webb after school in the Weight Room MWF.
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Electron micrograph of a single
breast cancer cell.
National Cancer Institute photo
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Women who get lumpectomies for breast cancer may one day have a simple option involving stem cells for reconstructing the affected breast, researchers reported Saturday.
Doctors in Japan used stem cells derived from liposuctioned fat to repair the craters left in 21 women's breasts when cancerous lumps were cut out.
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Carrie Leopold of Dodds & Eder in Oyster
Bay, shows off blue snowflake LED lights.
Behind her at right is a display of garland
lights. (Ken Spencer/Newsday/MCT)
MELVILLE, N.Y. — It's official: The White House Christmas tree is "green." So is the tree at Rockefeller Center.
Those trees will glow with light-emitting diodes — or LEDs — rather than the traditional bulbs of incandescent lights. Like driving a hybrid car and using recycling paper, stringing up LED Christmas lights is becoming a de rigueur gesture of eco-friendliness and environmental responsibility.
Retailers from high-end specialty shops to Home Depot and Target said the lights are also selling steadily. This year, customers have more LED offerings to choose from, and many seem willing to pay their extra cost in exchange for their energy efficiencies, vivid colors and longer lifespan.
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By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
`UNREAL TOURNAMENT III'
For: Playstation 3
From: Epic/Midway
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore, intense violence, strong language)
The mad rush of groundbreaking games has come and gone, but 2007 still has one last fantastic trick up its sleeve.
That, initially, wouldn't seem to be the case — at least not if the game in question essentially is a technologically revved-up version of its predecessor, which is what "Unreal Tournament III" is. If you've played a "UT" game before, you know what to expect here: a high-speed, mostly-multiplayer, first-person shooter with lots of maps, gametypes, weaponry and eye candy.
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From wikipedia:
Sir Joseph John “J.J.” Thomson, OM, FRS (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate, credited for the discovery of the electron and of isotopes, and the invention of the mass spectrometer. He was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the electron.
J.J. Thomson was born in 1856 in Cheetham Hill, Manchester in England, of Scottish parentage. In 1870 he studied engineering at University of Manchester known as Owens College at that time, and moved on to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1876. In 1880, he obtained his BA in mathematics (Second Wrangler and 2nd Smith's prize) and MA (with Adams Prize) in 1883. In 1884 he became Cavendish Professor of Physics. One of his students was Ernest Rutherford, who would later succeed him in the post. He rejected his suitor Rachel Love which left her heartbroken, but in 1890 he married Rose Elisabeth Paget, daughter of Sir George Edward Paget, KCB, a physician and then Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge. He fathered one son, George Paget Thomson, and one daughter, Joan Paget Thomson, with her. His son became a noted physicist in his own right, winning the Nobel Prize himself for proving the wavelike properties of electrons.
Read J.J. Thompson's Nobel Prize lecture, free from Nobelprize.org.
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ACTIVITIES:
Swimmers, would you like to have Athletic PE second semester? If so, sign up with Mr. Lockwood in Room 75 today or tomorrow.
Interested in track & field? See Coach Webb after school in the Weight Room MWF.
Congratulations to the girls & boys cross country teams. They were North Coast Scholar Team winners for the 2nd year in a row!
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By David Collins, Courier Opinion Editor
Every year I’ve attended James Logan High and for a time before that, the Electronic Media Production program has provided James Logan students with an entertaining and informative morning television program called
Logan Live. Its purpose? To give the daily announcements in a creative manner and to show students bits and pieces of the various functions at school.
Unfortunately, Logan Live has come to face a conflict between serving their audience and serving themselves. The result is a surplus of jokes and gags that divert attention from the news.
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By Samuel Jue, Courier Sports Editor
The Girls Soccer team and American dueled to a 0-0 conclusion on Thursday night in Fremont.
This proved to be one of the more, if not the most, physical games the Colts have been involved in.
The game appeared to be dominated by American for a better portion of the contest. They displayed an aerial long ball tactic and Logan’s main tactic was playing possession ball by move the ball up the field. Both team’s efforts proved to be futile as this game was a matchup of the midfielders. But nevertheless, American did indeed control the game.
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From wikipedia:
John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States.
He was born to John and Abigail (Hussey) at the rural homestead in Haverhill, Massachusetts on December 17, 1807. He grew up on the farm in a household with his parents, a brother and two sisters, a maternal aunt and paternal uncle, and a constant flow of visitors and hired hands for the farm. During the winter term, he attended the district school, and was first introduced to poetry by a teacher.
Read Yankee Gypsies by John Greenleaf Whittier, one of
45 of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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ACTIVITIES:
If you are interested in trying out for the boys tennis team, come sign up during lunch in Room 455.
The boys volleyball information meeting has been moved from Wednesday to Thursday, 12/20, in Room 454. See you there.
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Team Strikedown, by Pepper Moto
School Days, by Jamie Maxfield
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From wikipedia:
Elizabeth Carter, (December 16, 1717 – February 19, 1806), was a poet, classicist and translator, and member of the Bluestocking Circle. Born in Deal, Kent, daughter of a clergyman. Encouraged by her father to study, she applied herself with such perseverance that she became perhaps one of the most learned Englishwoman of her time, being mistress of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic, besides several modern European languages.
Read more about Elizabeth Carter in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, free from Bartleby.com.
