This is the archive for February 2012
MISCELLANEOUS
Logan Students, not sure about what elective class to sign up for next year? Get information about elective courses for next year. Come to the ROP/Elective Fair in Colt Court today during both lunches.
Dear Logan Students: Want to spread your wings and fly higher? Come and sign up for a Chinese course and give yourself a competitive edge. No prior learning experience is required. Any new students who have prior Chinese learning experience are recommended to take a placement test with Ms. Du in Room 313 to be placed in the right level. Check out Chinese program details from myzhongwen.net or stop by at the elective fair table this Thursday, March 1st.
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Reading level: Ages 12 and up
Paperback: 576 pages
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN-10: 0375842209
ISBN-13: 978-0375842207,
Courier Book Editor
Imagine being separated from the only life you’ve known. Your brother, who was to accompany you, dies on the trip to your new lives, and leaves you alone to deal with the consequences. Imagine your mother leaving you because she’s afraid for your well being, with a couple you’ve never even heard of. Now, imagine that this was all happening in Nazi Germany.
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak follows young Liesel, a girl who’s parents were communists; something you didn’t want to reveal in the days of Nazi Germany. At the age of ten, she’s taken to Molching, Germany, to stay with a foster family for the remainder of the war. There she meets unlikely friends. A boy who’s the perfect example of the Aryan race and wants to be like Jessie Owens, an African-American man who won the Olympics in running. She also makes an unlikely friend through her father’s need to help people, a boxer who would certainly be dead if found.
Forlorn little Liesel finds comfort in one thing: books. Any book. It all began on the day of her brother’s burial. She found a book in the snow as she walked away from his grave, and took it with her so that she would always remember her brother. Unfortunately, Liesel had never learned how to read or write. When her new papa finds the book under her mattress, he decides to teach Liesel how to read and write.
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"Behind the Beautiful Forevers:
Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity"
by Katherine Boo;
Random House ($27)
Warning: By Page 7 of the prologue, you may wish "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" were fiction and not, as it happens, a vividly real account of unimaginable squalor, deprivation and tragedy.
Keep reading, and don't be deterred.
Exquisite in every detail, this book about a slum in India informs the mind, elevates the soul and will leave you invested in the lives chronicled by one of the premier journalists of our time.
Hardscrabble represents upward mobility for the lives unfolding in Annawadi. A slum perched on the edge of the Mumbai airport, its trees' leaves are grayed by dust from a nearby concrete plant.
Its "lake" is putrid and contaminated.
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From wikipedia:
Willi Donnell Smith (February 29, 1948 – April 17, 1987) was an American fashion designer, regarded at the time of his death as one of the most successful young African-American designers in the industry. His company Williwear Ltd. sold $25 million worth of clothing a year.
Smith was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied commercial art at Mastbaum Technical High School and attended Philadelphia College of Art for fashion illustration. He then moved to New York to go to Parsons The New School for Design, the highly competitive art and design college of The New School university. For a short time Smith freelanced with Arnold Scaasi and Bobbie Brooks's sportswear company.
Read more about Willi Smith, free from Big Bend Cares' Virtual AIDS Quilt memorial.
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By Kayleen Garingan, Courier Staff Writer
Recently Logan seniors found out that their graduation date has changed yet again. Instead of graduation being on June 6 as planned, the New Haven Board of Trustees, lead by President Michelle Matthews, moved the graduation ceremony to June 9.
That moves the graduation from a Wednesday night to Saturday morning at 9 a.m.
For some, the change upsets already made plans.
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Playstation Vita
From: Sony
Price: $250 (Wi-Fi only version)
or $300 (Wi-Fi/3G version)
Even when it was brand new, Sony's Playstation Portable left something to be desired. With the Nintendo DS finally coming into its own, the merits of having a touchscreen were plain to see. And for a system attempting to distill the console experience onto a handheld with nothing lost, the lack of a second analog stick crippled the PSP from day one.
Until technology comes along that allows us to control games with our minds, the Playstation Vita has no such problem. It supports the tried and true, with a full complement of buttons and two analog sticks. It has a capactive, multitouch-capable touchscreen that vastly outclasses Nintendo's resistive screen. It has an accelerometer for tilt control, a microphone for voice control and front and rear cameras for augmented reality. There's Internet via Wi-Fi and, optionally, 3G. With a capactive touch panel adorning the back of the device, there's even something brand new.
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Eddie Anderson, right, with
fellow comedian Red SkeltonEddie Anderson (September 18, 1905 - February 28, 1977), often known as Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, was an African American comic actor who became famous playing "Rochester van Jones" (usually known simply as "Rochester"), the valet to Jack Benny's eponymous title character on the long-running radio and television series The Jack Benny Program.
Born in Oakland, California into a family of performers, Anderson began his show business career at age 14 in a song-and-dance act with his brother Cornelius and another performer. They billed themselves as the Three Black Aces. At a young age, Anderson permanently damaged his vocal cords (he had to yell loudly for his job selling newspapers), leading to his trademark "raspy" voice.
Listen to Eddie Anderson with his comedy partner Jack Benny perform on a classic radio show, free from radiohhof.org
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MISCELLANEOUS
Middle school promotion was fun, wasn’t it? But do you really need that old promotion gown hanging in your closet? Donate it to a middle school student who needs it by bringing it to Mrs. Bobadilla-Mastel in Room 507.
Are you looking for information on college visits, SATs, college fairs, community service, military or scholarship opportunities? This and more is just a click away on Logan’s website under the College and Career Info bar. Visit it often as updates are made daily.
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By Paul Tran, Courier Staff Writer
People view birds very differently: as adorable or dirty and elegant or annoying. Should ducks be allowed to be put in public locations? The Union City public library sits by a small lake full of quack-machines. Some people are hostile towards these loud, feathered animals, while others appreciate their contribution to the library’s aesthetic environment.
