This is the archive for September 2011
By Amandeep Singh and Maria Saldana,
Courier Staff Writers
Editor's Note: Two of our writers went to see this movie. After the overview see their opinions below.
Movie Overview:
A teenage boy named Nathan Harper, played by Taylor Lautner, who has had weird dreams as long as he can remember. One day he comes across a photograph on what he and his across-the-street neighbor, Karen, payed by Lily Collins, believes to be is a missing persons website. The photograph was of himself as a boy and this made him wonder who exactly who his real parents are. The woman who raised him as her own son Mara Harper, played by Maria Bello, confirmed to him the harsh reality that her and his believed to be dad, Kevin Harper, Jason Isaacs, were not his real parents.
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By Zohal Sharif, Courier Staff Writer
Shalimar, on Walnut Avenue in Fremont, has a gold standard for desi food which is Indian-esque. The menu seriously saved this place from being one of the craziest places to dine. The food is good but restaurant is very chaotic and filthy.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
The New Haven Boosters Association, which is helping the New Haven Schools Foundation with its $100,000 donation that helped save after-school activities for the 2011-12 school year, will hold a fund-raising carnival and chili cook-off Sunday, Nov. 6, in the parking lot at James Logan High School.
The “Carnival of Thanks,” from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. will include game and food booths, a talent showcase and prize giveaways and 50-50 fund-raisers that will give participants a chance to donate to the activities fund and also win gift baskets and cash prizes.
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From wikipedia:
Thelma Terry, née
Thelma Combes (September 30, 1901 – May 30, 1966) was an American bandleader and bassist during the 1920s and 1930s. She fronted Thelma Terry and Her Playboys and was the first American woman to lead a notable jazz orchestra as an instrumentalist.
Terry was born in Bangor, Michigan in 1901. Her parents divorced when she was very young and she moved with her mother to Chicago, where the latter was employed as a servant for the wealthy Runner family. When the young woman was given the opportunity to receive musical training with the instrument of her choice, she chose to study the string bass. Her early years were spent on the road performing in Chautauqua assemblies.
Learn more about Thelma Terry, and hear examples of her work, free from RedHotJazz.com.
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James Logan students age 16 and up, donate blood at our semi-annual fall American Red Cross blood drive event on October 4th. There will be a table in Colt Court during both lunches all week for sign-ups and information. If you donate blood you will receive a free t-shirt and would save three lives!
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By Candace Laxamana and Rae Atabay,
Courier Staff Writers
Manika, an aspiring young singer song-writer visited James Logan High School's campus and performed during both lunches. She also appeared on James Logan's live newscast.
Manika is an 18 year old performer from Las Vegas, Nevada and she now resides in Los Angeles. Manika pursued her dream and was signed by the famous Frank Dileo, the very same Frank Dileo that also managed Michael Jackson.
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By Jack Bragg,
Courier Entertainment Editor
Rarely does a new band build so much hype as to have their first single played on radio stations worldwide. Grouplove, a new American indie band, has garnered so much attention that their first single has already made it to mainstream radio a mere week after the release of their debut album,
Never Trust A Happy Song. Their is method to the madness behind this band’s hype. The album is well constructed and feels like a methodical professional production without the “new band” feel. The album feels familiar without giving up its surprising elements that make it a truly unique album.
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From wikipedia:
Lanza del Vasto, (Giuseppe Giovanni Luigi Enrico Lanza di Trabia), (September 29, 1901 – January 5, 1981) was a philosopher, poet, artist, catholic and nonviolent activist.
He was born in San Vito dei Normanni, Italy and died in Elche de la Sierra, Spain.
A western disciple of Mohandas K. Gandhi, he worked for inter-religious dialogue, spiritual renewal, ecological activism and nonviolence.
Learn more about Lanzo del Vasto, free from markshep.com.
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James Logan students age 16 and up, donate blood at our semi-annual fall American Red Cross blood drive event on October 4th. There will be a table in Colt Court during both lunches all week for sign-ups and information. If you donate blood you will receive a free t-shirt and would save three lives!
More colleges and universities are visiting Logan’s campus than ever before. The latest to join the list is Cal Poly – SLO. For a complete listing of which colleges are coming and when, check the Logan website under college & career info. Then stop by the Career Center to sign up. But don’t wait too long as space is limited and open spots fill up quickly.
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By Justyna Torres,
Courier Editor-in-Chief
For students who wanted to get more involved in school activities, The Unity and Club Recruitment Fair allowed them an opportunity to learn about and join the many clubs Logan has to offer.
About three days prior to the event, announcements were made promoting the Thursday lunch time attraction planned by the Humanitarian Assistance Club and faculty. However, it left students confused becuase every year Logan has two separate events, one for the unity fair and another for club recruitment.
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From wikipedia:
Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856–August 24, 1923) was an American educator and author of children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister during the 1880s, she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Kate Wiggin devoted her adult life to the welfare of children in an era when children were commonly thought of as cheap labour.
Read Kate Douglas Wiggin's Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, one of
40 of her works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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James Logan students age 16 and up, donate blood at our semi-annual fall American Red Cross blood drive event on October 4th. There will be a table in Colt Court during both lunches all week for sign-ups and information. If you donate blood you will receive a free t-shirt and would save three lives!
Need Driver’s Ed? Check out the Adult School! Cost is $125. December 19, 20 & 21, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.
More colleges and universities are visiting Logan’s campus than ever before. The latest to join the list is Cal Poly – SLO. For a complete listing of which colleges are coming and when, check the Logan website under college & career info. Then stop by the Career Center to sign up. But don’t wait too long as space is limited and open spots fill up quickly.
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By Zohal Sharif,
Courier Staff Writter
Jessica Diaz, a James Logan student, passed away due to heart failure on June 18th, 2011. An autopsy revealed that an enlarged heart was her cause of death.
An outstanding girl with the future ahead of her, Jessica finished her Sophomore year smiling brightly as always. Family and friends were in total shock after hearing this unfortunate loss of life. She was a part of the Puente Program at Logan, who serves Latino and other traditionally underrepresented students.