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From wikipedia:
James Maxwell Anderson (15 December 1888 – 28 February 1959), better known as Maxwell Anderson was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, author, poet, reporter and lyricist, and a founding member of The Playwrights' Company (which included, at various times, Maxwell Anderson, S. N. Behrman, Elmer Rice, Robert E. Sherwood, Sidney Howard, Roger L. Stevens, John F. Wharton, and Kurt Weill, and produced many notable plays of the 20th century).
He was born in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, the second child of William Lincoln Anderson, a Baptist minister, and his wife, formerly Charlotte Perrimela Stephenson. His family initially lived on his maternal grandmother's farm in Atlantic, then moved to Andover, Ohio, where his father became a railroad fireman while studying to become a minister. They moved to Jamestown, North Dakota in 1907, where Anderson attended Jamestown High School, graduating in 1908.
Watch the Lewis Milestone's 1932 film, Rain, screenplay by Maxwell Anderson, free from the Internet Archive.
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By Harman Badwal,
Courier Staff Writer
The popular video game
Hitman had been retold in a feature film directed by Xavier Gens.
The plot of the film is about a genetically engineered assassin with a robotic mind and a barcode tattooed on his head, known only as Agent 47, played by Timothy Olyphant. Throughout the story, 47 is assigned to kill various persons by a group known as "The Agency, " for cash.
He is generally successful in doing this, but there is a twist when one assignment goes awry, which changes the whole situation and sends him on a personal mission to find out who betrayed him. He is pursued by the Russian military and agents of Interpol, as well as other assassins hired to kill him.
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From wikipedia:
Anne (nee: Finch) Conway, Viscountess Conway (14 December 1631–1679) was an English philosopher whose work, in the tradition of the Cambridge Platonists, was an influence on Leibniz.
She was born to Frances (daughter of Sir Edmund Bell of Beaupre Hall in Norfolk) and Sir Heneage Finch (who had held the posts of the Recorder of London and Speaker of the House of Commons under Charles I). Her father died the week before her birth. Her early education was by tutors and included Latin, to which she later added Greek and Hebrew. Her stepbrother, John Finch, was educated at Cambridge, and Anne Finch (as she then was) came into contact with one of his tutors, the Platonist Henry More. This led to a correspondence between them on the subject of Descartes' philosophy, in the course of which Anne grew from More's informal pupil to his intellectual equal. More said of her that he had "scarce ever met with any Person, Man or Woman, of better Natural parts than Lady Conway" (quoted in Richard Ward's
The Life of Henry More (1710) p.193).
Read Anne Conway’s Critique of Cartesian Dualism, by Louise D. Derksen, free from Boston University.
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By Rebecca Soltau, Courier Entertainment Editor
Aaron Gillespie is a man obsessed. Whether he’s out in front of The Almost, his new, eagerly anticipated rock-based project, or behind the drum kit for Christian-rock band Underoath, the Florida-bred singer/songwriter can’t help but throw himself into everything he does.
What was once more of a secretive project became more than that, thanks to MTV2 and websites like Myspace. Once the fans took a listen to the new songs by the guy who beats on the drums helps with vocals in Underoath they were hooked; so hooked in fact that "Say This Sooner" has become, to-date, one of the higher played songs on iTunes and Limewire.
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ACTIVITIES:
Logan Health Center presents, “Bustin’ Out”, Hip-Hop performances breaking negative images in Hip-Hop culture. Tuesday, Dec. 18, 4-6 pm in the Student Union.
Congratulations to the varsity & jv wrestling teams for beating the Washington Huskies. Var won 70-9, and jv won 4-0. Getting his first varsity win is freshman Matt Haney Kuong, with Aaron Boone, Jonathan Laureta, and Alex Heredia.
The boys soccer team will be hosting Richmond tomorrow at 12 noon. Come support our freshman team!
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By Sarena Bains, Courier Staff Writer
Principal Don MontoyaLogan Principal Don Montoya today will host the first meeting of a committee made up of teachers and other staff members, called the Faculty Advisory Committee, formed to address issues of the "climate" of the school and provide him with advice about how to deal with those issues.
The idea for the committee, modeled on the Principal's Advisory Committee made up of students, came up at a faculty meeting held in November to discuss the problems the school experienced at the beginning of this semester.
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By Barbara Hart, Career Center Technician
The following is a listing of current scholarship applications that are available for pick-up in the James Logan Career Center. This list is intended to give you a brief synopsis of the most pertinent information for each scholarship or award. If a scholarship looks interesting to you, come to the career center to pick up a hardcopy application (located in the money box), or if a web address is provided apply on-line or download your application using the stated web-site.
Today's update is the SAMMY 2008 - Body by Milk (the Milk Mustache) Awards and is strictly for student athletes who also excelled academically, served in leadership roles, and given back to their community (volunteer service). This is an on-line scholarship, so you will have to down load your own application; there are none in the "moneybox".
Logan and Camplindo players
get ready to play.
Denay Harris/Courier Photo Courier Staff Writer
The James Logan boy’s basketball teams faced Campolindo in the Logan Pavilion Monday night, winning two out of three of the match-ups.
The varsity game started off with a fast pace, with senior center Hunter Hayden slam dunking during the first quarter and helping Logan lead 15 to 12 by the end of the first.