It’s possible that ducks can both terrorize or be terrorized by people. America’s Funniest Videos has a meaty compilation of clips showing angry ducks harassing women and children. Birds often become violent when in mating season or while protecting their young. As a result, children can develop a fear of beaks and tremble at the sound of quacks. Even in less severe cases, one might get tripped in the dirt or lose a patch of hair. This, of course, is more common the other way around. Curious kids from toddlers to teens might enjoy tossing stones at ducks. Physical abuse towards wild animals is justifiable by child logic.
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Mabel Keaton Staupers (February 27, 1890 - November 29, 1989) was a pioneer in the American nursing profession. Faced with racial discrimination after graduating from nursing school, Staupers became an advocate for racial equality in the nursing profession.
Read more about Mabel Staupers, free from the Journal of the National Medical Association,and the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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It's a Lulu by Lulu Zhong, Courier Comics Editor
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From wikipedia:
James Edward O'Hara was an African American Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1883 to 1887, representing North Carolina during part of the Reconstruction era.
O'Hara was born in New York City on February 26, 1844 to an Irish merchant and a West Indian woman. He studied law in North Carolina and at Howard University. After serving as clerk for the 1868 state convention that drafted a new state constitution, he served in a similar role in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1868-1869. Later, he was elected chairman of the board of commissioners for Halifax County, North Carolina (1872–1876). He was admitted to the bar in 1873 and practiced law. O'Hara was also a member of the state constitutional convention of 1875 representing Halifax County.
Read more about James Edward O'Hara, free from Black Americans in Congress.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, Feb. 23:
For 40 years, competitive colleges and universities in the United States have taken race into account in order to increase their enrollment of African-Americans (and, to a lesser extent, other minorities). Originally justified as a way to compensate for a long legacy of racial discrimination, and later embraced as a way to provide a more diverse learning environment, affirmative action has been good for the United States. It has made it easier for minorities to enter the educational and professional mainstream without compromising the rigor of American higher education. It has promoted the broader cause of racial integration. And it has encouraged the emergence of a black and Latino middle class.
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From wikipedia:
William Leo Hansberry (February 25, 1894—November 3, 1965) was an American scholar and lecturer. His was the older brother of real estate broker Carl Augustus Hansberry, uncle of award-winning playwright Lorraine Hansberry and great-granduncle of actress Taye Hansberry.
Hansberry was born on February 25, 1894 in Gloster, Amite County, Mississippi. He was the son of Elden Hayes and Pauline (Bailey) Hansberry. His father taught history at Alcorn A&M in Lorman, Mississippi, but died when the younger Hansberry was only three years old. He and his younger brother, Carl Augustus Hansberry, where raised by their stepfather, Elijah Washington.
Read a letter written by William Leo Hansberry, free from the Internet Archive.
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From wikipedia:
Daniel Alexander Payne (February 24, 1811 – November 2, 1893) was an American bishop, educator, college administrator and author. He became a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) and was a major shaper of it in the 19th century. He was one of the founders of Wilberforce University in Ohio. In 1863 he became its first president, and the first African-American president of a college in the United States. By quickly organizing missionary support of freedmen in the South after the Civil War, he gained 250,000 new members for the AME Church during the Reconstruction era, with congregations down the East Coast to Florida and west to Texas.
Read Recollections of Seventy Years, by By Bishop Daniel Payne, free from the University of North Carolina.
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By Jack Bragg,
Courier Editor-in-Chief
Every now and then an indie band will come along and break through to mainstream success. New Zealand Rockers, The Naked and Famous, have done just that with their debut album
Passive Me, Aggressive You. The album utilizes a fantastic mix of synths, guitars, and eccentric rhythms that bring a unique and accessible feel to every song. All the while the band revolves around a male/female harmony in the vocals that lend an entirely unique sound to the album.
The album was recorded entirely in home studios and a local New Zealand studio called The Lab. The band consists of singers Thorn Powers (who also plays guitar for the group) and Alisa Xayalith (who also plays keys). The electronics are provided by Aaron Short who also produced the album. Drums and bass are covered by Jesse Wood and David Beadle respectively.
The leading track, “All of This” gives the album a good introduction, with a building sound that showcases the band’s male/female vocalist dynamic. “Punching in a Dream” can be heard on many local alternative rock stations and helps to highlight that bands heavy use of electronic sounds to make their music.
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Vandalized statue
at St. Anne's Church,
Courier Staff Writer
A hate crime that broke the hearts of many faithful members of the St. Anne’s Church was discovered around 7am on Ash Wednesday, February 22nd. The vandalism was discovered by Peter Petit, who arrived early Wednesday morning to assist with a Mass. “Emotionally very disturbing and appalling being that this is a day of repentance,” Petit said.
Police say vandals destroyed a cross and spray painted the word “Satan” and other graffiti on the walls of the Catholic church in Union City. “My gut feeling is that it might be local kids,” said police Cmdr. Ben Horner, “They were going for shock value, and they certainly achieved that.”
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From wikipedia:
Claude Brown (February 23, 1937 - February 2, 2002) is the author of
Manchild in the Promised Land, published to critical acclaim in 1965, which tells the story of his coming of age during the 1940s and 1950s in Harlem. He also published
Children of Ham (1976).
Autobiographical in nature,
Manchild in the Promised Land describes the cultural, economic, and religious conditions that suffused Harlem during Brown's early childhood and adolescence while constructing a narrative of Brown's tumultuous early life. Starting at age six, his life involved stealing, alcohol consumption, truancy, and gang wars. These were the harsh realities of life in 1950s Harlem that shaped his childhood. At the age of 11, he was placed in a reform school, which he cycled in and out of more than three times.