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"Resistance 3"
For: Playstation 3
From: Insomniac/Sony
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore,
intense violence, strong language)
Price: $60
For all who thought "Resistance 2" was a case of a game losing its nerve and simply fitting in, "Resistance 3" has good news: It agrees.
That carry-two-weapon-at-a-time limit from "R2?" It's gone. Outside of one story-mandated occurrence, when you find a weapon, it's yours to keep — to the eventual tune of a 12-weapon cache that's easy to manage and so much more fun to maneuver than the convenient but boring two-weapon maximum.
If you're familiar with developer Insomniac — masterminds of "Ratchet and Clank" as well as "Resistance" — you also know weapon design is their forte. "R3's" magnum isn't just a pistol: Its bullets also explode when you pull a secondary trigger. The stock rifle can tag enemies and pelt them from around corners with homing bullets, and the already-dangerous Atomizer's secondary function creates what is, by any other name, a black hole. Every firearm in "R3" has some bonus ingenuity in its standard or alternate fire modes, and you can upgrade each twice — simply by using them — to do even more outlandishly useful things.
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From wikipedia:
Thomas Nast (September 27, 1840 – December 7, 1902) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist who is considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon". Among his notable works were the creation of the modern version of Santa Claus, and Uncle Sam (the male personification of the American people), as well as the political symbols of both major United States political parties: the Republican elephant and the Democratic donkey.
Read Thomas Nast: his period and his pictures, by Albert Bigelow Paine, free from Google Books.
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More colleges and universities are visiting Logan’s campus than ever before. The latest to join the list is Cal Poly – SLO. For a complete listing of which colleges are coming and when, check the Logan website under college & career info. Then stop by the Career Center to sign up. But don’t wait too long as space is limited and open spots fill up quickly.
Yearbooks are on sale now. The cost of the yearbook is $65 through September 30th. The price then goes up to $70. Payment plans are available. They will be sold at the office windows at lunch. Reserve your copy today. See Ms. Walton for more details.
Ohlone College Faire is Wednesday night starting at 6:30. Over 70 colleges will be tabling, as well as a UC, CSU and community college panel presentation. And financial aid workshop. Don’t miss it.
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By Candace Laxamana and Gurpreet Bhasin,
Courier Staff Writers
Getting wisdom teeth extracted may be one of the many obstacles a student may need to go through in their high school career. Many students at James Logan High School have or need to get their wisdom teeth extracted.
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From wikipedia:
Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) was an American sociologist and photographer. Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States.
Lewis W. Hine was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1874. After his father died in an accident, he began working and saved his money for a college education. Hine studied sociology at the University of Chicago, Columbia University and New York University.
See examples of Lewis Hine's photography, free from Shorpy.com.
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Original Baller by Joseph Agharanya, Courier Comic Artist
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From wikipedia:(September 25, 1879 – May 1, 1963) was a Tagalog language writer from the Philippines.[1] Aside from being a writer, he was also a lawyer, politician, critic, labor leader and considered as "Father of the Filipino Grammar".
In the field of literature
Santos was born in Pasig, Rizal, Philippines (now a part of Metro Manila) - as Lope C. Santos - to Ladislao Santos and Victoria Canseco, both natives of Rizal province. He used Kanseko instead of Canseco for his middle name to show his nationalism. During his time, the letter C had begun falling out of use in favor of the letter K in the Tagalog alphabet.
Read more about Lope K. Santos.
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From wikipedia:
Richard Ira "Dick" Bong (September 24, 1920 – August 6, 1945) is the United States' highest-scoring air ace, having shot down at least 40 Japanese aircraft during World War II. He was a fighter pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) and a recipient of the Medal of Honor. All of his aerial victories were in the P-38 Lightning, a fast and well armed fighter aircraft.
Bong, the son of Swedish immigrant parents, grew up on a farm in Poplar, Wisconsin as one of nine children. He became interested in aircraft at an early age and was a keen model builder.
Read more about Richard Bong, courtesy of Time Magazine.
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Did you know that the exclusion policy has been updated this year? Do you remember…we covered that when we went through the Student Planner during the first few days of school! Make sure you review it as it now applies to the full year! It’s on Page 10 of the planner, and also on the school web site. And remember, there are no appeals! So, stay off exclusion. We all want to attend that dance at the end of the year. And since the truancy notices count period attendance (not the full day), you may get your third truancy notice before you realize how many times you’ve cut class!
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By Ronnell Coaster,
Courier Sports Editor
Editor's Note: This student played in the Staff versus Student kickball game.
The Teachers versus Students game kickball game, that was advertised all week, took place after school on Wednesday.
To start things off, the students took the field to play offense while Mrs. Johnson took the position as the teacher's starting pitcher.
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By Jessica Li, Courier Staff Writer
If you want to do something fun, educational, and free with family, friends, or even guests, look no further than the Union City Library.
Alongside the Contra Costa Library, the Alameda County Library system, of which the Union City Library is a part, offers Discover & Go, a new service that gives Library card-holders who are also Alameda County residents free or discount passes to cultural institutions and local museums. People can learn new things, explore, question, create interest, and more.
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James Logan's Varsity football team travels to Heritage High School in Brentwood tonight with hopes of extending their winning streak.
Lineback Silaiman Habib told the Courier that he expect Heritage to be "one of the toughest teams we'll face. They have a well-put-together team, but if we play Logan football, we'll win."
The varsity game starts at 7 p.m. in Brentwood; the junior varsity game starts at 4:30 p.m.
Last Friday, the unbeaten Colts won their second game of the season against Foothill High in Pleasanton.
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By Carrie Rickey
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)
PHILADELPHIA — Lately Jonah Hill, the potty-mouthed teddy bear of "Superbad," resembles a stuffed animal that's lost its stuffing and gained muscle tone.
Did Hill shed those pounds by running the bases on the set of "Moneyball"? In the movie that opened Friday he is Peter Brand, statistics wonk, a composite of all the real-life wonks who helped Oakland Athletics manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) spot baseball players with high on-base percentages and low salaries.
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By Christi Parsons
Tribune Washington Bureau (MCT)
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Friday morning unveiled major changes in the way public schools are evaluated, scrapping an essential element of President George W. Bush's signature education program in favor of letting states come up with their own plans.
