The James Logan Courier

By John Horn
Los Angeles Times (MCT)

Eddie Murphy had a simple suggestion about six years ago: Why not make an all-black version of "Ocean's Eleven"?

Director Brett Ratner and producer Brian Grazer loved the comedian's idea, and before long, the trio were throwing around ideas about who could star opposite Murphy: Jamie Foxx, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Tracy Morgan and Chris Tucker headed the list.

The resulting movie, Universal Pictures' "Tower Heist," arrives in theaters this weekend, where it will face solid competition from Warner Bros.' "A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas." But after more than five years of development, Murphy's original pitch has been transformed into a different film, with the all-black conceit replaced by an ensemble cast led by Ben Stiller and including Casey Affleck and Matthew Broderick.

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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Director of Community and Parent Relations

Baseball and softball players can show off their throwing arms, golfers can test their putting skills and bowlers can roll for strikes and spares Sunday (Nov. 6) when New Haven Unified School District families celebrate the preservation of after-school activities at the New Haven Boosters Association’s “Carnival of Thanks.”

The event, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the parking lot at James Logan High, will help the Boosters raise funds toward the New Haven Schools Foundation’s $100,000 donation that helped save sports, band, colorguard, forensics and other activities for the 2011-12 school year.

From wikipedia:
Thomas Sterling North (November 4, 1906 – December 22, 1974) was an American author of books for children and adults, including 1963's bestselling Rascal. North, who professionally went by "Sterling North", was born on the second floor of a farmhouse on the shores of Lake Koshkonong, a few miles from Edgerton, Wisconsin, in 1906, and died in Morristown, New Jersey in 1974. Surviving a near-paralyzing struggle with polio in his teens, he grew to young adulthood in the quiet southern Wisconsin village of Edgerton, which North transformed into the "Brailsford Junction" setting of several of his books.

Learn more about Sterling North, free from Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine.