The James Logan Courier

LUNCH:
Fajita Chicken and veggie Pizza, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips

ACTIVITIES:
Come see the fall play, Talking With, tonight and tomorrow at 7 pm, and Sunday at 2 pm! For tickets, see cast members or purchase at the door.

Winter Sports Rally today during both lunches in Colt Court! All girls & boys soccer, basketball & wrestling. Come during your lunch dressed to show what sport you play. If it rains, it will be postponed.

By Carmen Shiu, Courier Special Correspondent

It's time to forget the bubblegum pop and cheesiness of the typical debut albums of American Idol finalists. Season six runner-up, Blake Lewis, released his album, A.D.D. (Audio Day Dream), this past Tuesday, Dec. 4. And yes, its acronym is the same as attention deficit disorder on purpose, as he has explained that people used to think that he had it.

Lewis was known for adding more flavor to Idol than just singing. He has just as much talent, if not more, in beat-boxing as well. It is displayed lightly throughout the album, which is good. His true self is shown, but it is good that he doesn't try to overdo it.

Apple Computer Inc. (MCT)

Top 10 songs on iTunes Music Store for Dec. 4:
1. "Low," Flo Rida, featuring T-Pain
2. "No One," Alicia Keys
3. "Apologize," Timbaland, featuring OneRepublic
4. "Kiss Kiss," Chris Brown, featuring T-Pain
5. "Clumsy," Fergie
6. "All I Want for Christmas Is You," Mariah Carey
7. "Paralyzer," Finger Eleven
8. "Tattoo," Jordin Sparks
9. "Bubbly," Colbie Caillat
10. "Crank That (Soulja Boy)," Soulja Boy Tell 'Em

For more information, please visit the iTunes Web site at www.apple.com/itunes/.
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

By Chris Riemenschneider
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)

You'd have to be incredibly cynical about rock's potential to change the world — as cynical as John Lydon about the Sex Pistols, or an Exxon exec about Al Gore — not to buy into the urgency and passion that kicks off the new Against Me! album:

We can be the bands we want to hear.
We can define our generation.
Is there anybody on the receiving end?
Are you ready to brave new directions?
Come on and wash these shores away.
I'm looking for the crest of a new wave.

At once bleeding-hearted but mostly apolitical, and apathetic but hopeful, the song "New Wave" is the opening track to the Florida punk band's new record of the same name — one of the best rock albums of the year, and maybe the most important.

By Jonathan S. Landay
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

WASHINGTON — Iran was attempting to build a nuclear weapon but halted the effort in the fall of 2003 and doesn't appear to have restarted it, the declassified key judgments of a comprehensive new U.S. intelligence report said Monday.

The report said that Iran's decision to halt its nuclear weapons program suggested that "it is less determined to develop nuclear weapons than we have been judging since 2005. Our assessment that the program probably was halted primarily in response to international pressure suggests that Iran may be more vulnerable to influence on the issue than we judged previously."

By Krystal Henderson, Courier News Editor
The James Logan Varsity Cheerleading squad took Second Place in the JAMZ NorCal Extreme Cheer and Dance Regional Competition Saturday. It was their first competition of the year facing other California high school cheer teams, and their success qualifies them to go on to the national commpetition on January 31 of next year.

Varsity cheerleaders Alexa Chavez and Jamie Javier took a break from dancing in order to congratulate their team.

From wikipedia:
James Elphinston (December 6, 1721 – October 8, 1809) was a well noted 18th Century Scottish educator, orthographer, phonologist and linguistics expert.

He was the author of Propriety Ascertained in Her Picture, (or English Speech and Spelling Rendered Mutual Guides, Secure Alike from Distant, and from Domestic, Error)(1786, 1787)[2 volumes], The Principles of the English Language Digested for the use of Schools (1766), Inglish Orthoggraphy Epittomized (1790), Miniature of English Orthography (1795), and was the co-author of The Epigrams of Marcus Valerius Martialis in twelve books: with commentary and translation into English by James Elphinston (1782) and other titles.

Read James Elphinston's A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy, free from Project Gutenberg.