This is the archive for May 2011
MISCELLANEOUS
Attention all students! You MUST clean out your locker before leaving school for the summer. Please turn in all textbooks to the Book Room and remove all other items. Your locker should be left in clean condition. Be responsible! Clean out your locker no later than June 16!
Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Take advantage of a place to get tutoring, computers, a place to work with peers, and a welcoming atmosphere, too! Enter by carpeted hallway near media center to Rooms 77 and 78.
Need Driver’s Ed? There are 2 sessions this summer! Applications are available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for more information!
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From wikipedia:
Don Ameche (May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) was an Academy Award winning American actor.
Ameche was born Dominic Felix Amici in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the son of Barbara, who was of Irish and German descent, and Felix Ameche, an immigrant from Italy whose original surname was "Amici." He had three brothers, Omberto (Bert), James (Jim Ameche), and Louis and three sisters, Jane, Elizabeth and Catherine. Ameche attended Marquette University, Loras College and the University of Wisconsin, where his cousin Alan Ameche played football and won the Heisman Trophy in 1954. Ameche had gone to university to study law but found theatricals far more interesting and so decided on a stage career.
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Learn more about Don Ameche, free from The Independent.
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From wikipedia:
Stepin Fetchit was the stage name of American comedian and film actor
Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry (May 30, 1902–November 19, 1985). His typical film persona and stage name have long been synonymous with the stereotype of the servile, shiftless, simple-minded black man in early 20th Century American film. There has been a more recent revisionist view that sees his film persona as ultimately subversive of the status quo. Perry parlayed the Fetchit persona into a successful film career, eventually becoming a millionaire, the first black actor in history to do so.
Read "An Uncomfortable Character: Stepin Fetchit’s Dead-End Role," by Scott Eyman, a review of
Stepin Fetchit: The Life & Times of Lincoln Perry, by Mel Watkins, free from the New York Observer.
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G.K. Chesterton (May 29, 1874–June 14, 1936) was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, poetry, biography and Christian apologetics, but today he is probably best remembered for his Father Brown short stories.
Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox." He wrote in an off-hand, whimsical prose studded with startling formulations. For example: "Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it." He is one of the few Christian thinkers who is admired and quoted equally by liberal and conservative Christians. Chesterton's own theological and political views were far too nuanced to fit comfortably under the "liberal" or "conservative" banner.
Read G.K.Chesterton's book,
The Wisdom of Father Brown, one of
29 of his works available free from
Project Gutenberg..
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From wikipedia:
Jacobus Franciscus "Jim" Thorpe (Sac and Fox (Sauk):
Wa-Tho-Huk, translated to
Bright Path) (May 28, 1888 – March 28, 1953) was an American athlete of mixed ancestry (mixed Caucasian and American Indian). Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals for the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, played American football (collegiate and professional), and also played professional baseball and basketball. He lost his Olympic titles after it was found he was paid for playing two seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the Olympics, thus violating the amateurism rules. In 1983, 30 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) restored his Olympic medals.
Of Native American and European American ancestry, Thorpe grew up in the Sac and Fox nation in Oklahoma. He played as part of several All-American Indian teams throughout his career, and "barnstormed" (played mainly in small towns) as a professional basketball player with a team composed entirely of American Indians.
Watch Jim Thorpe as "Swift Arrow" in the 1931 serial, "Battling with Buffalo Bill," free from the Internet Archive.
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From wikipedia:
Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet, most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".
Born Julia Ward in New York City, she was the fourth of seven children born to Samuel Ward (May 1, 1786 – November 27, 1839) and Julia Rush Cutler. Among her siblings was Samuel Cutler Ward. Her father was a well-to-do banker. Her mother, granddaughter of William Greene (August 16, 1731 – November 30, 1809), Governor of Rhode Island and his wife Catharine Ray, died when Julia was five.
Read Is Polite Society Polite? by Julia Ward Howe, free from Project Gutenberg.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Take advantage of a place to get tutoring, computers, a place to work with peers, and a welcoming atmosphere, too! Enter by carpeted hallway near media center to Rooms 77 and 78.
Dance 2011: Friday, May 27th @ 7:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center. Reserved seating $8/$10/$12. See Mrs. Cervantez for tickets.
Craving a delicious caramel apple? Come to the Unity Fair today and purchase one from the Youth Alive Christian Club booth.
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From wikipedia:
Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography.
Born Dorothea Nutzhorn in Hoboken, New Jersey on May 26, 1895, she was the daughter of Joan Lange and Henry Nutzhorn. Dorothea developed polio in 1902, at age 7. Like many other polio victims before treatment was available, she emerged with a weakened and wizened right leg, and a permanent limp. When she was 12 years old, her father abandoned her and her mother, leading her to drop her middle and last names in lieu of her mother's maiden name.
See examples of Lange's photographs and learn more about her life, free from the Oakland Museum of California.
