This is the archive for March 2008
By Vicente Marcelo,
Courier Sports Writer
The James Logan Colts Varsity Girls Softball Team has had a great season so far. One of the reasons for their success is because of the veterans on the team.
For example, Alex Stange is a senior, and this is her fourth year on the varsity squad. She's expected not only to produce on the field but also to lead the underclassmen. And that includes setting an example both on and off the field.
Alex was chosen by coach Teri Johnson to be one of the team's three captains.
Posted by courier at 04:01 PM. Filed under: Sports
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ID cards must be produced to get on Logan's
campus under the new security plan.
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This morning, March 31, 2008, I watched on channel 7’s 11 o’clock news the New Haven Unified School District’s Public Relations person place the administration’s spin for the new security system by saying in so many words that the new “security system” was intended to make the James Logan “safer”. That unless students had a safe environment, they could not learn properly.
What he did not say was whether or not there were valid reasons for the new system. He did not say that it was a response to outsiders causing a concern about safety. He did not say that faculty and students felt outsiders were making Logan unsafe and interfering with learning.
Watch KGO-TV's coverage of the new security plan.
Posted by courier at 03:59 PM. Filed under: Opinion
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MENU:
Cheeseburger, Milk, Fresh Fruit, and “Fun” Chips
Turkey Ham and Pineapple Pizza
ACTIVITIES:
Boys Volleyball Wednesday at 4 pm against Head Royce. This is a varsity-only match.
Powderpuff players: if you have already paid for your pre-sale tickets, you can pick up your jersey and mouth guard in Room 305 during both lunches. The big game is on Friday!
Save up to TWO Lives! Sign up to donate blood during lunch in Colt Court for the April 9th Blood Drive!
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By Shashank Bengali
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
HARARE, Zimbabwe — On a typical workday, Lovemore Vambe will make dozens of clandestine phone calls that lead to a handful of illegal transactions. He'll conspire with colleagues, sidestep police or bribe them if necessary, and come home in the evening with a few dollars in his pocket.
That's enough to make the rent and keep his eldest child in boarding school. In Zimbabwe's free-falling economy, the slight, mustachioed 31-year-old holds a rare steady job: He's a money dealer on Harare's thriving black market, helping Zimbabweans trade foreign currency for their increasingly worthless local cash.
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From wikipedia:
Edward Marlborough FitzGerald (31 March 1809 – 14 June 1883) was an English writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
He was born Edward Marlborough Purcell at Bredfield House in Suffolk. His father, John Purcell, assumed in 1818 the name and arms of his wife's family, the FitzGeralds.
Read Edward FitzGerald and "Posh," by James Blyth, free from Project Gutenberg.
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MENU:
Spicy BBQ Chicken Pizza, Milk, Fresh Fruit, and “Fun” Chips
ACTIVITIES:
Powderpuff players: if you have already paid for your pre-sale tickets, you can pick up your jersey and mouth guard in Room 305 during both lunches. The big game is on Friday!
Save up to TWO Lives! Sign up to donate blood during lunch in Colt Court for the April 9th Blood Drive!
CLUBS:
Youth Alive Club meets tomorrow after school in Room 418.
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From wikipedia:
Paul-Marie Verlaine, March 30, 1844–January 8, 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.
Born in Metz, he was educated at the lycée Bonaparte (now the lycée Condorcet), in Paris and then took up a post in the civil service. He began writing poetry at an early age, and was initially influenced by the Parnassien movement and its leader, Charles Leconte de Lisle. Verlaine's first published collection,
Poèmes saturniens (1866), though adversely commented upon by Sainte-Beuve, established him as a poet of promise and originality.
Read Poems of Paul Verlaine by Paul Verlaine, free from Project Gutenberg.
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Anti-hunt activists inspect seal carcasses
during the 2005 Canadian hunt.
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When the annual seal slaughter gets underway in Canada — and by the time you read this, it's likely that the first seals are already being clubbed and shot — sealers will have to follow new guidelines aimed at making the hunt less cruel. For example, sealers will be required to make sure that seals are dead before skinning them.
Talk about setting the bar low.
Am I the only one who feels that if sealers have to be told to ensure that animals are actually dead before ripping the skins off their bodies, perhaps they're in the wrong business?
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From wikipedia:
Lou Henry Hoover (March 29, 1874 – January 7, 1944) was the wife of Herbert Hoover and First Lady of the United States.
Admirably equipped to preside at the White House, Lou Henry Hoover brought to it long experience as wife of a man eminent in public affairs at home and abroad. She had shared his interests since they met in a geology lab at Stanford University. She was a freshman, he a senior, and he was fascinated, as he declared later, "by her whimsical mind, her blue eyes and a broad grinnish smile."
Henry was born in Waterloo, Iowa. She grew up in Iowa until she was 10 years old, when her father, Charles D. Henry, decided that the climate of southern California would favor the health of his wife, Florence. The family moved to Whittier, California, later the childhood home of President Richard Nixon.
Read more about Lou Hoover, free from firstladies.org.
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Painting by California Institute of Technology/MCT
WASHINGTON — Most people think of fruit flies as annoying little pests zipping around bananas or grapes on the kitchen counter. But to biologists, they're diamonds on the wing.
These miniature aerial acrobats have been a basic tool of biomedical research for nearly a century. They've unlocked many secrets of animal and human genetics, development and evolution, and they continue to provide valuable insights into cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and neurological disorders.
Fruit fly researchers have won two Nobel Prizes, in 1933 and 1995.
Posted by courier at 09:36 AM. Filed under: News
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By Charles Yi, Courier Film Reviewer
"Drillbit Taylor", directed by Steven Brill and based on an original idea by John Hughes, is a comedy starring Owen Wilson.
The film revolves around three nerds, Ryan, Wade, and Emmit, during their first year of high school, a tortuous experience where a sadistic bully, Filkins, makes it his sole mission to humiliate the three every chance he gets. Tired of the constant hazing, Ryan, Wade, and Emmit pool their money together to hire a bodyguard. They select Drillbit Taylor, a supposed former soldier and martial arts master, out of several more qualified candidates. Unfortunately for the nerd herd, Taylor is just a homeless man whose real intent in becoming their bodyguard is to rob their houses. However, over time, Taylor's soft spot for the boys and a romance with an English teacher at their school MIGHT result in a change of heart.
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From wikipedia:
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (March 28, 1793–December 10, 1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his "discovery" in 1832 of the source of the Mississippi River. He married Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, who was Ojibwe and Irish-American. Her knowledge of the Ojibwe language and of Ojibwe legends, which she shared with Schoolcraft, formed in part the source material for Longfellow's epic poem,
The Song of Hiawatha.
Read Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Schoolcraft, free from Project Gutenberg.
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Music might be the universal language. But here's one hard fact about the American cultural conversation: Canadian doesn't always translate.
For every cross-border rock success — Nickelback, Barenaked Ladies, Alanis Morissette — there's an Our Lady Peace, a Great Big Sea, a Sloan — acts that loom large on the Canadian landscape while failing to lure the stateside masses.
You can place Matthew Good firmly atop that list.
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Three Days Grace live in 2006.
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In a time of high-flying celebrity, when fame is just a sordid scandal or Internet fad away, Three Days Grace has secured success the old-fashioned way: It has earned it.
The Toronto quartet has become a staple of the airwaves and the chart tops after years of slogging it out on the road, steadily honing its melodic hard rock into a formidable radio-ready formula. Having notched a pair of platinum albums and a sturdy batch of hits — "Home," "I Hate (Everything About You)," "Pain" — the group has embarked on its first arena headlining tour, a cross-country run with fellow neo-grunge acts Breaking Benjamin and Seether.
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From wikipedia:
Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet (March 27, 1863 - April 22, 1933) was a pioneering car manufacturer, who with Charles Stewart Rolls founded the Rolls-Royce company.
Frederick Henry Royce was born in Alwalton, Huntingdonshire, near Peterborough, the son of James and Mary Royce (maiden name King) and was the youngest of their five children. His family ran a flour mill which they leased from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners but the business failed and the family moved to London. His father died in 1872 and Royce had to go out to work selling newspapers and delivering telegrams, having had only one year of formal schooling.
Learn more about Henry Royce and his designs, free from the Henry Royce Foundation of Australia.
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Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original title: El ingenioso hidalgo
don Quixote de la Mancha
Country: Spain
Language; Spanish
Genre(s): Picaresco, Satire, Parody,
Farce, Psychological novel
Publisher:Iuan de la Cuesta
Publication date:1605, 1615,
Courier Book Editor
Don Quixote, by Miguel De Cervantes, depicts the main character as one who desires to live his life as a knight. Don Quixote is from La Mancha and once had plenty of money and land. He has shirked his life’s comforts away and has set out to find adventure.
The novel has an unusual beginning: the self-proclaimed knight Don Quixote acts rather unintelligibly while on his search for adventure. He is illustrated as a hot headed ready to fight knight who does not always know the present situation.
He has read many books of chivalry and pretends to be living in the past while those around him receive pleasure from his unusual acts. His friends and family attempt to rid Quixote’s library of books that contain chivalry.
Read Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, free from Project Gutenberg.
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Standard Operating Procedure
by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris,
is due out soon
If facts are your bag, be forewarned — many of spring 2008's nonfiction books are two shades darker than somber. Global economic decline. The war on terror. Death-dealing plagues. Graveyards!
But wait! Julie Andrews, the Mary Poppins of our collective mind, has a new memoir out. Maybe she can parachute in and clean up this mess. So does Captain Kirk — aka William Shatner — a man who knows how to put things to rights in 60 minutes or less. And Al Gore comes back with some prescriptions for stabilizing the climate. On a more literary note, V.S. Naipaul and Paul Theroux are publishing new, hopefully mostly true, books, as is bittersweet funnyman David Sedaris.
Posted by courier at 09:05 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
Here are the best sellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 15, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.
(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2008 by Reed Elsevier, USA)
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Change of Heart. Jodi Picoult. Atria, $26.95
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2
2. The Appeal. John Grisham. Doubleday, $27.95
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 7
3. Remember Me? Sophie Kinsella. Dial, $25
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 3
4. 7th Heaven. James Patterson & Maxine Paetro. Little, Brown, $27.99
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 6
5. Killer Heat. Linda Fairstein. Doubleday, $26
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
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By Jessica Stewart,
Courier Book Editor
Romancing Mister Bridgerton
by Julia Quinn
Mass Market Paperback: 370 pages
Publisher: Avon (July 2, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0380820846
ISBN-13: 978-0380820849“On the sixth of April, in the year 1812—precisely two days before her sixteenth birthday—Penelope Featherington fell in love.
It was, in a word, thrilling. The world shook. Her heart leaped. The moment was breathtaking. And, she was able to tell herself with some satisfaction, the man in question—one Colin Bridgerton—felt precisely the same way.
Oh, not the love part. He certainly didn’t fall in love with her in 1812 (and not in 1813, 1814, 1815, or—oh, blast, not in all the years 1816-1822, either, and certainly not in 1823, when he was out of the country the whole time anyway). But his earth shook, his heart leaped, and Penelope knew without a shadow of a doubt that his breath was taken away as well. For a good ten seconds.
Falling off a horse tended to do that to a man.”
Don’t worry—Colin does eventually fall in love with Penelope. It just took quite a bit longer for him to come to his senses. This book was thoroughly enjoyable, mainly because it isn’t only about falling in love. Love does play a major role in the novel (it is a romance after all), but there is an actual plot behind it. It certainly wasn’t a serious, thought-provoking novel, but it was perfect for a bit of light reading, the kind you would enjoy while lying by the pool and enjoying the rays, especially now that those rays aren’t always accompanied by a chilling wind.
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From wikipedia:
Nathaniel Bowditch (March 26, 1773 – March 16, 1838) was an early American mathematician remembered for his work on ocean navigation. He is often credited as the founder of modern maritime navigation; his book The New American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, is still carried onboard every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel.
Bowditch, the fourth of seven children, was born in Salem, Massachusetts. At the age of ten, he was made to leave school to work in his father's cooperage, before becoming indentured at twelve for nine years as a bookkeeping apprentice to a ship chandler.
Read Nat the Navigator: A Life of Nathaniel Bowditch by Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, free from Google books.
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Screenshot from Grand Theft
Auto Liberty City
MINNEAPOLIS — Thirteen-year-old Jack Yongquist says he has no desire to play ultraviolent video games like "Grand Theft Auto." But the Roseville, Minn., teenager says he's glad that a federal appeals court ruled Monday that Minnesota can't enforce a law that prohibits the sale or rental of such games to minors.
"I think they should be able to — if their parents say it's OK. It's their choice," Jack said while shopping after school at Game Crazy on Snelling Avenue.
Jack initially said he'd never played any such games, but he had to backpedal when a store clerk mentioned that "Halo" is "technically rated mature."
"It's not that bad because it's not with humans," Jack said.
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From wikipedia:
Christopher Clavius, (March 25, 1538 – February 12, 1612) was a German Jesuit mathematician and astronomer who was the main architect of the modern Gregorian calendar. In his last years he was probably the most respected astronomer in Europe and his textbooks were used for astronomical education for over fifty years in Europe and even in more remote lands (on account of being used by missionaries).
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By Wade Rawlins
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
RALEIGH, N.C. — One word: Bisphenol-A.
The plastic additive is leaching from your water bottles, soda cans, baby bottles, microwaveable dishes — just about anything made of certain lightweight clear plastics.
And it mimics the hormone estrogen, which some research indicates could harm human health, particularly the development of fetuses and newborn babies.
Known as BPA, bisphenol-A has been used in commercial production of lightweight plastics and epoxy resins since the 1950s. Billions of pounds are produced annually, and traces of it are found in almost everyone — including the umbilical cord blood of newborn babies.
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From wikipedia:
George Francis Train (March 24, 1829 – January 5, 1904) was a businessman, author, and an eccentric figure in American history.
Train was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1829. At the age of four he was orphaned in New Orleans after a yellow fever plague killed his family. He was raised by his strict Methodist grandparents in Boston, who hoped he would become a minister.
Throughout his life Train was engaged in the mercantile business in Boston and in Australia, then went to England in 1860 and undertook to form horse tramway companies in Birkenhead and London where he soon met opposition. Although his trams were popular with passengers, his designs had rails that stood proud of the road surface and obstructed other traffic. In 1861 Train was arrested and tried for "breaking and injuring" a London street.
Read George Francis Train's book, Young America in Wall Street, free from Google Books.
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Obama at a rally in South
Carolina in 2007
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RALEIGH, N.C. — During a speech in Philadelphia's National Constitution Center, Barack Obama altered — at least for the past week — the dialogue about race in America.
The Democratic presidential candidate spoke of the anger of a generation of black leaders whose views were forged amid segregation. But he also acknowledged that whites might rightly resent what they've been asked to give up to offset past prejudice.
The speech, compelled by controversy over Obama's outspoken former minister, explored nuances and blunt feelings. Now events and time will determine whether the speech he delivered in a historic setting will become historic itself.
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Portait of Ludwig Quidde
on German stamp (March 23, 1858 – March 4, 1941) was a German pacifist who is mainly remembered today for his acerbic criticism of German Emperor Wilhelm II. Quidde's long career spanned four different eras of German history: that of Bismarck (up to 1890); the Hohenzollern Empire under Wilhelm II (1888 - 1918); the Weimar Republic (1918–1933); and, finally, Nazi Germany. In 1927, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Read an essay based on Ludwig Quidde's Nobel Prize lecture, free from geocities.com.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — A leading human rights group said Monday that Kenyan political and business leaders plotted much of the country's recent ethnic violence, and it urged the new coalition government to bring the organizers to justice.
