This is the archive for May 2006
By David McAlary, VOA News
Washington
All birds, even ones that perch in trees, may have descended from waterfowl. That is the conclusion of a study of well preserved 110-million-year-old fossils of the earliest known modern bird. The specimens were found in northwestern China.
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The Iraqi government is to launch a formal investigation into claims that United States Marines murdered civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha in November 2005.
U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Matthew Biellik (left),searches an abandoned house for a weapons cache during a joint cordon and knock with Iraqi Army soldiers in Tal Afar, Iraq, May 23. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jacob N. Bailey
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Fresh from winning at the the National Catholic Forensics League Grand Nationals, last weekend, the James Logan Forensics team will showcase its many talented members for a local crowd at a fundraiser Friday night.
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Fourteen students who ditched school to nosh at a local eatery duing fourth period last Friday got a special surprise with their happy meals — a visit from Principal Craig Lange and Logan’s School Resource Officers and study hall assignments or worse consequences at school.
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LUNCH MENU:
Chicken Caesar Wrap, Cheese Wrap, French Bread Pizza
SIDES: Peas & Carrot Coins, Cole Slaw, Salad Cup, Canned Fruit,
Garlic Butter Bread Stick
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Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday saw the worst violence since the fall of the Taliban after a large U.S. Military cargo truck crashed into about a dozen vehicles at an intersection in Kabul killing at least 5 civilians and injuring about 40.
U.S. Air Force Col. Mike Wilson looks over the mud wall of Kala-I Janghi near Mazar-I-Sharif, Afghanistan. The ancient fortress was the site of a bloody Taliban uprising in 2001. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Orville F. Desjarlais Jr.
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The new James Logan Courier received its 10,000th visitor Sunday, a milestone reached in just over two months.
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An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale has struck Indonesia's Central Java province early on Saturday morning, killing at least 3,000 people, and injuring thousands more.
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Seniors who haven't been credited with passing the California High School Exit Exam won't be getting diplomas when graduation ceremonies are held next month because the First District Appellate Court won't hear the court case about the test until July 25.
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James Logan High School celebrated the wide diversity of its student body at the Unity Fair, held on the Big Green during the lunch periods today.
The Muslim Students Association is one of many groups represented at the Unity Fair.
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The U.S. Senate Thursday approved a comprehensive immigration reform bill Thursday by a vote of 62-36. Among other provisions, the bill seeks to bolster security along the U.S.-Mexican border, create a guest worker program, and grant many illegal immigrants a path to citizenship, all positions supported by the Bush administration.
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Lawyers for students who sued to stop the use of the California High School Exit Exam today filed a request for an expedited hearing of their case in appellate court, hoping to have the test set aside in time for graduation.
Click here to read the document
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The on-again, off-again requirement that California high school seniors must pass the High School Exit Exam is back on again, after the California State Supreme Court granted the state's request that the court stay a lower court's decision to stop schools from requiring the test.
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Proving the idea that the quickest way to a Logan staff member's heart is through the stomach, the Associated Student Body fed the staff breakfast this morning.
Career Tech Teacher Richard Lawrence gets his breakfast dished up by Leadership students.
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"Bird Flu" may have developed the ability to spread from human to human to human, raising the spectre of a world-wide pandemic of the deadly disease, although health officials said there is "no evidence" the virus can spread among the general population .
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Logan Science Teacher Sue Hinojoza will use the money she won for her selection as the local Walmart's Teacher of the Year to buy science equipment.
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State Superintendent of Schools Jack O'Connell Friday asked the State Supreme Court to stay enforcement of a Superior Court judge's ban of the California State High School Exit Exam so seniors who haven't passed the test can't graduate next month.
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China has announced the completion of an enormous dam across the Yangtze River, an important milestone for the world's largest hydroelectric project. The official Xinhua News Agency reports the event as a "landmark in the construction of the project."
The Three Gorges Dam
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By Patrick Pilapil, staff writer
Two Logan art teachers were involved in events this month that showcased the work of local artists and students.
