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!

MISCELLANEOUS
Janelle Prothro and Donnise Powell were North Coast Champions and led a group of 13 qualifiers for the State Track & Field Meet.

Congratulations to Womens Track & Field Team who won their 22nd North Coast Championship at Berkeley on Saturday.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

There aren't many hard and fast rules that apply to the entirety of game design, but there are some.

For instance: Don't punish your most spirited customers.

That "Bionic Commando" even nicks this rule is bewildering when you realize GRIN got the hardest part absolutely right. The original 1988 "Commando" made its name entirely through the main character's bionic arm, which allowed him to swing through the kind of 2D levels most characters jumped through at the time. It worked then, and it works remarkably well now in spite of a third dimension and a mostly hands-off approach that makes it easy to miscalculate a swing and plummet to your death. Intuitive controls, combined with credible motion physics, make for a fun swing mechanic that's neither too hard to master nor so easy as to be mindless.

By Jericho Faustino, Courier Staff Writer

An art show featuring works by Logan students and sponsored by the Art Association of the East Bay, ended at Century Theatres in Union Landing last week.

A rack standing on the left side of the concession stands at the 25 screen theater held 105 works of art created by students of James Logan High School. Plenty of abstract work and more lined the portable metal frame that held the art. The beautiful black and white penned drawings, and multi-colored animals like Diego Rojas' burning red phoenix in "As Birds Fly, So Do Our Dreams," and beautiful metal plate carvings like Daniel Nunez' "Golden Gate"�, beckoned curious movie goers to take a look at some of James Logan's artist art work.

By Idrees Najibi, Courier Staff Writer

You might be questioning why my article would serve any relevance to Mother�s Day, when the holiday passed weeks ago. This editorial is purposefully tardy because mothers should not only be glorified on Mother�s Day; any other day is just as significant to show your mother how much you love her.

Although there is historical significance behind Mother�s Day, I do not believe that this holiday should be an overly glorifying day for mothers. If these women truly deserve recognition, then we should show it on a daily basis. It would be ideal to show a consistent level of appreciation for our beloved mothers, as opposed to a fluctuation of appreciation.

From wikipedia:
Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 � 11 January 1928) was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement. The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-imaginary county of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. Hardy's poetry, first published in his fifties, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after the 1960s Movement.

Biography
Thomas Hardy was born at Higher Bockhampton, a hamlet in the parish of Stinsford to the east of Dorchester in Dorset, England. His father worked as a stonemason and local builder. His mother was ambitious and well-read, supplementing his formal education, which ended at the age of 16 when he became apprenticed to John Hicks, a local architect. Hardy trained as an architect in Dorchester before moving to London in 1862. He won prizes from the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Architectural Association. He never really felt at home in London and he returned five years later to Dorset and decided to dedicate himself to writing.

Read The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, one of 29 of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.