The Colts extended their lead with very good defense added, so that, by half time, Logan was up by 21 with the score was 36 to 15.
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From wikipedia:
Emily Carr (December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945) was a Canadian artist and writer.
She was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and moved to San Francisco in 1890 to study art after the death of her parents. In 1899 she travelled to England to deepen her studies, where she spent time at the Westminster School of Art in London and at various studio schools in Cornwall, Bushey, Hertfordshire, San Francisco, and elsewhere. In 1910 , she spent a year studying art at the Académie Colarossi in Paris and elsewhere in France before moving back to British Columbia permanently the following year.
Read Klee Wyck by Emily Carr, free from Project Gutenberg Australia.
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Note: Each week, The Courier spotlights books newly arrived, or expected to arrive, in the James Logan Media Center.
Doppelganger by David Stahler Jr.
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Eos (April 25, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060872322
ISBN-13: 978-0060872328
From the publisher:
Raised in a cabin in the middle of nowhere by a mother who despises him, the doppelganger has left home at last. He is making his way toward human society. He's coming to do what every member of his monster race must: find an unsuspecting human and make his first kill. He will then take that shape and identity for himself.
Doppelgangers are not supposed to have doubts. But this one does. His mother was right. He's weak. Too human, maybe. But even that can't stop him from killing. He has to do it. It's who he is.
It is only after stepping into the life of a small-town teenager that the doppelganger learns that his may not be the only cruel existence. In fact, maybe monsters aren't always who we think they are.
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ACTIVITIES:
Nominations for Winter Ball Court will be held in Colt Court during both lunches today & tomorrow. Voting will be held Friday at the dance, so come and vote!
If you have not yet picked up your ID card, please pick it up in your House Office. If you need to have a new one made because you never took a picture or lost your ID, make-ups are in the Activities Office during lunch ($5). You need a valid ID to buy tickets to the dance.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Dec. 1, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.
(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2007 by Reed Elsevier, USA)
MASS MARKET
1. The Innocent Man. John Grisham. Dell, $7.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
2. Next. Michael Crichton. Harper, $9.99
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2
3. Cross. James Patterson. Grand Central, $9.99
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 9
4. I Am Legend. Richard Matheson. Tor, $7.99
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 4
5. Wild Fire. Nelson DeMille. Vision, $9.99
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 4
6. Wife for Hire. Janet Evanovich. Harper, $7.99
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 4
7. Brother Odd. Dean Koontz. Bantam, $7.99
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 4
8. Treasure of Khan. Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler. Berkley, $9.99
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 4
9. The Pillars of the Earth. Ken Follett. Signet, $7.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 3
10. The Mist. Stephen King. Signet, $6.99
Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 3
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By Debbie Ly, Karen Mui, and Jennifer Torres, Courier Staff Writers
Students work at The Tule Ponds
Math Science Nucleus photoThe Tule Ponds at Tyson Lagoon may not sound familiar to many in our community, but their existence is very much significant, acting as a major factor in protecting the environment, the animals, and our own health.
Logan students can help preserve the ponds and earn community service hours at the same time.
These ponds were first acquired by the Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, intended at first to be used as a flood basin called the Tyson Lagoon Wetland Center. However, in 1998, Richard Wetzig envisioned a site where teachers could also educate their students about the importance of storm water. He then founded the Tule Ponds project, which constructed a large water-filled basin, and three ponds.
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By Jasmeen Banwait,
Courier Staff Writer
On Sunday, I attended an advanced screening of The Kite Runner at Century 20, organized by the Muslim Student Association of Mission San Jose High School. This movie is based on Khaled Hosseini’s award winning novel
The Kite Runner, published in 2003.
According to Courier Staff Writer Hassina Obaidy’s book review,
The Kite Runner tells the story of “ A young boy named Amir Khan who lives in Kabul, Afghanistan with his father and his best friend Hassan. Amir is the son of a wealthy businessmen who is Sunni Muslim and a Pashtun. Hassan's father, however, is a servant to Amir's father, who is Shi'a Muslim and Hazara.
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From wikipedia:
Harriet Monroe (12 December 1860 – 26 September 1936) was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, and patron of the arts. She is best known as the founder and long time editor of
Poetry magazine. Harriet was born in Chicago, Illinois and passed away in Arequipa, Peru.
Read The New Poetry: An Anthology, edited by Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson free from Bartleby.com.
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By Bill Lindelof
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
Nick Burnett, from his CSUS
website.
Used with permissionNick Burnett has eliminated live lectures in one of his presentational speaking classes this semester at Sacramento State.
He gave all the lectures this summer in a studio, where they were recorded and launched onto iTunes. And in what Burnett believes is the first such large-scale experiment at California State University, Sacramento, 224 of his students will be able to hear him only by downloading his lectures onto their iPods or MP3 players.
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LUNCH:
Egg Roll with Fried Rice, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
Sausage and Veggie Pizza
ACTIVITIES:
Nominations for Winter Ball Court will be held in Colt Court during both lunches today & tomorrow. Voting will be held Friday at the dance, so come and vote!
Do you want to win tickets to Winter Ball? Come out to Colt Court on Thursday to play, “Music Madness”, and guess songs. Every participant gets a prize.