Read a New York Time's review of Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land, free from racematters.org.
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The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
Reading level: Ages 14 and up
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile (January 10, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0525478817
ISBN-13: 978-0525478812
This year, we were graced with yet another marvelous novel by author John Green.
The Fault in Our Stars is a heart-wrenching story from the beginning, as it follows the sad life story of a terminal cancer patient, Hazel.
At the age of sixteen, and after three years of having thyroid cancer (that spread to her lungs, she meets and falls in love with a cancer survivor. Terminally ill, she has a bleak outlook on life. She sees herself as a grenade to those she loves, waiting to explode and destroy the lives of those around her. She only wishes that she doesn’t leave a scar on the world, one that would be too big and to bad to handle.
Then, Augustus waters arrives into her world, and tries to make things better for her. Continuously, he finds ways to make her feel about their situation. Since he had his leg amputated, he knows how hard it must be for her to always walk around with an oxygen tank. Both only teenagers, their parents can’t even begin to comprehend the pain that they go through every day. Even so, they find ways to make the situation optimistic for not only themselves, but those around them.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Students: Today the Career Center is only open for Seniors to turn in their applications for NHSF scholarships.
Congratulations to the Varsity Wrestling Team for qualifying 13 wrestlers to this weekend’s NCS Wrestling Meet to be held at Newark Memorial. Also, good luck to the four girls at the State wrestling meet at Lemoore High School.
Seniors and Students: Graduation has been moved to Saturday, June 9th at 9:00 a.m. Please see the Logan website for an end of year calendar.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
The Board of Education on Tuesday night called for a measure to be placed on the June 5 ballot that would raise approximately $3 million to help offset the ongoing cuts being forced on the District as the state continues to reduce support for public education.
“To support high-quality local elementary, middle and high school education to prepare students for college and careers with outstanding core academic programs in reading, writing, math and science and highly qualified teachers and classified staff,” voters will be asked to approve a parcel tax of $180 per year. Exemptions would be available for senior citizens and the disabled, a citizens’ oversight committee would review spending, and no money from the tax could be used to pay administrators’ salaries. All funds would stay in local schools, and the measure – which requires a two-thirds majority to pass – would expire after four years.
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From wikipedia:
Horace Pippin (February 22, 1888 – July 6, 1946) was a self-taught African-American painter. The injustice of slavery and American segregation figure prominently in many of his works.
He was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Goshen, New York. There he attended segregated schools until he was 15, when he went to work to support his ailing mother. As a boy, Horace responded to an art supply company's advertising contest and won his first set of crayons and a box of watercolors. As a youngster, Pippin made drawings of racehorses and jockeys from Goshen's celebrated racetrack. Prior to 1917, Pippin variously toiled in a coal yard, in an iron foundry, as a hotel porter and as a used-clothing peddler. He was a member of St. John's African Union Methodist Protestant Church.
See examples of Horace Pippin's art, free from the Museum Syndicate.
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"The Darkness II"
Reviewed for: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
Also available for: Windows PC
From: Digital Extremes/2K Games
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore, drug
reference, intense violence, strong language,
strong sexual content)
Price: $60
Though certainly a first-person shooter at its core, "The Darkness" may be remembered most fondly for the unique ways it applied thick layers of stealth, adventure gaming and a bold devotion to sink-or-swim immersion that no game since has quite captured. Playing "The Darkness" often felt like being a tourist in a new town — albeit one where a disproportionate percentage of the locals wanted to kill you.
Playing "The Darkness II," by contrast, feels like passing through as Godzilla. Jackie Estacado (that's you) is more powerful, the powers ingrained in him by the enigmatic force known as The Darkness are considerably nastier, and the game — set two years later and produced by a new developer — sheds most of those layers in favor of a straight sprint that's exhilarating and potentially dispiriting all at once.
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From wikipedia:
Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), better known by her stage name
Nina Simone (/ˈniːnə sɨˈmoʊn/), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music. Simone aspired to become a classical pianist while working in a broad range of styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop.
Listen to Nina Simone: The 'Princess Noire', by Michele Norris, free from National Public Radio.
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From wikipedia:
John Wesley Donaldson (February 20, 1891 – April 12, 1970) was an American baseball pitcher in Pre-Negro league and Negro league baseball. He was born in Glasgow, Missouri.
Researchers have documented only portions of his career. Published totals from local newspaper accounts covering his 30-plus year career provide a glimpse at his prowess on the diamond. A record of 381 wins and 141 losses with 4,445 strikeouts have been discovered, as research teams continue looking through data. Over 150 games that Donaldson pitched in state no strikeout game totals, consequently his overall totals are under-reported.
Printed box scores reveal 378 wins and 84 losses and a winning percentage of .737. He also notched 4,409 strikeouts, an ERA of 1.37, and 86 shutouts against all levels of competition. He completed 296 of 322 starts (92%).
Read more about John Donaldson, free from the Negro League Baseball Players Association.
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Lugenia Burns Hope, née
Burns (February 19, 1871, St. Louis, Missouri – August 14, 1947, Nashville, Tennessee) was a social reformer whose Neighborhood Union and other community service organizations improved the quality of life for blacks in Atlanta, Georgia, and served as a model for the future Civil Rights Movement.
Throughout her youth, Lugenia Hope worked for various charitable organizations, inspiring a life-long interest in social outreach work. Between 1890 and 1893 she studied at the Chicago Art Institute, the Chicago School of Design (now also part of the Art Institute of Chicago), and the Chicago Business College. Lugenia Hope married John Hope in 1897 and moved with him to Atlanta when he joined the faculty of the Atlanta Baptist College (now Morehouse College); he was later appointed the institution's president in 1906. With the help of Morehouse students, she surveyed local area residents about their needs for community development projects, which eventually led to the college providing day care, kindergarten, and recreational programs.