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Kiss & Blog: A Novel,
by Alyson Noël
Reading level: Young Adult
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312355092
The four years a girl is in high school can seem like the most important thing to her. For Winter, and her best friend Sloane, making it into the "popular crowd" is everything to them. Since their freshmen year at Ocean High, they have been unnoticed and invisible, tired of standing on the sidelines while the rest of the popular kids are taking advantage of their high social status. But as their freshmen year comes to an end, Winter and Sloane promise each other that they will do everything in their power to become popular as their sophomore year rolls around, including joining the cheerleading team. Will they stick together as best friends, and follow through will their high-status aspirations?
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From wikipedia:
Bennett Alfred Cerf (May 25, 1898 – August 27, 1971) was a publisher and co-founder of Random House. Cerf was also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his television appearances in the panel game show What's My Line?.
Bennett Cerf was born and brought up in New York City in a Jewish family of Alsatian and German descent. His father, Gustave Cerf, was a lithographer; and his mother, Frederika Wise, was an heiress to a tobacco-distribution fortune.
Watch an interview with Bennett Cerf, free from the University of Texas at Austin.
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By Nataniel Lazaga,
Courier Staff Writer
In this reboot, NetherRealms Studios breaks away from Midway after the awkward rendition of
Mortal Kombat Vs. DC to give players a reboot of the Mortal Kombat franchise. In the newest Mortal Kombat installment, combatants fight in order to save earth from Emperor Shao Khan.
The story mode takes place between Mortal Kombat 1, 2 and 3, which gives old players great memories of each of the fighter games' classic stories but also lets newcomers understand the Mortal Kombat story so beloved by older generations. The story gets to the point of understanding the classic Mortal Kombat but does not go too deep for newer players.
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From wikipedia:
Charles Edward Taylor (May 24, 1868 – January 30, 1956) built the first aircraft engine used by the Wright brothers and was a vital contributor of mechanical skills in the building and maintaining of early Wright engines and airplanes.
Initially, Taylor was hired to fix bicycles, but increasingly took over running of the bicycle business as the Wright brothers spent more time on their aeronautical pursuits.
Read more about Charlie Taylor, free from CentennialofFlight.gov.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Congratulations to the Women’s Track & Field team for winning the NCS Bayshore Championship. 32 Athletes qualified for MOC in Berkeley.
Need Driver’s Education? Your place is at the Adult School. Cost is $125. There will be two sessions offered this summer. Session 1 is June 20, 21 & 22. Session 2 is August 8, 9 & 10. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
Dance 2011: Friday, May 27th @ 7:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center. Reserved seating $8/$10/$12. See Mrs. Cervantez for tickets.
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From wikipedia:
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, commonly known as
Margaret Fuller, (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850) was an American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. She was the first full-time American female book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States.
Born Sarah Margaret Fuller in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she was given a substantial early education by her father, Timothy Fuller. She later had more formal schooling and became a teacher before, in 1839, she began overseeing what she called "conversations": discussions among women meant to compensate for their lack of access to higher education. She became the first editor of the transcendentalist journal
The Dial in 1840, before joining the staff of the
New York Tribune under Horace Greeley in 1844. By the time she was in her 30s, Fuller had earned a reputation as the best-read person in New England, male or female, and became the first woman allowed to use the library at Harvard College. Her seminal work, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, was published in 1845. A year later, she was sent to Europe for the
Tribune as its first female correspondent. She soon became involved with the revolution in Italy and allied herself with Giuseppe Mazzini. She had a relationship with Giovanni Ossoli, with whom she had a child. All three members of the family died in a shipwreck off Fire Island, New York, as they were traveling to the United States in 1850. Fuller's body was never recovered.
Read At Home And Abroad, Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe, by Margaret Fuller, one of
four of her works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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It's a School Life by Satpreet Kaur, Courier Comic Artist
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MISCELLANEOUS
Need Driver’s Education? Your place is at the Adult School. Cost is $125. There will be two sessions offered this summer. Session 1 is June 20, 21 & 22. Session 2 is August 8, 9 & 10. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
ACTIVITIES
James Logan Color Guard auditions will be held May 23, 24 & 25 at James Logan High in the old gym, from 4:00 to 6:30 p.m. If you would like to be part of this National award winning team, come and check it out. Audition applications can be picked up in the old band room after 7th period or from current color guard members.
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From the Penn State
University Archives:
Vance Packard (May 22, 1914 – December 12, 1996) was an American journalist, social critic, and author.
He was born in Granville Summit, Pennsylvania to parents Philip J. Packard and Mabel Case Packard.
Between 1920-32 he attended local public schools in State College, Pennsylvania where his father managed a farm owned by the Pennsylvania State College (later Penn State University). In 1932 he entered Penn State, majoring in English. He graduated in 1936, and worked briefly for the local newspaper, the
Centre Daily Times. He earned his master's degree at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1937. That year, he joined the
Boston Daily Record as a staff reporter and a year later, he married Virginia Matthews.
Watch an interview with Vance Packard, free from youtube.com.
