This is the archive for June 2011
By Mark Stryker
Detroit Free Press (MCT)
There's a lot to admire about "Songs of Mirth and Melancholy" (3 stars, Marsalis Music), the rewarding new duet album by saxophonist Branford Marsalis and pianist Joey Calderazzo. Calderazzo has been a mainstay of Marsalis' quartet since 1998, and the rapport the two have built comes into bold relief without bass and drums in the mix.
At its best, the music strikes a compelling balance between attention to detail and relaxed improvisation. Primarily a collection of uniquely tailored ballads, the album creates a mood of weighty contemplation, introspective but never hermetic. Marsalis and Calderazzo put their chips on melodic integrity and development, staying in the moment and patiently drawing out the formal and emotional character of the material.
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From wikipedia:
Paul Edward Yost (June 30, 1919 – May 27, 2007) was the American inventor of the modern hot air balloon and is referred to as the "Father of the Modern Day Hot-Air Balloon." He worked for a high altitude research division of General Mills when he helped establish Raven Industries in 1956.
Inventor
Born on a farm 7 miles south of Bristow, Iowa, Yost first became involved in lighter-than-air ballooning when he leased his single-engine plane to General Mills to track their gas balloons. He became a senior engineer in the development of high-altitude research balloons.
Learn more about Ed Yost, free from LighterThanAir.org.
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Faiza Elmasry, VOA News
"Farishta" means 'angel' in Dari, the widely spoken language in northern Afghanistan. It’s also the title of a novel by Patricia McArdle, a retired American diplomat who spent a year in Afghanistan.
Over her 27-year career as a U.S. diplomat, McArdle served in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe. But it was her last assignment in Afghanistan that inspired her to write about her experiences.
However, instead of a memoir, she opted to write a novel inspired by real people and events.
“I couldn’t really use their names without compromising their safety and the work they’re doing in Afghanistan," she says.
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James Van Der Zee (June 29, 1886 - May 15, 1983) was an African American photographer best known for his portraits of black New Yorkers. He was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Aside from the artistic merits of his work, Van Der Zee produced the most comprehensive documentation of the period. Among his most famous subjects during this time were Marcus Garvey, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Countee Cullen.
James Van Der Zee was born in Lenox, Massachusetts. His parents were John and Elizabeth Van Der Zee. His parents worked for President Ulysses S. Grant in New York City. James was the second of six children and enjoyed a close-knit family. His best friend was Justin Moore. As a child he learned piano, violin, and art. He discovered photography as a hobby in his hometown of Lenox. At age fourteen he received his first camera from a magazine promotion. His interest with the toy camera led him to getting a slightly better camera with which he would take hundreds of photographs of the town and his family. He was only the second person in Lenox to own a camera, and he developed the images himself. This early start led him to a vast and prolific career documenting each decade in his unique style of photography.
Watch a compilation of James Van Der Zee's photographs, free from YouTube.
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"Alice: Madness Returns"
Reviewed for: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
Also available for: Windows PC
From: Spicy Horse/EA
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore, sexual
themes, strong language, violence)
Price: $60
In the land of video game characters who have recently returned from extended leave, all the headlines belong to Duke Nukem.
But if you want to read the real success story, you'd best train your eyes on Alice, whose comeback validates not only her place in today's gaming climate, but the legitimacy of a genre — family-friendly platforming wrapped inside a bloody, deranged, M-rated shell — that hasn't had much representation in the 10-plus years since "American McGee's Alice" came, left its mark and went.
At its core, "Alice: Madness Returns" plays by many of the same rules that governed its predecessor, splitting platforming and combat roughly down the middle and spreading it out across a lengthy (15 hours, give or take) journey through some large, diverse and creatively sovereign interpretations of Lewis Carroll's imagination.
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Esther Louise Forbes (June 28, 1891 - August 12, 1967) was an American novelist and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal.
Forbes was born in Westborough, Massachusetts, the fifth of six children born to Harriette Merrifield and William Trowbridge Forbes. After attending school in Wisconsin, Forbes served as a member of the editorial staff at Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston. Her first novel, Oh Genteel Lady!, was published in 1926 and was made a selection by the then newly formed Book-of-the-Month Club. She married Albert Hoskins in 1926. They were divorced in 1933.
Learn more about Esther Forbes, free from the Worchester Polytechnic Institute.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Sunday, June 26:
The time has come, America, for a tater tax. Now that a groundbreaking study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has demonstrated that potatoes may be a bigger culprit in weight gain than sugary soft drinks or red meat, it seems appropriate to exact a little spud money. You want chips with that? Ante up.
No, we're not being serious. But politicians and health advocates nationwide are very serious about imposing taxes on the culinary villain du jour, soda pop, which is thought to be a key cause of the country's obesity epidemic. Make people pay a few extra pennies for their Pepsis, the theory goes, and they'll drink less, lose weight and save the health system money. It sounds good, but the new research out of Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health shows why singling out a particular food may not be such a good idea.
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Adapted from the African American Registry
Crystal Bird Fauset, the first African-American woman to be elected to a state house of representatives, was born on June 27, 1894.
