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Saturday, April 30, 2011
From wikipedia:
Percy Heath (April 30, 1923 – April 28, 2005) was an American jazz bassist, brother to tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath and drummer Albert Heath, with whom he formed the Heath Brothers in 1975. Heath also worked with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Wes Montgomery and Thelonious Monk.
Heath was born in Wilmington, North Carolina and spent his childhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father played the clarinet and his mother sang in the church choir. He started playing violin at age 8 and also sang locally. He was drafted into the Army in 1944, becoming a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, but saw no combat.
Watch an interview with Jimmy and Percy Heat, free from Artistshousemusic.org.
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Friday, April 29, 2011
By Abraham Rangel, Courier Staff Writer
Talib Kweli’s Gutter Rainbows was not much of a seller in the big markets, but it doesn’t take away the fact that the album was a well produced body of work.
Gutter Rainbows did not sell successfully in the mainstream, with only 19,000 copies sold. Most people judge an album’s success by the numbers of copies sold, not by its content. However, Kweli delivered his best with lyrics pertaining to controversial point of views, witty punch lines and clever metaphors.
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Posted by courier at 12:17 PM. Filed under: Entertainment
MISCELLANEOUS
Yearbooks are on sale for $90. Come by Room 44 after school to buy yours. Hurry, because supplies are limited.
Need Driver’s Ed? There will be two sessions this summer at the Adult School. The first session is June 20, 21 & 22. The second session is August 8, 9 & 10. Cost is $125. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for an application or details.
Do you love to sing and dance? Choir auditions are May 10-13. Advanced Choir and Jazz Choir are Tuesday, May 10th. Show Choir is May 12 & 13 (Thurs. & Fri.) For Show Choir you must attend both days. Join our championship teams.
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Posted by courier at 11:39 AM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
The Yes on Measure B logo
By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
City Hall will remain open until 8 p.m. on Election Day (Tuesday, May 3) to accommodate voters who want to turn in their ballots in the special election to decide Measure B, the emergency funding measure for the New Haven Unified School District.
Measure B, the “Taking Care of Our Kids” parcel tax, would raise approximately $3 million to minimize class size increases and reductions to the school year and to fund after-school activities. Due to state budget cuts, New Haven Unified is facing a $10 million budget deficit for the 2011-12 school year.
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From wikipedia:
Rafael Sabatini (April 29, 1875 - February 13, 1950) was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure.
Rafael Sabatini was born in Jesi, Italy, to an English mother and Italian father. His parents were opera singers who became teachers.
At a young age, Rafael was exposed to many languages, living with his grandfather in England, attending school in Portugal and, as a teenager, in Switzerland. By the time he was seventeen, when he returned to England to live permanently, he was the master of five languages. He quickly added a sixth language — English — to his linguistic collection. He consciously chose to write in his adopted language, because, he said, "all the best stories are written in English."
Read Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, one of 17 of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
MISCELLANEOUS
Today is the deadline to turn in applications to your counselor for summer school.
Hallways at Lunch: Students, the 60s, 70s & 80s hallways are closed for use during lunch time. Because of disruption to classroom instruction and learning, students are no longer permitted in the hallways during lunch time. Please make sure you exit the hallways as quickly as possible and do not use them during lunch.
Yearbooks are on sale for $90. Come by Room 44 after school to buy yours. Hurry, because supplies are limited.
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Posted by courier at 11:46 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
By Dan DeLuca
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)
PHILADELPHIA — The British indie rock band Yuck were one of the breakout acts at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas, last month. But lead singer Daniel Blumberg, the 21-year-old Londoner who stood to the far left of the capacious outdoor venue Stubb's during SXSW and sheepishly noted that the NPR Music showcase was the biggest gig of his group's young life, would prefer that the group not be known as a "buzz band."
"It is nice, when people talk about the band," says the guitarist, songwriter, and visual artist, who will be releasing a set of solo piano songs under the rubric Oupa in June. He was talking on his mobile phone last week as he walked the streets of San Francisco in search of a bookstore. ("I like bookshops more than record shops," he says.)
"But when we started, that wasn't really the aim. The goal is to make good music."
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Posted by courier at 12:10 PM. Filed under: Entertainment
From wikipedia:
Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was an ethnic German industrialist born in Moravia. He is credited with saving almost 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories, which were located in what is now Poland and the Czech Republic respectively. He is the subject of the novel Schindler's Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler's List.
Schindler was born on 28 April 1908 into an ethnic German family in Svitavy, Moravia, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic. His parents, Hans Schindler and Franziska Luser, were divorced when Oskar was 27. Oskar was very close to his younger sister, Elfriede. Schindler was brought up in the Catholic faith but was not a religious man. After school he worked as a commercial salesman.
Learn more about Oskar Schindler from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
MISCELLANEOUS
The deadline to turn in applications to your counselor for summer school is Friday, April 29th.
Hallways at Lunch: Students, the 60s, 70s & 80s hallways are closed for use during lunch time. Because of disruption to classroom instruction and learning, students are no longer permitted in the hallways during lunch time. Please make sure you exit the hallways as quickly as possible and do not use them during lunch.
Due to STAR testing, the after school math and science tutoring program on Tuesday and Thursday will meet in different locations. Math tutoring will take place in Room 453, and science tutoring will take place in Room 423. Mark your calendars. This is only for the week of STAR testing. See you there!