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By Joel Currier
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)
Megan Meier, from her
Myspace pageST. LOUIS — The public's frustration over the inability to punish those accused of using a phony identity to send hurtful messages to a teenager who later killed herself has pushed policy makers into action. But, some experts are already questioning whether the new laws will work in an electronic medium that is evolving daily.
Since the story of 13-year-old Megan Meier's suicide became public last month, at least two local cities have made Internet harassment a crime. Megan's hometown of Dardenne Prairie, Mo., was first. Then Florissant, Mo., followed up with its own ordinance.
"Somebody has got to do something," said Dardenne Prairie Mayor Pam Fogarty. "This is uncharted territory. Well, somebody's got to put the chart down."
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By Sanyika Calloway Boyce
Young Money magazine (MCT)
The content of your MySpace page can hurt your future job opportunities.
MySpace, FaceBook, LiveJournal, Bebo and Xanga are just a few of the most popular social networking sites that have become a virtual mecca for everyone from aspiring musicians to everyday people wanting to connect with a larger world.
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Wrestler Johnnie Lo
Pepper Moto/ Courier Photo
After placing second at The Bay Area Invitational a year ago, The James Logan Varsity Wrestling team returned with more experienced wrestlers. The Colts took home the first place trophy with a total team score of 195. Second was Montgomery high with a total of 183.
" It's nice to win tournaments; it's a confidence‑builder for the kids," said head coach Eli Bagaoisan
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By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
`NEED FOR SPEED PROSTREET'
Reviewed for: Xbox 360 and Playstation 3
Also available for: Nintendo Wii, PC, Playstation 2, PSP, Nintendo DS
From: EA
ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+ (suggestive themes)
Sometime in the last year, "Need for Speed" decided to cut its hair, shave its face, buy a nice suit and start acting like an adult. The result is "Need for Speed ProStreet," which takes a franchise known for cop chases and street culture and wedges it into a world of sanctioned, legit racing that's scarcely more rebellious than a NASCAR event on network television.
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From wikipedia:
Annie Jump Cannon (December 11, 1863 – April 13, 1941) was an American astronomer whose cataloguing work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme, which was the first serious attempt to organize and classify stars based on their temperatures.
Family
The daughter of shipbuilder and state senator Wilson Lee Cannon and his second wife, Mary Elizabeth Jump, Annie grew up in Dover, Delaware. Mary gave birth to two more daughters after Annie, in addition to the four step-children she inherited in the marriage. Annie's mother had a childhood interest in star-gazing, and she passed that interest along to her daughter.
Read more about Annie Jump Cannon and her work, free from Wellesley University.
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Courier Staff Report
Leadership Advisor Francis Rojas has tweaked the Student Senate to engender more discussions of student concerns rather than simply provide a way to distribute ASB announcements.
In a letter to The Courier, Rojas said "Traditionally, Student Senate has been a forum for giving announcements about what ASB and graduating classes are doing or planning. However, it is my hope, together with our ASB Leadership, that our Student Senate meetings become a forum for students to voice their ideas on issues affecting the student body, and to help me, the Activities Director, and Leadership to provide solutions for problems or activites that promote a better experience for all students.
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Courier Staff Report
No sex, only intimate dancing known as "freaking," occurred at the Homecoming Dance, Logan Principal Don Montoya said today in an email to staff asking for additional supervisors for the upcoming Winter Ball.
In the email, written in part as a response to a Friday article in The Courier, Montoya wrote that, "based on my conversations with students at my PAC meeting and with the supervisors/administrators who were present at that dance, I do not believe the level of "misbehavior" described in that article actually occurred."
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LUNCH:
Cheeseburger, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips Turkey Ham and Pineapple Pizza
ACTIVITIES:
Nominations for Winter Ball Court will be held in Colt Court during both lunches Wednesday & Thursday. Voting will be held Friday at the dance, so come and vote!
Jostens will be here at lunch in Colt Court this Thursday and Friday.
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By David Collins, Courier Opinion Editor
On Thursday, Leadership hosted the first Student Senate meeting of the year. At this meeting, the discussion was directed toward the Homecoming dance and the inappropriate behavior the students were exhibiting there. Leadership Advisor Francis Rojas and Leadership had much to say about the misconduct, and the possibility of the cancellation of future dances was mentioned, but instead of having the next few dances banned, the students received a questionnaire and an eye-opening lecture on personal behavior, delivered by Rojas.
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From wikipedia:
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (December 10, 1815 – November 27, 1852), born Augusta Ada Byron, is mainly known for having written a description of Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine.
Ada was the first legitimate child of the poet Lord Byron and his wife, Anne Isabella Milbanke. She was named after Byron's half-sister, Augusta Leigh, whose child he was rumored to have fathered. It was Augusta who encouraged Byron to marry to avoid scandal, and he reluctantly chose Annabella. Ada was born on December 10, 1815, London, England. On January 16, 1816, Anne Isabella left Byron, taking 1-month old Ada with her. On April 21, Byron signed the Deed of Separation and left England for good a few days later.
Read A Selection and Adaptation From Ada's Notes found in "Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers," by Betty Alexandra Toole Ed.D., one of the Biographies of Women Mathematicians, available free from agnesscott.edu.
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By Samuel Jue, Courier Sports Editor
The James Logan Girl’s Soccer team can only see the games they have been dealt with so far as ways of improvement.
The team finished off the preseason with a 2-6 record. They picked up wins against Granada and St. Mary’s High School. Their losses showcased several dominating teams: Castro Valley, Amador Valley, Foothill, California, San Ramon Valley and Livermore.
The Lady Colts have seen several teams from the difficult EBAL League and also have faced last year’s NCS Champions, San Ramon Valley.
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By Samuel Jue, Courier Sports Editor
Andrew Blevins scored the only goal of the contest, as Logan got their deal of revenge on the Washington Huskies on Wednesday night, shutting them out 1-0.
Last year, the Huskies eliminated the Colts from both the Mission Valley Athletic League Championships and the North Coast Section 3-A Playoffs. Despite winning the MVAL regular season title, there would be no cigars for the James Logan boy’s soccer team last season.
This year, the Colts turned the tables.
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By Samuel Jue, Courier Sports Editor
The 2007 James Logan Cross Country team hosted a banquet Thursday night to congratulate the team on another successful season, even though that expression was somewhat exaggerated.
The Boys Varsity team lost for the first time in years in the MVALS last month. Washington(27 points) had an astonishing display as they took the title with 5 of the 9 top finishers supporting one of their jerseys. American High School(67 points) reeled in second place and Logan with 82 points rounded out the top 3 teams. Martin Mwangi of Newark Memorial High School was the top finisher with an jaw-dropping 18:20 time at Coyote Hills. The Colt’s lone top 10 finisher was senior Hector Hernandez. Logan’s seven participants for the event showcased Hernandez, Miguel Rivas, Belal Mogaddedi, Ravi Patel, Andy An, Shaun Shutes and Nick Shutes.
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LUNCH:
Spicy BBQ Chicken Pizza, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
ACTIVITIES:
Jostens will be here at lunch in Colt Court this Thursday and Friday.
Come support the freshman soccer team tonight as we host Clayton Valley at 5:30.
Colt Necessities Grand Opening!! Located in the Career Center. Come by and check out our new merchandise. Need school supplies? Sweater? Beanie? Come by during 4th & 5th lunch.
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Team Strikedown by Pepper Moto
Bubble Jim by Sabina Singh
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From wikipedia:
William Whiston (December 9, 1667 - August 22, 1752), was as English theologian, historian, and mathematician. He is probably best known for his translation of the
Antiquities of the Jews and other works by Josephus,
his A New Theory of the Earth, and his
Arianism.
Whiston was born to Josiah Whiston and Katherine Rosse at Norton, near Twycross, in Leicestershire, of which village his father was rector. He was educated privately, partly on account of the delicacy of his health, and partly that he might act as amanuensis to his father, who had lost his sight. He was studied at Tamworth Grammar School. After his father's death, he entered at Clare College, Cambridge as a sizar in 1686, where he applied himself to mathematical study, where he qualified as B.A. (1690), and M.A. (1695), and was elected Fellow in 1691 and in 1693. William Lloyd ordained Whiston at Lichfield in 1695 and he married Ruth Antrobus in 1699. He next became chaplain to John Moore (1646-1714), the bishop of Norwich, from whom he received the vicarship of Lowestoft in 1698.
Read William Whiston's translation of Flavius Josephus' Against Arion, one of four of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Monday, Dec. 3:
On the morning of Feb. 18, 2009, some Americans will awake, flip on the television, and find ... nothing. Not a single channel in the vast sumptuous television banquet. Just snow.
They will wonder what happened. We will tell you what happened.
On that day — more than a year from now — TV stations will stop broadcasting an analog signal. In English, that means the old way of beaming television to the set, the way that millions of televisions still depend on, will cease. Only digital signals will be beamed. People will be slapping the box, and adjusting the ears and scratching their heads and blaming their teenagers. But it won't help.
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From wikipedia:
Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor.
Whitney was born in Westborough, Massachusetts, on December 8, 1765, the eldest child of Eli Whitney, a prosperous farmer, and Elizabeth Fay of Westborough. Very early in life he demonstrated his mechanical genius and entrepreneurial acumen, operating a profitable nail manufacturing operation in his father's workshop during the American Revolution. Because his step-mother opposed his wish to attend college, Whitney worked as a farm laborer and schoolteacher to save money. He prepared for Yale under the tutelage of Rev. Elizur Goodrich of Durham, Connecticut and entered the Class of 1792.
Visit the Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop, free online at eliwhitney.org.
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New Haven Superintendent
Pat Jaurequi
New Haven Schools Photo
Recent violent incidents around Union City prompted New Haven Schools Superintendent Pat Jaurequi to send a letter home to parents Thursday advising them to keep close tabs on their students.
"As you may have read in the newspaper or heard from friends or neighbors, there was a fatal shooting in our community during the week before Thanksgiving break and there have been two shooting incidents in the community since school resumed," Jaurequi wrote.
One of the shootings involved a female African-American student from New Haven's Conley-Carabello High School in South Hayward.
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Leadership Advisor Francis Rojas
addresses senators while ASB
President Kirsten Ignacio looks on.
Jennifer Weiss/Courier Photo
Discussion of drunkeness and sexual behavior at the Homecoming Dance and what to do about it dominated the first Student Senate meeting of the year Thursday.