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Logan Senior Dee Dee Norman's wish to attend the Senior Ball last night was granted through the generosity of viewers of Oakland-based television station KTVU , who paid the school bill that would have kept her from the dance and from receiving a diploma, too.
Dee Dee Norman leaves for the prom
in this frame captured from KTVU video.
Click to see the KTVU story
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By Cecile Miras, staff writer
Each year, the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) recognizes and honors administrators that have showed outstanding performance and achievement in their schools. Our very own Principal Don Montoya was recently given the Administrator/ Principal of the Year award. He represents Alameda and Contra Costa counties, also known as region 6.
Principal Don Montoya
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Friends and family of James Logan student Amrit Kaur will gather tomorrow at Chapel of the Chimes in Hayward to reflect on her short life.
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Local TV station KTVU is championing the cause of Logan senior Dee Dee Norman, who's been put on the exclusion list prohibiting her from attending the Senior Ball tonight, or receiving a diploma at the school's graduation ceremony next month, because her foster family doesn't have enough money to pay debts from her participation in Color Guard.
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State schools Superintendent Jack O’Connell has his lawyers working “around the clock” preparing to ask the State Supreme Court to overturn a lower court judge’s ban on using the California State High School Exit Exam as a graduation requirement, he said today.
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Unified School District Public Information Officer
Ten of 12 schools in the New Haven Unified School District have higher Academic Performance Index rankings under a revised report released by the California Department of Education.
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Unified School District Public Information Officer
The Board of Education on Tuesday night approved the closure of one elementary school for the 2007-2008 school year and the closure of one middle school for the 2008-2009 school year, as a means of avoiding the adverse impacts of declining enrollment. In recommending the closures, which equate to ongoing cost reductions of approximately $1 million per year, Superintendent Dr. Pat Jaurequi said decreasing spending on facilities and operations will enable us to direct maximum resources toward teaching and learning.
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William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, often esteemed the greatest English literary critic after Samuel Johnson. Indeed, Hazlitt's writings and remarks on Shakespeare's plays and characters are rivaled only by those of Johnson in their depth, insight, originality, and imagination.
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The state’s teachers and schools chief Jack O’Connell have settled their lawsuit against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and, as a result, billions of dollars in school funding O’Connell and the teachers claimed the governor misappropriated during the state’s fiscal crisis will be returned to the schools.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he will return money diverted from the state's schools
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Michael Foster, Cheryl Kuhlmann and Kenneth Prucha started their first school day today as James Logan's Teachers of the Year.
This year's Teachers of the Year are Michael Foster, left, Cheryl Kuhlmann and Ken Prucha.
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Logan students facing the prospect of not graduating because of the California High School Exit Exam rejoiced today when told an Oakland judge has struck down the test, but their joy was tempered when they found that the state is trying to get the ruling overturned.
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At Tuesday night’s New Haven Unified School District board meeting, Superintendent Pat Jaurequi will recommend the closure of two district schools in the coming years.
Superintendent Pat Jaurequi
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By Ray Dequina, staff writer
The James Logan High School Show Choir recently won gold at the San Francisco Heritage Music Festival.
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As expected, Superior Court Judge Robert Freedman today issued an injunction stopping the state from requiring would-be high school graduates to pass the California High School Exit Exam, but the state schools superintendent said he would try to overturn Freedman's ruling.
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By Pamela Gutierrez, staff writer
Thousands of Logan students both eagerly awaited and desperately dreaded the arrival of the spring quarter grades in the mail, scheduled to arrive about a two weeks ago. However, due to a bad grade scanner, grades didn’t arrive at homes until late last week, foiling many student’s plans to take them out of the mailbox.
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USA Today reported on Thursday that the United States' National Security Agency collected millions of call logs from telecommunication companies in 2001. The report comes almost four months following a previous controversy of the agency, which included the monitoring of International calls placed within the United States.
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Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American blues-influenced rock singer and occasional songwriter with a distinctive voice. Joplin released four albums as the frontwoman for several bands from 1967 to a posthumous release in 1971.
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By Jezza Pimentel, staff writer
Dozens of Logan students and a few faculty members remained mute all day to pay respect to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual people, and other victims of prejudice in our society during Wednesday’s Day of Silence.