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From wikipedia:
Elizabeth Gurney Fry (21 May 1780 – 12 October 1845) was an English prison reformer, social reformer and philanthropist.
Fry was the driving force in legislation to make the treatment of prisoners more humane, and she was supported in her efforts by a reigning monarch. Since 2002, she has been depicted on the Bank of England £5 note.
Birth and family background
Elizabeth Gurney was born in Gurney Court, off Magdalen Street, Norwich, Norfolk, England to a Quaker family. Her family home as a child was Earlham Hall, Norwich, which is now part of the University of East Anglia. Her father, Joseph Gurney, was a partner in Gurney's bank. Her mother, Catherine, was a part of the Barclay family, who were among the founders of Barclays Bank. Elizabeth's mother died when she was only twelve years old. As one of the oldest girls in the family, she was partly responsible for the care and training of the younger children, including her brother Joseph John Gurney.
Read about Elizabeth Gurney Fry and the English five-pound note, free from the BBC.
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By Julia Ortiz,
Courier Staff Writer
Several Logan students took on director roles in order to put together the 22nd Annual Logan One Acts on May 6 and 7. Filled with tragic death, love, laughter and glitter, all six acts were a testament to the dedication of the Logan Drama program.
The first performance was done by junior Alexandra Ortiz and was called "Arabian Love." The piece is a tragic love story about Laila and Quis, who fight to be together in life and death.
"'Arabian Love' had its challenges, but in the end it was a wonderfully painted one act," said Ortiz.
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By Amanpreet Tatlah,
Courier Staff Writer
Many Hayward residents say they are angry at the effect of a new energy plant's construction on their environment, despite the pending approval of a state commission.
On May 22, 2001, Calpine Corporation and Bechtel Enterprises Holdings, Inc., filed an Application for Certification from the California Energy Commission. The companies sought approval from the commission to construct a 600-megawatt natural gas-fired, combined cycle electric generating facility.
The plant is expected to be located at southwest corner of the intersection of Enterprise Avenue and Whitesell Street, south of Hayward’s water pollution control facility.
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From wikipedia:
Sadaharu Oh, or
Wang Chenchih (born May 20, 1940), is a retired Chinese/Taiwanese baseball player and manager. He batted and threw left-handed and primarily played first base. Oh, who was born in Sumida, Tokyo the son of a Chinese father and a Japanese mother, had originally signed with the powerhouse Yomiuri Giants in 1959 as a pitcher, but was soon converted to first base. Under the tutelage of coach Hiroshi Arakawa, Oh developed his distinctive "flamingo" leg kick. His batting average jumped from .161 in his rookie season to .270 in 1960, and his home runs more than doubled. His performance dipped slightly in both statistical categories in 1961, but Oh truly blossomed in 1962. He was a five-time batting champion and led all Japanese players in home runs fifteen times and won the Central League most valuable player award nine times. In 1977, Sadaharu Oh became the first recipient of the People's Honor award.
Read more about Sadaharu Oh, free from baseballguru.com.
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MISCELLANEOUS
No TDAP, No schedule! A new State law now requires that all incoming 7th to 12th graders get a whooping cough booster shot, called Tdap, before entering school. You will not be able to get your schedule or be able to start school next year until you receive the shot and documentation is brought to the school office! Have your parents contact your doctor now to schedule this booster shot. If you have any questions about the shot or where to get it, please see the staff member in charge of immunizations in the office.
Need Driver’s Education? Your place is at the Adult School. Cost is $125. There will be two sessions offered this summer. Session 1 is June 20, 21 & 22. Session 2 is August 8, 9 & 10. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
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From wikipedia:
Yuri Kochiyama (born May 19, 1921) is a Japanese American human rights activist.
Kochiyama was born Mary Yuriko Nakahara in San Pedro, California. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Kochiyama's father was imprisoned the same day. Her family, sent to the Jerome War Relocation Center in Jerome, Arkansas, were among the 120,000 Japanese Americans interned during the Second World War. Two of her brothers joined the U.S. Army.
Listen to an interview with Yuri Kochiyama, free from DemocracyNow.org.
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MISCELLANEOUS
No TDAP, No schedule! A new State law now requires that all incoming 7th to 12th graders get a whooping cough booster shot, called Tdap, before entering school. You will not be able to get your schedule or be able to start school next year until you receive the shot and documentation is brought to the school office! Have your parents contact your doctor now to schedule this booster shot. If you have any questions about the shot or where to get it, please see the staff member in charge of immunizations in the office.
Need Driver’s Education? Your place is at the Adult School. Cost is $125. There will be two sessions offered this summer. Session 1 is June 20, 21 & 22. Session 2 is August 8, 9 & 10. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
Logan’s one and only weatherman, Kevin Salinda, has won the Joanne Stevens Scholarship. Congratulations, Kevin!