Bush had good intentions with his "No Child Left Behind" plan of 2002, Obama told a crowd of educators and students, but it ended up inspiring states to lower their standards and schools to "teach to the test."
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Victoria Claflin Woodhull (September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927) was an American suffragist who was described by Gilded Age newspapers as a leader of the American woman's suffrage movement in the 19th century. She became a colorful and notorious symbol for women's rights, free love, and spiritualism as she fought against corruption and for labor reforms. The authorship of many of her speeches and articles is disputed. Many of her speeches on these subjects were not written by Woodhull herself alone but also by her backers and husband. Either way, her role as a representative of these movements was nonetheless powerful and controversial. She was the first woman along with her sister to operate a brokerage firm in Wall Street and then open a weekly newspaper. She is most famous for her declaration and campaign to run as the first woman for the United States Presidency in 1872. Many of the reforms and ideals espoused by her for the common working class against the corrupt rich business elite were extremely controversial in her time though generations later many of those implemented are now taken for granted. Other ideas and reforms still remain controversial and debated today.
Visit Victoria-Woodhull.com.
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More colleges and universities are visiting Logan’s campus than ever before. The latest to join the list is Cal Poly – SLO. For a complete listing of which colleges are coming and when, check the Logan website under college & career info. Then stop by the Career Center to sign up. But don’t wait too long as space is limited and open spots fill up quickly.
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By Jack Bragg,
Courier Entertainment Editor
Irvine-based alternative rock band Thrice have once again returned with their seventh record,
Major/Minor.
The album is loud and features complex rhythms and melodies but at the same time tends to sound too familiar to previous albums. The sound is very similar and the songs as individual pieces could be placed on any other Thrice album from the last few years and would feel in sync without a noticeable difference. This quality to the music brings mixed feelings as the new songs feel familiar and don’t stray too far from the sound that made Thrice as a band what they are today, at the same time, the new songs also don’t seem to add another layer to the bands music. They seem to be another issue of the same old music, as though an older album had a b-side that was only discovered recently.
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From wikipedia:
Ellen Church (September 22, 1904 - August 22, 1965) was the first female flight attendant in America .
Born in Cresco, Iowa on September 22, 1904, Church was a pilot and a nurse. Boeing Air Transit (the predecessor to United Airlines) wouldn't hire her as a pilot, but did take her suggestion to hire nurses as stewardesses in order to calm passengers' fear of flight. She believed that a flight attendant would help convince people that flying is safe.
Read more about Ellen Church, free from Iowa Pathways.
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More colleges and universities are visiting Logan’s campus than ever before. The latest to join the list is Cal Poly – SLO. For a complete listing of which colleges are coming and when, check the Logan website under college & career info. Then stop by the Career Center to sign up. But don’t wait too long as space is limited and open spots fill up quickly.
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Rosanne Skirble, VOANews
Polls in recent years show that fewer Americans believe global warming is a threat or that it is driven by human activities.
That’s despite consensus among scientists that climate change is not only very real, but also that it is caused largely by the burning of fossil fuels in cars, trucks and power plants.
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From
wikipedia:
John Bunny (September 21, 1863 – April 26, 1915) was an American actor and was one of the first comic stars of the motion picture era. Between 1910 and his death in 1915 Bunny was one of the top stars of early silent film, as well as an early example of celebrity. At one time he was billed as “the man who makes more than the president”! His face was insured for $100,000 and his unexpected death made headlines around the world. Though quickly forgotten, Bunny paved the way for future plump comedians such as Fatty Arbuckle and Jackie Gleason.
Read an interview with John Bunny, free from Google Books.
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By Kayleen Garingan and Mark Godoy,
Courier Staff Writers
Freshmen elections results were revealed last Friday to the student body after a week long of campaigning and voting amongst the freshman class.
This year was a little different from the rest because Ms. Walton, the school's activities director, decided to speak to the freshmen classrooms before announcing that elections were starting. By doing so it improved the outcome of freshmen campaigning to be elected for class office. Instead of having maybe two or three people going against each other for president, vice president, treasurer, representative or secretary there was a max of five people who ran against each other for each office position.
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"Rise of Nightmares"
For: Xbox 360 (Kinect required)
From: Sega
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and
gore, intense violence, partial
nudity, strong language, suggestive
themes)
Price: $50
By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)
Give "Rise of Nightmares" an A for effort and an A+ for conviction. It marks a stark change of scenery (gruesome, story-driven horror instead of family-friendly minigames) for Kinect, it's the first Kinect game to give players full range of motion, and it takes both breakthroughs and runs pretty wild with them.
Far more subjective is the grade it deserves for execution. It might impress you, it might bewilder or aggravate you. Or it might make perfect sense, because if there's a genre where control inhibitions are an arguable asset, horror is it.
Though "Nightmares'" walking controls are predictably odd, the game — which plays out from a first-person perspective — at least makes them simple to understand. Standing still and facing forward keeps you still. Turning your torso left or right turns you onscreen, and putting a foot forward or backward and keeping it there sends you walking in that direction until you bring your foot back.
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From wikipedia:
William Maxwell Evarts Perkins (September 20, 1884 – June 17, 1947), was the editor for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe. He has been described as the most famous literary editor.
Perkins was born on September 20, 1884, in New York City, grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey, attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire and then graduated from Harvard College in 1907. Although an economics major in college, Perkins also studied under Charles Townsend Copeland, a famous teacher of literature who helped prepare Perkins for his career.
Read "The return of a man called Perkins," by John Walsh, free from The Independent.
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Join the Fear the Colt program today. Get your ASB sticker. The cost is $25, and that guarantees you $100 worth of savings throughout the school year. First big savings is that you will get in the “This is How We Do It” welcome back dance on Friday, 9/23. Can’t afford it right now? There is a fundraiser that you can participate in. Stop by the attendance windows, Colt Court, or Room 67 to pick up your form today. Don’t wait, get it now!
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By Lauren Mascarenhas,
Courier Managing Editor
After two years of planning, the highly anticipated Institute of Community Leaders at Logan opened its doors this month to a full class of one hundred and eighty fresh faced ninth graders.
