The James Logan Courier

LUNCH:
Cheeseburger, Milk, Baby Carrots,
Fresh Fruit, Cookie, and Fun Chips

ACTIVITIES:
Nominate your favorite teacher or counselor for the Annual Teacher of the Year Awards. Forms are in your school e-mail, or in the house offices. Do it by Monday - the deadline for nominees.

National Anthem tryouts are Thursday at 3 pm on the Track.

By Craig Crossman
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

Apple wants you to see its Macintosh as the control center of all your media or to use the phrase of its CEO, the "Digital Hub" of everything you see and hear. Put all your music, videos and pictures you've taken on your computer for easy viewing. Take all of the DVD movies in your library, and play those TV shows you've downloaded and watch them all on the computer's screen. Display and play all of it on the computer. That's Apple's vision. But just a moment please.

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

SUPER PAPER MARIO
For: Nintendo Wii
From: Intelligent Systems/Nintendo
ESRB Rating: Everyone (comic mischief, mild cartoon violence)

If you liked "Paper Mario's" brilliantly original art direction and laugh-a-minute storytelling more than you enjoyed actually playing it, good news: "Super Paper Mario" brings back the former with more panache than ever while more or less scrapping the latter.

Role-playing elements — hit points, experience, magic — still run wild, but "SPM" has much more in common with Mario games of old than its predecessors. Imagine playing "Super Mario World" with a chatty storyline and Colorform graphics, and you have some idea, old-fashioned control scheme and all, how "SPM" works.

James Logan's World Guard team on Sunday won its 10th straight gold medal at the annual Winter Guard International Color Guard Championships in Dayton, Ohio.

More than 300 color guards from 35 states, Canada and Japan competed in the WGI Color Guard Championships. The finals, on Sunday, were held at the University of Dayton Arena. Preliminary rounds of competition were held at the Nutter Center, Dayton Convention Center and James Trent Arena.

Click here for complete final results

California's high school Class of 2007 is doing better at passing the state-mandated exit exam than the Class of 2006, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell announced yesterday, and even though their traditional high school careers ended last June, the Class of 2006 is showing improvement, too.

O'Connell said that nearly half the students in the Class of 2006 who failed to pass the test before the end of their senior year have continued to try. Since May 2006, 4,797 more Class of 2006 students have gone on to pass the exam. As a result, the cumulative CAHSEE passing rate for the Class of 2006 is now an estimated 92.3 percent.

From www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk:
Juana Inés Ramírez was born in 1648 on the farmstead of San Miguel Nepantla on the slopes of the Popocatépetl volcano, some 60km from the capital of Nueva España (now México). She was the 'illegitimate' daughter of a criolla mother (Doña Isabel Ramírez de Santillana) and a Biscayan father (Pedro Manuel de Asbaje), and her four sisters and a brother (some of them by a different father) were also illegitimate.

Read some of Sor Juana's poetry, free from photoaspects.com