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Catching Fire by Suzanne
Collins
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 391 pages
ISBN-10: 9780439023498
,
Courier Staff Writer
Catching Fire is the second book in the Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins and it picks up where the first book left off, continuing Katniss Everdeen’s extraordinary story in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem.
Talks of a revolution are spread all through the twelve districts of Pand, and whether she realizes it or not, Katniss’s failure to play by the rules in the Hunger Games helped spark the rebellion.
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From wikipedia:
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture.
Born in Berlin, Walter Gropius was the third child of Walter Adolph Gropius and Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber. Gropius married Alma Mahler (1879–1964), widow of Gustav Mahler. Walter and Alma's daughter, named Manon after Walter's mother, was born in 1916. When Manon died of polio at age eighteen, composer Alban Berg wrote his Violin Concerto in memory of her (it is inscribed "to the memory of an angel"). Gropius and Alma divorced in 1920. (Alma had by that time established a relationship with Franz Werfel, whom she later married.) In 1923 Gropius married Ise (Ilse) Frank (d. 1983), and they remained together until his death. They adopted Beate Gropius, also known as Ati.
Learn more about Walter Gropius and see examples of his buildings, free from greatbuildings.com
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By Beatrice Esteban,
Courier Editor-in-Chief
A hole in the district budget has prompted Logan students and the New Haven community to raise money for co-curricular and extracurricular activities threatened by the statewide budget deficit.
In a staff email sent last Thursday, Principal Amy McNamara said that the New Haven Boosters Association and New Have Schools Foundation has teamed up to help raise funds for the district.
The Schools Foundation is currently accepting tax-deductible donations and has agreed to give all money raised in the next two months to co-curricular programs at Logan and the rest of the district.
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No TDAP, No schedule! A new State law now requires that all incoming 7th to 12th graders get a whooping cough booster shot, called Tdap, before entering school. You will not be able to get your schedule or be able to start school next year until you receive the shot and documentation is brought to the school office! Have your parents contact your doctor now to schedule this booster shot. If you have any questions about the shot or where to get it, please see the staff member in charge of immunizations in the office.
Need Driver’s Education? Your place is at the Adult School. Cost is $125. There will be two sessions offered this summer. Session 1 is June 20, 21 & 22. Session 2 is August 8, 9 & 10. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
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The 3rd Birthday
For: Playstation Portable
From: HexaDrive/Square Enix
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood,
partial nudity, strong language,
violence)
It's been a long time — 10 years — since we last saw Aya Brea in "Parasite Eve II," and for those who cared about the games she was in rather than Aya herself, this likely isn't the homecoming you had in mind.
Officially, "The 3rd Birthday" marks the continuation of the "Eve" storyline, an opera of mutated monkeys, genetic engineering and spontaneous combustion that's entirely too bizarre to explain succinctly. Unofficially, it doesn't much matter: Only a few other characters make the crossover from "Eve" to "Birthday," and while there are definite ties to the past — Manhattan and Christmas Eve really do not mix in Aya's world — the new storyline feels more like a fresh crisis for a familiar face than something reliant on events whose explanations exist in a decade-old game.
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From wikipedia:
James Thomas "Cool Papa" Bell (May 17, 1903 – March 7, 1991) was an American center fielder in Negro league baseball, considered by many baseball observers to have been the fastest man ever to play the game. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.
Born May 17th, 1903, in Starkville, Mississippi, Bell joined the St. Louis Stars of the Negro National League as a pitcher in 1922. By 1924, he had become their starting center fielder, and was known as an adept batter and fielder, and the "fastest man in the league". After leading the Stars to league titles in 1928, 1930, and 1931, he moved to the Detroit Wolves of the East-West League when the Negro National League disbanded. Detroit soon folded, leaving Bell to bounce to the Kansas City Monarchs and the Mexican winter leagues until finding a home with the Pittsburgh Crawfords in the reorganized NNL. In Pittsburgh, he played alongside Ted Page and Jimmie Crutchfield to form what is considered by many to have been the best outfield in the Negro Leagues.
Read an 1970 interview with Cool Papa Bell, free from the University of Missouri-St. Louis' Western Historical Manuscript Collection.
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MISCELLANEOUS
No TDAP, No schedule! A new State law now requires that all incoming 7th to 12th graders get a whooping cough booster shot, called Tdap, before entering school. You will not be able to get your schedule or be able to start school next year until you receive the shot and documentation is brought to the school office! Have your parents contact your doctor now to schedule this booster shot. If you have any questions about the shot or where to get it, please see the staff member in charge of immunizations in the office.
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From wikipedia:
Tamara de Lempicka (May 16, 1898–March 18, 1980), born Maria Górska in Warsaw, in partitioned Poland, was a Polish Art Deco painter and "the first woman artist to be a glamour star."