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Posted by courier at 01:19 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
Reading level: Young Adult
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Scholastic Press,
Reprint edition (July 3, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0439023521
ISBN-13: 978-0439023528
By Milto Ungashe, Courier Staff Writer
Imagine a world in which every year, 24 teenagers fight to the death, with only one victor remaining. This is the world which Suzanne Collins has created in her post apocalyptic novel, The Hunger Games, the first novel of a trilogy.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen lives in the nation of Panem—formerly North America—a country divided into twelve districts. Each year, the members of Panem’s city Capitol hold an annual televised event in which one boy and one girl from each district are chosen to fight to the death in an arena. These games are a part of the Capitol’s large plot to demonstrate the extent of its power of its citizens, and to prove that even the nation’s children cannot escape its control.
Collins’ novel is the first of a trilogy and echoes such novels as George Orwell’s 1984 and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 452, in which the government seeks complete dominance. The barbaric nature of the games and the heartlessness of the people, who mindlessly watch them on their televisions, make it an infuriating experience to read about. And if that’s not enough, all of the twists and turns and unpredictable moments that Collins creates makes reading it incredibly brutal on the mind yet somehow so worth it.
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Posted by courier at 01:16 PM. Filed under: Entertainment
Broken Date by RL Stine
Reading level: Young Adult
Mass Market Paperback: 151
pages
Publisher: Archway Paperbacks
(October 1, 1991)
ISBN-10: 0671693220
ISBN-13: 978-0671693220
By Arthell Cargill, Courier Staff Writer
Broken Date by RL Stine is the short yet thrilling tale of a girl named Jamie who lives a seemingly perfect life. She is completely in love with her poor yet sweet boyfriend Tom, and with her graduation looming ahead, life seems to be going her way. Unfortunately, things take a turn for the worse. Jamie is worried when Tom doesn't show up for their date to the roller skating rink.
To take her mind off of worrying about Tom, Jamie's best friend, Ann-Marie, a witty red haired girl, decides that a trip to the mall would be just what she needs. While shopping, Jamie witnesses a robbery which results in the murder of the shop clerk. When Jamie tries to get a closer look at the killer, she is astonished to discover that it is Tom.
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Posted by courier at 01:03 PM. Filed under: Entertainment
wikipedia photo by D. Ramey Logan
From wikipedia:
Walter Benjamin Lantz (April 27, 1899 – March 22, 1994) was an American cartoonist, animator, film producer, and director, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker.
Lantz was born in New Rochelle, New York to Italian immigrant parents, Francesco Paolo Lantz (formerly Lanza) and Maria Gervasi. According to Joe Adamson's biography, The Walter Lantz Story, Lantz's father was given his new surname by an immigration official who Anglicized it. Walter Lantz was always interested in art, completing a mail order drawing class at age twelve. He saw his first animation when he watched Winsor McCay's cartoon short, Gertie the Dinosaur.
Read a news story and interview with Walter Lantz, free from googlebooks.com.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Yakuza 4
For: Playstation 3
From: Sega
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood, sexual
themes, strong language, violence)
By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)
For all the things we wish Sega would do differently with its iconic brands, it has been glorious in ensuring the "Yakuza" series — arguably its best active franchise — makes the journey from Japan to the hands of a modest but devoted American following.
And if you're not part of that following yet? Don't worry: You're still warmly invited.
"Yakuza 4" continues the events as we left them in "Yakuza 3," and the respect it pays to storyline continuity is another jewel in the crown of one of gaming's best storytellers. For the uninitiated, Sega includes a nice "Reminisce" feature that recaps the previous games' key milestones.
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From wikipedia:
Gertrude Pridgett, orMa Rainey (April 26, 1886 - December 22, 1939) was one of the earliest known American professional blues singers and one of the first generation of such singers to record. She was billed as The Mother of the Blues. She did much to develop and popularize the form and was an important influence on younger blues women, such as Bessie Smith, and their careers.
Learn more about Ma Rainey, and hear her sing, free from redhotjazz.com.
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Monday, April 25, 2011
MISCELLANEOUS
The deadline to turn in applications to your counselor for summer school is Friday, April
29th.
Hallways at Lunch: Students, the 60s, 70s & 80s hallways are closed for use during
lunch time. Because of disruption to classroom instruction and learning, students are
no longer permitted in the hallways during lunch time. Please make sure you exit the
hallways as quickly as possible and do not use them during lunch.
Due to STAR testing, the after school math and science tutoring program on Tuesday and
Thursday will meet in different locations. Math tutoring will take place in Room 453,
and science tutoring will take place in Room 423. Mark your calendars. This is only for
the week of STAR testing. See you there!
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Posted by courier at 01:40 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
Should school grades take into account factors such as homework, classroom behavior and participation, or should grades primarily reflect how much a student knows?
The Board of Education pondered questions like that April 19 during a report from the District’s Grading and Assessment Task Force, made up of parents, teachers, administrators and a high school student who have been meeting since last fall to review and help lead an improvement of District-wide grading practices.
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From wikipedia:
Edward Roscoe Murrow, KBE (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada.
Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss and Alexander Kendrick considered Murrow one of journalism's greatest figures, noting his honesty and integrity in delivering the news.
A pioneer of television news broadcasting, Murrow produced a series of TV news reports that helped lead to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Learn more about Edward R. Murrow, and hear some of his broadcasts, free from otr.com.
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Sunday, April 24, 2011
From wikipedia:
Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel All the King's Men (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry.
Visit the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities website.
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
Dame Ngaio Marsh DBE (April 23, 1895–February 18, 1982), born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre director. There is some uncertainty over her birth date as her father neglected to register her birth until 1900.
Ngaio Marsh was educated at St Margaret's College in Christchurch, New Zealand, where she was a foundation pupil. She studied painting at the Canterbury College School of Art before becoming an actress with the Allan Wilkie company touring New Zealand. From 1928 onward she divided her time between living in the United Kingdom and in her native New Zealand. She was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1966.
Watch an interview with Ngaio Marsh, free from nzonscreen.com.
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Friday, April 22, 2011
By Betsy Sharkey
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES — Ever wonder how a certain car, chip, beer, soap, well really just about any product known to man, got its 15 seconds in the movie spotlight? Money, of course, but that's just the price of getting into the game. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock is out to show you all the distasteful bits, raw and unprocessed, that go into making that manipulative commercial sausage in his new absurdist comic documentary (mockumentary?) "The Greatest Movie Ever Sold."
Or more precisely, "Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold," a title that exemplifies the very thin line between art and commerce that Spurlock attempts not to cross while telling all. The pomegranate juice company paid around $1 million for those naming rights, a couple of actual commercials embedded in the movie and major screen time. Despite the transparency and full disclosure, and the sardonic tone detailing it, something gets lost as the distance between filmmaker and subject disappears — I think we call it objectivity.
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Posted by courier at 12:39 PM. Filed under: Entertainment
By Ajay Bains, Courier Staff Writer
Editor's note: Ajay Bains is a senior
The senior girls beat the junior girls by a decisive 26-12 in this year's annual Powderpuff football game.
The lopsided victory stands in sharp contrast to last year's hotly contested and disputed Junior Class victory.
The seniors were led by senior running back Chelsea Salom, who scored back to back touchdowns to put the seniors up by two scores.
When asked about her performance she said, “ I was nervous because the score was tied 6-6. All I could think about was getting in the end zone. After that I felt relieved.”
The game was close till the second half, when the seniors took control and never let go. Chelsea Salom scored two touchdowns. At the end of the game, senior Sara Moscardo scored on a quarterback keep option.
Editor's note: Ajay Bains is a senior
The senior girls beat the junior girls by a decisive 26-12 in this year's annual Powderpuff football game.
The lopsided victory stands in sharp contrast to last year's hotly contested and disputed Junior Class victory.
The seniors were led by senior running back Chelsea Salom, who scored back to back touchdowns to put the seniors up by two scores.
When asked about her performance she said, “ I was nervous because the score was tied 6-6. All I could think about was getting in the end zone. After that I felt relieved.”
The game was close till the second half, when the seniors took control and never let go. Chelsea Salom scored two touchdowns. At the end of the game, senior Sara Moscardo scored on a quarterback keep option.
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MISCELLANEOUS
The deadline to turn in applications to your counselor for summer school is Friday, April
29th.
Hallways at Lunch: Students, the 60s, 70s & 80s hallways are closed for use during
lunch time. Because of disruption to classroom instruction and learning, students are
no longer permitted in the hallways during lunch time. Please make sure you exit the
hallways as quickly as possible and do not use them during lunch.
Due to STAR testing, the after school math and science tutoring program on Tuesday and
Thursday will meet in different locations. Math tutoring will take place in Room 453,
and science tutoring will take place in Room 423. Mark your calendars. This is only for
the week of STAR testing. See you there!
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Posted by courier at 12:10 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
From wikipedia:
Julius Sterling Morton (April 22, 1832 – April 27, 1902) was a Nebraska editor who served as President Grover Cleveland's Secretary of Agriculture. He was a prominent Bourbon Democrat, taking the conservative position on political, economic and social issues, and opposing agrarianism. In 1897 he started a weekly magazine entitled The Conservative.
Biography
Morton was born in Adams, Jefferson County, New York. He was raised in Detroit and graduated from the University of Michigan. He was a member of Chi Psi Fraternity at Michigan. After receiving his diploma in 1854, he moved with his bride, Caroline Joy French, to Nebraska, which was not yet organized as a territory, and staked a claim in Nebraska City. Soon after arriving at Nebraska City, Morton became the editor of the local newspaper, the Nebraska City News. Morton served in the Nebraska Territorial House of Representatives in 1855-1856. He was then appointed Secretary of Nebraska Territory by President James Buchanan on July 12, 1858, which he served as until 1861. He also served as Acting Governor from December 5, 1858, to May 2, 1859.
Learn more about Arbor Day at the Arbor Day Foundation website.
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
MISCELLANEOUS
The deadline to turn in applications to your counselor for summer school is Friday, April
29th.
Hallways at Lunch: Students, the 60s, 70s & 80s hallways are closed for use during
lunch time. Because of disruption to classroom instruction and learning, students are
no longer permitted in the hallways during lunch time. Please make sure you exit the
hallways as quickly as possible and do not use them during lunch.
“ Homework—Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9am to 12pm. Take advantage
of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work w/peers, and a welcome
atmosphere too. Enter by carpeted hallway near media center to rooms 77 and 78.”
Due to STAR testing, the after school math and science tutoring program on Tuesday and
Thursday will meet in different locations. Math tutoring will take place in Room 453,
and science tutoring will take place in Room 423. Mark your calendars. This is only for
the week of STAR testing. See you there!
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Posted by courier at 11:41 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
Gaga performing on The Monster
Ball Tour in 2010
wikipedia photo
By Manya Brachear
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
CHICAGO — As Christians prepare to commemorate Christ's ultimate sacrifice on the cross and celebrate his resurrection, Lady Gaga fans are celebrating "Judas," the artist's newest song named for the man who betrayed Jesus.