Fauset was born in Prince Anne, Maryland, to Benjamin and Portia Bird, but was raised in Boston by her aunt, Lucy Groves. She attended public schools and graduated from Teachers College, Columbia University, in 1931. As a social worker for the YWCA in New York and Philadelphia, Fauset was named executive secretary of the Institute of Race Relations at Swarthmore College in 1933.
Learn more about Crystal Bird Fauset, free from ExplorePAHistory.com
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It's a Lulu, by Lulu Zhong, Courier Comics Editor
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Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller (June 26, 1898 – October 11, 1971) was an officer in the United States Marine Corps. Puller is the most decorated U.S. Marine in history, and the only Marine to receive five Navy Crosses.
During his career, he fought guerrillas in Haiti and Nicaragua, and participated in some of the bloodiest battles of World War II and the Korean War. Puller retired from the Marine Corps in 1955, spending the rest of his life in Virginia.
Puller was born in West Point, Virginia to Matthew and Martha Puller. His father was a grocer who died when Lewis was 10 years old, leaving him the head of the house. Puller grew up listening to old veterans' tales of the Civil War and idolizing Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. He wanted to enlist in the army to fight in Mexico in 1916, but he was too young and could not get parental consent from his mother.
Learn more about Chesty Puller, free from marines.com.
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Thomas Pennant (14 June O.S. 1726 – 16 December 1798) was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary.
The Pennants were a Welsh gentry family from the parish of Whitford, Flintshire, who had built up a modest estate at Bychton by the seventeenth century. In 1724 Thomas' father, David Pennant, also inherited the neighbouring Downing estate from a cousin, considerably augmenting the family's fortune. Downing Hall, where Thomas was born in the 'yellow room', became the main Pennant residence.
Pennant received his early education at Wrexham grammar school, before moving to Thomas Croft's school in Fulham in 1740. In 1744 he entered Queen's College, Oxford, later moving to Oriel College. Like many students from a wealthy background, he left Oxford without taking a degree, although in 1771 his work as a zoologist was recognised with an honorary degree.
Visit the Cymdeithas Thomas Pennant Society webpage.
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By Colin Covert
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)
MINNEAPOLIS — In "The Trip," English comedian Steve Coogan has created a trans-Atlantic cousin to "Sideways," a hilarious yet melancholy comedy overflowing with insight into human behavior. Coogan and fellow comic Rob Brydon take a gastronomical tour of England's scenic lake country, sharing conversations in which they reveal the bruises and satisfactions of encroaching middle age.
Coogan and Brydon play slightly fictionalized versions of themselves — a frustrated would-be star whose aristocratic good looks are starting to melt, and a contented family man who hides behind a nonstop stream of impressions and gags. The film has no screenplay credit. The performers improvised a brilliant picture about success and failure, old marriages and new flings, heartache and friendship. The laughs are laced with honest feelings that sneak up and knock you flat.
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From wikipedia:
Roy Oliver Disney (June 24, 1893 – December 20, 1971) was, with his younger brother, Walt Disney, the co-founder of what is now The Walt Disney Company. After Walt died, Roy became the chairman of the company. Roy served as the company's chief executive officer (CEO) (1929–1971) – though title name was not given until 1968 – president (1945–1971), and chairman (1966–1971).
Roy was born to Irish-Canadian Elias Disney and German-American Flora Call Disney in Chicago, Illinois. He was married to Edna Francis (1890–1984) from April 1925 until his death; their only child was Roy Edward Disney, who was born on January 10, 1930. Roy and his brother Walt ordered and built kit homes from Pacific Ready Cut Homes (a Los Angeles company) and in 1928, they built their homes side-by-side on Lyric Avenue.
Learn more about Roy O. Disney, free from mouseplanet.com.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
The Board of Education on Tuesday night approved a conditional budget that includes a shorter school year, larger class sizes and reduced funding for after-school activities – and that’s a “best-case” scenario. The school year will be even shorter, class sizes even larger and after-school funding even smaller – and schools will be without librarians – if the California legislature and Gov. Brown fail to agree fairly soon on a state budget.
The 2011-12 District budget approved Tuesday night is conditional on the passage and signing of a state budget, but the governor last week vetoed the budget approved by the legislature, and there is no indication that an agreement will be reached any time soon. That leaves New Haven and every other district in California in a state of uncertainty for the 2011-12 school year.
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By Jonathan Takiff
Philadelphia Daily News (MCT)
PHILADELPHIA — Jill Scott's former students — creatively awakened to "Macbeth" by her notion of singing Willie the Shake to doo-wop tunes — might not agree.
But the rest of the world owes a big thanks to the grumpy principal at Dobbins High School who so dispirited Scott as an English-teacher trainee, telling her she'd soon "get over" her idealism, that the young woman quit the gig to start working full time at even more creative endeavors.
Clearly, things have turned out well for the singer/poet/actress and community philanthropist from North Philadelphia who's become an artist of international renown with her poignant, proud and conscientious variations on "neo-soul" music. Hers is a sonic art uniquely shaped to be populist and highfalutin', demure yet feisty and sometimes even naughty by nature.
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By Jan Norman
The Orange County Register (MCT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Most entrepreneurs start with a business idea and then perhaps later become involved in their communities or local charities.
But while Orange County, Calif., teenagers Brian Schroth and Harrison Steed were still in high school, they wanted to create a business that focused on giving back to the community.
In 2010, Steed read an article that World Vision, a Christian humanitarian organization, had received requests for 140,000 backpacks for needy kids in the United States but could only give 18,000 because of donation shortfalls. That story led the pair to launch GivBag LLC to create and sell a great backpack and give one away for every one that was sold.
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From wikipedia:
John Milton Bernhisel (June 23, 1799 – September 28, 1881) was an American physician, politician and early member of the Latter-day Saint movement. He was a close friend and companion to both Joseph Smith, Jr. and Brigham Young. Bernhisel was the original delegate of the Utah Territory in the United States House of Representatives (1851–1859, 1861–1863) and acted as a member of the Council of Fifty of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Learn more about Dr. Berhnisel, the formation of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, and the establishment of the state of Utah, free from the University of Utah.
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"Miss Peregrine's Home for
Peculiar Children"
by Ransom Riggs
Quirk Books, Philadelphia
352 pages, $17.99
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
Got a tweener child with a taste for creepy horror and time-travel stories?
Send them "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children."
This first novel by Ransom Riggs deals with young Jacob Portman and his quest to find out the truth behind his Grandpa's wild stories.
What he finds is the classic quest story and more. The story has elements of fantasy, adventure, adolescence and grief. (Note: The opening chapter is not for the weak-stomached, with the graphic murder of Grandpa by the evil that will haunt his grandson.)
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From wikipedia:
Erich Maria Remarque (born
Erich Paul Remark; 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was a German author, most known for his anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front.
Erich Paul Remark was born on 22 June 1898 into a working-class family in the German city of Osnabrück, to Peter Franz Remark (b. 14 June 1867, Kaiserswerth) and Anna Maria (née Stallknecht; born 21 November 1871, Katernberg). At the age of 16 he made his first attempts at writing: essays, poems, and the beginnings of a novel that was finished later and published in 1920 as
The Dream Room (Die Traumbude).
Learn more about Erich Maria Remarque, free from firstworldwar.com.
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"Duke Nukem Forever"
Reviewed for: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
Also available for: Windows PC
From: Gearbox Software/3D Realms/2K Games ESRB
Rating: Mature (blood and gore, intense violence,
mature humor, nudity, strong language, strong sexual
content, use of drugs and alcohol)
Price: $60
As perhaps you feared, the real-life saga of "Duke Nukem Forever's" development — 14 years, numerous reboots, a developer's demise and a 13th-hour rescue after the project had seemingly been buried for the final time — is more engrossing than the game itself. When the public finally gets its hands on "Forever" this week, more players than not will wonder what, exactly, took so long.
At the same time, "Forever" is more good than bad and more fun than not. Its spottiness is doubtlessly the fault of taking an eighth-grader's lifetime to complete development, but it's also born out of a willingness to try (and sometimes succeed at) things most contemporary first-person shooters would never attempt.
Because "Forever's" titular character has a sense of humor more reflective of gaming's juvenilia than its present condition, "Forever" finds itself wildly at odds with the same audience that was raring to play it in 1997. Time hasn't been kind to Duke, and while some of "Forever's" self-referential humor is pretty funny — Duke is now a celebrity with more endorsements than Krusty the Clown — most of it falls flat (often embarrassingly so).
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From wikipedia:
William K. Frankena (1908–94) was an American moral philosopher. Frankena was a member of the University of Michigan's Department of Philosophy for 41 years (1937–78) and chair of the Department for 14 years (1947–61).
According to the
Michigan Philosophy News, "He was known within the University for his integrity, courage, forthrightness, and dedication to the fundamental values of the institution," and "played an especially critical role in defense of fundamental academic freedoms during the McCarthy era.
Read Ethics, by William Frankena, free from ditext.com.
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Nico Colombant, VOA News
Johannesburg, South Africa —:Prior to embarking on her flight from the United States, Michelle Obama addressed a message to Africa's youth. "I am doing this because we know that Africa is a fundamental part of our interconnected world and when it comes to meeting the challenges of our times, whether it is climate change or extremism, poverty or disease, the world is looking to African nations as vital partners and will be looking across the continent to young people just like all of you to help lead the way," she started.
One of those awaiting Obama's brief stay in Johannesburg is 29-year-old Ivory Coast national Aminata Kane Kone, a dentist, mother of four, and activist for women's rights. She was selected to take part in the U.S.-sponsored Young African Women Leaders Forum coinciding with the first lady's visit.
Kone says it will be a great honor and opportunity to meet and listen to Obama.
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From wikipedia:
Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), better known as
Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.
Atkins's picking style, inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes and Les Paul, brought him admirers within and outside the country scene, both in the United States and internationally. Atkins produced records for Perry Como, Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Eddy Arnold, Don Gibson, Jim Reeves, Jerry Reed, Skeeter Davis, Connie Smith, Waylon Jennings and others.
Among many honors, Atkins received 14 Grammy Awards as well as the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, nine Country Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year awards, and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
Watch Chet Atkins play "Yakety Ax," free from YouTube.
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It's a Lulu by Lulu Zhong, Courier Comics Editor
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By David Siders
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
REDWOOD CITY — On the last day of school at Summit Preparatory Charter High School, Meg Whitman removed her car keys from her pants pocket and smoothed her shirt, while at the back of the room a teacher shushed the crowd.
A year almost to the day after winning the Republican nomination for governor and seven months after collapsing in the general election, there was no bunting and no stage, no country music to introduce her. The billionaire former eBay CEO said her rise in business was "one of those great American success stories."
Her campaign for governor, she said, "didn't work out quite as well."
"There's a saying in politics that if you're explaining, you're losing," she told the students.
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Family and friends of San Francisco Giants fan
Bryan Stow, from left, Gina Lenson, friend of
the family; Anne Stow, mother; Bonnie Stow,
sister; John Stow, uncle; Erin Collins, sister;
and David Stow, father, react as faith leaders
and Dodgers' fans gather for a community
prayer on April 6, 2011 outside USC Medical
Center in Los Angeles.
Anne Cusack/Los Angeles Time/MCT
LOS ANGELES — Bryan Stow's family is preparing for Father's Day with the Bay Area paramedic in a San Francisco hospital slowly recovering from a beating he received at the Dodgers' home opener.
The family released a statement last week saying they are playing music and reading to Stow as he continues to receive intensive medical treatment.
"Doctors are still lowering Bryan's seizure medications, trying to adjust them to find a good balance. Bryan has been sleepy this week, but still tracking," the family said. "We continue to play him music, talk to him, and read him your comments. If he hears us, he knows that Father's Day is approaching."
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Edward Willis Scripps (June 18, 1854 – March 12, 1926), was an American newspaper publisher and founder of The E. W. Scripps Company, a diversified media conglomerate, and United Press news service. It became United Press International (UPI) when International News Service merged with United Press in 1958. The E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University is named for him.
E. W. Scripps was born and raised in Rushville, Illinois, to James Mogg Scripps from London, and Julia Adeline Osborne (third wife) (1855 - 1937) from New York. E. W. was the youngest of five children born to James and Julia. James had seven children from previous marriages.
Visit the E.W. Scripps Company website.
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John Robert Gregg (b. 17 June 1867, Shantonagh, Monaghan, Ireland – d. 23 February 1948, New York City, New York) was an educator, publisher, humanitarian, and the inventor of the eponymous shorthand system Gregg Shorthand.
John Robert Gregg was born in Shantonagh, Ireland, as the youngest child of Robert and Margaret Gregg, where they remained until 1872, when they moved to Rockcorry, County Monaghan. Robert Gregg, who was of Scottish ancestry, was station-master at the Bushford railway station in Rockcorry. He and his wife raised their children as strict Presbyterians, and sent their children to the village school in Rockcorry, which John Robert Gregg joined in 1872.
Read <i>The Basic Principles of Gregg Shorthand</i> by Dr. John Robert Gregg.
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By Justyna Torres, Courier News Editor
After four years and much anticipation, the class of 2011 officially has signed out of Logan.
The process took place over the past week and started with the senior’s receiving their “Sign-Out” forms. To complete this form, seniors Monday had to get clearance from various places around the school including the library, career center, book room, and their counselors.
However, with having each teacher sign off and complete their forms today marked the seniors last official day of high school. Around campus a feeling of happiness, excitement, and melancholy was felt amongst the students saying goodbye to their peers they have spent the
last years with.
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Geronimo ( 'One Who Yawns') (June 16, 1829–February 17, 1909) was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who warred against the encroachment of the United States on his tribal lands and people for over 25 years.
Biography
Goyaałé (Geronimo) was born to the Bedonkohe band of the Apache, near Turkey Creek, a tributary of the Gila River in what is now the state of Arizona, then part of Mexico, but which his family considered Bedonkohe land.
Read Geronimo’s Story of His Life, free from ibiblio.org
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From wikipedia:
Theresa Hilda D’Alessio (June 15, 1914 – October 13, 2006), better known as
Hilda Terry, was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Teena. It ran in newspapers from 1944 to 1964. After marriage, she usually signed her name Theresa H. D’Alessio. In 1950, she became the first woman allowed to join the National Cartoonists Society.
Born Theresa Hilda Fellman in Newburyport, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of a man who lettered roulette wheels. She admired the sports cartoons of Willard Mullin, wanted to become a sports cartoonist and spent time sketching at sports events. She arrived in New York when she was 17 and spent two years working as a waitress at Schrafft's. During the mid-1930s, she reconsidered her career plan after she entered both a sports cartoon and a funny cartoon in a newspaper contest, winning a prize with the funny cartoon.
Learn more about Hilda Terry.