Born into a wealthy and prominent family, her father was Boris Gurwik-Górski, a Polish lawyer, and her mother, the former Malvina Decler, a Polish socialite. Maria was the middle child with two siblings. She attended boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland, and spent the winter of 1911 with her grandmother in Italy and on the French Riviera, where she was treated to her first taste of the Great Masters of Italian painting. In 1912, her parents divorced and Maria went to live with her wealthy Aunt Stefa in St. Petersburg, Russia. When her mother remarried, she became determined to break away to a life of her own. In 1913, at the age of fifteen, while attending the opera, Maria spotted the man she became determined to marry. She promoted her campaign through her well-connected uncle and in 1916 she married Tadeusz Łempicki in St. Petersburg—a well-known ladies' man, gadabout, and lawyer by title, who was tempted by the significant dowry.
See paintings by Tamara de Lempicka, free from bertc.com.
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From wikipedia:
Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. She is known for her penetrating insight; her work deals with dark themes such as betrayal, death and the origin of human evil.
Callie Russel Porter, born in Indian Creek, Texas, was the fourth of five children of Harrison Boone Porter and Alice (Jones) Porter. Her family tree can be traced back to American frontiersman Daniel Boone, a heritage of which she was proud.
Learn more about Katherine Anne Porter at the Katherine Anne Porter Society website.
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From wikipedia:
Edward Flanders Robb Ricketts (14 May 1897 – 11 May 1948) commonly known as Ed Ricketts, was an American marine biologist, ecologist, and philosopher. He is best known for
Between Pacific Tides (1939), a pioneering study of intertidal ecology, and for his influence on writer John Steinbeck, which resulted in their collaboration on the
Sea of Cortez, later republished as
The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951).
Ricketts was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Abbott Ricketts and Alice Beverly Flanders Ricketts. He also had a younger sister, Frances, and a younger brother, Thayer. Ricketts spent most of his childhood in Chicago, except for a year in South Dakota when he was ten years old.
Listen to Ed Ricketts and the 'Dream' of Cannery Row, free from npr.org.
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By Rick La Plante,
New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
A video short entitled "Freedoms in Motion," produced by three James Logan High School students, won the Judge’s Choice Award on Thursday night at the seventh annual Project YouthView Film Festival in Alameda.
The video – produced by students Ignatius “Iggy” Nguyen, Mei-Guang “MG” Chen and Ryan Quilala – was one of 10 finalists shown at the festival, selected from more than 60 submissions.
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Campaign posters, buttons on people’s backpacks, and even hand-held signs signaled that this week at Logan was ASB election week.
ASB differs from the class officers in that they represent the entire school, not just their individual class. The majority of the candidates are upcoming seniors, with a few exceptions, but all juniors to freshmen are eligible to run for ASB.
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From wikipedia:
Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. He won the Nebula award three times (out of 14 nominations) and the Hugo award six times (also out of 14 nominations), including two Hugos for novels: the serialized novel
...And Call Me Conrad (1965; subsequently published under the title
This Immortal, 1966) and then the novel
Lord of Light (1967).
The ostracod Sclerocypris zelaznyi was named after him.
Visit The Annotated Amber.
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From wikipedia:
Dorothy Mary Hodgkin OM, FRS (12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994), née
Crowfoot, was a British chemist, credited with the development of protein crystallography.
She advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography, a method used to determine the three dimensional structures of biomolecules. Among her most influential discoveries are the confirmation of the structure of penicillin that Ernst Boris Chain had previously surmised, and then the structure of vitamin B12, for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Watch Dorothy Hodgkin tell the story of her life, free from Web of Stories.
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Logan senior Tom Hu holds
a sign while demonstrating
at Logan this morning.
Beatrice Esteban/Courier
Photo
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Courier Editor-in-Chief
Hundreds of Logan students missed their first two classes to protest anticipated budget cuts resulting from a failed parcel tax election.
This morning, students gathered in front of the Logan parking lot on H Street expressing their frustration with the failure of Measure B.
Students were carrying signs with messages such as “Don’t Kill Choir” and “Save Our Kids.”
Senior Alonzo Rosales, who helped organize the demonstration, gave a speech about the importance of extracurricular and cocurricular activities. He said that the failure of Measure B is “cutting lives.”
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From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's website:
Chang and Eng Bunker were born in Siam (now Thailand) on May 11, 1811, connected at the chest by a five-inch-wide band of flesh. The location of this connection suggested to some doctors and other observers that the brothers shared a heart or some respiratory functions.
These medical assumptions would be proven wrong.
According to their biography, the twins shared relatively "normal" boyhoods in Siam, running and playing with other children, doing chores, and helping to support their parents and siblings by gathering and selling duck eggs in their small village.
Read Mark Twain's short story, "The Siamese Twins," inspired by Chang and Eng Bunker, free from readbookonline.net.
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MISCELLANEOUS
No TDAP, No schedule! A new State law now requires that all incoming 7th to 12th graders get a whooping cough booster shot, called Tdap, before entering school. You will not be able to get your schedule or be able to start school next year until you receive the shot and documentation is brought to the school office! Have your parents contact your doctor now to schedule this booster shot. If you have any questions about the shot or where to get it, please see the staff member in charge of immunizations in the office.