The latest single off the album "Born this Way," which talks about confronting one's inner demons and hopelessly loving the wrong man, was supposed to come out five days before Easter. But leaks on the Internet forced an earlier release last Friday.
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Posted by courier at 11:03 PM. Filed under: Entertainment
From wikipedia:
Raden Ayu Kartini, (21 April 1879 – 17 September 1904), or sometimes known as Raden Ajeng Kartini, was a prominent Javanese and an Indonesian national heroine. Kartini is known as a pioneer in the area of women's rights for native Indonesians.
Kartini was born into an aristocratic Javanese family in a time when Java was still part of the Dutch colony, the Dutch East Indies. Kartini's father, Raden Mas Sosroningrat, became Regency Chief of Jepara, and her mother was Raden Mas' first wife, but not the most important one. At this time, polygamy was a common practice among the nobility.She also wrote the Letters of a Javanese Princess.
Read excerpts from Letters of a Javanese Princess, free from googlebooks.com.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
The Fear: Robert Mugabe
and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
By Peter Godwin
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780316051736
By Faiza Elmasry, VOA News
Though he has covered wars and conflicts, journalist Peter Godwin wasn't prepared for the surreal mix of desperation and hope he encountered when he returned to Zimbabwe, his broken homeland, in 2008.
After ruling for nearly 30 years, President Robert Mugabe finally lost an election. However, instead of conceding power, he launched a brutal campaign of terror to stay in office. With most foreign correspondents banned, Godwin was one of the few observers to bear witness to the period locals call "The Fear." His new memoir recounts that experience.
Liberators' old boys' club
Mugabe led a civil war against the white minority government in Rhodesia, as Zimbabwe was known then. Since its independence in 1980, the eloquent, highly educated 87-year-old has been the country’s only president.
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Posted by courier at 12:03 PM. Filed under: Entertainment
MISCELLANEOUS
Hallways at Lunch: Students, the 60s, 70s & 80s hallways are closed for use during lunch time. Because of disruption to classroom instruction and learning, students are no longer permitted in the hallways during lunch time. Please make sure you exit the hallways as quickly as possible and do not use them during lunch.
“Homework—Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9am to 12pm. Take advantage of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work w/peers, and a welcome atmosphere too. Enter by carpeted hallway near media center to rooms 77 and 78.”
Powder Puff Game DVDs are running out. Hurry by Coach Zuber’s Room 306 to get your copy for ONLY $15.
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Posted by courier at 11:54 AM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
1935 portrait of Joan Miró
by Carl Van Vechten
From wikipedia:
Joan Miró i Ferrà (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983) was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.
Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and famously declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
MISCELLANEOUS
Hallways at Lunch: Students, the 60s, 70s & 80s hallways are closed for use during lunch time. Because of disruption to classroom instruction and learning, students are no longer permitted in the hallways during lunch time. Please make sure you exit the hallways as quickly as possible and do not use them during lunch.
“Homework—Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9am to 12pm. Take advantage of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work w/peers, and a welcome atmosphere too. Enter by carpeted hallway near media center to rooms 77 and 78.”
Powder Puff Game DVDs are running out. Hurry by Coach Zuber’s Room 306 to get your copy for ONLY $15.
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Posted by courier at 02:27 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
A poster aimed at saving the
library in the library.
Courier Staff Photo
By Beatrice Esteban, Courier Editor-in-Chief
Students and teachers likely will not have access to the Media Center at James Logan High School as a result of district budget cuts next year.
Library clerks received pink slips, informing them that they may not have jobs next year.
Meanwhile, Media Center Specialist Carla Colburn said she was “personally told by Derek McNamara (New Haven’s associate superintendent of personnel services) that our jobs are going to be eliminated.”
“These cuts have been initiated as precautionary measures to prepare for a worst case scenario,” said McNamara. "All of the proposed reductions impact our students negatively, so in the coming months we will be looking very critically at which items are the highest priority for reinstatement.”
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Crysis 2Reviewed for: Playstation 3
and Xbox 360 Also available
for: Windows PC
From: Crytek/EA
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood,
partial nudity, strong language,
violence)
By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)
At least nowadays, "Crysis 2" is a rare breed of first-person shooter. It tells a thoroughly epic story over 12 hours instead of four and within a single game instead of across a cliffhanger-riddled trilogy. Rather than start furiously and plateau, it also continually gets better as those hours pass.
Good thing, too, because the first two hours? Not so great.
The alien invasion of New York City eventually enters full bloom, but before you face it firsthand, you'll have to contend with a private military that will kill you for your nanotechnological armor, which affords you superhuman physical abilities and the limited ability to cloak yourself and become nearly invincible.
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Posted by courier at 03:14 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
From wikipedia:
Eliot Ness (April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois, and the leader of a legendary team of law enforcement agents nicknamed The Untouchables.
Eliot Ness was born April 19, 1903 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the youngest of five siblings born to Norwegian immigrants, Peter and Emma Ness. Ness attended Christian Fenger High School in Chicago. He was educated at the University of Chicago, where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, graduating in 1925 with a degree in business and law. He began his career as an investigator for the Retail Credit Company of Atlanta. He was assigned to the Chicago territory, where he conducted background investigations for the purpose of credit information. He returned to the University to take a course in criminology, eventually earning a Master's Degree in the field.
Read Eliot Ness: The Man Behind the Myth, free from TruTv.com.
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Monday, April 18, 2011
MISCELLANEOUS
Hallways at Lunch: Students, the 60s, 70s & 80s hallways are closed for use during
lunch time. Because of disruption to classroom instruction and learning, students are
no longer permitted in the hallways during lunch time. Please make sure you exit the
hallways as quickly as possible and do not use them during lunch.