Learn more about Lugenia Burns Hope, free from the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
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By Tierra Negra, Courier Special Correspondent
In the old days, students in Mexico had to do a thesis after finishing college to officially obtain a “bachelor degree”. Other options have been created since then but, at that point in time, I started a research paper on money market because the financial sector was being deregulated (in preparation for the NAFTA treaty) producing a boom of institutions that started to share banks functions. I was never able to secure a job in this sector forcing me to quit its completion but here are some of the basics I learned.
First of all, money does not have the same value in the present than in the future because of the interest and inflation rates. If I want to buy a car that costs $20, 000 but I have to borrow the money I will be paying an interest which will increase this amount. Same wise, if I have money that I decide not to spend now it will be gathering interest in the bank and I will have a larger amount in the future. The interest is the “cost” of money. Inflation produces a similar effect because you buy less with the same amount of money after a certain period of time.
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From wikipedia:
Audre Lorde (born Audrey Geraldine Lorde February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) was a Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist.
Life
Lorde was born in New York City to Caribbean immigrants from Grenada, Frederick Byron Lorde (called Byron) and Linda Gertrude Belmar Lorde, who settled in Harlem.
Nearsighted to the point of being legally blind, and the youngest of three daughters (her sisters named Phyllis and Helen), Lorde grew up hearing her mother's stories about the West Indies. She learned to talk while she learned to read, at the age of four, and her mother taught her to write at around the same time. She wrote her first poem when she was in eighth grade.
Read ore about Audre Lorde, free from The Poetry Foundation.
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Burger Urge
1599 Haight Street,
San Francisco,
Courier News Editor
Burger Urge is a burger joint located on Haight Street between Clayton and Ashbury Street in San Francisco. The ambiance of the restaurant is very spacious, clean and comfy. This place is usually packed during lunch because of the lunch type food they have, and on weekend mornings because they serve brunch.
It was my first time at Burger Urge. I stumbled upon it while taking a stroll down Haight Street. Once you walk in you notice how spacious and open the restaurant is. The windows cover about three fourths of the restaurant. You walk up to the clerk and make an order.
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By Candace Laxamana, Courier News Editor
A Logan math teacher accused of threatened a student has been cleared, according to New Haven spokesman Rick La Plante.
Logan Math teacher Robert Eppler was due in a Fremont courtroom this afternoon to face accusations that he made credible threats of physical harm against a student. Instead the District Attorney's office dropped the charges.
Eppler was arrested on campus Wednesday at 1:55 p.m. on charges of violating California Penal Code 422 f.
California Penal Code 422 PC defines the crime of "criminal threats" as when someone threatens to kill or physically harm someone and the person threatened is placed in a state of reasonably sustained fear for his safety or for the safety of his immediate family. The threat must be specific and unequivocal and communicated verbally, in writing or using an electronic device.
Eppler was placed on administrative leave following his arrest, according to school officials.
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From wikipedia:
Maud Cuney Hare (née
Cuney, 1874–1936) was an American musician, author, and African American activist in New England in the United States. She was born in Galveston, the daughter of famed civil rights leader Norris Wright Cuney who led the Texas Republican Party.
Among her many literary and musical contributions she is most remembered for her final work Negro Musicians and Their Music, which helped document the development of African American arts.
She was a close friend and confidant (and former fiancé) of noted author and activist W. E. B. Du Bois.
Read Norris Wright Cuney: a tribune of the black people, by Maud Cuney-Hare, free from Google Books.
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By Rebecca Trounson
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES — California and the Western United States are leading a nationwide surge in interracial marriage, according to a new study that paints a picture of a broadly diversifying nation, one where color lines are blurring and old taboos fading.
One-fifth of all recent weddings in the western United States were between people of different races or ethnicities, said a report being released Thursday by the Pew Research Center. Nationwide, 15 percent of recent marriages were interracial, researchers found.
"In the space of half a century, intermarriage has evolved from being illegal to taboo to being merely unusual, and with each passing year, much less unusual than it used to be," said Paul Taylor, director of Pew's social and demographic trends project, which produced the study.
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LOS ANGELES — Not surprisingly, the public's appetite for Whitney Houston's music erupted in the hours after she died Saturday in Beverly Hills, as more than 100,000 albums and nearly 900,000 individual tracks sold in a little over 24 hours.
The Nielsen SoundScan retail sales monitoring service reported that 91,000 digital albums and another 10,000 physical albums along with 887,000 digital tracks were sold by the close of the reporting period that ended Sunday night. Those numbers and new Billboard chart positions will be released on Wednesday.
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From wikipedia:
William Sanders Scarborough (February 16, 1852 - September 9, 1926) is generally thought to be the first African American classical scholar. Scarborough served as president of Wilberforce University between 1908 and 1920 after having been born into slavery. He wrote a popular university textbook in Classical Greek which was widely used in the 19th century.
Read "Professor William S. Scarborough, Classics Scholar and First Black Member of the MLA," by Ajuan Mance, free from Black on Campus.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Seniors and Students: Graduation has been moved to Saturday, June 9th at 9:00 a.m. Please see the Logan website for an end of year calendar.
Washington Hospital is hosting a Medical Explorer Healthcare Career Day on Saturday, March 17th. Only 24 spots have been allotted for Logan students. To sign up, see Mrs. Hart in the Career Center by Tuesday, February 21st. Spots will be given to students on a first come, first served basis.
The 22nd Annual Sabor Latino Dance will be held on Saturday, February 18th, sponsored by the Ballet Folklorico. Tickets are $8 in advance or $10 at the door. For more information, see Mr. Huertas in House 1. Tickets will be sold Friday, 2/17 at both lunches in Colt Court.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Seniors and Students: Graduation has been moved to Saturday, June 9th at 9:00 a.m. Please see the Logan website for an end of year calendar.