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"Dirt 3"
Reviewed for: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
Also available for: Windows PC
From: Codemasters
ESRB Rating: Teen (lyrics)
Price: $60
It stands to reason, unless you're unreasonable, that "Dirt 3" isn't going to be the leap forward for off-road rally racing that its immaculate predecessor was only two years ago.
That doesn't mean, however, that some pleasant surprises don't lie in wait.
From the top, the best news about "D3" is that everything that was great about "Dirt 2" either remains great or has ever-so-subtly improved.
Visually, it's still at the top of the racing game class, equally in terms of car detail, track detail and how good everything looks in motion. "D3" increases the variables with regard to weather and time of day, and while a dirt track race under the sun looks predictably terrific, a late-night race on snowy terrain is jaw-dropping (and a little unnerving when you realize how little light there is to guide you).
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From wikipedia:
Aloysius "Alois" Alzheimer, (14 June 1864 – 19 December 1915) was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist and a colleague of Emil Kraepelin. Alzheimer is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", which Kraepelin would later identify as Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer was born in Marktbreit, Bavaria.
Visit the Alzheimer's Association's website.
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Harold Edward "Red" Grange, nicknamed "The Galloping Ghost", (June 13, 1903 – January 28, 1991) was a college and professional American football halfback for the University of Illinois, the Chicago Bears, and for the short-lived New York Yankees. His signing with the Bears helped legitimize the National Football League. He was a charter member of both the College and Pro Football Hall of Fame. In 2008, he was named the greatest college football player of all time by ESPN, and in 2011, he was named the Greatest Big Ten Icon by the Big Ten Network.
Learn more about Red Grange at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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It's a Lulu, by Lulu Zhong, Courier Comics Editor
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From Wikipedia.org:
Djuna Barnes (June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American writer who played an important part in the development of 20th century English language modernist writing by women and was one of the key figures in 1920s and 30s bohemian Paris after filling a similar role in the Greenwich Village of the teens. Her novel Nightwood became a cult work of modern fiction, helped by an introduction by T.S. Eliot. It stands out today for its portrayal of lesbian themes and its distinctive writing style. Since Barnes's death, interest in her work has grown and many of her books are back in print.
Read How It Feels to Be Forcibly Fed by Djuna Barnes, free from wikisource.
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Julia Margaret Cameron (11 June 1815 – 26 January 1879) was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time, and for Arthurian and similar legendary themed pictures.
Cameron's photographic career was short, spanning the last eleven years of her life. She did not take up photography until the age of 48, when she was given a camera as a present. Her work had a huge impact on the development of modern photography, especially her closely cropped portraits which are still mimicked today. Her house, Dimbola Lodge, on the Isle of Wight can still be visited.
Learn more about Julia Margaret Cameron and see examples of her photographs, free from the Getty Museum.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Attention all students! You MUST clean out your locker before leaving school for the summer. Please turn in all textbooks to the Book Room and remove all other items. Your locker should be left in clean condition. Be responsible! Clean out your locker no later than June 16!
Need Driver’s Ed? There are 2 sessions this summer! Applications are available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for more information!
Attention all students taking AP Physics next year: Please come to room 203 to learn about AP Physics and to pick up the summer packet. Come at Lunch, 4th or 5th periods."
ACTIVITIES
An informational meeting will be held for boys interested in playing water polo on Tuesday, June 14th at 1:15 p.m. in Room 448
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Sondre Norheim, born
Sondre Auverson, (June 10, 1825 – March 9, 1897) was a Norwegian skier and pioneer of modern skiing. Sondre Norheim is known as the father of Telemark skiing.
Sondre Auverson was born at Øverbø, a little cotter’s farm and raised in Morgedal in the municipality of Kviteseid in Telemark. Skiing was a popular activity in Morgedal. Sondre took to downhill skiing as a recreational activity, rising to local fame for his skills. He made important innovations in skiing technology by designing new equipment, such as different bindings and shorter skis with curved sides to facilitate turns. He also designed the Telemark ski, which is the prototype of all those now produced. Sondre Norheim was regarded by his contemporaries as a master of the art of skiing. He combined ordinary skiing with jumping and slalom. In 1868 he won the first national skiing competition in Christiania, beating his younger competitors by a large margin. His reputation grew, and eventually made Norwegian words like ski and slalåm (slalom) known worldwide.
Learn more about Sondre Norheim, free from www.sondrenorheim.com.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
Standing with District teachers, classified employees and administrators, the Board of Education on Tuesday night voted unanimously to reduce expenses by taking a furlough. Board members will not meet in July, giving up one month’s compensation, in solidarity with employees who are being asked to work six fewer days in 2011-12, as part of the District’s efforts to meet the financial challenges imposed by the ongoing state budget crisis.
The Board – which also voted to limit participation in the California School Board Association annual meeting and to restrict travel to other meetings – received an update on the budget situation from Chief Business Officer Akur Varadarajan. The proposed budget for 2011-12 – conditional to the state budget being ratified and subject to Board approval June 21 – is about $6 million less than it was this year and nearly $15 million less than it was just three years ago.