Sexual activity at the dance was so widespread that the Pavilion in which the dance was held smelled of sexual activity, Associated Student Body President Kirsten Joyce Ignacio told the assembled senators during the second period meeting, using a slang term for the female genitive organ. Ignacio added that she believed most dance goers got drunk before attending.
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By Linda Steadman,
Courier Staff Writer
Enchanted is a cute little film for all ages.
Even though it may seem corny at times, it is sure to put a smile on your face. In many movies people are sent to fantasylands, but it much rarer for the fantasy characters to venture out to reality.
The cast of the movie actually first appears as animated figures. In fact, the whole opening sequence is in classic hand-drawn animation, with an archetypal Disney princess, Princess Giselle this time, summoning all the woodland creatures to help her with her chores and tasks throughout the day. Finding her “Prince Charming” absorbs the Princess' day.
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By Linda Steadman, Courier Staff Writer
Beowulf, now in theaters, has great computer-generated action scenes, yet it isn’t the groundbreaking movie the hype machine made it up to be.
According to that hype, director Robert Zemeckis, the creator of the animated Christmas feature, "The Polar Express," (a movie that actually made the children that were supposed to be sweet and innocent look creepy),
Beowulf would far surpass “Polar Express” in awesome entertainment.
Read Beowulf, an Anglo-Saxon epic poem, translated From The Heyne-Socin Text by Lesslie Hall, free from Project Gutenberg.
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Leopold Kronecker (December 7, 1823 – December 29, 1891) was a German mathematician and logician who argued that arithmetic and analysis must be founded on "whole numbers", saying, "God made the integers; all else is the work of man" (Bell 1986, p. 477). This put Kronecker in bitter opposition to some of the mathematical extensions of Georg Cantor, Kronecker's student (cf. Davis (2000), pp. 59ff). Kronecker was a student and lifelong friend of Ernst Kummer.
Learn about the Kronecker Symbol, an extension of the Jacobi symbol, to all integers. free from Wolfram Mathworld.
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LUNCH:
Fajita Chicken and veggie Pizza, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
ACTIVITIES:
Come see the fall play, Talking With, tonight and tomorrow at 7 pm, and Sunday at 2 pm! For tickets, see cast members or purchase at the door.
Winter Sports Rally today during both lunches in Colt Court! All girls & boys soccer, basketball & wrestling. Come during your lunch dressed to show what sport you play. If it rains, it will be postponed.
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By Carmen Shiu, Courier Special Correspondent
It's time to forget the bubblegum pop and cheesiness of the typical debut albums of American Idol finalists. Season six runner-up, Blake Lewis, released his album,
A.D.D. (Audio Day Dream), this past Tuesday, Dec. 4. And yes, its acronym is the same as attention deficit disorder on purpose, as he has explained that people used to think that he had it.
Lewis was known for adding more flavor to Idol than just singing. He has just as much talent, if not more, in beat-boxing as well. It is displayed lightly throughout the album, which is good. His true self is shown, but it is good that he doesn't try to overdo it.
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Apple Computer Inc. (MCT)
Top 10 songs on iTunes Music Store for Dec. 4:
1. "Low," Flo Rida, featuring T-Pain
2. "No One," Alicia Keys
3. "Apologize," Timbaland, featuring OneRepublic
4. "Kiss Kiss," Chris Brown, featuring T-Pain
5. "Clumsy," Fergie
6. "All I Want for Christmas Is You," Mariah Carey
7. "Paralyzer," Finger Eleven
8. "Tattoo," Jordin Sparks
9. "Bubbly," Colbie Caillat
10. "Crank That (Soulja Boy)," Soulja Boy Tell 'Em
For more information, please visit the iTunes Web site at www.apple.com/itunes/.
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
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By Chris Riemenschneider
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)
You'd have to be incredibly cynical about rock's potential to change the world — as cynical as John Lydon about the Sex Pistols, or an Exxon exec about Al Gore — not to buy into the urgency and passion that kicks off the new Against Me! album:
We can be the bands we want to hear.
We can define our generation.
Is there anybody on the receiving end?
Are you ready to brave new directions?
Come on and wash these shores away.
I'm looking for the crest of a new wave.
At once bleeding-hearted but mostly apolitical, and apathetic but hopeful, the song "New Wave" is the opening track to the Florida punk band's new record of the same name — one of the best rock albums of the year, and maybe the most important.
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George W. Bush at a White
House news conference Tuesday.
White House/Joyce N. Boghosian photo
WASHINGTON — Iran was attempting to build a nuclear weapon but halted the effort in the fall of 2003 and doesn't appear to have restarted it, the declassified key judgments of a comprehensive new U.S. intelligence report said Monday.
The report said that Iran's decision to halt its nuclear weapons program suggested that "it is less determined to develop nuclear weapons than we have been judging since 2005. Our assessment that the program probably was halted primarily in response to international pressure suggests that Iran may be more vulnerable to influence on the issue than we judged previously."
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By Krystal Henderson, Courier News Editor
The James Logan Varsity Cheerleading squad took Second Place in the JAMZ NorCal Extreme Cheer and Dance Regional Competition Saturday. It was their first competition of the year facing other California high school cheer teams, and their success qualifies them to go on to the national commpetition on January 31 of next year.
Varsity cheerleaders Alexa Chavez and Jamie Javier took a break from dancing in order to congratulate their team.