Washington Hospital is hosting a Medical Explorer Healthcare Career Day on Saturday, March 17th. Only 24 spots have been allotted for Logan students. To sign up, see Mrs. Hart in the Career Center by Tuesday, February 21st. Spots will be given to students on a first come, first served basis.
Congratulations to the Varsity Girls Soccer for winning league undefeated for the second year in a row. Way to go, Girls!!!
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Hardcover: 496 pages
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
ISBN-10: 0062024027
ISBN-13: 978-0062024022
In this dystopian novel,
Divergent by Veronica Roth, the population of the city of Chicago is split into five factions. They all stand for the five human morals-- Dauntless (the Courageous), Abnegation (the Selfless), Candor ( the Honest), Amity (the Peaceful), and Euridite (the Intelligent). The novel begins in the point of view of Beatrice, a member of the Abnegation, going to take a test that will change the rest of her life. At the age of sixteen, citizens of Chicago are sent to take a ‘simulation test’ where they are given a choice--whether to stay in their faction, or move on to another one. Beatrice is given a choice like no other--whether to stay or to go to another faction and betray her family.
The novel bases itself around the life of this young girl, as she tries to overcome the limits that had been set to her before. She had been taught from a very young age to be selfless, to give to others instead of herself, and to not think about her own needs. Beatrice from the beginning knew that she didn’t belong in her faction, and had waited for the day of her test where they would tell her where she truly belongs. Sadly, it only makes her decision worse. With more options than the other people, she has to outweigh the consequences--to either leave her family, or move on to where she belongs--the Dauntless.
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Adapted from the African-American Registry:
Fay Jackson (February 15, 1902-1979) was an African-American journalist and movie publicist.
Jackson was born in Dallas, Texas, as the youngest of three children to Charles T. and Lulu Beatrice Jackson. Her father was a concrete mason and chemical scientist and her mother a seamstress and actress. At the age of 16, her family moved to Los Angeles. In 1922, Jackson graduated from Los Angeles Polytechnic High School, attended USC, majored in journalism and philosophy and was the first president of the Epsilon Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta.
Read "Fay M. Jackson and the Color Line: The First African American Foreign Correspondent for the Associated Negro Press" by Lae’l Hughes-Watkins, M.A, free from the Journal of Pan-African Studies.
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By Patrick May
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. — With Valentine's Day upon us, application developers have come up with smartphone tools that can do just about anything short of guaranteeing you'll be head over heads in love.
There are apps for both the valentine-ready (digital flowers, anyone?) and the valentine-hungry, including every type of mobile-dating tool imaginable. These darts in Cupid's digital quiver, whether they're for iPhone or Android, free and fee-based, range from sophisticated to silly to downright stupid.
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"Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning"
Reviewed for: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
Also available for: Windows PC
From: Big Huge Games/38 Studios/EA
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore,
intense violence, suggestive themes)
Price: $60
Role-playing games aren't expected to play as crisply as pure action games do, and action games need not run as deep in the storytelling and character-building departments as role-playing games do. These are the compromises we've come to accept and expect.
So when something like "Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning" comes along and shoots for the moon in both areas, it's hard not to pay attention.
And when it hits the moon flush, it's impossible.
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Frederick Douglass (February 14, 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia," Douglass was one of the most prominent figures of African American history during his time, and one of the most influential lecturers and authors in American history. Douglass was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black, female, or recent immigrant. He spent his life advocating the brotherhood of all humankind. One of his favorite quotations is: "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."
Read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass,
one of three of his books available free from Project Gutenberg.
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Congratulations to the Varsity Wrestling Team for taking 2nd at the NCS Team Dual Championships. Also, congratulations to the girls for bringing home the first pennant as they took 2nd at NCS. Congratulations!!
Emanuele Elementary needs tutors to help with 5th grade Math and English on Wednesday afternoons. If you are interested, check out the community service posting on Logan’s website under the College/Career Center link, or pick up a pink flier in the Career Center.
Each year, the Asian Pacific Fund offers $27,000 in prizes for their “Growing up Asian in America” contest. To submit your art, essays or poems, pick up the guidelines from Mrs. B in Room 507.
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By Kayleen Garingan, Courier Staff Writer
Last month, film maker Sara Strahan and curriculum developer Diane Moroff came to James Logan High School with a film crew to interview and film Logan Social Science Teacher Kim Petitt’s first period World Literature class to promote a new way of grading students. In order to promote the “newer” grading system they took over the class and asked Petitt to lead a discussion about the effects of the new grading scale, which emphasizes what students know rather than how they got to know it, and and how it changed the minds of the students and their work.
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Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping
WASHINGTON — Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping arrives in the United States on Monday for a high-profile visit where he'll be honored as if he were the president of China — the post he's expected to take next year.
Xi Jinping, 58, is to assume leadership of the Communist Party later this year, a final rung before ascending to the top of the political ladder in March 2013. And with China now firmly positioned as the world's second-largest economy and closing fast, the relationship between the United States and China has become more important than ever in the past decade.
As such, the eyes of two countries will be on Xi this week as he tries to pass leadership tests on each side of the Pacific.
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From wikipedia:
Malvin (Mal) Russell Goode (February 13, 1908 – September 12, 1995) was an African-American television journalist and news correspondent.
Education and early work
Goode was born in White Plains, Virginia, educated in the public school system of Homestead, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1931. Starting in high school, he was employed for twelve years as a laborer in steel mills, until five years after his graduation. Appointed to a position in the Juvenile Court as a boys work director at the Centre Avenue YMCA, he spearheaded the fight against discrimination in the Pittsburgh branches of the YMCA. Goode worked with the Pittsburgh Housing Authority for six years and joined the Pittsburgh Courier in 1948, where he remained for 14 years.
Read an interview with Mal Goode, free from the Teaneck Public Library.
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Congratulations to the Varsity and J.V. Wrestling Teams for defeating Newark to win the MVAL title. Varsity won 46-22, and J.V. won 44-14. Great effort by everyone on the team. Thank you to the student body, teachers and coaches for coming out and supporting our team.
Emanuele Elementary needs tutors to help with 5th grade Math and English on Wednesday afternoons. If you are interested, check out the community service posting on Logan’s website under the College/Career Center link, or pick up a pink flier in the Career Center.
Each year, the Asian Pacific Fund offers $27,000 in prizes for their “Growing up Asian in America” contest. To submit your art, essays or poems, pick up the guidelines from Mrs. B in Room 507.
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Fannie Barrier Williams (February 12, 1855 – March 4, 1944) was an African American educator and political and women's rights activist. She became well known for her efforts to have blacks officially represented on the Board of Control of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.
Frances (Fannie) Barrier was the youngest of three children born to Anthony and Harriet Barrier. Her father, born in Pennsylvania, came to Brockport, New York as a child. He claimed to be partially of French descent. He worked as a barber and later became a coal dealer. Her mother Harriet was born in Chenango, New York and the couple married in Brockport. The family attended the First Baptist Church in Brockport, and was the only black family in the congregation. Fannie recalled her Brockport youth as a time of innocence, but her personal experience and growing awareness of the unfair treatment received by women of color led her to pursue a lifetime of activism.
Learn more about Fannie Barrier Williams, free from WinningtheVote.org.
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By Tierra Negra, Courier Special Correspondent
The day came when I had to force myself to thin my grapevine last summer. A rule of thumb, according to the internet, is to allow one fruit per every twenty leaves and, armored with this information, I applied to the task at hand. I kept avoiding it because it was hard to decide which ones to sacrifice in order to let the rest develop big enough rather than having plenty in pitiful sizes.
My mind could not help but wonder about our overpopulation problems: seventeen billion and growing! China thought that limiting the reproduction to two per couple might have solved it but then they realized recently that they were having a large number of elders and not enough youth to sustain them.
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From the African-American Registry:
Dorsie Willis was born on this date in 1886. He was an African-American soldier, and activist.
From Meridian Mississippi, he was the oldest of nine children born to Dochia and Cousie Willis. At the age of four Dorsie and his family moved to Guthrie, Oklahoma. In 1904, he enlisted in the Army, and during the summer of 1906 his unit the first battalion of the 25th infantry regiment was transferred from Fort Niobrara in Nebraska to Fort Brown; this was during the Spanish American War. This was a post near Brownsville, Texas at the mouth of the Rio Grande River, to protect against Mexican revolutionaries.
Read more about Dorsie Willis and the Brownsville Massacre, free from Time magazine.
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From wikipedia:
William Henry Webb, usually known as
Chick Webb (February 10, 1905 – June 16, 1939) was an American jazz and swing music drummer as well as a band leader.
Webb was born in Baltimore, Maryland to William H. and Marie Johnson Webb. From childhood, he suffered from tuberculosis of the spine, leaving him with short stature and a badly deformed spine. He supported himself as a newspaper boy to save enough money to buy drums, and first played professionally at age 11.
At the age of 17 he moved to New York City and by 1926, he was leading his own band in Harlem. Jazz drummer Tommy Benford said he gave Webb drum lessons when he first reached New York.
Learn more about Chick Webb at drummer world.com.
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Most of Logan's seniors stayed after school Wednesday to sit for the annual Senior panoramic picture, snapped in Judson E. Taylor Stadium by photographers from Prestige Portraits in Hayward and Lifetouch School Portraits . Seniors were asked to show up at 1:50 p.m, but straddlers were still climbing the stairs into the home side stands well after that. Once everyone was in the stands, getting everyone properly positioned and posed took several more minutes. House One Principal Francis Rojas, Logan's former activities director, warned that any hand signals, removed shirts or other unseemly behavior would result in the offending students' images being blotted out of the picture.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
The Board of Education on Tuesday night received a presentation outlining student success at Conley-Caraballo High, the District’s continuation and alternative education high school.
Principal Mireya Casarez, accompanied by virtually her entire staff, told the Board that all of them share the belief that “every single student in the building, no matter how or why they got there, is headed for college.” The school’s small size, she added, enables teachers to “get to know” students in a way “most teachers wish they could but can’t.”
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From the African-American Registry:
Charles Anderson was born this date in 1907. He was an African-American aviator.
From Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, he was the son of Janie and Iverson Anderson of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Young Anderson was enamored with airplanes and flying from the age of six. Because most flight instructors during that time would not take Black students, he taught himself to fly at the age of 22 in a used plane purchased with his savings and funds borrowed from friends and relatives. He earned a private pilot's license in 1929 and a commercial pilot's license in 1932.
Read more about Charles Anderson, free from BlackWingsOnline.com
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A Logan sophomore takes the California
High School Exit Exam Tuesday
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All over California this week, high school sophomores will be put to the test that can determine whether or not they will be able to graduate — The California High School Exit Examination,
The test, often shortened to CAHSEE, is being administered this week on Tuesday and today.
The CAHSEE tests sophomores on their skills in reading, writing, and math to ensure that they are proficient for their grade level, and, ultimately, graduation.
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From wikipedia:
Joseph Black (February 8, 1924 - May 17, 2002) was an American right-handed pitcher in Negro League and Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Redlegs, and Washington Senators who became the first black pitcher to win a World Series game, in 1952. Black died of prostate cancer at age 78.