Anyone interested in trying out for Logan Football, spring practice starts on Tuesday, May 17th. You must have all paperwork and a current physical in to Coach Zuber in order to practice.
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Portal 2
For: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
Also available for: Windows, Macintosh
From: Valve Corporation
ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+ (fantasy
violence, mild language)
Though a rousingly successful experiment, "Portal" was still an experiment — so much so that Valve snuck it into players' hands as the wild card in a five-game suite that also included "Team Fortress 2" and "Half-Life 2" and its two expansions.
As such, while it was a wonderfully original game, it also felt like a project with nothing to lose — short, a little barren in the user-friendliness department, and flashing a hilariously, dryly insulting sense of humor that made the user-unfriendliness its soulmate.
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From wikipedia:
Moses Schorr, (May 10, 1874 – July 8, 1941) was a Rabbi, Polish historian, politician, Bible scholar, assyriologist and orientalist. Schorr was one of the top experts on the history of the Jews in Poland. He was the first Jewish researcher of Polish archives, historical sources, and pinkasim. The president of the 13th district B'nai B'rith Poland, he was a humanist and reform rabbi who ministered the central synagogue of Poland during its last years before the Holocaust.
Visit the Professor Moses Schorr foundation.
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By Rick LaPlante,
New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
UNION CITY (Monday, May 9, 2011) – New Haven parents are invited to attend a special meeting Tuesday night (May 10) to provide the District’s Equity Task Force with their perspectives on whether schools are adequately addressing questions of race, culture and gender.
The Equity Task Force is a group of students, teachers, administrators and community members charged with identifying and recommending ways that the District can be a more equitable place for all. The parent meeting will be at the James Logan High School Center for the Performing Arts, starting at 6 p.m.
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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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By Rick LaPlante,
New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
UNION CITY (Friday, May 6, 2011) – The Alameda County Registrar of Voters has agreed to postpone certification of the special election to decide Measure B – an emergency funding measure for the New Haven Unified School District – while supporters continue their efforts to ensure that all ballots were counted in an election decided by just a handful of votes.
Measure B, a $180 parcel tax for four years, would raise approximately $3 million annually to minimize class size increases and reductions to the school year and to fund after-school activities. The District, which because of the ongoing state financial crisis already has trimmed its budget from $113 million to $99 million, is facing the prospect of making an additional $10 million in cuts in 2011-12.
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By Helene St. James
Detroit Free Press (MCT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jimmy Howard stole the first two periods of Sunday's game for the Red Wings and Pavel Datsyuk the third, as the Wings pushed back yet again against the Sharks.
The Wings rallied from a third-period deficit Sunday at HP Pavilion to win, 4-3, and edge within 3-2 in the second-round series. Game 6 is Tuesday back in Detroit.
Howard faced 30 shots through 40 minutes and 42 in all. Datsyuk assisted on three goals, helping the Wings score three times in a little more than 10 minutes during the third period.
"Howie got us to the third period," Detroit coach Mike Babcock said. "Our D was good and our goaltending was good, but we weren't competitive enough up front."
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J.M. Barrie
From wikipedia:
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937), more commonly known as J. M. Barrie, was a Scottish novelist and dramatist. Most people remember him for inventing the character of
Peter Pan, whom he based on his friends, the Llewelyn Davies boys.
Born in Kirriemuir, Angus the second-youngest of ten children, Barrie received his formal education at Dumfries Academy and the University of Edinburgh. He became a journalist in Nottingham then in London and became a novelist and subsequently a playwright.
Read
Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie,
one of 17 of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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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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From wikipedia:
Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla y Gallaga Mandarte Villaseñor( 8 May 1753 – 30 July 1811), more commonly known as Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla or simply Miguel Hidalgo, was a Mexican priest and a leader of the Mexican War of Independence.
In 1810 Hidalgo led a group of indigenous and mestizo peasants in a revolt against the dominant peninsulares under the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe. After clashes with the criollos and Mexican townspeople the group disbanded. Hidalgo was captured on 21 March 1811, and executed on 30 July.
Hidalgo's rebellion was the beginning of what would become the Mexican War of Independence. Although he was unsuccessful in his original aim, Hidalgo's efforts were followed by those of José María Morelos and Agustín de Iturbide who brought down the colonial governments of Spain in Mexico. Hidalgo is considered the Father of the Nation of Mexico.
Read historical documents associated with Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, in Spanish.
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From wikipedia:
Olympe de Gouges (7 May 1748 – 3 November 1793), born Marie Gouze, was a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience.
She began her career as a playwright in the early 1780s. As political tension rose in France, de Gouges became increasingly politically involved. She became an outspoken advocate for improving the condition of slaves in the colonies as of 1788. At the same time, she began writing political pamphlets. Today she is perhaps best known as an early feminist who demanded that French women be given the same rights as French men. In her
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791), she challenged the practice of male authority and the notion of male-female inequality. She was executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror for attacking the regime of Maximilien Robespierre and for her close relation with the Girondists.