The Institute of Community Leaders -or ICL as it has come to be known in and around campus- is a “school- within- a- school” at Logan. The program is intended to provide each of its students with a more personalized education in academics and leadership, which will eventually lead to a college education and hopefully a role as a leader in the community. Throughout their time in high school, students will take a set of pre-selected classes specifically designed to meet college enrollment requirements.
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From wikipedia:
Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany (September 19, 1889 — January 25, 1999) was an American educator and civil rights pioneer who was the subject, along with her sister Bessie, of the New York Times bestselling oral history,
Having our Say, written by journalist Amy Hill Hearth. Sadie Delany was the first Black person permitted to teach domestic science at the high school level in the New York public schools, and became famous, with the publication of the book, at the age of 103.
Read more about Sarah Louise Delany, free from amyhillhearth.com.
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It's a Lulu by Lulu Zhong, Courier Comic Artist
Cat vs. World by Jeanna Keegan,
Courier Comic Artist
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Portrait of Grey Owl (1936), by Yousuf Karsh
(or Wa-sha-quon-asin, from the Ojibwe wenjiganoozhiinh, meaning "great horned owl" or "great grey owl") was the name
Archibald Belaney (September 18, 1888 – April 13, 1938) adopted when he took on a First Nations identity as an adult. A British native, he was most notable as an author and one of the "most effective apostles of the wilderness".
Revelation of his British origins after his death adversely affected his reputation for some time. Since the 1970s and, with the centennial of his birth, there has been renewed public appreciation for his conservation efforts. Recognition has included biographies, a historic plaque at his birthplace, a 1999 biopic about his life by director Richard Attenborough.
Watch the film Beaver People, free from the National Film Board of Canada.
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By Julie Cart
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES — A blistering summer melted Arctic sea ice to near-record lows, a trajectory that scientists say could reduce ice coverage in the polar region to its lowest since satellite measurements were first taken in 1979.
That's the grim assessment delivered Thursday by the National Climatic Data Center, which also calculated that global temperatures last month made it the eighth-warmest August on record, part of a general warming trend.
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From wikipedia:
Andrew Rube Foster (September 17, 1879 - December 9, 1930) was an American baseball player, manager, and executive in the Negro Leagues. He is considered by historians to have been perhaps the best African-American pitcher of the 1900s. Foster also founded and managed the Chicago American Giants, one of the most successful black baseball teams of the pre-integration era. Most notably, he organized the Negro National League, the first lasting professional league for African-American ballplayers, which operated from 1920 to 1931. He adopted his longtime nickname "Rube" as his official middle name later in life.
Read more about Rube Foster and the history of the Negro Leagues, free from Kansas State University.
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The Bay and Delta from space.
USGS Photo
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — A natural poison responsible for one of the nation's worst wildlife disasters a quarter-century ago is a looming problem in San Francisco Bay — one that could worsen if aqueducts are built around the Delta, new research suggests.
The aqueducts could channel more selenium at higher concentrations into the bay, a possibility that has been largely overlooked in lengthy debates about Delta water, a top scientist said.
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Join the Fear the Colt program today. Get your ASB sticker. The cost is $25, and that guarantees you $100 worth of savings throughout the school year. First big savings is that you will get in the “This is How We Do It” welcome back dance on Friday, 9/23. Can’t afford it right now? There is a fundraiser that you can participate in. Stop by the attendance windows, Colt Court, or Room 67 to pick up your form today. Don’t wait, get it now!
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By Kayleen Garingan,
Courier Staff Writer
While in Reno, Nevada my family and I decided to go to the annual Nugget Rib Cook-off. The 24th annual "Best in the West" Nugget Rib Cook-off ran over the Labor Day weekend.
Not knowing what to expect, the smells of smoke and barbeque sauce engulfed our noses and power struck our taste buds. The smells of barbequed meat were absolutely delicious.
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James Cash Penney (September 16, 1875 – February 12, 1971) was a businessman and entrepreneur who, in 1902, founded the J.C. Penney stores.
In 1898, he began working in a small chain called the Golden Rule stores, and in 1902, the owners, Guy Johnson and Thomas Callahan, offered him one-third partnership in a new store he would open. He invested $2,000 and moved to Kemmerer, Wyoming, to open a store there. He participated in opening two more stores, and when Callahan and Johnson dissolved their partnership in 1907 he purchased full interest in all three stores. While there, he also became a lumberjack, cutting down trees as a side-hobby while running the stores.
Read more about J.C. Penney, and Madam C.J. Walker, free from the National Park Service.
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Next week we are going to have our first Intruder Alert Drill. An intruder alert means that there is someone or something on campus that is dangerous, and all students and staff need to get into a locked classroom immediately. The intruder alert bell sounds different than a regular passing period bell. I want you to hear it once before next week’s drill so that you know what it is when you hear it. This is only a test. This is only a test **Play Bell** Students, when you hear the Intruder Alert bell next week, please go immediately into the closest classroom you see. It doesn’t matter if it’s your teacher or not, go into the first classroom you see. If you are out on the field during PE, your teacher will bring you into the closest classroom from the field or area you’re at. If you’re in a bathroom, leave immediately and get to the nearest classroom. Then wait for an announcement that all is clear, and that you’re safe to go back to your regular class.
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By Larry Gordon
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
SAN FRANCISCO — University of California students could face annual tuition increases of 8 percent to 16 percent over the next four years, possibly bringing the fee as high as $22,068 for the 2015-16 school year, according to a long-term budget plan the university unveiled Wednesday.
UC leaders said the proposal was intended only as a guideline but that it would help students, parents and faculty to plan more realistically. This summer, the state budget crisis resulted in deeper-than-expected cuts to UC and a second tuition increase just weeks before the school year began.
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Jack Bragg,
Courier Entertainment Editor
Coming out of the gate with a debut that feels natural and catchy is a tricky mark to hit. Local San Francisco band, The Hundred Days, have hit that mark dead-on with their debut album
Really?.
The band has sculpted a musical masterpiece that, if paired with decent publicity, could potentially rocket them on to mainstream radio.