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From wikipedia:
Fredrick Malcolm Waring (June 9, 1900 – July 29, 1984) was a popular musician, bandleader and radio-television personality, sometimes referred to as "America's Singing Master" and "The Man Who Taught America How to Sing." He was also a promoter, financial backer and namesake of the Waring Blendor, the first modern electric blender on the market.
Fredrick Malcolm Waring was born in Tyrone, Pennsylvania on June 9, 1900 to Jesse Calderwood and Frank Waring. During his teenage years, Fred Waring, his brother Tom, and their friend Poley McClintock founded the Waring-McClintock Snap Orchestra, which evolved into Fred Waring's Banjo Orchestra. The band often played at fraternity parties, proms, and dances, and achieved local success. He attended Penn State University, where he studied architectural engineering. He also aspired to be in the Penn State Glee Club, but he was rejected with every audition due to "college politics" and tension between him and the glee club's director, Dr. Clarence Robinson. His Banjo Orchestra eventually became so successful that he decided to abandon his education in order to tour with the band, which eventually became known as Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians.
Learn more about Fred Waring, free from Penn State University.
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"The Captain Jack Sparrow
Handbook: A Swashbucker's
guide from Disney's Pirates of
the Caribbean'"
by Jason
Heller
Quirk Books, Philadelphia
176 pages, $18.95
By Tish Wells
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
Even before the first "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie, pirates were romantic.
Now, in "The Captain Jack Sparrow Handbook" Jason Heller brings you a guide to all things (Disney) pirate.
Piracy has been with us from the beginning of time. Julius Caesar was taken prisoner, ransomed and later crucified his capturers. The infamous Blackbeard looted ships in the eighteenth century. There was little attractive about pirates.
However, don't let historical fact get in the way of the "Handbook."
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From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Alicia Boole Stott (June 8, 1860 - December 17, 1940) was the third daughter of George Boole, born in Cork, Ireland. Before marrying Walter Stott, an actuary, in 1890, she was known as Alicia Boole. She is most well known for coining the term "polytope" to refer to a convex solid in four dimensions, and having an impressive grasp of four-dimensional geometry from a very early age.
She found that there were exactly six regular polytopes on four dimensions and that they are bounded by 5, 16 or 600 tetrahedra, 8 cubes, 24 octahedra or 120 dodecahedra. She then produced three-dimensional central cross-sections of all the six regular polytopes by purely Euclidean constructions and synthetic methods for the simple reason that she had never learned any analytic geometry. She made beautiful cardboard models of all these sections.
Read The Princess of Polytopia: Alicia Boole Stott and the 120-cell, by Tony Phillips of Stony Brook University, free from the American Mathematical Society,
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"L.A. Noire"
For: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
From: Team Bondi/Rockstar
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore,
nudity, sexual themes, strong
language, use of drugs, violence)
Price: $60
Fans of Rockstar-published games might look at "L.A. Noire's" marketing, see the usual Rockstar game symptoms, and very understandably assume that, just as "Red Dead Redemption" was "Grand Theft Auto" in the Old West, this is "GTA" in 1940s Los Angeles.
But while "Noire" looks and sounds like a "GTA" game, it plays almost nothing like one. In fact, it plays quite like no other game out there, and if you can give it a chance to grow on you, this police detective simulator achieves its objective skillfully and with exceptional confidence.
First, a word on what "Noire" is not. Though you're free to explore this massive, meticulously replicated chunk of Los Angeles however you like, this isn't your typical open-world game. There are random street crimes scattered outside the game's main storyline, but the overwhelming majority of "Noire's" activity lies along the main road.
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Assistant Coach Mark Jones
proudly displays the Colts'
championship awards,
symbolizing the team's
success.
James McDonald/Courier Photo
,
Courier Correspondent
Led by the arm of sophomore Alex Martinez who threw a complete game shut out, the James Logan Baseball team won their first NCS title in 10 years on Monday night by a score of 1-0 against the De La Salle Spartans.
The game began as a pitcher’s’ duel and remained that way for the rest of the game as neither team scored an earned run. The two pitchers dominated the first five-and-a-half innings of the game as the score remained at 0-0.
Logan scored their only run of the game when, with two outs, senior Pasqual Flores skied a ball into shallow left field where the De La Salle defense misplayed and allowed the ball to drop, permitting Flores to advance to second base.
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From wikipedia:
Beau Brummell, born as
George Bryan Brummell (7 June 1778 – 30 March 1840(1840-03-30) (aged 61), was the arbiter of men's fashion in Regency England and a friend of the Prince Regent, the future King George IV. He established the mode of men wearing understated, but fitted, tailored clothes including dark suits and full-length trousers, adorned with an elaborately-knotted cravat.
Beau Brummell is credited with introducing and establishing as fashion the modern man's suit, worn with a tie. He claimed to take five hours to dress, and recommended that boots be polished with champagne. His style of dress is often referred to as dandyism.
Visit BeauBrummell.com.
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By Ajay Bains,
Courier Staff Writer
The Logan Boys Varsity baseball team advanced to the NCS title game with a possibility of winning the championship today after school.