New York-based Human Rights Watch found evidence that hundreds of people were killed in planned ethnic attacks following the disputed presidential election in December. In many cases, the group said, the attacks were planned and financed by prominent civic leaders, although the group didn't directly implicate any top national politicians.
In a report titled "Ballots to Bullets," the group also charged that Kenyan police used excessive force to break up demonstrations in opposition strongholds, fatally shooting hundreds of people, including children.
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By Samuel Jue,
Courier Sports Editor
The Lady Colts rallied late to knock off Newark Memorial Thursday evening 12-2 with a cut-short six inning game.
Logan ace Stephanie Barnes pitched a complete game allowing two earned runs while going 3-5, 1 RBI and 2 Runs scored with the bat.
The Lady Colts jumped out in front early with three runs in the first three innings to take a 3-0 lead entering the fourth. Barnes who had been in cruise control, surrendered a two-run triple to Lady Cougar Julissa Sclafani to see her lead trimmed down to one.
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From wikipedia:
Stephen Pearl Andrews (March 22, 1812 - May 21, 1886) was an American individualist anarchist and author of several books on the topic.
Born in Templeton, Massachusetts, he went to Louisiana at age 18 and studied and practiced law there; appalled by slavery, he became an abolitionist. He was the first counsel of Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines in her celebrated abolitionist suits. Having moved to Texas in 1839, he and his family were almost killed because of his abolitionist lectures and had to flee in 1843. Andrews travelled to England where he was unsuccessful at raising funds for the abolitionist movement back in America.
Read The Science of Society by Stephen Pearl Andrews, free from googlebooks.com.
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Guest Opinion by W. Dean Cozine
Because of a decision made by the NHUSD Superintendent, Pat Jaurequi, Logan principal, Don Montoya and the NHUSD School Board, access to James Logan will be reduced to four guarded entrances beginning March 31. Only those with proper identification will be permitted to enter the school grounds. According to Don Montoya, the purpose of this radical and draconic reconfiguration is to keep non students and unauthorized adults off of campus, thereby ensuring a safer campus. This decision was made without any consultation with the Logan faculty, Logan students, or Logan’s School Site Council. As presented at the Logan Faculty meeting and to the students over the intercom, it was an administrative fiat, an order from the authorities to be obeyed and not questioned.
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Protesters turned out in San Francisco
to oppose the war. Jessica Rosales/
Courier Photo
Wednesday was the fifth anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Rallies, walkouts, teach-ins, and marches were conducted throughout the country to support the anti-war movement.
In San Francisco, the A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Not to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition encouraged others to join their March and Rally to End the War Now. People ranging from the age of young children to high schoolers to adults gathered at the Civic Center (Polk and Grove) at 5:00 p.m.
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By Charles Yi, Courier Film Reviewer
“Horton Hears A Who!”, directed by Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino, is a film of the Dr. Seuss Classic.
Set in the Jungle of Nool, Horton the Elephant (Jim Carrey) hears voices from a small speck of dust and imagines a helpless, microscopic family living on that speck. Living true to his philosophy of “a person’s a person, no matter how small”, Horton chases after the speck and comes to realize that the speck is the entire city of Who‑ville, home of the Who’s. While the jungle community thinks Horton has lost his mind, Horton must protect the Who’s from the Sour Kangaroo and her cronies, and help the Who’s band together to make their presence known.
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By Sarena Bains, Courier Staff Writer
Image:gordonbiersch.com
Gordon Biersch
Brewery Restaurant
640 Emerson Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301
phone: 650-323-7723
fax: 650-323-6129
Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurants are located all over California with at least three locations right here in the Bay Area, as well as in 14 other states and Washington D.C.
But Dan Gordon and Dean Biersch opened the original Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant in downtown Palo Alto in 1988 at the site of the historic Bijou Theatre.
A friend told me that the environment there is a very fun, so I decided to give it a try. I was happy that I had made reservations before I arrived considering the crowd of people around trying to get tables. I noticed that the atmosphere was very inviting, very much like a sports bar.
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By Samuel Jue, Courier Sports Editor
Many variables swirled in the field Wednesday evening when the Colts hosted the Washington Huskies, but none of it phased Logan enough as they stormed back late to claim a 15‑8 win.
The victory gave Logan it’s 33rd consecutive Mission Valley Athletic League win and also was win number 300 for Logan Coach John Goulding.
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From wikipedia:
Major General George Owen Squier (March 21, 1863 - March 24, 1934) was born in Dryden, Michigan, United States. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1887 and received a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1893.
George Squier wrote and edited many books and articles on the subject of radio and electricity. An inventor, his biggest contribution was that of multiplexing in 1910 for which he was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1919.
Read about George Owen Squier's invention of the use of trees as radio antennas, free from rexresearch.com.
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Courier Staff Report
Today marks the beginning of the Courier's third year as a daily, year-round high school news source, perhaps the only one in the world.
The Courier began its unbroken string of stories posted every day on March 20, 2006.
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Behind the masks are the
West Coast's JabbaWockeeZ and
America's Best Dance Crew judge
Shane Sparks. Image: MTV Studios,
Courier Special Correspondent
While watching previews for the new TV shows that are premiering on MTV, one can only conclude that most of them seem to, well, suck.
Then there comes Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew. It is safe to say that it must be one of the few MTV shows that are definitely worth watching.
Hosted by ex-Saved by the Bell star Mario Lopez, hip-hop dance crews from around the nation compete for $100,000 and the title of America's best dance crew. Clearly, it is not an original idea for a reality series. If it wasn't for the incredible talent on display, there is no way that the show would enjoy the success it now has.
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By Krystal Henderson, Courier News Editor
James Logan Principal Don Montoya will take over as principal of the Cabello Community Day School next school, leaving his job as principal of Logan as his retirement date approaches.
Earlier this month, Superintendent Pat Jaurequi announced several administrative changes, one of them the exit of Montoya as Logan principal, without specifics as to what job he would be taking as part of his reassignment.
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MENU: Fajita Chicken and Veggie Pizza, Milk, Fresh Fruit, and “Fun” Chips
ACTIVITIES:
Think you’re the best Madden player? Enter the Logan Football Madden Tournament. Entry fees must be in by today. See Coach Billeci for details.
Lockers are being painted during Spring Break! If your locker number is between 531-646 and located between Rooms 203-205; or between 681-752 in the Breezeway into the Courtyard, or between 753-786 by Room 201, you need to remove all of your belongings by the end of the day TODAY before you go home.
Want to run for Student Council? ASB election packets are out. Pick one up in Room 305.
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A thank-you card sent from the
grateful recipients.
Photos by Karen Mui
Hope Connections is known for its charitable aid in the communities surrounding James Logan as well as in the tri‑city area. However, the club recently reached further heights, lending out its generosity to the needy halfway around the world in Eastern Africa.
After meeting to discuss various projects the club could have been involved in, they finally decided to partner with Global Partners for Development to assist a poor East African Village. The club contacted the organization and spoke with the CEO in hopes of determining the area most desperate for aid and donations. They finally settled on a rural area near Kenya, deciding the villages were in need of clean water and a school.
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By Christina La,
Courier Editor-in-Chief
Beginning the Monday they return from Spring break, James Logan's staff and students will be undergoing a security up-grade requiring ID cards to be shown upon entry of the campus through only four gates.
In a speech to the school carried on the public address system Wednesday morning, Logan Principal Don Montoya said, "We believe these changes will help us to maintain a more secure campus for all of us."
Student reaction has been mixed, but largely negative. Some opponents cited expected inconveniences.
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
The Board of Education on Tuesday night heard a report from Grade 9 House Principal Matt Smith and a team of teachers from James Logan High School about Professional Learning Communities and the four critical questions that make up the Cycle of Inquiry: 1) What do we want students to learn? 2) How will we know when they’ve learned it? 3) What do we do when they haven’t learned it? 4) What do we do when they already know it?
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
Glynn Thompson, who in 18 months with the New Haven Unified School District has instilled a focus on literacy as the primary means for improving student achievement, has been named Chief Academic Officer, Superintendent Dr. Pat Jaurequi announced today, after the Board of Education approved the appointment Tuesday night.
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From wikipedia:
Ned Buntline (March 20, 1823 – July 16, 1886), was the pseudonym of Edward Zane Carroll Judson (E. Z. C. Judson), an American publisher, journalist writer and publicist best known for his dime novels and the Colt Buntline Special he commissioned from Colt's Manufacturing Company.
Edward Judson was born in Stamford, Deleware County, New York. As a boy, Ned ran away to sea. Buntline is a nautical term for a rope at the bottom of a square sail. As a seaman, he fought in the Seminole Wars, though he saw little combat. After four years he resigned, having reached the rank of midshipman. Buntline spent several years in the east starting up newspapers and story papers, only to have most of them fail.
Read more about Ned Buntline's life, free from the Kansas State Historical Society and the Kansas Historical Quarterly.
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By Vicente Marcelo,
Courier Sports Writer
The James Logan Colts Boys Varsity Volleyball Team defeated the Moreau Mariners last night at the Guy Emanuele Pavilion.
They beat the Mariners four games to one. The scores were 25-16, 29-27, 27-25, and 25-19. This win moved the Colts to an 8 and 6 overall record.
It also gives the Colts a boost as they head into Thursday night's game against the Mission San Jose Warriors.
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By Vicente Marcelo, Courier Sports Writer
The Lady Colts softball team is determined to claim a league crown and go undefeated in MVAL play this year.
Coming off a first-place finish at the Reno tournament, in which Logan went 6-0, the Colts set the tone with a pair of runs in the first inning en route to a 9-0 victory over host Washington in opening MVAL action Tuesday afternoon.
"Getting runs early helps out a lot," Barnes said. "It allows me to relax and gives me room to breathe."
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By Abhishek Saluja,
Courier Book Editor
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0684833395
ISBN-13: 978-0684833392, by Joseph Heller, involves a soldier by the name of Yossarian, who is capable of seeing through the controlling society around him. He is involved in the Second World War but does not know why, and this frustrates him.
The battlefield is as deadly as ever and Yossarian is sick of blindly attempting to kill. He feels that he will die one of these days and does not know why he continues to fight.
The novel starts with Yossarian in the hospital and one who is in the hospital avoids the fight. Yossarian loves his life dearly and believes that he is smarter than those around him. Pretending to be ill Yossarian succeeds in skipping many battles.
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By Sarena Bains,
Courier Staff Writer
Chicks Ahoy by Lynda Sandoval
Reading level: Young Adult
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0689864418
ISBN-13: 978-0689864414
This was going to be the perfect summer for these two best friends, Camille and Jiggy. The summer before their senior year was all planned out to be one of the most, adventurous summers yet to be. But unexpectedly their parents changed there plans when telling them that all summer long they will have to be working on Camille’s dads cruise ship.
Camille’s father is a captain on the ship. This is a cruise ship full of people no younger then fifty. Camille is in utter disappointment until she realizes that there are other kids on the ship that are her age that are also working on it as well.
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Lifetouch technicians set up
ID producing equipment.
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Technicians from the Lifetouch photography company scrambled this morning to set up equipment to make identification cards for hundreds of James Logan High School students who lack them, in preparation for the rapidly approaching day when they'll need ID to get on the campus and attend classes.
As part of a push to improve security in the wake of community violence that claimed a student's life in December, the school on March 31 will start requiring students to wear school-issued photo ID to get through guarded gates at four entrances to the campus.
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By Emily Low,
Courier Staff Writer
It’s been seven and a half years since I picked up my instrument for the first time. As a fourth grader, I had next to no concept of the benefits or consequences of playing music or the decisions revolving around membership in band. I did not know that honor bands, music camps, and private lessons with professional musicians would become opportunities awaiting me in the near future, or that a prime musical education would soon come along to propel me into a world where music mattered. Nevertheless, with my parents’ support and encouragement, I entered the band room one day with a six-hundred dollar clarinet in tow. At that moment, I think that the only reason I even went in the room was because it sounded “cool” to be able to play an instrument. Instruments just looked so…complicated.
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By Jessica Stewart,
Courier Book Editor
Trust Me by Jayne Ann Krentz
Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Pocket (September 1, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0671516922
ISBN-13: 978-0671516925
Normally, I would begin my review with a quote I feel is important to the book, whether it explains it, gives off a mood, or summarizes it. But for this book no quote really hit me like one normally would. Usually, that would mean that it’s a lame book. In this case, it just means it’s a romance novel. Actually, it’s a romantic suspense, but more romance than not. If the very word romance just caused you to stick up your nose or roll your eyes, this review probably isn’t for you. If it made you think to yourself “Finally, someone is reviewing a good ol’ cheesy romance,” then all I can say, is I agree.
Now that that’s over with, let me tell you about the book. Basically, Desdemona Wainwright caters a wedding where the groom, Sam Stark, gets stood up. She is then faced with the problem of somehow getting him to pay for the catering. They end up spending the night with her catering crew, who are made up of pretty much just her family of actors. There is immediate attraction (of course), but Stark, as he prefers to be called, ignores it. Weeks later, he sets up a contract with her and her business. The sparks fly, and they end up together.
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From wikipedia:
William Allingham (March 19, 1824 or 1828 - November 18, 1889) was an Irish man of letters and poet.
He was born at Ballyshannon, Donegal, and was the son of the manager of a local bank who was of English descent. He obtained a post in the custom-house of his native town and held several similar posts in Ireland and England until 1870, when he had retired from the service, and became sub-editor of
Fraser's Magazine, which he edited from 1874 to 1879, in succession to James Froude. He had published a volume of
Poems in 1850, followed by
Day and Night Songs, a volume containing many charming lyrics, in 1855.
Read Sixteen Poems by William Allingham, free from Project Gutenberg.
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
Building on a reputation for environmental awareness and energy conservation, and continuing its efforts to redirect every dollar possible to the classroom, the New Haven Unified School District is adopting an aggressive program of energy management and conservation, Superintendent Dr. Pat Jaurequi announced today.
“Even before we knew of the financial challenges facing us (the District will receive $7 million less under Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposal to slash state funding for education) we had identified energy management as a way we could reduce operational costs and redirect more dollars to teaching and learning,” Dr. Jaurequi said in a message to employees. “It is one of the reasons we incorporated solar energy into the design and construction of Conley-Caraballo High School, and one of the reasons we have begun the process of installing solar systems at Kitayama Elementary and James Logan High.”
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The Apple MacBook Air is thin.
DALLAS — Thin is cool. Thin is sexy. Thin is chic. The thinner, the better.
If I were talking about us, about people, that whole "our bodies, ourselves" kind of thing, then I would be shouted down, pilloried as a dangerous disseminator of a wrong-headed and hurtful bias that has distorted our society's definition of beauty and driven countless young women and men into eating disorders in pursuit of an impossible ideal.
But relax. I'm talking about our electronic gadgets, where the pursuit of absolute, ultimate thinness is not only acceptable, it's celebrated.
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The Iqua Sun can recharge
cellphones, iPods and more.
Imagine a world where your cell phone or iPod never runs out of power and you can leave all your clunky chargers at home.
I tested three solar-powered devices that aim to make this world a reality: a backpack that lets you charge a variety of devices, a Bluetooth headset and a small, handheld electronics charger that clips onto your bag. And if the sun isn't shining, all of these devices can also be charged through conventional means.
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By Tawab Fakhri, Courier Technology Writer
The wait has finally ended. The best-selling Nintendo hit has finally returned to the revolutionary platform that can use the full potential of the game and bring a flawless perfection that is the gaming experience of
Super Smash Bros Brawl.
Gamers have already swung their hands off from hours of
Brawl game play since its release last Sunday. Gamer David Collins says “S
uper Smash Bros Brawl’s response time allows the game play to reach a new plateau in fighting game history. The balance of each characters strength allows all players a chance at victory.”
