The James Logan Courier

LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!

ACTIVITY
All students interested in Cheerleading, there will be a sign-up list in the old gym P.E. classroom/small dance studio, April 6 & 7, 3:30 to 4:30.

Cheerleading tryouts will be held in May. Anyone who wishes to try out must have and maintain a 2.0 GPA with no Fs.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

The first thing we really learn about "Zubo" is that it stars you as a pretty generic human character. The second thing we learn is that, as this human, you can collect and befriend different creatures, called Zubos, whom you then employ in battle against their evil Zombo counterparts.

Sounds a lot like "Pokemon" — which, with "Pokemon Platinum" arriving at almost the exact same time, also sounds like some seriously terrible timing on "Zubo's" part.

Once you see how "Zubo's" fight system works, though, all perceptions fly out the window. Turns out, timing isn't the game's biggest problem so much as its greatest asset.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

You may not know it just to look at it, and you may never have known if nobody told you, but "Boing! Docomodake DS" is a commercial mascot tie-in game — the latest in a sometimes-brutal genre that includes the wretched likes of "Yaris" and "Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings."

In this case, the star of the show is Docomodake, who is to Japan's dominant mobile phone provider what the Kool-Aid man is to Kool-Aid.

Fortunately, all that amounts to nothing more than trivia. Docomodake is a delightful character, regardless of affiliation. More importantly, "Boing" is a genuinely great game _ an inspired platformer/puzzler hybrid that uses the full might of the Nintendo DS' capabilities in completely new ways.

By Rohan Kumar, Courier Staff Writer

Universal studios brings Wanted, the blockbuster motion picture to gamers across the world. Wanted: Weapons of Fate hit the shelves March 24, and is available on the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC platforms. Wanted is a third person shooter and resembles game play similar to the film's perspective. Some of the film's signature moves are also a part of the game such as curving bullets and assassin time, which is taken straight from the film.

The story continues where the film leaves off, in the shoes of Wesley Gibson five hours after the events in the film. In the game Wesley is determined to finally discover the truth behind his family and the secret fraternity of assassins. Unlike the film where the story revolves around the relationship between Wesley and his father, the story will focus on the relationship between Wesley and his mother.

By Andrew Alcazar, Courier Sports Writer

James Logan baseball has done something they have not done all year; they have a winning streak. Logan, who started 0-7, has won back-to-back games, after posting a 5-1 win over American.

Logan (2-7, 2-1) has not had a great beginning of the season, but this win gives them a bright spot that they can ride for the rest of MVAL. Junior Pascual Flores got the start for Logan, but was only able to go one inning, after he was hit by a line drive in the first inning. So Junior Adrian Loza relieved him. He pitched five innings, gave up two hits, and one run for the win. Logan got on the board in the first inning when Andrew "A-Rod"� Rodriguez walked and stole second and then scored on Jonathon Peters drive to right center. Peters legged out a triple. American answered back with a run of their own in the second to tie up the game at one.

Courier Staff Report

After less than a year as principal of James Logan High School, Judy Billingsley today announced her retirement.

"Today, I notified Superintendent Mc Veigh and Derek McNamara of my decision to retire effective June 30, 2009," Billingsley wrote in an email to her staff. "It has been my pleasure to serve the teachers, staff, students, and parents of James Logan High School who have welcomed me with open arms from the very beginning."

From wikipedia:
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (31 March 1811 � 16 August 1899) was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and with Gustav Kirchhoff he discovered cesium and rubidium. Bunsen developed several gas-analytical methods, he was a pioneer in photochemistry, and he did early work in the field of organoarsenic chemistry. With his laboratory assistant, Peter Desaga, he developed the Bunsen burner, an improvement on the laboratory burners then in use. The Bunsen-Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after Bunsen and his colleague, Gustav Kirchhoff.

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