“ Homework—Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9am to 12pm. Take advantage
of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work w/peers, and a welcome
atmosphere too. Enter by carpeted hallway near media center to rooms 77 and 78.”
Powder Puff Game DVDs are running out. Hurry by Coach Zuber’ s Room 306 to get
your copy for ONLY $15.
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Posted by courier at 03:04 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
Keera Dickerson, 10, right, eats a taco
donated to the family from a neighbor,
before eating a sandwich her father
made that rests on her knees in the living
room of their home in Visalia on April 9.
Sister Terry, 4, joins her for lunch.
Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/MCT
By Michael J. Mishak
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
VISALIA — The vast fruit fields, picturesque farmhouses and rolling foothills of Tulare County, Calif., mask an ugly reality: Nearly a quarter of the population in this Central Valley agricultural hub lives in poverty, and one in three residents receives state aid — the largest proportion in the state.
With the Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown slashing billions of dollars in government services to help balance the state budget, few places will feel the effects more deeply. Local officials fear that when roughly $8 billion in budget cuts take effect, some as early as July 1, the poorest residents will tumble into homelessness.
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Carlene Vasquez takes a last look around
before workers demolish the family home
in San Bruno on March 22.
Gary Reyes/San Jose Mercury News/MCT
By Julia Prodis Sulek
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)
SAN BRUNO, Calif. — The week before the giant excavator tore apart her burned-out home in San Bruno, Calif., Carlene Vasquez sat on the front porch and said goodbye.
"Thank you, home," she said. "You've been good to us."
It's been seven months since a Pacific Gas and Electric gas pipeline exploded and a fireball roared through the Crestmoor neighborhood, killing eight people and destroying 38 hillside homes.
Carlene and Art Vasquez know they are two of the lucky ones. They survived. But since the September inferno, this couple in their 60s who raised their three children here have had to come to terms with what it really means to lose not just their house, but their home. In every way, through pain and with hope, they are making their way back.
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Vicente Yap Sotto, also known as Nyor Inting (1877-1950) was a former Senator of the Philippines and considered as one of the greatest Cebuanos of the 20th century.
His principal achievement lies in two areas: law, politics, and government; and culture and letters.
Sotto was born in Cebu City on April 18, 1877 to Marcelino Sotto and Pascuala Yap.
He finished his secondary education at the University of San Carlos (formerly Colegio de San Carlos), Cebu City. He obtained the degree of Bachelor of Laws and Judicial Science and passed the bar examinations in 1907.
Read more about Vicente Sotto and other Cebuano writers, free from islandcebu.blogspot.com
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Sunday, April 17, 2011
From wikipedia:
Wenceslao Moreno (April 17, 1896 – April 20, 1999), better known as Señor Wences, was a Spanish ventriloquist. His popularity grew with his frequent appearances on CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show in the 1950s and '60s.
Wences was born in Peñaranda de Bracamonte, Salamanca, Spain. His father was Antonio Moreno Ross, artist, and his mother was Josefa Centeno Lavera, both from Salamanca. His name Wenceslao is of Czech origin (Václav) meaning "victorious". As a newborn, his family was so destitute that his birth certificate was three days late being filed. (This has led to some confusion regarding Moreno's age at death.)
Watch Señor Wences on The Ed Sullivan Show, free from YouTube.
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Saturday, April 16, 2011
By Rob Hotakainen
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON — In Canada's Fraser River, a mysterious illness has killed millions of Pacific salmon, and scientists have a new hypothesis about why: The wild salmon are suffering from viral infections similar to those linked to some forms of leukemia and lymphoma.
For 60 years before the early 1990s, an average of nearly 8 million wild salmon returned from the Pacific Ocean to the Fraser River each year to spawn.
Now the salmon industry is in a state of collapse, with mortality rates ranging from 40 percent to 95 percent.
The salmon run has been highly variable: The worst year came in 2009, with 1.5 million salmon, followed by the best year in 2010, with 30 million salmon. But the overall trend is downward.
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From wiipedia:
José de Diego y Martínez (April 16, 1866 – July 16, 1918), known as "The Father of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement", was a statesman, journalist, poet, and advocate for Puerto Rico's independence from Spain and from the United States.
De Diego, son of Felipe de Diego Parajón a Spanish army officer from Asturias, Spain and Elisa Martínez Muñiz a Criollo from Puerto Rico, was born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico and received his primary education in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. He then moved to Spain where he graduated from the "Polytechnic College of Logroño". While in Spain, de Diego collaborated with the newspaper El Progreso (Progress) which was founded by José Julián Acosta and which attacked the political situation in Puerto Rico. This led to various arrests and eventually he returned to the island.
Read more about José de Diego, free from the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.
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Friday, April 15, 2011
MISCELLANEOUS
“Homework—Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9am to 12pm. Take advantage of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work w/peers, and a welcome atmosphere too. Enter by carpeted hallway near media center to rooms 77 and 78.”
Once again, Powder Puff Game DVDs will be sold for $15, but this week they can be pre-ordered for ONLY $10 in Coach Zuber’s Room 306. Hurry, only 150 copies will be made.
Attn. AP Students: All students taking the AP test(s) must complete identifying information on their answer sheets prior to taking the test, so they won’t have to take time to do this on exam day. This will give you more time to focus on the test! Please make sure you go to the Reference Room (next to the Library) before school, during your lunch, or right after school. The dates are Monday 4/18 for students with last names A thru H; Wednesday 4/20 for students with last names I thru P; and Friday 4/22 for students with the last names Q thru Z.