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Mohammed Lodin
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The James Logan Colts’ Varsity Boys volleyball team will be playing in a match against the Moreau Mariners on Tuesday. The game will proceed at 6:30 pm in the Logan Pavilion.
Logan’s opposite hitter, Senior Mohammed Lodin said, “I feel nervous because we need to work on some minor things, but excited because we find out where our level of playing is at.”
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You'll need ID to get through this
gate after Spring recess.
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Students and staff returning from next week's Spring recess will find tighter security and new identification badges awaiting them.
James Logan Principal Don Montoya outlined the new security measures at a staff meeting Monday afternoon.
Students returning to campus after the holiday will have to enter campus through only four entrances, rather than the 32 they can use until Friday.
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From wikipedia:
Madame de La Fayette (baptized March 18, 1634 – May 25, 1693) was a French writer, the author of La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature.
Christened
Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, she was born in Paris to a family of minor but rich nobility. At 16, de la Vergne became the maid of honor to Queen Anne of Austria and began also to acquire a literary education from Gilles Ménage, who gave her lessons in Italian and Latin. Ménage would lead her to join the fashionable salons of Madame de Rambouillet and Madeleine de Scudéry. Her father, Marc Pioche de la Vergne, had died a year before, and the same year her mother married Renaud de Sévigné, uncle of Madame de Sévigné, who would remain her lifelong intimate friend.
Read Marie Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne Comtesse de La Fayette's The Princess of Cleves, one of
two of her works available free, and in English and French, from Project Gutenberg.
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By David Collins, Courier Opinion Editor
The fact is that I truly do not want to be here, and, year after year, seniors like me have been similarly plagued by a tragic and contagious disease: Senioritis. Symptoms include a nonchalant attitude, a lack of self-discipline, a larger percentage of procrastination and an alarming amount of incomplete work. Of these effects, the largest is cutting school.
The closer most seniors get to graduation, the less work gets done. Even the greatest of students lose determination. By this time in the year, most students have their college plans laid out or jobs waiting for them, so doing tedious work for the fourth year in a row under the control of an adult dictatorship does not appeal.
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Victoria Medina
Debby Ly/Courier Photo,
Courier Staff Writer
Having worked at James Logan for the past thirty‑one years, teacher Victoria Medina is almost ready to retire. As an all‑around English teacher, teaching English One, American Literature, and Honors American Literature, Medina plans to retire in June.
Medina has been a part of Logan in one way or another her entire career. She first began her experiences by student teaching at Logan, then substituting for three years, and finally becoming a full‑time instructor in the 1977‑1978 school year, working at Logan until present day.
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By Mike Dorning and Christi Parsons
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
WASHINGTON — Despite the celebration of Barack Obama's electoral successes as evidence that the nation has moved beyond racial divisions, signs are emerging of a small but unmistakable race-based resistance to his historic White House bid.
Beneath Obama's easy win in Mississippi on Tuesday, exit poll data shows a state that is polarized along racial lines, with white Democrats there rejecting his candidacy 70 percent to 26 percent, while 9 of 10 blacks voted for him. It's a dramatic reflection of a recurrent pattern, most pronounced in the South.
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From wikipedia:
Jean Ingelow (17 March 1820 – 20 July 1897), was an English poet and novelist.
Born at Boston, Lincolnshire, she was the daughter of William Ingelow, a banker. As a girl she contributed verses and tales to magazines under the pseudonym of Orris, but her first (anonymous) volume,
A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings, did not appear until her thirtieth year. This was called charming by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson who declared he should like to know the author; they later became friends.
Read Fated to Be Free by Jean Ingelow, one of
four of her works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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By Emily Low,
Courier Staff Writer
Even now, as I type this article, I can hear the sounds of mallets colliding with drumheads in a frenetic craze as percussionists from all over the nations’ west coast prepare for competition at the James Logan parking lot. Just why, a skeptical person might ask, are you hearing these things, and why are they even there?
Saturday, March 15, 2008 is the day of the percussion WGI finals this year, and as in previous years, it has been held in the Logan campus. While some groups may be in the Pavilion performing, others are out in the parking lot and even in the basketball courts, warming up for their performances. It began bright and early in the morning before I woke up at 9:00, and it’s still going on, probably, until midnight. As I live none too far from the campus, even with all the doors and windows shut tight and a television droning in the room next door, I can hear the occasional boom-boom-boom, and if I listen carefully, even the repetitive clank of the metronome keeping time.
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Musically Minded by Kimberly Low
From The Courier Comics archives:
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From wikipedia:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel (1750-03-16, Hanover – 1848-01-09) was a German-born English astronomer, the sister of astronomer Sir William Herschel with whom she worked throughout both of their careers. Her most significant contribution to astronomy was the discovery of several comets and in particular the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name.
Caroline was born in Hanover to Isaac Herschel and Anna Ilse Moritzen of Hanover. Isaac led a musical family, and William, twelve years Caroline's senior, became an army oboist in his teens. After seeing combat and deciding on a new career, William decided to leave for England, moving there in 1766 at the age of nineteen. Upon Isaac's death in 1767 Caroline was left working in the family kitchen, and when an invitation to join William arrived she moved to join him in 1772.
Read more about Caroline Lucretia Herschel, free from The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
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Portrait of Paul Heyse,
by Adolph von Menzel (March 15, 1830 - April 2, 1914) was a distinguished German author. Paul von Heyse was born in Berlin, Germany, the son of Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse, a notable philologist, and Julie Saaling. Saaling, his mother, was the daughter of a prominent Jewish family, a well-to-do court jeweler related to Felix Mendelssohn. He was educated in Berlin and at Bonn, where he studied classical languages. Afterwards, he translated many Italian poets. He also wrote short stories and published several novels, the most famous being Kinder der Welt ("Children of the World", 1873). In Berlin he was member of the poets' society "Tunnel über der Spree", in Munich together with Emanuel Geibel and others in the poets' society "Krokodil" (Crocodile).
Read Andrea Delfin by Paul Heyse, free from Project Gutenberg.
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By Rechie Cruz,
Courier Staff Writer
As their season begins, the Logan Badminton team is playing and training for a new head coach and has started the new season off with back-to-back wins, beating Kennedy, 17-0, and Washington, 16-1.
The Colts face the number one team in the league, Mission San Jose, on Thursday.
Kim Van Nguyen, the former assistant coach, this year has been given the chance to lead the Badminton brigade as the head coach. Many new things are expected from this change and positive energy is being spread.
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By Charles Yi, Courier Film Reviewer
“The Bank Job”, directed by Roger Donaldson, is a thriller based on the 1971 robbery of a bank on Baker Street, London, from which nothing was ever recovered and the culprits were never apprehended.
Terry (Jason Statham) owns a failing car‑sales garage and is in trouble with a couple of debt‑collectors when he is offered a job by the MI5, the central intelligence agency of the United Kingdom. Terry and his friends purchase a shop two lots away from the bank and begin digging a tunnel to the middle of the bank’s safe.
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By Christina La, Courier Editor-in-Chief
Choosing which college to attend is suppose to be one of the most exciting and thrilling time of a young woman's life, unless her father isn't quite ready to let her go. In “College Road Trip,” Melanie Porter (Raven Symone) is an overachieving high school senior who is anxiously looking forward to excel and grow as a college student. However, when she plans a trip to visit several different schools with her girlfriends, she has a wrench thrown in her plans as her overprotective police chief father (Martin Lawerence) insists that he escort her instead.
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From wikipedia:
Teresa Cristina Maria of Brazil, born Teresa Cristina Maria of the Two Sicilies (Portuguese: Teresa Cristina Maria de Bourbon-Sicílias e Bragança; 14 March 1822 - 28 December 1889) was the empress consort of Pedro II of Brazil and Princess of the Two Sicilies. She was the daughter of King Francis I of the Two Sicilies and Maria Isabella of Spain.