The team is currently led by senior Joe Armstrong. When asked about the victory he said, “We got a solid squad, it just feels great.”
The Boys defeated Irvington 8-4 behind the pitching of senior Brandon Yao.
Senior Zach Vallejo added, “B.Y. found his groove and is on a roll. He’s a beast.”
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MISCELLANEOUS
The last day to turn in community service hours for this school year is tomorrow, June 8th.
Attention all students! You MUST clean out your locker before leaving school for the summer. Please turn in all textbooks to the Book Room and remove all other items. Your locker should be left in clean condition. Be responsible! Clean out your locker no later than June 16!
Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Take advantage of a place to get tutoring, computers, a place to work with peers, and a welcoming atmosphere, too! Enter by carpeted hallway near media center to Rooms 77 and 78.
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Students gather in line to buy tickets
for use at the Unity Far.
James McDonald/Courier Photo
,
Courier Staff Writer
Logan's fourth annual Unity Fair was a get-together of most—if not all—of Logan’s clubs. Everyone came together to bring food, music and entertainment to both lunch periods.
On the morning of Friday, May 27, Leadership students began setting up in preparation for the big day.
“It was hard because we really didn’t know the layout of it and there was a lot of clubs and a lot of tables we had to move back and forth, and it was wet,” said senior Janae Mayfield. Luckily, everything worked out when the time came for things to get started up.
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Tommie Smith (center) and John Carlos (right)
showing the Black Power salute in the 1968
Summer Olympics while Silver medalist Peter
Norman (left) wears an OPHR badge to show
his support for the two Americans. (born June 6, 1944) is an African American former track & field athlete and wide receiver in the American Football League. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, Smith won the 200-meter dash finals in 19.83 seconds – the first time the 20 second barrier was broken. His Black Power salute with John Carlos atop the medal podium caused controversy at the time as it was seen as politicizing the Olympic Games. It remains a symbolic moment in the history of the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
Visit Tommie Smith's website.
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From wikipedia:
Sarah Parker Remond (6 June 1826 – 13 December 1894) was an American physician, lecturer, abolitionist, and agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society. She worked giving speeches throughout the United States over the horrors of slavery. Because of her eloquence, she was chosen to travel to England to gather support for the abolitionist cause in the United States and, after the American Civil War started, for support of the Union Army and the Union blockade of the Confederacy. She was the sister of orator Charles Lenox Remond.
Learn more about Sarah Remond, free from Sunshine for Women.
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It's a School Life by Satpreet Kaur, Courier Staff Artist
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By Melissa Healy And Thomas H. Maugh II
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES — Thirty years ago Sunday, a brief report in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report described five cases of a rare form of pneumonia called Pneumocystis carinii in five young Los Angeles men, "all active homosexuals." The cases were noteworthy because the men had previously been healthy, though their particular pneumonia had only been seen in people with severely depressed immune systems.
Within a month, a second report had identified 54 young gay men with a rare cancer known as Kaposi's sarcoma, another disease that had been almost unknown in young men. And by the following summer, the mysterious disease underlying these reports had a name: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS.
AIDS was a murderous, mysterious delinquent that emerged seemingly out of nowhere. Transmitted primarily through sexual activity and blood, it mowed down whole communities of young gay men, tore through a generation of intravenous drug users and made orphans of millions of the world's children.
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From wikipedia:
José Doroteo Arango Arámbula (5 June 1878 – 20 July 1923) – better known by his pseudonym
Francisco Villa or its hypocorism
Pancho Villa – was one of the most prominent Mexican Revolutionary generals.
As commander of the División del Norte (Division of the North), he was the veritable caudillo of the Northern Mexican state of Chihuahua which, given its size, mineral wealth, and proximity to the United States of America, provided him with extensive resources. Villa was also provisional Governor of Chihuahua in 1913 and 1914. Although he was prevented from being accepted into the "panteón" of national heroes until some 20 years after his death, today his memory is honored by Mexicans, U.S. citizens, and many people around the world. In addition, numerous streets and neighborhoods in Mexico are named in his honor.
Villa's last living son, Ernesto Nava, died in Castro Valley, California, at the age of 94, on 31 December 2009. Nava appeared yearly in festival events in his hometown of Durango, Mexico, enjoying celebrity status until he became too weak to attend.
Read The life and history of Francisco Villa, the Mexican Bandit, by Capt' Kennedy, free from the Internet Archive.
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Buster Posey
wikipedia photo
Giants general manager Brian Sabean veered out of the proverbial basepath when he went off on Florida Marlins outfielder Scott Cousins during a KNBR radio interview earlier this week.
He belittled an opposing player beyond what even an overprotective Little League parent might yell, much less a Major League Baseball executive. There was no excuse for him to say "we'll all be happy" if baseball never again sees Cousins, who thrashed catcher Buster Posey's left ankle in a collision at home plate May 25 at AT&T Park.
National outrage ensued over Sabean's remarks during his radio show. On Friday, Sabean was phoning the Marlins and Cousins to make amends, and embarrassed members of the Giants' brass found themselves defending Sabean's emotional nature.