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By Randy Lewis
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES — Nick Lowe, lauded in many quarters as one of pop music's master craftsmen of the last three decades, says he hears a lot of pretty good music these days. And that's not good.
"Sad to say, it seems everyone can make a pretty good record in their bedroom today," the 62-year-old English singer and songwriter said recently. "You go buy the kit and you can make a pretty good record. 'Pretty good' is the new 'terrible.' In a tsunami of 'pretty good' stuff, you can't find the really good stuff. So I've kind of given up looking."
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James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the
Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel
The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece.
James Fenimore Cooper was born in Burlington, New Jersey, the son of William and Elizabeth (Fenimore) Cooper. His father was a United States Congressman. Shortly after his first birthday, his family moved to Cooperstown, New York, a community founded by his father.
Read The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper, one of
dozens of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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Virtual Words: Language on the Edge
of Science and Technology
By Jonathon Keats
Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195398548
ISBN-13: 978-0195398540
We tend to create new words to describe our changing world. WIRED magazine’s Jargon Watch editor Jonathon Keats attempts to guide us through the thicket of emerging terms in his book, “Virtual Words.”
Keats, who tracks such terms for WIRED, offers “spam” as one now-familiar example. It was first used as a brand name for canned luncheon meat but has come to mean the unwanted email that clutters our in-boxes.
“The term came about because "spam," being junk e-mail, and Spam luncheon meat many consider to be junk food, there was a resonance between the two," Keats says. "So that people began to call their junk email "spam." Spam was a term that people could rally around and they could rally against this email they didn’t want.”
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By Don Lee, Noam Levey
and Alejandro Lazo
Tribune Washington Bureau (MCT)
WASHINGTON — In a grim portrait of a nation in economic turmoil, the government reported that the number of people living in poverty last year surged to 46.2 million — the most in at least half a century — as 1 million more Americans went without health insurance and household incomes fell sharply.
The poverty rate for all Americans rose in 2010 for the third consecutive year, matching the 15.1 percent figure in 1993 and pushing many more young adults to double up or return to their parents' home to avoid joining the ranks of the poor.
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New bell schedule posters
Courier Staff Photo,
Courier Staff Writers
Before the 2010-2011 year ended, the students of James Logan High School were informed that a new bell schedule was going to be enforced the this year. The news about minimum days every Wednesday spread quickly, but not everyone knew that class was going to start earlier every day.
School currently starts at 8:15 and ends at 3:20 everyday except for Wednesdays, opposed to starting at 8:40 and ending at 3:30 the previous year. The minimum days have the same starting time but ends at 1:45.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Any student who would like to see their semester final from Mr. Fletcher’s class last semester, come to Room 224 after school.
Do you want to join the FEAR THE COLT/ASB program? Stickers are on sale NOW in Colt Court or Room 67 at lunch ONLY. The cost is $25. With your sticker, you will get FREE admittance to the Back to School Dance (9/23), a “Fear the Colt” shirt, class color t-shirt, $1 entrance into all home games for all sports, and $5 entrance into all other dances. See any Leadership student or Ms. Walton for more information. The class that purchases the most ASB stickers will receive bonus Spirit Week points. Don’t miss out!
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Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt (September 14, 1769 – May 6, 1859) was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography.
Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled extensively in Latin America, exploring and describing it for the first time in a manner generally considered to be a modern scientific point of view. His description of the journey was written up and published in an enormous set of volumes over 21 years. He was one of the first to propose that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean were once joined (South America and Africa in particular). Later, his five-volume work,
Kosmos (1845), attempted to unify the various branches of scientific knowledge. Humboldt supported and worked with other scientists, including Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, Justus von Liebig, Louis Agassiz, Matthew Fontaine Maury and, most notably, Aimé Bonpland, with whom he conducted much of his scientific exploration.
Read COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, one of
several of his works in English and German available free from Project Gutenberg.
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Any student who would like to see their semester final from Mr. Fletcher’s class last semester, come to Room 224 after school.
Do you want to join the FEAR THE COLT/ASB program? Stickers are on sale NOW in Colt Court or Room 67 at lunch ONLY. The cost is $25. With your sticker, you will get FREE admittance to the Back to School Dance (9/23), a “Fear the Colt” shirt, class color t-shirt, $1 entrance into all home games for all sports, and $5 entrance into all other dances. See any Leadership student or Ms. Walton for more information. The class that purchases the most ASB stickers will receive bonus Spirit Week points. Don’t miss out!
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By Ronnell Coaster,
Courier Sports Editor
A great game took place Friday, when the James Logan Colts took on San Leandro’s Pirates. Due to bad weather the game did get stopped at half time, but continued on Saturday the next day.
This game was interesting from the beginning, as it was a battle between the coaches of each team who were former partners and friends.
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"God of War: Origins Collection"
For: Playstation 3
From: Ready at Dawn/Sony
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and
gore, intense violence, nudity)
Price: $40
After Sony rounded the Playstation 2 "God of War" games into a terrific Playstation 3 compilation two years ago, it was all but written that this two-pack, which brings the series' two Playstation Portable entrants to the bigger screen, would someday follow.
But if you never played those games the first time around, "God of War: Origins Collection" represents more than simply a nice effort on Sony's part to make the entirety of the franchise available on one system. It also — thanks to the efforts of a developer that wasn't afraid to leave its mark on a series it didn't create — allows those who don't own a PSP to see the series in a slightly but noticeably different light.
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From wikipedia:
Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer. His most enduring work is the short story sequence Winesburg, Ohio. Writers he has influenced include Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, J. D. Salinger, and Amos Oz.
Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio, the third of seven children of Erwin M. and Emma S. Anderson. After Erwin's business failed, the family was forced to move frequently, finally settling down at Clyde, Ohio, in 1884.
Read Winesburg, Ohio, a group of tales of Ohio small town life by Sherwood Anderson, one of
six of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Are you looking for information on college visits, SATs, college fairs, community service, military or scholarship opportunities? This and more is just a click away on Logan’s website under the College & Career Info Bar. Visit it often as updates are made daily.