On 4 September 1842, Teresa married Pedro II of Brazil, a marriage that would last 46 years, until her death. Empress Teresa was endowed with rare cordiality and sense. Discreet and intelligent, she won her husband's favour with their common interest in culture. In the fleet to Brazil she brought artists, musicians, professors, botanists and other scholars. A good singer and amateur musician, she entertained at the palace. Moreover, she was a dedicated mother.
Visit the official website of the Brazilian Imperial House.
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By Rebecca Soltau,
Entertainment Editor
In a world where the world screams at and demands that the young generation respond to governmental injustices in the world the way the previous 1960's generation reacted to the Vietnam War, we endlessly search for something or someone to relate to. Naturally, we turn to the one thing that binds us together across all borders...music. Occasionally, a song might come floating to us over the radio waves that just barely brush the angst we hold in our hearts, but nothing yet has truly encompassed the intense, horrible anger we feel.
Ready or not, State Radio is bursting onto the scene, and they do all that and more.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Percival Lawrence Lowell (March 13, 1855–November 12, 1916) was a businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death. The choice of the name Pluto and its symbol were partly influenced by his initials PL.
Percival Lowell, a descendant of the Boston Lowell family, was the brother of A. Lawrence, president of Harvard University, and Amy, an imagist poet, critic, and publisher.
Read Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Percival Lowell, one of
two of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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Cover of the California
English-Language Arts
Standards handbook
The beginning of March brings many things, among them fateful cinch notices, the annual open house, and the inevitable busy work of pre-registration. Juniors, sophomores, and freshman file into the designated facility, chatting with one another as they casually pick up transcripts, course catalogs, ROP catalogs, and multicolored registration forms. Gradually, the hubbub is silenced and the slideshow begins.
Blah, blah, blah…I don’t think I’m the only one who tunes out. It’s nothing against the counselors who have put in so much hard effort into education us all, just that I know this already. Or, at least, I feel as if I do. I need this many credits, this many community service hours, and I need to plan. Got it, I nod absentmindedly. Then, my fingers become restless, flipping through the multitude of papers on my lap until I arrive at a page in the course catalog titled: Graduation Requirements Summary.
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
Reducing the number of access points at James Logan High School and using video technology to enhance security on the campus – two areas that the New Haven Unified School District had previously identified and started to address – are among the recommendations brought to the District in a professional security assessment conducted at the high school.
While continuing to work on those initiatives, the District also will adopt GE Security Consultants’ recommendation to require students to display identification badges on campus. Staff members already are required to wear identification badges.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 1, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.
(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2008 by Reed Elsevier, USA)March 10th Weekly Bestsellers list
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Appeal. John Grisham. Doubleday, $27.95
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 5
2. Remember Me? Sophie Kinsella. Dial, $25
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
3. 7th Heaven. James Patterson & Maxine Paetro. Little, Brown, $27.99
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 4
4. Strangers in Death. J.D. Robb. Putnam, $25.95
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 2
5. The Outlaw Demon Wails. Kim Harrison. Eos, $24.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
6. Honor Thyself. Danielle Steel. Delacorte, $27
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
7. Lady Killer. Lisa Scottoline. Harper, $25.95
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 2
8. Duma Key. Stephen King. Scribner, $28
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 6
9. Betrayal. John Lescroart. Dutton, $26.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
10. A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead, $25.95
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 41
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By Jessica Stewart,
Courier Book Editor
The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout
Paperback: 145 pages
Publisher: Ruminator Books (May 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1886913579
ISBN-13: 978-1886913578“In this land subjected to what they claim to be divine law, the law of discernment, justice, and compassion, men and women sneak around as if under a death sentence. When someone puts his hand in his pocket, under his coat or his gandoura, people hold their breath, hearts begin to pound wildly, legs tense up ready to start running madly. It is not uncommon for a gun or a dagger to flash forth—a feline leap, a leap of lightning. The result is a man, covered with knife cuts or riddled with bullets, who puts up a struggle in a pool of blood like an animal in a ritual sacrifice. There is no helping hand, no reaction of indignation. The passerby, overcome with panic, scatter and flee in every direction as if in a poultry yard over which a falcon hovers. The citizens have internalized terror, they have become mere beasts concerned with their own survival.”
The above paragraph is basically a summary of the book, and is certainly quite a bit easier to read and comprehend. There is absolutely no reason that comes to mind to read
The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout besides a few select paragraphs, which essentially summarize the whole novel, just like the one above. While I wholeheartedly approve of the messages the book conveys, and the cold hard reality of it is a nice change from the fluff of much of today’s fiction, I just could not get even a single drop of enjoyment out of it.
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Vaslav Nijinsky as Vayou in
St. Petersburg, 1910 (March 12, 1889 – April 8, 1950) was a Polish ballet dancer and choreographer. Nijinsky was one of the most gifted male dancers in history, and he became celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations. He could perform en pointe, a rare skill among male dancers at the time (Albright, 2004) and his ability to perform seemingly gravity-defying leaps was also legendary.
Vaslav Nijinsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine to a Russified Polish dancer's family of Eleonora Bereda and Tomasz Niżyński. Nijinsky was christened in Warsaw. In 1900 he joined the Imperial Ballet School, where he studied under Enrico Cecchetti, Nicholas Legat, and Pavel Gerdt. At 18 years old he had leading roles in the Mariinsky Theatre.
Watch Charles Jude perform the lead role in Nijinsky's ballet, Afternoon of a Faun, free from the Internet Archive.
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Laurence Blanco, below
In order to make the "Wall of Fame" in the James Logan High wrestling room, you have to do one of two things: win a North Coast Section title or place in the top eight at state finals.
It is very difficult to earn a spot on the wall of fame. It is also an award that is not given out every year.
For James Logan Colt Wrestler Lawrence Blanco, a spot will be reserved for him after he won the section title two weeks ago. However, Lawrence wants more than a section title and a spot on the Wall of Fame.
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Lisa Childers
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After a James Logan science teacher Lisa Childers won a $60,000 California Bay Watershed Education and Training (BWET) grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, every James Logan freshman will have the opportunity to take two field trips to local watersheds next year.
“Last summer I went to a teacher workshop in Monterey and I met someone from the NOAA. He was from a Federal Government organization for the ocean,” Childers said.
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By Victor Godinez
The Dallas Morning News (MCT)
I used to think PC gaming was dead.
But, since I just bought a new computer, I've decided to change my mind.
Long live PC gaming!
Now let's see if I can scrounge up some facts to back up my newfound faith in the old workhorse.
Hmm.
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Guess what? The Improv Show is this Friday! Tickets are $3 presale, $5 at the door. Show starts at 7, doors open at 6:30.
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By Sarena Bains, Courier Copy Editor
Students have found a way to have their Cell phones ring in class and get away with it sometimes by using a special ringtone inaudible by aging teachers.
The trick is using a downloaded ringtone employing a high pitched buzzing easily mistaken for a mosquito noise, but closer to the ringing in peoples' ears. According to
Fortune Magazine this ringtone emits ultrasonic tones that are inaudible to most people after the age of 40, but annoyingly audible to younger people. As they age, people tend to lose their ability to hear higher frequencies.
Apparently, it works.
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Self-Portrait by Benjamin West(October 10, 1738 – March 11, 1820) was an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American War of Independence.
He was born in Springfield, Pennsylvania, in a house that is now on the campus of Swarthmore College, as the tenth child of an innkeeper. The family later moved to Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, where his father was the proprietor of the Square Tavern, still standing in that town. West told John Galt, with whom, late in his life, he collaborated on a memoir,
The Life and Studies of Benjamin West (1816, 1820) that, when he was a child, Native Americans showed him how to make paint by mixing some clay from the river bank with bear grease in a pot. Benjamin West was an autodidact; while excelling at the arts, "he had little [formal] education and, even when president of the Royal Academy, could scarcely spell"(Hughes, 70).
See some of Benjamin West's paintings, free from CGFA.
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By Sarena Bains,
Courier Staff Writer
A murder at Kennedy Park Feb. 29, directly behind James Logan High School's baseball field, prompted school officials to urge students and others to call a police tip line with information on that crime and other recent murders in the community.