A native of Plainfield, New Jersey, he starred at Plainfield High School.[1][2] Black attended on a baseball scholarship and graduated from Morgan State University in 1950 and later received an honorary doctorate from Shaw University. He was a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity, inc. He appears prominently in Roger Kahn's classic book,
The Boys of Summer.
Read Joe Black's obituary in Jet Magazine, free from googlebooks.com.
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"Resident Evil: Revelations"
For: Nintendo 3DS
From: Capcom
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore,
intense violence, language)
Price: $40
After Capcom insulted 3DS owners last year with the laughably shallow and overpriced "Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D," you'd be forgiven for dismissing "Resident Evil: Revelations" as yet another thoughtless cash-in.
You'd be wrong, but you'd be forgiven.
To the contrary, and staggeringly so, "Revelations" is the real deal — a console-quality "Resident Evil" game that arguably surpasses the series' excellent recent console efforts, and a showcase piece for a system that may be more powerful than you'd figured.
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James Hubert "Eubie" Blake (February 7, 1887 - February 12, 1983) was a composer and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music, as well as a lyricist. With his long time collaborator Noble Sissle, Blake wrote the Broadway musical Shuffle Along in 1921; this was the first Broadway musical ever to be written and directed by African Americans. Blake's hit compositions included "Bandana Days", "Charleston Rag", "Love Will Find A Way", "Memories of You", and "I'm Just Wild About Harry". In 1978, the musical Eubie! opened on Broadway.
Hear Eubie Blake talk about his career in an interview taken from the CD Rom Who Built America, by Roy Rosenzweig and the American Social History Project, free from the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
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By Russell McLendon
Mother Nature Network (mnn.com) (MCT)
If you're planting a spring garden in the U.S. this year, you may want to set aside some extra seed money. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated its plant hardiness zone map for the first time since 1990, reflecting how some crops are moving north as winter grows warmer.
Despite all the long-term dangers associated with global warming, it does have a few short-term perks, such as helping some plant and animal species expand their range. And when life gives you lemons — which, incidentally, may now be easier to grow in Northern states — you make lemonade.
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Attention Logan Students: REMEMBER Friday February 10th is a furlough day for staff so there is NO SCHOOL. ROP students who attend classes on the Fremont campus are expected to attend. Regular bus service will be provided to the Fremont ROP campus.
Congratulations to the Varsity Wrestling Team for a 2nd place finish at the Mission San Jose Invitational. Placing for the Colts were Artemio Flores – 2nd; Chumkaur Dhaliwal – 3rd; Jacob Macalolooy – 4th; Mark Godoy – 5th; and James Windom 6th. Great job Colts!
Buy your Valentine a flower all week at lunch in Colt Court and the 200s, or see Ms. Cross in Room 201. The Garden Club thanks you!
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From wikipedia:
Annie Bethel Spencer (better known as Anne Spencer) (February 6, 1882, Henry County, Virginia – July 27, 1975, Lynchburg, Virginia) was an American Black poet and active participant in the New Negro Movement and Harlem Renaissance period.
Anne was the first Virginian and first African-American to have her poetry included in the
Norton Anthology of American Poetry. Also an activist for equality and educational opportunities for all, she hosted such dignitaries as Langston Hughes, Marian Anderson, George Washington Carver, Thurgood Marshall, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., James Weldon Johnson, and W. E. B. Du Bois.
Read more about Anne Spencer and her poetry, free from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Fireworks closed the 2008 Futenma Flightline Fair
at the Marine Corps Air Station, Okinawa, Japan.
U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Antwain Graham
TOKYO — Japan and the United States are discussing the transfer of U.S. Marines stationed in Okinawa Prefecture out of the country ahead of the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station, government sources said.
The move comes as part of a review of a 2006 bilateral agreement on the realignment of U.S. forces in the country. Under the accord, the transfer of the Marines to Guam and the relocation of the Futenma station were supposed to be handled together.
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Jefferson Franklin Long (1836–1901) was an American politician from Georgia. He was the first African American from Georgia to be elected to the United States House of Representatives.
Long was born a slave near the city of Knoxville and Crawford County, Georgia on March 3, 1836. He was self-educated. He became a merchant tailor in Macon, Georgia. Long was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused when the U.S. House declared Samuel F. Gove not entitled to the seat and served from December 22, 1870, to March 3, 1871. Long was not a candidate for renomination in 1870, but did serve as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1880. He resumed business in Macon, Georgia, and died there on February 4, 1901. He was interred in Lynwood Cemetery.
Jefferson Long's 1871 “Speech On Disorders In The South,” free from Blackpast.org.
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By Tierra Negra, Courier Special Correspondent
One night, my youngest daughter walked into my bedroom to show me her English portfolio with a dedication letter. As I was reading the letter, she seemed obliged to clarify that she did not add me because she ran out of space.
I kept wondering what would have been her purpose in having me look at such thing if it was only acknowledging her far away father for raising her up alone (up to a couple of years ago) and the coach for supporting her throughout the season. I also asked myself why it hurt so much. It must have been praise what she was expecting of me.
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From wikipedia:
Frank Wills (February 4, 1948 – September 27, 2000) was the security guard who alerted police to a possible break-in at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., which eventually led to the uncovering of the truth about the Watergate Scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
Frank Wills was born in North Augusta, South Carolina.
In June 1972, Wills was working as a private security guard at the Watergate office building, the location of the Democratic National Committee headquarters. On the night of June 17, he noticed a piece of duct tape on one of the door locks when he was making his rounds. He removed it, and continued on his patrol. One of the five burglars — Frank Sturgis, Virgilio González, Eugenio Martínez, Bernard Barker and James W. McCord, Jr. — noticed that the tape had been removed, and replaced it with another piece of tape on the door (the tape was placed over the latch bolt to prevent the door from latching). When Mr. Wills returned, he saw that the tape had been replaced and called in the police. The five men were found in the DNC offices and arrested. This triggered the chain of events which exposed the Watergate scandal and eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
Read more about Frank Wills, free from the Los Angeles Times.