Do you want to join the FEAR THE COLT/ASB program? Stickers are on sale NOW in Colt Court or Room 67 at lunch ONLY. The cost is $25. With your sticker, you will get FREE admittance to the Back to School Dance (9/23), a “Fear the Colt” shirt, class color t-shirt, $1 entrance into all home games for all sports, and $5 entrance into all other dances. See any Leadership student or Ms. Walton for more information. The class that purchases the most ASB stickers will receive bonus Spirit Week points. Don’t miss out!
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Photo: National Institute of Health
To stem an outbreak of whooping cough, Logan students must be vaccinated against the disease by October 1, or they will be prohibited from attending school until they are.
"Pertussis (whooping cough) is a highly contagious bacterial illness spread by coughs and sneezes," according to the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). "People sick with pertussis have severe coughing attacks that can last for months."
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By Eryn Brown
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES — Watching just a short bit of the wildly popular kids TV show "SpongeBob SquarePants" has been known to give many parents headaches. Psychologists have now found that a brief exposure to SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward and the rest of the crew also appears to dampen preschoolers' brain power.
Angeline Lillard and Jennifer Peterson, both of the University of Virginia's department of psychology, wanted to see whether watching fast-paced television had an immediate influence on kids' executive function — skills including attention, working memory, problem solving and delay of gratification that are associated with success in school.
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From wikipedia:
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, where he achieved international fame by winning four gold medals: one each in the 100 metres, the 200 metres, the long jump, and as part of the 4x100 meter relay team.
James Cleveland Owens was born in Lawrence County, Alabama, in the Oakville community, to Henry and Emma Owens. When Owens was nine, he moved to the Glenville section of Cleveland, Ohio. Owens was called Jesse by a teacher in Cleveland who did not understand his Southern drawl when the young boy said he was called J.C. Owens – i.e. James Cleveland Owens.
Visit JesseOwens.com.
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By Carol Rosenberg
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
MIAMI — K-9 inspector Stephen Therrien and his partner Zadie, a black lab, spend their days searching for bombs bound for passenger planes. So when he took his wife to the U2 concert this summer, it was with a certain satisfaction that he watched security workers dig through her handbag.
Ten years after 9/11, preparations have taught us that big gatherings such as stadium events could be terrorism targets. But once inside, it was all about the concert.
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It's a Lulu by Lulu Zhong,
Courier Staff Artist
Twisted by Rae Atabay, Courier Staff Artist
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From wikipedia:
Herbert Stothart (September 11, 1885 – February 1, 1949) was a song writer, arranger, conductor, and composer. He was also nominated for nine Oscars, winning Best Original Score for The Wizard of Oz.
Herbert Stothart was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He studied music in Europe and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he later taught.
Read more about Herbert Stothart.
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From wikipedia:
Hannah Webster Foster (September 10, 1758 – April 17, 1840) was an American novelist.
Her epistolary novel,
The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton, was published anonymously in 1797. Although it topped the American bestseller lists of the 1790s, it was not until 1866 that her name appeared on the title page. In 1798 she published
The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils, a commentary on female education in the United States.
Read The Coquette by Hannah Webster Foster, free from Project Gutenberg.
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The Media Center is
closed at lunch.
Courier Staff Photo
At the end of the last school year, the New Haven School Board questioned whether the James Logan media center should be closed. After meetings of trying determining its status, it was decided that it would not be closed for this school year.
An argument for shutting down the library was that most of the staff that had worked in the library received pink slips; this left only one person working. Budget cuts, which were taken out of the school over the last passed year, also contributed to the question of whether or not the library should be closed.
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Mia Alansalon, ASB President
Lauren Mascarenhas/ Courier photo,
Courier Staff Writer
Student elected ASB president, Mia Alansalon, hits the ground running organizing school events for Logan students to keep this year fresh and exciting.
Mia has been a part of leadership throughout her time at Logan. “I feel very honored that I was elected and I want to do my best to bring something new to our school,” said Alansalon. The seventeen-year-old senior is planning on shaking things up, “We’ve been making a lot of changes this year with the way some things are organized and executed. You can expect something to be happening every week. Whether it’s an event, or a rally, or a performance, something will always be happening.”
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By Steven Zeitchik
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
TORONTO — In June 2009, just a few days before Brad Pitt, director Steven Soderbergh and others were set to board a plane for Phoenix to begin shooting the film version of Michael Lewis' baseball best-seller "Moneyball," the unthinkable happened. Despite the months spent preparing the shoot and the star wattage involved, Sony Pictures Co-Chairman Amy Pascal pulled the plug on the movie. Soderbergh was leaving the project, the studio announced, and the film's future was in serious doubt.
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From wikipedia:
Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 – August 13, 1934) was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic
The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the fauna, flora and people – as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality – of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California.
Read The Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin, one of
six of her works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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By Jack Bragg, Courier Entertainment Editor
It’s not often that a band comes along with a truly spectacular debut that immediately grasps the listener upon hearing the songs for the first time. Now, the Welsh band The Joy Formidable has done just that with their debut album,
The Big Roar.
A clashing of noise and ambient undertones creates a truly ethereal album that will, song after song, keep you hooked. Each song breeds an entirely different feel, whilst simultaneously allowing the listener to create a seemingly personal familiarity. As a whole, the album is a hard rock fairytale that gives each individual song significance, whilst at the same time, giving the album as a whole a collective story to tell.
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From wikipedia:
Clarence Chatham Cook (September 8, 1828 – June 2, 1900) was a 19th-century American author and art critic.
Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Cook graduated from Harvard in 1849 and worked as a teacher. Between 1863 and 1869, Cook wrote a series of articles about American art for
The New York Tribune. In 1869, he moved to France and was the Parisian correspondent for
The New York Tribune until the onset of the Franco-Prussian War.
Read The house beautiful: essays on beds and tables, stools and candlesticks,
by Clarence Cook, free from Google Books.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Get in shape! Join Cross-Country.
BELIEVE TO ACHIEVE!
If you are an off campus ROP student and have not yet visited Mrs. Hart in the Career Center to get your pink flyer and orientation, please do so before leaving Logan’s campus to go to Fremont ROP.
Job Alert! School year work permits now available in the Career Center’s Colt
Necessities and House offices. Summer work permits are good until September 20th. Time to get a new one now!