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Posted by courier at 11:55 AM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 - January 19, 1975) was an American painter and muralist. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. His fluid, almost sculpted paintings showed everyday scenes of life in the United States. Though his work is perhaps best associated with the Midwest, he created scores of paintings of New York - where he lived for over 20 years, Martha’s Vineyard - where he summered for much of his adult life, the American South and the American West.
See the Naval art of Thomas Hart Benton, and read more about him, free from the U.S. Navy.
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
The teacher-approved schedule
for next year.
By Beatrice Esteban,Courier Editor-in-Chief
Logan’s teachers have approved a new bell shedule for next year, which provides for an earlier start time, and a weekly voluntary collaboration period for teachers which will shorten the student day on Wednesdays.
According to Paul Bisbiglia, the Logan teacher who this year chairs the Logan Site-Based Decision Making committee, which spearheaded the election, almost 95 percent of teachers, or 162 of 171 Logan teachers, voted on the issue, with 127 voting yes and 35 casting no. Yes votes were cast by almost 79 percent , according to Bisbiglia.
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From wikipedia:
Anne Sullivan, Annie Sullivan, or Johanna Mansfield Sullivan Macy, (April 14, 1866 – October 20, 1936) was a teacher best known as the tutor of Helen Keller.
Anne Sullivan was born in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts. Her parents, Thomas Sullivan and Alice Clohessy, were poor Irish farmers who left Ireland in 1847 because of the Irish Potato Famine. Sullivan’s father was an alcoholic and sometimes abused her, but he also passed on to her Irish tradition and folklore. Her mother, suffering from tuberculosis, died when she was eight, and when she was ten, she had to move in with a relative. Later her relatives left her and her brother at the Massachusetts State Infirmary in Tewksbury. Sullivan spent all her time with her younger, crippled brother (who, like his mother, suffered from tuberculosis) in hopes that they would never be separated; however, Jimmie soon died in the infirmary.
Read The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy, free from Project Gutenberg.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
MISCELLANEOUS
Seniors, Juniors and Sophomores: If you are interested in pursuing a business/accounting degree in college, there is a free summer week-long program for low income minority students at U.C. Berkeley. For more information see Mr. Huertas in House 1. Deadline for applications is TODAY!
“Homework—Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9am to 12pm. Take advantage of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work w/peers, and a welcome atmosphere too. Enter by carpeted hallway near media center to rooms 77 and 78.”
Once again, Powder Puff Game DVDs will be sold for $15, but this week they can be pre-ordered for ONLY $10 in Coach Zuber’s Room 306. Hurry, only 150 copies will be made.
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Posted by courier at 12:14 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
Franklin Winfield Woolworth (April 13, 1852 – April 8, 1919) was an American merchant. Born in Rodman, N.Y., he was the founder of F.W. Woolworth Company, an operator of discount stores that priced merchandise at five and ten cents. He pioneered the now-common practices of buying merchandise direct from manufacturers and fixing prices on items, rather than haggling.
The son of a farmer, Woolworth aspired to be a merchant. In 1873, he started working in a drygoods store in Watertown, New York. He worked for free for the first three months, because the owner claimed "why should I pay you for teaching the business". He remained there for six years. There he observed a passing fad: Leftover items were priced at five cents and placed on a table. Woolworth liked the idea, so he borrowed $300 to open a store where all items were priced at five cents.
Learn more about Woolworth's history in England, free from the Woolworths Virtual Museum.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
MISCELLANEOUS
Seniors, Juniors and Sophomores: If you are interested in pursuing a business/accounting degree in college, there is a free summer week-long program for low income minority students at U.C. Berkeley. For more information see Mr. Huertas in House 1. Deadline for applications is 4/14.
“Homework—Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9am to 12pm. Take advantage of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work w/peers, and a welcome atmosphere too. Enter by carpeted hallway near media center to rooms 77 and 78.”
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Posted by courier at 12:38 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
From wikipedia:
Keiko Fukuda (born April 12, 1913) is the highest-ranked female judo practitioner in history, holding the rank of 9th dan from both the Kodokan and the United States Judo Federation, and is the last surviving student of Kanō Jigorō, founder of judo. She is a renowned pioneer of women's judo, being the first woman promoted to 6th dan (c. 1972), and later 9th dan (2006), by the Kodokan. After completing her formal education in Japan, Fukuda visited the United States of America to teach in the 1950s and 1960s, and eventually settled there. She continues to teach her art in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Read more about Keiko Fukuda, free from judoinfo.com.
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Monday, April 11, 2011
By Julia Ortiz, Courier Staff Writer
Fish, rubber bands and a combination of Coke and Mentos were only a few of the key components to the momentous Teacher Dares at Logan last Thursday. Nothing like this has ever happened before at Logan and many students had the chance to humiliate some of their favorite teachers.
Logan's Interact Club put together a charity event to raise donation money for Japan and Interact's shelter box. They sold tickets, put up fliers and even decided to humiliate their teachers for the chance to make a difference both here and in Japan. They collected $120.
Fish, rubber bands and a combination of Coke and Mentos were only a few of the key components to the momentous Teacher Dares at Logan last Thursday. Nothing like this has ever happened before at Logan and many students had the chance to humiliate some of their favorite teachers.