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From wikipedia:
James Elphinston (December 6, 1721 – October 8, 1809) was a well noted 18th Century Scottish educator, orthographer, phonologist and linguistics expert.
He was the author of
Propriety Ascertained in Her Picture, (or English Speech and Spelling Rendered Mutual Guides, Secure Alike from Distant, and from Domestic, Error)(1786, 1787)[2 volumes],
The Principles of the English Language Digested for the use of Schools (1766),
Inglish Orthoggraphy Epittomized (1790),
Miniature of English Orthography (1795), and was the co-author of The Epigrams of Marcus Valerius Martialis in twelve books: with commentary and translation into English by James Elphinston (1782) and other titles.
Read James Elphinston's A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy, free from Project Gutenberg.
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LUNCH: Chicken Caesar Wrap, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
All-Veggie Pizza
ACTIVITIES:
Come see the fall play, Talking With, tonight, tomorrow and Saturday, 12/6-12/8, at 7 pm and Sunday at 2 pm! For tickets, see cast members!
Come to the Midnight Mistletoe Winter Ball on Friday, December 14, at 8 pm. Tickets are on sale for $8 w/ASB, $10 w/out ASB during lunch, & $12 at the door.
Guest passes for the Winter Ball are now available in the Activities Office at lunch or your House Office. The due date for returning them is December 12.
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By Rick LaPlante,
New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
Kevin Harper was elected President of the Board of Education on Tuesday night and Gertrude Gregorio was elected Clerk. Mr. Harper, who served as Clerk this year, replaces Jenn Stringer as President. On behalf of the Board, Superintendent Dr. Pat Jaurequi thanked Ms. Stringer for her service.
Board Members also agreed on the following appointments (and alternates):
▪ Regional Occupational Program Board: Jenn Stringer (Gertrude Gregorio)
▪ Alameda County School Boards Association: Jonas Dino (Jenn Stringer)
▪ Special Education Local Plan Area (SELPA) Board: Gertrude Gregorio (Jonas Dino)
▪ New Haven Schools Foundation: Kevin Harper (Gertrude Gregorio)
▪ California Interscholastic Federation: Gwen Estes
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By Sarena Bains, Courier Staff Writer
Confessions of a Video Vixen, By Karrine Stephans
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Amistad (June 28, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060842423
ISBN-13: 978-0060842420
This book is the autobiography of Karrine Steffans, and chronicles a life full of sex, drugs, and the hip‑hop scenes of Los Angeles.
She is a mother, actress, music video star, and even was a stripper. In her book she talks about her dates and affairs with a range of stars from Usher, P Diddy, Ja Rule and many others.
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By Karen Mui,
Courier Staff Writer
On Monday morning, James Logan teacher Dee-Anna Ramirez, to her horror and surprise, that her classroom suffered acts of vandalism.
“I care very much about the students here, so it is very distressing and disappointing that they would actually do something like this,” Ramirez told The Courier Monday.
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By Abhishek Saluja, Courier Book Reviewer
The Old Man and the Sea,
by Ernest Hemingway
Country: United States
Language: English
Genre(s): Tragedy
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Publication date: Sept. 1, 1952)
ISBN: 978-0-684-80122-3 by Ernest Hemingway is about a Cuban fisherman who has gone eighty‑four days without catching a fish. The fisherman’s name is Santiago, and he is suffering great misfortune.
Even his one and only friend Manolin is told not to fish with him, because the old man is considered unlucky by the town. Santiago has been fishing for his entire life and knows that he has the ability to fish. He feels the need to prove to the world that he can still fish and therefore on the eighty‑fifth day sets out to sea determined to catch a fish.
Despite being old Santiago shows resiliency when he goes out fishing, sailing alone far into the sea. Before long Santiago’s bait is taken by a huge fish, probably a marlin. Santiago is confidant in his fishing abilities and at this point the reader roots for him to pull the marlin in.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Nov. 24, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.
(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2007 by Reed Elsevier, USA)
MASS MARKET
1. The Innocent Man. John Grisham. Dell, $7.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
2. Next. Michael Crichton. Harper, $9.99
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2
3. Cross. James Patterson. Grand Central, $9.99
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 9
4. I Am Legend. Richard Matheson. Tor, $7.99
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 4
5. Wild Fire. Nelson DeMille. Vision, $9.99
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 4
6. Wife for Hire. Janet Evanovich. Harper, $7.99
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 4
7. Brother Odd. Dean Koontz. Bantam, $7.99
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 4
8. Treasure of Khan. Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler. Berkley, $9.99
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 4
9. The Pillars of the Earth. Ken Follett. Signet, $7.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 3
10. The Mist. Stephen King. Signet, $6.99
Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 3
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By Mike Marando, Communications Director
California Department of Motor Vehicles
SACRAMENTO ‑ Are you a teen with questions about how to get your provisional driver permit or California driver license? Do you have questions about general driving related requirements like registration or insurance? The California Department of Motor Vehicles has answers. For more information, visit the DMV Web site for teens at
www.DMV.ca.gov/teenweb.
Q: In my driver training class, the instructor gave us statistical information on teens and driving. I was talking about it with my parents, but couldn't remember the specific numbers. Do I have access to that information?
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LUNCH: Spicy Chicken Salad with Cheddar, Tomatoes & Ranch Dressing, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
Sausage and Veggie Pizza
ACTIVITIES:
Come see the fall play, Talking With, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 12/6-12/8, at 7 pm and Sunday at 2 pm! For tickets, see cast members!