There is no doubt that emotions were a factor in Sabean's outburst. So is a loyalty to Posey. The star catcher's inability to return for the Giants' title defense has broken the hearts of many inside and outside of AT&T Park's brick walls.
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From wikipedia:
Cogwagee (Thomas Charles Longboat) (June 4, 1887 – January 9, 1949) was an Onondaga distance runner from the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation Indian reserve near Brantford, Ontario, and for much of his career the dominant long distance runner of the time. When he was a child a Mohawk resident of the reserve, Bill Davis, who in 1901 finished second in the Boston Marathon, interested him in running races.
He began racing in 1905, finishing second in the Victoria Day race at Caledonia, Ontario. His first important victory was in the Around the Bay Road Race in Hamilton, Ontario in 1906, which he won by three minutes. In 1907 he won the Boston Marathon in a record time of 2:24:24 over the old 24-1/2 mile course, four minutes and 59 seconds faster than any of the previous ten winners of the event. He collapsed, however, in the 1908 Olympic marathon, along with several other leading runners, and a rematch was organized the same year at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Longboat won this race, turned professional, and in 1909 at the same venue won the title of Professional Champion of the World in another marathon.
Learn more about Tom Longboat.
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From wikipedia:
Dr. Charles Richard Drew (June 3, 1904 – April 1, 1950) was an American physician and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge in developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II. He protested against the practice of racial segregation in the donation of blood from donors of different races since it lacked scientific foundation. In 1943, Drew's distinction in his profession was recognized when he became the first African American surgeon to serve as an examiner on the American Board of Surgery.
Read more about Dr. Charles Drew, free from www.answers.com.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
The 2011-12 school year will be shorter and class sizes will be larger in the New Haven Unified School District, but despite being forced by the state to make yet another round of budget cuts, the District hopes to be able to mitigate some of the reductions, Superintendent Kari McVeigh said today.
The District plans to fund some – but not all – of the stipends paid to coaches and advisers for after-school activities and plans to retain the media specialists who staff school libraries, but without all previous support positions, Ms. McVeigh said.
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By Amanpreet Tatlah,
Courier Staff Writer
The latest upcoming band is making its way to even more success than ever: All Star Weekend’s popular single “Not Your Birthday” will be featured in the upcoming movie “Prom”. The song is about giving people who are feeling down something brighter to think about—to party like it’s "not your birthday."
The video of this single has a gymnasium dance kick to it with a school setting. Their single is used for the day of the prom.
All of the singles of this upcoming band have something for everyone to listen and easily relate to. Their purpose is to have people connect with their music and make situations better for themselves if in a bad mood.
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From wikipedia:
Johnny Weissmuller (born
Johann Peter Weißmüller; June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American swimmer and actor. Weissmuller was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals and one bronze medal. He won fifty-two US National Championships and set sixty-seven world records. After his swimming career, he became the sixth actor to portray Tarzan in films, a role he played in twelve motion pictures. Dozens of other actors have also played Tarzan, but Weissmuller is by far the best known. His character's distinctive, ululating Tarzan yell is still often used in films.
Watch an interview with Johnny Weissmuller, free from YouTube.
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The Meowmorphosis by
Franz Kafka & Coleridge
Cook
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Quirk Books
ISBN-10: 159474503X
,
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
Not even changing the cockroach into a kitten can help the latest literary mash-up—
The Meowmorphosis.
Coleridge Cook takes a well-written stab at Franz Kafka's depressing novella
The Metamorphosis and turns it into ... well, a slightly less gloomy tale. Where Kafka turned his lead character, Gregor Samsa, into a beetle, Cook transforms him into an adorable fluffy kitten.
Kafka was an early twentieth century Czech writer whose stories and novels explored the helplessness of the individual in the face of dehumanizing bureaucracies, and other topics.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Attention all students! You MUST clean out your locker before leaving school for the summer. Please turn in all textbooks to the Book Room and remove all other items. Your locker should be left in clean condition. Be responsible! Clean out your locker no later than June 16!
Saturday School is open this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Take advantage of a place to get tutoring, computers, a place to work with peers, and a welcoming atmosphere, too! Enter by carpeted hallway near media center to Rooms 77 and 78.
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From wikipedia:
Christopher (Kit) Lasch (June 1, 1932, Omaha, Nebraska – February 14, 1994, Pittsford, New York) was a well-known American historian, moralist, and social critic.
Mentored by William Leuchtenburg at Columbia University, Lasch was a professor at the University of Rochester. Lasch sought to use history as a tool to awaken American society to the pervasiveness with which major institutions, public and private, were eroding the competence and independence of families and communities. He strove to create a historically informed social criticism that could teach Americans how to deal with rampant consumerism, proletarianization, and what he famously labeled the 'culture of narcissism.' His books, including
The New Radicalism in America (1965),
Haven in a Heartless World (1977),
The Culture of Narcissism (1979), and
The True and Only Heaven (1991), were widely discussed and reviewed.
The Culture of Narcissism became a surprise best-seller.
Watch Christopher Lasch discuss "Progress," free from YouTube.
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