Logan's Interact Club put together a charity event to raise donation money for Japan and Interact's shelter box. They sold tickets, put up fliers and even decided to humiliate their teachers for the chance to make a difference both here and in Japan. They collected $120.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Seniors, Juniors and Sophomores: If you are interested in pursuing a business/accounting degree in college, there is a free summer week-long program for low income minority students at U.C. Berkeley. For more information see Mr. Huertas in House 1. Deadline for applications is 4/14.
“Homework—Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9am to 12pm. Take advantage of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work w/peers, and a welcome atmosphere too. Enter by carpeted hallway near media center to rooms 77 and 78.”
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Posted by courier at 12:36 PM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
MISCELLANEOUS
Seniors, Juniors and Sophomores: If you are interested in pursuing a business/accounting
degree in college, there is a free summer week-long program for low income minority
students at U.C. Berkeley. For more information see Mr. Huertas in House 1. Deadline
for applications is 4/14.
“ Homework—Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9am to 12pm. Take advantage
of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work w/peers, and a welcome
atmosphere too. Enter by carpeted hallway near media center to rooms 77 and 78.”
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Posted by courier at 09:13 AM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
From wikipedia:
Jamini Roy (April 11, 1887-April 24, 1972) was an Indian painter.
Jamini Roy was born in 1887 into a middle-class family of land-owners in a village called Beliatore in the District of Bankura in Bengal .
When he was sixteen he was sent to study at the Government School of Art in Calcutta. He was taught to paint in the prevailing academic tradition drawing Classical nudes and painting in oils and in 1908 he received his Diploma in Fine Art.
Read more about Jamini Roy and his art, free from the India Times.
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Sunday, April 10, 2011
MISCELLANEOUS
Seniors, Juniors and Sophomores: If you are interested in pursuing a business/accounting degree in college, there is a free summer week-long program for low income minority students at U.C. Berkeley. For more information see Mr. Huertas in House 1. Deadline for applications is 4/14.
“Homework—Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9am to 12pm. Take advantage of a place to get some tutoring, computers, a place to work w/peers, and a welcome atmosphere too. Enter by carpeted hallway near media center to rooms 77 and 78.”
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Posted by courier at 11:55 AM. Filed under: Daily Bulletin
According to Webster by Webster Nguyen, Courier Correspondent
Pulitzer was born in Makó, Hungary, Pulitzer sought a military career, but was turned down by the Austrian army for frail health and poor eyesight. He emigrated to the United States in 1864 to serve in the American Civil War. After the war he settled in St. Louis, Missouri, where in 1868 he began working for a German-language daily newspaper, the Westliche Post. He joined the Republican Party and was elected to the Missouri State Assembly in 1869. In 1872, Pulitzer purchased the Post for $3,000. Then, in 1879, he bought the St. Louis Dispatch for $2,700 and merged the two papers, which became the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which remains St. Louis' daily newspaper. It was at the Post-Dispatch that Pulitzer developed his role as a champion of the common man with exposès and a hard-hitting populist approach.
Read about Joseph Pulitzer, the Pulitzer Prize and prize winners at pulitzer.org.
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Saturday, April 09, 2011
From wikipedia:
Charles Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.
Baudelaire the Poet
Baudelaire is one of the major innovators in French literature. His poetry is influenced by the French romantic poets of the earlier 19th century, although its attention to the formal features of verse connect it more closely to the work of the contemporary 'Parnassians'. As for theme and tone, in his works we see the rejection of the belief in the supremacy of nature and the fundamental goodness of man as typically espoused by the romantics and expressed by them in rhetorical, effusive and public voice in favor of a new urban sensibility, an awareness of individual moral complexity, an interest in vice (linked with decadence) and refined sensual and aesthetical pleasures, and the use of urban subject matter, such as the city, the crowd, individual passers-by, all expressed in highly ordered verse, sometimes through a cynical and ironic voice. Formally, the use of sound to create atmosphere, and of 'symbols', (images which take on an expanded function within the poem), betray a move towards considering the poem as a self-referential object, an idea further developed by the Symbolists Verlaine and Mallarmé, who acknowledge Baudelaire as a pioneer in this regard.
Read poems by Charles Baudelaire, free from the Poetry Archive.
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Friday, April 08, 2011
From wikipedia:
Dionisio "Dennis" Chavez (April 8, 1888 – November 18, 1962) was a Democratic politician from the U.S. State of New Mexico who served in the United States House of Representatives, and in the United States Senate from 1935 to 1962.
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Chavez was born in Los Chaves, Valencia County, New Mexico. His parents, David and Paz Chavez, were members of families that had lived in Los Chaves for generations. In 1895, David Chavez moved his family to the Barelas section of Albuquerque where Dennis attended school until financial hardships necessitated that he work. His first job was delivering groceries at the Highland Grocery store. Later on, he studied engineering and surveying at night, and worked as an engineer for the City of Albuquerque for several years.
Visit the Dennis Chavez Foundation.
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Thursday, April 07, 2011
From wikipedia:
Gabriela Mistral (April 7, 1889 – January 10, 1957) was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945. Some central themes in her poems are nature, betrayal, love, a mother's love, sorrow and recovery, travel, and Latin American identity as formed from a mixture of Native American and European influences. Gabriela Mistral was of Basque and Amerindian descent.
Mistral was born in Vicuña, Chile, but was raised in the small Andean village of Montegrande, where she attended the Primary school taught by her older sister, Emelina Molina. She respected her sister greatly, despite the many financial problems that Emelina brought her, in later years. Her father, Juan Gerónimo Godoy Villanueva, was also a schoolteacher. He abandoned the family before she was three years old, and died, long since estranged from the family, in 1911. Throughout her early years she was never far from poverty. By age fifteen, she was supporting herself and her mother, Petronila Alcayaga, a seamstress, by working as a teacher's aide in the seaside town of Compañia Baja, near La Serena, Chile.