Senior Annie Clitherow taped her mouth closed to signify her support for victims of prejudice
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Teachers began voting for Logan’s House Teachers of the Year minutes after ballots were emailed to Logan’s staff this morning.
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"Lillian Asplund, the last American survivor of the Titanic, died in her home May 6 in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. She was 99 years old.
Sinking of the Titanic by Willy Stöwer
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James Logan’s teachers will sit down to a free lunch today as part of the national “Day of the Teacher" celebration.
Logan displays a banner thanking teachers.
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A judge delayed until Friday his decision on whether to stop the state from requiring high school students to pass the California High School Exit Examination in order to be graduated.
Judge Robert Freedman
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New Haven School District officials are scrambling to shut off a stream of email “phishing” messages targeting teachers, administrators and staff members using the district’s email system.
Some New Haven staffers are receiving "phishing" emails like this one.
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Fifty Logan seniors are scheduled to take the California High School Exit Exam today and tomorrow, while an Oakland judge is preparing strike down the law requiring would-be high school graduates to pass the high-stakes test.
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President George W Bush has announced US emergency food shipments to Darfur, a province of Sudan. He has asked Congress to approve $225m in aid. Sudan and the biggest rebel group signed a peace deal last Friday to end the three year old civil war, claiming more than 200,000 lives.
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United States Air Force General Michael Hayden has been nominated as the new director of the CIA.
Air Force General Michael Hayden
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By Diamond Floyd, staff writer
The Hip-Hop Elements Club, a club advised and funded by the Logan Health Center, is bringing together students to celebrate music, dancing and more.
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Last week’s announcement that most soda manufacturers will stop selling their sugary products in U.S. schools didn’t mention avoiding lawsuits as motivation for the self-imposed ban, but some of those who were threatening legal action to stop the sales are patting themselves on the back over the agreement, while lamenting that the deal doesn’t go far enough and planning to press for more restrictions.
Students at James Logan High School pass a Coke truck delivering goods as they enter campus.
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By Mary Nguyen, staff writer
Birds are chirping and bells are ringing. But the bells rang differently
for a time at James Logan High school last week, and it wasn't a beautiful sound.
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Ten American soldiers were killed when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border close to a landing zone in the Kunar province. A military spokesman said it crashed while conducting combat operations. The soldiers were involved with Operation Mountain Lion which is aimed at rooting out al-Qaeda and former Taliban militants.
A similar U.S. Army CH-47
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The annual Cinco de Mayo Car Show proved so popular with students this year that the "taco truck" catering the event sold out of food before the first lunch period ended.
Senior Jeff Boggess' 1985 Camaro was on display at the Cinco de Mayo Car Show.
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A James Logan junior has a bullet in his back after being shot last weekend during fight after the Powderpuff football game.
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Picasso's famous portrait of his lover, "Dora Maar with cat/ Dora Maar au chat", has been auctioned for $ 95.2 million at Sotheby's in New York on wednesday. The 1941 masterpiece sold to an anonymous buyer.
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An earthquake with estimated magnitude of 7.8 struckjust before dawn today, 95 miles south of Neiafu, Tonga, 1,340 miles north-northeast of Auckland, New Zealand, and about 10 miles below the Earth's surface.
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By Rick La Plante, Public Information Officer, New Haven Unified School District
The Board of Education on Tuesday night approved site administrative and clerical staffing ratios - similar to longstanding student-to-teacher ratios and consistent with such ratios in comparable and neighboring districts - allowing the District to "self-correct" staffing based on enrollment at each school.
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Coke will stop selling it’s sugary soda products at Logan as part of a soft drink industry deal that aims to reduce childhood obesity.
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From Wikinews
Violence erupted in Vadodara in the state of Gujarat after municipal authorities demolished a dargah (Muslim shrine). The shrine was an unauthorised structure which was obstructing a road-widening project.
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About a dozen Logan students walked out of school today to join other students who cut school to join a nationwide protest against U.S. immigration policy dubbed "Day Without Immigrants."
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