Are you looking for information on college visits, SATs, college faires, community
service, military or scholarship opportunities? This and more is just a click away on Logan’s website under the College & Career Info Bar. Visit it often as updates are made daily.
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If I Have a Wicked Stepmother,
Where's My Prince?
By Melissa Kantor
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Hyperion
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0786809604
ISBN-13: 978-0786809608
Melissa Kantor brings to light the struggles of growing up and finding true love in
If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?, whimsical, but realistic, story of love. High school sophomore Lucy Norton is dragged to Long Island when her father marries interior designer extraordinaire Mara Gilman.
Along with a controlling new mother, Lucy welcomes two bratty twin stepsisters into her life. As if this is not enough, Lucy is invisible at school and at home, only finding comfort when she is painting. Her life is turned upside down when Connor Pearson, a senior and the captain of the basketball team, asks her to be his girlfriend after overhearing her knowledgeable comments on basketball, which is one of her main passions.
Her newfound social acceptance, spurred by her big-man-on-campus boyfriend, leads Lucy into the whirl of high school activities such as the prom, wild parties and kissing.
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By Rick La Plante,
New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
The Board of Education on Tuesday night welcomed its two student representatives for the 2011-12 school year, Lily Nguyen of James Logan High School and Victor Benites of Conley-Caraballo High.
The Board also recognized and thanked the New Haven Schools Foundation, the New Haven Boosters Association and a parents’ group known as TFIN (Their Future Is Now) for their contributions to the District.
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"Signing Their Rights Away:
The Fame and Misfortune of
the Men Who Signed the
United States Constitution"
by Denise Kiernan and
Joseph D'Agnese;
Quirk Books, Philadelphia
355 pages, $19.95
There is much talk about, and invoking of, the U.S. Constitution these days. But how was it really built? Who were the men who signed it? What was really important to them in that steamy summer of 1787 in Philadelphia where they gathered to debate a new Constitution?
In "Signing their Rights Away," Denise Kiernan and Joseph D'Agnese introduce you to the men behind the Constitution Convention and the pressures they faced, both political and personal. It also clearly illustrates the compromises that led to shaping of the document.
In the introduction, the authors lay the scene. The War of Independence is over and the Articles of Confederation weren't doing the job of holding the new country together. So the word went out for a revision.
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From wikipedia:
Elinor Morton Wylie (September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928) was an American poet and novelist popular in the 1920s and 1930s. "She was famous during her life almost as much for her ethereal beauty and personality as for her melodious, sensuous poetry."
Elinor Wylie was born Elinor Morton Hoyt in Somerville, New Jersey, into a socially prominent family. Her grandfather, Henry M. Hoyt, was a governor of Pennsylvania. Her aunt was Helen Hoyt, a minor poet. Her parents were Henry Martyn Hoyt, Jr., who would be United States Solicitor General from 1903 to 1909; and Anne Morton McMichael (born July 31, 1861 in Pa.).
Read Nets to Catch the Wind by Elinor Wylie, free from Project Gutenberg.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Get in shape! Join Cross-Country. See Coach Webb on the track after school. BELIEVE TO ACHIEVE!
If you are an off campus ROP student and have not yet visited Mrs. Hart in the Career Center to get your pink flyer and orientation, please do so before leaving Logan’s campus to go to Fremont ROP.
Job Alert! School year work permits now available in the Career Center’s Colt Necessities and House offices. Summer work permits are good until September 20th. Time to get a new one now!
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By Joseph Agharanya, Courier Staff Writer
WolfTeam is a free, fast-paced 3D "massively multiple online first person shooter" (MMOFPS) that allows players to transform between playing as a human or as a werewolf. The game can be downloaded at either www.wolfteam.softnyx.net or www.aeriagames.com.
In the game, humans have an assortment of weapons available at their disposal, giving them an advantage in distance. Wolves, on the other hand, have little to no ranged attacks but are quicker and stronger than their human counter parts.
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"No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise"
For: Playstation 3
From: AQ Interactive/Marvelous
Entertainment/Konami
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and
gore, crude humor, intense violence,
partial nudity, sexual themes, strong
language)
Price: $40
If you wanted to love "No More Heroes" on the Wii but couldn't get around its logistical roadblocks, the least interesting news about this overdue port may also be its best news.
Before we continue, let's restate that: "No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise" is a port of the first "Heroes" game. The game's new developer and publishers haven't dramatically remixed it or spruced up what ailed it back in 2008, and while the graphics benefit greatly from the high-definition bump, that's exactly what they are —: a high-definition presentation of visual assets from the Wii version. It suffices just fine, in no small credit to a unique graphic style seen most commonly in motion comics, but you won't be floored.
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From wikipedia:
Catharine Esther Beecher (September 6, 1800 – May 12, 1878) was an American educator known for her forthright opinions on women’s education as well as her vehement support of the many benefits of the incorporation of kindergarten into children's education.
Beecher was born in East Hampton, New York, the daughter of outspoken religious leader Lyman Beecher. She was the sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the 19th century abolitionist and writer most famous for her groundbreaking novel
Uncle Tom's Cabin, and of clergymen Henry Ward Beecher and Charles Beecher.
Read A Treatise on Domestic Economy by Catharine Esther Beecher, one of
three of her works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Get in shape! Join Cross-Country. See Coach Webb on the track after school. BELIEVE TO ACHIEVE!
If you are an off campus ROP student and have not yet visited Mrs. Hart in the Career Center to get your pink flyer and orientation, please do so before leaving Logan’s campus to go to Fremont ROP.
Job Alert! School year work permits now available in the Career Center’s Colt Necessities and House offices. Summer work permits are good until September 20th. Time to get a new one now!
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From wikipedia:
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867 – December 27, 1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Most of her compositions and performances were under the name Mrs. H.H.A. Beach.
Beach was born Amy Marcy Cheney in Henniker, New Hampshire into a distinguished New England family. A child prodigy, she was able to sing forty tunes accurately by age one; by age two she could improvise a countermelody to any melody her mother sang, she taught herself to read at age three, and began composing simple waltzes at the age of four. She began formal piano lessons with her mother at the age of six, and a year later started giving public recitals, playing works by Handel, Beethoven, Chopin, and her own pieces.