Read Gabriela Mistral's Nobel Prize banquet speech.
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Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Charlie Chan: The Untold
Story of the Honorable Detective
and His Rendezvous with American
History
Yunte Huang
Hardcover: 354 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393069621
Mike O'Sullivan, VOA News
The fictional Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan was the subject of popular books and movies for many decades. In recent years, however, the character has been criticized as a stereotyped caricature of Asian-Americans.
Author Yunte Huang says that’s not the case. He has explored the character and real-life policeman who inspired him in the book "Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvous With American History."
Charlie Chan has been a familiar character to readers and film-goers, beginning in the 1920s. The globe-trotting detective solved crimes in more than 40 films through the 1940s, and with the advent of television, found a new audience in the 1950s and 1960s.
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From wikipedia:
Félix Nadar was the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (6 April 1820, Paris – 21 March 1910), a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist. Some photographs by Nadar are marked "P. Nadar" for "Photographie Nadar".
He was a caricaturist for Le Charivari in 1848. In 1849 he created the Revue comique and the Petit journal pour rire. He took his first photographs in 1853 and in 1858 became the first person to take aerial photographs. He also pioneered the use of artificial lighting in photography, working in the catacombs of Paris.
View examples of Nadar's photos, free from masters-of-photography.com.
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Tuesday, April 05, 2011
Elihu Yale (April 5, 1649 – July 8, 1721) was a British merchant, philanthropist, governor of the British East India Company, and a benefactor of Collegiate School of Connecticut, which in 1718 was named Yale College in his honor.
Born in Boston, Colony of Massachusetts to David Yale (1613–1690) and Ursula Knight (1624–1698), Yale was the grandson of Ann Lloyd (1591–1659), who after the death of her first husband, Thomas Yale (1590–1619) in Chester, Cheshire, England, married Governor Theophilus Eaton (1590–1657) of New Haven Colony. In 1652, when Elihu was three years old, the Yale family moved back to England and never returned to North America.
Read more about the history of Yale University.
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Monday, April 04, 2011
From wikipedia:
Maya Angelou ( born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928) is an American author and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly acclaimed, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her first seventeen years. It brought her international recognition, and was nominated for a National Book Award. She has been awarded over 30 honorary degrees and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her 1971 volume of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie.
Visit mayaangelou.com.
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Sunday, April 03, 2011
From wikipedia:
Iron Eyes Cody (April 3, 1904 – January 4, 1999) was an American actor. He was recognized for portraying American Indians in Hollywood films. Near the end of his life, his Italian ancestry was made public. In 1995 he was honored by the American Indian community for his portrayals.
Cody was born as Espera Oscar de Corti in Kaplan, Louisiana, a son of Antonio de Corti and his wife, Francesca Salpietra, immigrants from Sicily, Italy. They had a local grocery store in Gueydan, Louisiana, where he was raised. In some of his earliest acting credits, Cody was listed as Tony de Corti. Cody was drawn to the Indian people finding comfort/similarities for himself in their struggle. He later changed his name to Tony Cody, and from then on lived his life as if he were of indigenous descent, both on and off the screen. Cody married Bertha "Birdie" Parker, a woman of indigenous descent.
Visit IronEyesCody.org.
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Saturday, April 02, 2011
Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst is considered to be one of the primary pioneers of the Dada movement and Surrealism.
Ernst was born on April 2, 1891, in Brühl, near Cologne, the third of nine children of a middle-class Catholic family. His father Philipp Ernst was a teacher of the deaf and dumb and an amateur painter. A devout Christian and a strict disciplinarian, he inspired in his son a penchant for defying authority, while his interest in painting and sketching in nature influenced Max Ernst to take up painting himself. In 1909 Ernst enrolled in the University of Bonn, studying philosophy, art history, literature, psychology and psychiatry. He visited asylums and became fascinated with the art of the mentally ill patients; he also started painting this year, producing sketches in the garden of the Brühl castle and portraits of his sister and himself. In 1911 Ernst befriended August Macke and joined his Die Rheinischen Expressionisten group of artists, deciding to become an artist. In 1912 he visited the Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne, where works by Pablo Picasso and post-Impressionists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin profoundly influenced his approach to art. His own work is exhibited the same year together with that of the Das Junge Rheinland group, at Galerie Feldman in Cologne, and then in several group exhibitions in 1913.
Learn more about Max Ernst, and see examples of his art at artchive.com.
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Friday, April 01, 2011
"My experience is that all organizations pay more attention to funds than to persons." K. B.Hedgewar
From wikipedia:
Keshav Baliram Hedgewar(April 1, 1889 – June 21, 1940) was the founder of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Hedgewar founded the RSS in Nagpur, Maharashtra in 1925, with the intention of promoting the concept of the Hindu nation. Hedgewar drew upon influences from social and spiritual Hindu reformers such as Swami Vivekananda, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and Aurobindo to develop the core philosophy of the RSS.
He went to Kolkata to pursue a degree in medicine. After successful completion, Hedgewar was drawn into the influence of secret revolutionary organisations like the Anushilan Samiti and Jugantar in Bengal. He was also a member of the Hindu Mahasabha till his death. Hedgewar was imprisoned for sedition by the British government in 1921 for a year and again in 1930 for nine months. After his spell in prison he instructed the RSS to remain aloof from political activities including the Salt Satyagraha (1930) and continue mainly as a social organisation.
Visit the official website of the RSS.
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