The boys soccer team is hosting Washington in both school’s first league game of the season tonight in the Stadium. Jv @ 4 pm and Varsity @6 pm.
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By Tawab Fakhri,
Courier Staff Writer
Now here is a game that finally bring out the true potential of the Next-Gen systems we hear so much about.
Assassin's Creed for the 360 was created on a whole new battle system along with a revolutionary level design.
Set in the medieval age in the Crusade era, you control a master assassin, who possesses the memories of his ancestors who were the previous assassins, for reasons unknown the monarch needs the memories of the assassin's past. Going any deeper would spoil the well-woven plot.
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By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
`ROCK BAND'
Reviewed for: Xbox 360 and Playstation 3
Coming soon for: Playstation 2
From: Harmonix/MTV Games/EA
ESRB Rating: Teen (lyrics, mild suggestive themes)
Just when you thought there was no new system to buy this holiday, along comes a gaggle of peripherals that'll bogart more living room space than all three consoles combined.
Yes, if you want to experience the phenomenon-to-be that is "Rock Band," prepare to pay for it — $170 and several square feet, to be exact. EA isn't selling "Band" in pieces until next year, so the special edition bundle — which includes a guitar, drum kit, microphone and USB hub — is the only true way to experience the year's most ambitious multiplayer experiment.
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From wikipedia:
Samuel Butler (4 December 1612 – 18 June 1680) was born in Strensham, Worcestershire and baptised 14 February 1613. He is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical burlesque poem on Puritanism entitled
Hudibras.
He was the son of a farmer and was educated at the King's School, Worcester, under Henry Bright whose teaching is recorded favourably by Thomas Fuller a contemporary writer in his Worthies of England. In early youth he was page to the Countess of Kent, and thereafter clerk to various Puritan justices, some of whom are believed to have suggested characters in Hudibras. Through Lady Kent he met John Selden who influenced his later writings. He also tried his hand at painting but was reportedly not very good at it; one of his editors reporting that "his pictures served to stop windows and save the tax" (on window glass).
Read The Way of All Flesh, by Samuel Butler, one of 12 of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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By Vicente Marcelo, Courier Sports Writer
On Saturday, the James Logan Varsity wrestling team traveled to Freedom High School in Oakley to participate in the Freedom Duals. The Logan Colts won four matches and lost their only match of the tournament to the host Freedom High Schoo team.
The wrestling team ended up taking third out of the sixteen teams that attended the tournament.
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LUNCH: Spicy Chicken Patty, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
Turkey Ham and Pineapple Pizza
ACTIVITIES:
Come see the fall play, Talking With, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 12/6-12/8, at 7 pm and Sunday at 2pm! For tickets, see cast members!
Guest passes for the Winter Ball are now available in the Activities Office at lunch or your House Office. The due date for returning them is December 12.
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By David Collins,
Courier Opinion Editor
Because of the various and conflicting ideals that surround the meaning of life, I must first announce my reasoning. This particular subject and all of the opinions that I hold on the
topic are purely that: opinion. I am not proclaiming it to be true for anyone other than myself and expressing the reasons behind that proclamation.
I believe that the meaning of life is simple. The meaning of life is so simple and obvious that the only reason that it isn’t acceptable to society is that it doesn’t fulfill their expectation. Most desire for the meaning of life to be the lighthouse, guiding them to their one true destiny and completing the emptiness they harbor within themselves.
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LUNCH: Spicy BBQ Chicken Pizza, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
ACTIVITIES:
Come see the fall play, Talking With, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 12/6-12/8, at 7 pm and Sunday at 2pm! For tickets, see cast members!
Guest passes for the Winter Ball are now available in the Activities Office at lunch or your House Office. The due date for returning them is December 12.
All Freshmen Football Players meet in the weight room on Tuesday at 3:45 for a short meeting with Coach Zuber.
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By Samuel Jue,
Courier Sports Editor
The Logan boy’s soccer team scored three unanswered goals to finish the contest in a 3-3 tie against Berkeley on Wednesday.
Abran Gonzalez notched two goals and an assist and Benito Ramirez picked up a pair of assists to lead Logan to the comeback.
The Berkeley Yellowjackets jumped out to a 3-0 lead early in the contest on goals from Nadav Kariv, Sean Downey and Rubin Pearlstein.
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By Samuel Jue,
Courier Sports Editor
Last year’s North Coast Section Champions, San Ramon Valley, had no trouble proving that they have not changed a bit when they pounded the Logan’s Girls Soccer team on Thursday, 5-2.
Inside the first twenty minutes of action, the girls from San Ramon Valley picked up their first goal to jump out in front early. Later on, they doubled their lead to 2-0 lead off a penalty kick.
San Ramon Valley received a gift all wrapped when the Colts knocked the ball into their own net for San Ramon’s third goal.
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William Cooper, painted by Gilbert Stuart (December 2, 1754 – December 22, 1809) was the founder of Cooperstown, New York and father of writer James Fenimore Cooper, who apparently used his father as the pattern for the Judge Marmaduke Temple character in his book
The Pioneers.
Read William Cooper's How Settlements were Promoted from A Guide in the Wilderness, from 1810, free from USGenNet.
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