Preview Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, by Adrienne Fried Block, free from Google Books.
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From
The Courier's Archives:
The Tao of Sunday by Idy Tao
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By Whitney Mountain
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
SACRAMENTO —: A pet python that underwent surgery after being bitten by a Sacramento, Calif., man is "looking a ton better," Sacramento animal control officials said Saturday.
The man who allegedly bit the female snake, 54-year-old David Elmer Senk, has been in custody in the Sacramento Jail since Thursday on $10,000 bail. Police arrested him on charges of maiming/mutilating a reptile.
Gina E. Knepp, acting animal care services manager for the city of Sacramento, said surgery that the snake received Thursday saved her life.
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From wikipedia:
Syd Hoff (September 4, 1912 Bronx, New York – May 12, 2004) was a Jewish-American cartoonist and children's book author. Although best known for his classic early reader
Danny and the Dinosaur, his cartoons appeared in a multitude of genres, including advertising commissions for such companies as Eveready Batteries, Jell-O, S.O.S Pads, Rambler, Ralston Cereal and more.
While Hoff was still in high school, Milt Gross, a popular 1930s cartoonist, told him at an assembly that "Kid, someday you'll be a great cartoonist!" At 16, he enrolled at the National Academy of Design in New York City. At 18, he sold his first cartoon to
The New Yorker, and would sell a total of 571 of them to the publication from 1931 to 1975. Hoff became known for his cartoons, in
The New Yorker, depicting tenements and lower-middle class life in the city.
Read Syd Hoff's autobiography, free from sacreddoodles.com.
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By Eugene Linden
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
Leon Trotsky is reputed to have quipped, "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." Substitute the words "climate change" for "war" and the quote is perfectly suited for the governors of Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico, all of whom have ridiculed or dismissed the threat of climate change even as their states suffer record-breaking heat and drought.
In his book, "Fed Up!" Texas governor and presidential aspirant Rick Perry derided global warming as a "phony mess," a sentiment he has expanded on in recent campaign appearances. Susana Martinez, the governor of New Mexico, has gone on record as doubting that humans influence climate, and Mary Fallin of Oklahoma dismissed research on climate change as a waste of time. Her solution to the extraordinary drought: pray for rain (an approach also endorsed by Perry).
Although they may dismiss climate change, a changing climate imposes costs on their states and the rest of us as well.
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From wikipedia:
Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909) was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for her local color works set in or near South Berwick, Maine, on the border of New Hampshire, which in her day was a declining New England seaport.
Jewett's family had been residents of New England for many generations. Her father was a doctor, and Jewett often accompanied him on his rounds, becoming acquainted with the sights and sounds of her native land and its people. As treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, a condition that developed in early childhood, Jewett was sent on frequent walks and through them also developed a love of nature. In later life, Jewett often visited Boston, where she was acquainted with many of the most influential literary figures of her day; but she always returned to South Berwick, the inspiration for the towns of "Deephaven" and "Dunnet Landing" in her stories.
Read The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, one of
eight of her works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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Varsity players Hugo Cabrera and
Joshua Garma entertained at
today's lunch rally
James Logan's varsity and junor varsity football teams opens their seasons tonight against Arroyo High School in the Judson E. Taylor stadium after a long summer of practice.
"Arroyo is a decent team; we've got to do our best," said Marcus Agraviador, a senior linebacker/runningback and former
Courier staffer. "My coach thinks we have to step up on defense and offense."
The varsity team has already been undefeated in three scrimmages in preparation for the season.
Members of the teams said they're confident they'll do well tonight against a dangerous opponent.
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By Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)
Seven Tulane students plus two bayou rednecks plus scores of sharks plus 3-D add up to zero fun in "Shark Night 3D," the worst movie of the summer, arriving on the last weekend of the summer.
Director David R. Ellis has delivered a heartless, suspense-free 90 minutes of sharks dining out on kids stuck on an island in a Louisiana lake. It's one of those magical movie locations: There's no cell reception, and while the power grid serves the island-mansion where the Tulane seven hang out, nobody thought to install a land line. With conditions like these, it's no wonder Louisiana has to give away the store in incentives to get Hollywood to film there.
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From wikipedia:
Lucretia Peabody Hale (2 September 1820 – 12 June 1900) was a United States journalist and author.
Hale was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at George B. Emerson's school there. Subsequently she devoted herself to literature, and was a member of the Boston School Committee for two years.
Hale published numerous stories in periodicals and newspapers, some of which were collected in books.
Read The Peterkin Papers, by Lucretia Peabody Hale, free from Project Gutenberg.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Get in shape! Join Cross-Country.
BELIEVE TO ACHIEVE!
If you are an off campus ROP student and have not yet visited Mrs. Hart in the Career Center to get your pink flyer and orientation, please do so before leaving Logan’s campus to go to Fremont ROP.
Job Alert! School year work permits now available in the Career Center’s Colt
Necessities and House offices. Summer work permits are good until September 20th.
Time to get a new one now!
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By Jim Harrington
Contra Costa Times (MCT)
OAKLAND, Calif. — There's an old joke that goes something like this, "How do you know that a Deadhead has stayed at your house?" Answer: "He's still there."
The Deadheads definitely are still in the house.
More than 15 years after Jerry Garcia, their spiritual leader, died and the Grateful Dead broke up, the colorful, iconic and oft-lampooned fan base remains one of the more loyal and potent commercial forces in popular culture. They flock to concerts by surviving Dead members such as Bob Weir and Phil Lesh and gobble up an ever-steady supply of archived concert recordings. Nowhere is this insatiable demand more apparent than in the latest release — "Europe '72: The Complete Recordings," due this month.
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From wikipedia:
Walter Philip Reuther (September 1, 1907 – May 9, 1970) was an American labor union leader, who made the United Automobile Workers a major force not only in the auto industry but also in the Democratic Party in the mid 20th century. He was a socialist in the early 1930s becoming a leading liberal and supporter of the New Deal coalition.
Learn more about Walter Reuther, free from Time magazine.
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