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Robert Earl Jones (February 3, 1910 - September 7, 2006) was an American actor and the father of actor James Earl Jones. While born in Mississippi, the actual location of Jones' birth is unclear as some sources indicate Senatobia, while others suggest nearby Coldwater.
Roots in the Harlem Renaissance
Jones was a grade-school dropout and a sharecropper before making his way, via Chicago, to New York City and a career on stage and in film. Altogether Jones appeared in more that twenty films, including The Cotton Club (1984) and The Sting (1973). Jones was a living link with the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, having worked with Langston Hughes early in his career. After moving to New York in the 1930's (after a short career as a prize fighter in Chicago where champion Joe Louis used him as a sparring partner), Jones worked with young people on the Works Progress Administration, the largest New Deal agency, through which he met Langston Hughes, who cast him in his 1938 play,
Don't You Want to Be Free?
Visit the Earl Jones Institute website.
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Need Drivers Education? Your place is the Adult School. There are two offerings – April 2, 3 & 4 or June 18, 19 & 20 – 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cost is $125. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for application/information.
The popcorn cart is now open Monday thru Friday near the Career Center and in Memorial Court. Mmmmm….. good!
Yes, we are open! Colt Necessities is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday during 4th & 5th period lunches. Baseball hats, knit caps, and a variety of good looking hoodies. Stop on by!
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By James Sarmiento, Courier Staff Writer
The James Logan Colts faced off the Irvington Vikings at Irvington High School Jan. 25. It was a sloppy start in the first quarter for our Logan Colts being out scored by the Irvington Vikings 14 to 9.
“Our defense was sloppy from the start and our heads weren’t in the game.” said Trent Torain, a sophomore shooting guard for Logan.
“We came out big headed and lazy. We underestimated them, which let them get that early scoring run. We looked as if we were running in slow motion because we were not getting back on defense and they kept beating us on hustle plays.” Clarence Kaye, a junior point guard, said of the first quarter.
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By Malcolm X Abram
Akron Beacon Journal (MCT)
For 23 years, Don Cornelius hosted "Soul Train," "the hippest trip in America." For many young African-Americans and fans of R&B, soul and eventually hip-hop, the syndicated Saturday morning mainstay's tagline was the indisputable truth.
Cornelius was found dead Wednesday morning at his Los Angeles-area home of a gunshot wound, an apparent suicide. He was 75.
Back when Cornelius created the show in 1970, there was no MTV, no BET, no VH1, no record label-driven YouTube channels. There was just "American Bandstand" and "Soul Train."
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From wikipedia:
Edward "Sonny" Stitt (February 2, 1924 – July 22, 1982) was an American jazz saxophonist. He was a quintessential saxophonist of the bebop idiom. He was also one of the most prolific saxophonists, recording over 100 records in his lifetime. He was nicknamed the "Lone Wolf" by jazz critic Dan Morgenstern, due to his relentless touring and his devotion to jazz.
Life and works
Stitt was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Saginaw, Michigan. Stitt had a musical background; his father taught music, his brother was a classically trained pianist, and his mother was a piano teacher. His earliest recordings were from 1945, with Stan Getz and Dizzy Gillespie. He had also experienced playing in some swing bands, though he mainly played in bop bands. Stitt featured in Tiny Bradshaw's big band in the early forties.
Listen to samples of Stitt's music, free from amazon.com.
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Need Drivers Education? Your place is the Adult School. There are two offerings – April 2, 3 & 4 or June 18, 19 & 20 – 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cost is $125. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for application/information.
The popcorn cart is now open Monday through Friday near the Career Center and Memorial Court near the Little Theater. Mmmmm….. good!
Yes, we are open! Colt Necessities is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday during 4th & 5th period lunches. Baseball hats, knit caps, and a variety of good looking hoodies. Stop on by!
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Hardcover: 880 pages
Publisher: Knopf Books
for Young Readers
ISBN-10: 0375856110
ISBN-13: 978-0375856112,
Courier Staff Writer
The fourth and final book of Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle, commonly known as the Eragon series, appropriately titled
Inheritance, was recently released in November of 2011. As a fan and long-time follower of the series, it was an instant read for me.
With colorful descriptions of exciting action scenes and suspenseful plot twists, it was fairly decent as far as fantasy novels go. The book was tediously thick,a whopping 839 pages from the first book’s 528. It was also disappointing to Eragon fans in many areas, it unfortunately wasn't a satisfying book.
A large problem, and one of my pet peeves, was the book’s the long periods of dull and boring conflict. Until approaching combat with the almighty Galbatorix, no major battles occur between any of the characters. Much of the fighting consists of pages describing the senseless slaughter of common soldiers. Though another “boss” exists in the form of Eragon’s half brother Murtagh, direct battle, though it constantly feels imminent, never commences.
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Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and newspaper columnist. Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance.
Life
Langston Hughes was born James Mercer Langston Hughes in Joplin, Missouri, the son of Carrie Langston Hughes, a teacher, and her husband, James Nathaniel Hughes. After abandoning his family and the resulting legal dissolution of the marriage later, James Hughes left for Cuba first, then Mexico due to enduring racism in the United States. After the separation of his parents, young Langston was left to be raised mainly by his grandmother, Mary Langston, as his mother sought
employment. Through the black American oral tradition of storytelling, she would instill in the young Langston Hughes a sense of indelible racial pride. He spent most of childhood in Lawrence, Kansas.
Read the some of the poems of Langston Hughes, free from the poetryfoundation.org.
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