Police arrested a 16-year-old boy in the case last week.
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Auditions for the 20th annual One-Acts will be on Thursday and Friday in the Theater after school.
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GSA - join us Friday to hear a presentation about Gay Prom in Hayward. Room 52 after school.
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From wikipedia:
Broncho Billy Anderson (March 21, 1880 – January 20, 1971) was an American actor, writer, director, and producer, who is best known as the first star of the Western film genre.
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He was born Max Aronson in Little Rock, Arkansas, the sixth child of Henry and Esther Aronson, natives of New York. His younger sister Leona Anderson would achieve a degree of success in the 1950s as a novelty singer who specialized in singing off-key songs for comedic value.
Anderson, who was Jewish, is also claimed by Pine Bluff, where he was raised until age eight.
Learn more about the first Western-themed movie, The Great Train Robbery, and find links to watch it, too, at wildwestweb.net.
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Morgan Freeman, occasional
movie president. wikipedia image.
That authoritative voice, that cool demeanor. It's everything you'd want in a president of the United States.
Yes, I'm talking about Morgan Freeman.
In one of his funnier Oscar-night lines, host Jon Stewart joked: "Normally, when you see a black man or a woman president an asteroid is about to hit the Statue of Liberty."
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By Samuel Jue,
Courier Sports Editor
The Serra Padres scored early and often on their way to a 8-3 win over the Logan Colts Wednesday night at the East Bay Classic tournament.
Serra’s Kevin McAlindon, Tony Renda and Ryan Palermo each drove in a pair of runs for the victorious Pads.
Serra’s first inning rally started with a two-run single from Renda. Kevin McAlindon and David Diapola followed with an RBI each afterwards to chase Logan starting pitcher Roberto Padilla out of the game.
The scoring would not stop there however. Serra continued to onslaught the next inning by pushing across two more runs and taking a 6-0 lead.
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Source: Modern Mechanix
magazine, April 1942.(1865–1947) was a prolific American type designer whose fonts include Copperplate Gothic, Kennerley, and Goudy Old Style. He also designed, in 1938, University of California Oldstyle, for the sole proprietary use of the University of California Press. The Lanston Monotype Company released a version of the face, called Californian, for wider distribution in 1956, and a digital version, called Berkeley, in 1983.
Learn more about Frederic Goudy and see examples of his designs, free from linotype.com.
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By Krystal Henderson, Courier News Editor
Notice anything different today as you sauntered around campus? Did you noticed how easy it was to walk in the hallways, and howquiet it was in the Spot?
Well, today is Senior Cut Day, an unofficial "holiday" and tradition at James Logan High School
"Today was one of the worst days all year," said House 12's attendance secretary, Michele Bazzel. "Every twelfth grader called in sick today!"
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By Charles Yi, Courier Film Critic
“Semi‑Pro”, directed by Kent Alterman, is yet another slapstick comedy starring Will Ferrell.
Set in 1976, Jackie Moon (Ferrell) is a singer who uses the profits from his one hit single “Love Me Sexy” to become a sports impresario and purchase a team in the American Basketball Association (ABA), the Flint, Michigan Tropics. The ABA announces plans to merge with the National Basketball Association (NBA), the upper echelon of professional basketball in the United States, but only four teams will be able to move to the more established league.
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By Lewis Beale
Newsday (MCT)
The caveman film. So ridiculous, so kitschy, so irresistibly watchable. The release this week of "10,000 B.C." serves to remind that this debased genre — down there at the bottom of the film food chain with slasher flicks and teen sex comedies — has been with us for decades and shows no signs of going the way of the Neanderthal.
Think "Clan of the Cave Bear." Or "Encino Man." It soon becomes obvious that the terms "Oscar-winning cinema" and "caveman flick" are mutually exclusive (so maybe 1981's "Quest for Fire" won an Oscar for best makeup. It sure didn't win any awards from Cro-Magnon historians). Which is probably why the creators of "10,000 B.C." have called it "a sweeping odyssey into a mythical age of prophecies and gods."
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Papillon's dining rooms
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Papillon is located on 37296 Mission Blvd., just west of the Niles Blvd. in Fremont. Papillion, which in French means butterfly, has been serving people for more than twenty years. Once entering the restaurant you are kindly welcomed and seated in a traditional dining room. They offer four types of dining rooms each with its own unique setting.
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By Christina La, Courier Editor-in-Chief
Henry, emotionally unstable, refuses to move on after his wife, Kate, is killed on their wedding day. As annoying as Kate is with her orders, she comes upon an ice sculpted angel that she ordered but realizes it is an angel without wings. Furious, Kate demands the man to take it back and bring her one with wings. As the man is unaware of what is behind him, Kate is relentlessly trying to stop the man from backing his truck into her wedding decorations. Kate is crushed by the ice angel that falls out of the man’s truck, leaving her crushed to death as she goes off into the afterlife.
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Milton Avery (March 7, 1885 – January 3, 1965) was an American modern painter. Although born in Altmar, New York, he moved to Connecticut in 1898 and later to New York City.
He supported himself with factory jobs and for many years he lived in obscurity. In 1917 he began working at night in order to paint in the daytime. For several years in the late 1920s through the late 1930s Avery practiced painting and drawing at the Art Students League of New York. Roy Neuberger saw his work and thought he deserved recognition. Determined to get the world to know and respect Avery's work, Neuberger bought over 100 of his paintings, starting with
Gaspé Landscape, and lent or donated them to museums all over the world. With the work of Milton Avery rotating through high-profile museums, he came to be a highly respected and successful painter.
Read more about Milton Avery and his paintings, and see examples of his work, free from the Artchive.
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By William Douglas
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio ⏼ Sen. Hillary Clinton celebrated her victories in Tuesday's Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island presidential primaries as she jetted back to Washington.
Clinton and her campaign aides basked in their triumph of halting Sen. Barack Obama's primary-caucus winning streak at 12 victories and slowing his momentum toward capturing the Democratic presidential nomination.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A common fear is sweeping through the Midwest's drug-enforcement community: that methamphetamine, the narcotic scourge that has wounded middle America as no drug ever before, is about to surge again because of extreme federal slashes in police funding.
In Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas and Nebraska, the story is the same. Just as statistics show that anti-meth task forces may be beginning to gain an upper hand on those who manufacture, deal and use the highly addictive and destructive drug, the source of the majority of these states' drug-enforcement funding is slated to disappear overnight.
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By Greg Kot
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
Radiohead's name-your-price download strategy, in which the band offered its latest album, "In Rainbows," to consumers for whatever price they chose, has been the talk of the music world for months.
Now at least one major artist is following closely in the U.K. band's ground-breaking footsteps. On Sunday, Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor announced on his Web site, nin.com, that he was immediately making available a new four-part album, "Ghosts I-IV," containing 36 instrumental tracks spanning nearly two hours. The music was made available in five configurations at five price levels, ranging from free (for downloads of nine songs) to $300 (for a box set that includes two CDs, a DVD, an optical disc containing a slide show, and four vinyl albums).
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By Najia Qadir, Courier Staff Writer
We the Kings' self‑titled sure to be a hit among all the pop‑punk lovers out there. The whole album is an anthem to anyone who has ever feel repressed by parents/guardians (and really, what teenager hasn't?). Their songs are full of teenage angst captured in fun catchy music.
The lyrics of their hit single "Check Yes Juliet" describe a present day Romeo and Juliet problem. The song include verses like "Run baby, run. Don't ever look back. They'll tear us apart if you give them the chance." and "Just sneak out and don't tell a soul goodbye." In another single "Skyway Avenue" the song is about leaving a boring town and starting something new.
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From wikipedia:
Jacob Fugger (6 March 1459 – 30 December 1525), sometimes known as Jacob Fugger the Rich, was a German banker and a member of the Fugger family.
Fugger was born in the Swabian town of Augsburg in the Holy Roman Empire, the son of a weaver who settled there in the late 15th century. A trader like his brothers, he learned double-entry bookkeeping in Venice.
See more portraits of Jacob Fugger, free from paradoxplace.com.
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
The Board of Education on Tuesday night approved the elimination of five District-level management positions as part of the District’s efforts to deal with Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposal for a massive cut to the state’s K-12 education budget.
The Board also approved a recommendation that 24 other management employees, at both site and District levels, be notified that their assignments may be changed for 2008-09. Also, as part of the process of closing Barnard-White Middle School, the Board approved a reduction in the classified workforce, including seven full-time and 25 part-time positions.
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By Christina La, Courier Editor-in-Chief
The San Francisco Chronicle has announced that they will no longer be providing schools with free paper editions, ending the availability of free paper copies in the James Logan Media Center and some classrooms.
“The Chronicle won’t give the school free newspaper anymore. We use to get 20 copied for free and they no longer provide that for us,” said Media Center staffer Christine Smith.
As an alternative, the Chronicle is offering free access to online facsimiles of the daily paper.
In an announcement of the end of the free newspapers for schools, the San Francisco Chronicle said that the school could continue to receive newspapers, but that the cost of print editions will be 50 cents per copy which also means that it will now cost $90 to get one copy a day for one school year. A class set of 33 for a year would now cost the school $2970.
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By Emily Low,
Courier Staff Writer
A student rushes past in a whirlwind of bags and texts, attempting to make it to class before the tardy bell rings on the high school campus. He turns the corner and narrowly misses slamming into the wall in his attempt to find the path with the least arc length, but manages to hook his backpack on a door handle. The sound of tearing material seems to echo as a multitude of scholarly supplies rains on the floor.
What might be a part of the pile that has tumbled to the floor? Pencils, perhaps, with bite marks where the eraser once was. Loose papers, dog-eared at the corners, with dates recording homework assignments that should have been turned in last month. A binder. A water bottle, unopened. Maybe a gigantic text or two, pages splayed wide.
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Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Doubleday (April 15, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 038550926X
ISBN-13: 978-0385509268
Andrea Sachs has the job a million girls would die for! She works for the most powerful woman in fashion; the editor of
Runway magazine, Miranda Priestly. The beautiful people of New York’s finest socialites, designers and models surround her. She gets to attend the most fabulous exclusive parties, not to mention she literally has a closet full of designer clothes at her disposal. Amazing right? Not according to Andrea.
The Devil Wears Prada, by Lauren Weisberger, is the story of Andrea’s steps out of her comfort zone of Hollister and Abercombie and directly into the high fashion world of Gucci, Chanel and, of course, Prada.
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By Abhishek Saluja,
Courier Book Editor
The Iliad by Homer is a famous epic poem involving a brutal battle. The lengthy poem continues to educate new readers about Greek mythology.
The Greeks and the Trojans have fought many battles throughout history and when they fight the battle continues for years on end.
This poem involves such a battle, the Greeks have a superior more powerful army but some of the more powerful gods reside on the Trojan side. The battle portrays unnecessary bloodshed and within the battle there are many small character battles.
Read Homer's Iliad, as translated by Alexander Pope, free from PublicLiterature.org.
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From wikipedia:
Gerardus Mercator (March 5, 1512 – December 2, 1594) was a Flemish cartographer. He was born in Rupelmonde in East Flanders to parents from Gangelt in the Duchy of Jülich. He lived in Duisburg from 1552. He is remembered for the Mercator chart named after him.
Mercator was born Gheert Cremer (or Gerard de Cremere) in the Flemish town of Rupelmonde. "Mercator" is the Latinized form of his name. It means "merchant". He was educated in 's-Hertogenbosch by the famous humanist Macropedius and at the University of Leuven. Despite his fame as a cartographer, Mercator's main source of income came through his craftmanship of mathematical instruments.
Read one of Gerardus Mercator's letters, free from Google books.
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Jonathan Laureta-Revelo,
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Senior Jonathan Laureta‑Revelo finished off his high school wrestling career strong and impressive.
Jonathan has struggled the last three seasons due to injury such as a hyper‑extended elbow and a torn finger. He was unable to finish his first three seasons as a Colt wrestler. “These injuries just made me want to work harder. I didn’t want my last season to be like my freshman, sophomore and junior year," Jonathon said.
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By Sandhaya Mansfield, Courier Staff Writer
Spring break is a time that many high school and college students look forward to - school is out and vacation begins. For most, this means a week of relaxing and spending time with family and friends, and for others it means a week of partying and drinking, even for some high school seniors.
Spring break is when vacation planning companies lure students into buying spring break packages. Companies that specialize on selling spring break tours encourage students to travel to the spring break capital of the world - the infamous Mexico. Mexico seems to be the most popular spring break oasis because the legal drinking age is only 18 and is rarely enforced. Another company offers trips to places like Cancun and Mazatlan promising “50 hours of free drinking” over the seven day period of the vacation package.
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Bill Dugan leads a team of
developers building "Schizoid."
Rod Mar/Seattle Times/MCT
SEATTLE — Like big-budget movies, video games can cost tens of millions of dollars and take years to produce.
Top game studios have strict, high-pressure deadlines, large development teams and lots of overhead costs. With so much at stake, publishers have become conservative, preferring to put the big development and marketing dollars behind a sure thing.
In 2007, eight of the 10 best-selling games — including "Halo 3," "Call of Duty IV" and "Mario Party 8" — were sequels to previous hits. Together, they sold more than 27 million copies in the U.S.
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Logan's Alyssa Stringer, who swam
for Logan last year, will again this
year. David Stringer Photo
As spring sports are beginning to roll around at James Logan, one of the most important of the upcoming spring sports involves the James Logan swim team. The Logan swim team consists of the Junior Varsity Girls team, the Junior Varsity Boys team, the Varsity Girls team and the Varsity Boys team.
Last season in the MVAL championships the varsity girls took sixth place, beating Kennedy, while American High School, Newark Memorial High School, Washington High School and Mission San Jose placed ahead, with Mission San Jose taking first. The varsity boys took fifth place, beating American High School and Kennedy High School, but were beaten by Newark Memorial High School, Irvington high school, Washington High School, and Mission San Jose.
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The new 400 buliding was opened up for use on Tuesday, January 22. Some teachers were eagerly awaiting a chance to have their own classroom for the first time and others we glad to get the proper class environment.
Lucio Vazquez, a Spanish teacher, used to teach his classes in the staff lounge and he is glad to be back into a regular classroom. Before the staff lounge he was split into four separate rooms, so the new 400 building helped him out a lot.
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Kristen Dattolico
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It is that time again for the spotlight to be lit on a fellow James Logan student. Kristen Dattolico, a freshman at Logan, was crowned first place at the Kennedy Community Center in Union City’s American Teen Idol Contest last month. Singing “Only Hope” by Mandy Moore, Dattolico captivated her listeners, defeated ten other finalists, and claimed victory.
Being a part of a musically oriented family, Dattolico’s mother accredits her talent to her father, who used to sing.
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From wikipedia:
Edmund Waller, FRS (March 3, 1606 – October 21, 1687) was an English poet and Politician.
(born March 3, 1606, Coleshill, Hertfordshire, Eng.—died Oct. 21, 1687. He was the eldest son of Robert Waller of Coleshill, Herts, and Anne Hampden, his wife; thus he was first cousin to John Hampden. He was descended from the Waller family of Groombridge Place, Kent. Early in his childhood his father moved the family to Beaconsfield. Of Waller's early education all we know is his own account that he "was bred under several ill, dull and ignorant schoolmasters, until he went to Mr Dobson at Wycombe, who was a good schoolmaster and had been an Eton scholar." Robert Waller died in 1616, and Anne, a lady of rare force of character, sent him to Eton and to the University of Cambridge.
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Works by Edmund Waller at Project Gutenberg
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Musically Minded, by Kimberly Low
School Days, by Jamie Maxfield
Team Strikedown, by Pepper Moto
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