The James Logan Courier

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Today is the deadline to turn in applications to your counselor for summer school.

Hallways at Lunch: Students, the 60s, 70s & 80s hallways are closed for use during lunch time. Because of disruption to classroom instruction and learning, students are no longer permitted in the hallways during lunch time. Please make sure you exit the hallways as quickly as possible and do not use them during lunch.

Yearbooks are on sale for $90. Come by Room 44 after school to buy yours. Hurry, because supplies are limited.

By Dan DeLuca
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)

PHILADELPHIA — The British indie rock band Yuck were one of the breakout acts at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas, last month. But lead singer Daniel Blumberg, the 21-year-old Londoner who stood to the far left of the capacious outdoor venue Stubb's during SXSW and sheepishly noted that the NPR Music showcase was the biggest gig of his group's young life, would prefer that the group not be known as a "buzz band."

"It is nice, when people talk about the band," says the guitarist, songwriter, and visual artist, who will be releasing a set of solo piano songs under the rubric Oupa in June. He was talking on his mobile phone last week as he walked the streets of San Francisco in search of a bookstore. ("I like bookshops more than record shops," he says.)

"But when we started, that wasn't really the aim. The goal is to make good music."

From wikipedia:
Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was an ethnic German industrialist born in Moravia. He is credited with saving almost 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories, which were located in what is now Poland and the Czech Republic respectively. He is the subject of the novel Schindler's Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler's List.

Schindler was born on 28 April 1908 into an ethnic German family in Svitavy, Moravia, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic. His parents, Hans Schindler and Franziska Luser, were divorced when Oskar was 27. Oskar was very close to his younger sister, Elfriede. Schindler was brought up in the Catholic faith but was not a religious man. After school he worked as a commercial salesman.

Learn more about Oskar Schindler from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.