Read Olympe de Gouges Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, free from the Center for History and New Media.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
The Alameda County Registrar of Voters has agreed to postpone certification of the special election to decide Measure B – an emergency funding measure for the New Haven Unified School District – while supporters continue their efforts to ensure that all ballots were counted in an election decided by just a handful of votes.
Measure B, a $180 parcel tax for four years, would raise approximately $3 million annually to minimize class size increases and reductions to the school year and to fund after-school activities. The District, which because of the ongoing state financial crisis already has trimmed its budget from $113 million to $99 million, is facing the prospect of making an additional $10 million in cuts in 2011-12.
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By Alex Rodriguez,
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan _ Al-Qaida vowed to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden with retaliation against the U.S. "soon," according to a warning that the terrorist network posted this week on militant websites.
In confirming the death of its leader in a statement dated Tuesday, al-Qaida urged Muslims to not stray from the path of armed struggle against the United States. The terror group said it would soon release an audio message made by bin Laden a week before his death in which he passes along "advice and guidance."
Bin Laden was killed early Monday in a U.S. commando raid on a compound in the Pakistan garrison city of Abbottabad that he had used as a hideout for the last five years. Experts have said his death deals a significant blow to al-Qaida but likely won't mean its demise.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
An Eastin Elementary School student is a finalist in the second annual “Doodle 4 Google” competition.
Albert Pei, a fifth-grader, is one of 40 regional finalists whose works were selected from more than 107,000 submissions in the competition, for which students throughout the country redesigned Google’s familiar homepage logo around the theme “What I’d like to do someday …” Visitors from Google honored Albert during an assembly at Eastin this week.
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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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By Scott Powers
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — In early May 1961 — 50 years ago — the Cold War was at its hottest, and the United States needed a victory, an impressive one.
Three weeks earlier, on April 12, the Soviet Union had demonstrated its space and technology muscles by sending the first human into space. A week after that, the United States had suffered a humiliating defeat in the botched CIA-led Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
And a week after that, President John F. Kennedy had received a memo from Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson with an audacious proposal: the only way the United States could win the space race was by beating the Soviets to the moon, by the end of the decade.
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From wikipedia:
Nellie Bly (May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922) was an American journalist, author, industrialist, and charity worker. She is most famous for an undercover exposé in which she faked insanity to study a mental institution from within. She is also well-known for her record-breaking trip around the world.
Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran in Cochran's Mills, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, 40 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, she was nicknamed "Pink" for wearing that color as a child. Her father, a wealthy former associate justice, died when she was six. Her mother remarried three years later, but sued for divorce when Pink was 14. Pink testified in court against her drunken, violent stepfather. As a teenager she changed her surname to Cochrane, apparently adding the "e" for sophistication. She attended boarding school for one term, but dropped out due to a lack of funds.
Read Ten Days in a Mad-House, by Nellie Bly, free from the University of Pennsylvania library.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
Most voters in the New Haven Unified School District approved of Measure B -- an emergency funding measure designed to minimize class size increases and reductions to the school year and to fund after-school activities – but the measure appears to have fallen just short of the two-thirds majority necessary to pass.
According to unofficial results reported this afternoon by the Alameda County Registrar of Voters, Measure B received 66.43 percent of the vote – with 7,851 voting to approve the measure and 3,967 voting against – fewer than 100 votes short of passing.
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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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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Director of Parent and Community Relations
Julie Panebianco, an English teacher and leader of the Puente Program at James Logan High School, has been selected as the New Haven Unified School District’s Teacher of the Year, it was announced during the Board of Education meeting Tuesday night. Joan Wolfe, secretary at Searles Elementary School, was named Classified Employee of the Year.
Under Ms. Panebianco’s leadership, Logan boasts one of the most successful programs in the Puente Project, which throughout the state offers academic preparation to improve the college-going rate of educationally disadvantaged students. She helps Puente students with college applications and essays, takes them on college tours, helps their families find ways to afford college and devotes countless hours to fundraising for the program. She also is an anchor of Logan’s literacy team.
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Alameda County Registrar of Voters graphic
With an undetermined number of ballots still to be counted, an emergency funding measure for the New Haven Unified School District was too close to call tonight.
According to preliminary results from the Alameda County Registrar of Voters, 7,298 voters favored Measure B, the "Taking Care of Our Kids" parcel tax, while 3,809 voters were opposed. In percentages, the margin was 65.71 to 34.29, but the measure needs a two-thirds majority (66.7 percent) to pass.
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From wikipedia:
Alice Pleasance Liddell (4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934), known for most of her adult life by her married name, Alice Hargreaves, inspired the children's classic
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, whose protagonist Alice was named after her.
Alice Liddell was the fourth child of Henry Liddell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and his wife Lorina Hanna Liddell (née Reeve). She had two older brothers, Harry (born 1847) and Arthur (born 1850, died of scarlet fever in 1853), and an older sister Lorina (born 1849). She also had six younger siblings, including her sister Edith (born 1854) with whom she was very close.
Read excerpts from Alice Liddell's diaries.
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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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Dejon Gomes in 2006
Courier Staff Photo
The Washington Redskins picked Logan Class of 2007 Alum Dejon Gomes in this year's National Football League draft, making him the 146th player picked overall.
Gomes was one of three Nebraska players chosen by the Redskins in the draft's fourth round.
In an interview on ESPN radio, Gomes immediately endeared himself to fans by calling Redskin's arch-rival Dallas Cowboys "losers."
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From wikipedia:
Septima Poinsette Clark (May 3, 1898–December 15, 1987) was an American educator and civil rights activist. Clark developed the literacy and citizenship workshops that played an important role in the drive for voting rights and civil rights for African Americans in the American Civil Rights Movement." She became known as the "Queen mother" or "Grandmother of the American Civil Rights Movement" in the United States.
Clark was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1898. Her father, Peter Poinsette, was born a slave on the Joel Poinsette farm between the Waccamaw River and Georgetown. After the Civil War, he got a job as a caterer. Her mother, Victoria Warren Anderson Poinsette, was born in Charleston but raised in Haiti by her uncle, who took her and her two sisters there in 1864. Victoria Poinsette had never been a slave. She returned to Charleston after the Civil War and worked as a launderer. Clark's mother did not work directly for whites, and refused to allow their daughters to work in white houses in order to protect them from sexual harassment.
Read an interview with Septima Clark, free from the Documenting the American South project of the University of North Carolina.
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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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By Rick La Plante,
New Haven Director of Parent and Community Relations
UNION CITY (Monday, May 2, 2011) – The regular meeting of the Board of Education on Tuesday will begin at 6:30 p.m., one hour earlier than usual, the New Haven Unified School District has announced.
Normally, the Board meets in closed session at 6:30 and the regular meeting begins at 7:30; however, there are no closed-session items on this agenda.
Tuesday is Election Day, and the time change means that the school board meeting may be completed before the Alameda County Registrar of Voters announces – sometime after the 8 p.m. ballot deadline – preliminary results of Measure B, an emergency funding measure to help the District offset some of the cuts it is being forced to make because of the ongoing state budget crisis. 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.
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By Alexys Cran,
Courier Correspondent
Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides a variety of services promoting women’s health, has recently been prevented from further danger of losing financial support from the United States federal government. After months of debate, Congress passed a budget bill that enables Planned Parenthood health centers to continue offering services through federal programs.
The organization, which has been around for over 90 years, has aided and promoted the advancement of women's health by providing services such as birth control, HIV testing, cancer screenings, routine gynecological exams, sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment and education to more than three million Americans.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service
(MCT)
The following editorial will appear in the Kansas City Star on Tuesday, May 3.
For almost 10 years, The Kansas City Star editorial board has been holding a prepared obituary for Osama bin Laden. It was updated on occasion as events warranted. Finally, the version crafted by former editorial board member Bill Tammeus, written on behalf of the board, may be published:
The death of Osama bin Laden means the end of an evil man, not the demise of the evil ideas that drove him.
His twisted version of Islam still infects the hearts and minds of extremists around the globe. They see terrorism as a legitimate tool to further their political and religious ends because they pledge allegiance to bin Laden's contorted thinking, paranoid dreams and dangerous theology.
So any relief Americans feel about the death of bin Laden _ and there is great relief _ must be tempered by the realization that his ideas live on, at least for now.
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From wikipedia:
Pincus Leff (May 2, 1907–April 3, 1993), better known as
Pinky Lee, was an American burlesque comic and host of a children's television program,
The Pinky Lee Show, in the early 1950s.
Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Lee worked as comic of the "baggy pants" variety on stage, becoming an expert at the slapstick, comic dancing and rapid-fire jokes of the burlesque style. During the 1940s, he was heard on
Drene Time and other radio programs.
Watch a 1954 episode of The Pinky Lee Show, free from the Internet Archive.
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From
The Courier's Archives:
Musically Minded by Kimberly Low
Bubble Jim by Sabina Singh
School Days by Jamie Maxfield
The Tao of Sunday by Idy Tao
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From wikipedia:
Henry Demarest Lloyd (May 1, 1847 – September 28, 1903) was a 19th century American progressive political activist and a muckraking journalist. He is best remembered for his exposés of the Standard Oil Company.
Henry Demarest Lloyd was born on May 1, 1847 in the home of his maternal grandfather on Sixth Avenue in New York City. Henry was the first child of Aaron Lloyd, a graduate of Rutgers College and Theological Seminary and minster of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Maria Christie Demarest.
One of Henry Demarest Lloyd's strongest formative influences was the preaching of Henry Ward Beecher, the sermons of whom he regularly attended.
Read Henry Demarest Lloyd's article 1884 article,"The Lords of Industry," free from the Modern History Sourcebook.
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