The James Logan Courier

By Frank Davies
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)

WASHINGTON — Internet censorship around the world is becoming more pervasive and sophisticated, with government-directed content filtering documented in at least 25 countries, according to a comprehensive report to be released Friday.

Political, social and cultural content are the primary targets of censorship, along with applications such as Google Maps and the Internet phone program Skype, according to the OpenNet Initiative, a partnership of more than 50 researchers who conducted tests on Internet access in 41 countries.

The research, conducted in 2006 and early this year, identified six countries with "pervasive" filtering of political content: Burma, China, Iran, Syria, Tunisia and Vietnam.

By Mary Anne Ostrom
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)

SAN JOSE — In a sign of just how far politics on the Web has come, Google's YouTube will co-sponsor the first of six Democratic Party-sanctioned debates of the 2008 race.

The role of presidential debate sponsor, until this election season, has been reserved for mainstream television and print outlets and their Web sites. CNN is the television partner for the debate, scheduled for July 23 in Charleston, S.C.

But the dawn of the YouTube election, as the 2008 contest has been dubbed, in which candidates and Web users fuel political debate with videos, both serious and funny, is changing the definition of mainstream, especially as candidates and parties seek to engage young people.

LUNCH:
Chicken Caesar Wrap,
Milk, Baby Carrots, Fresh Fruit, Cookie, and Fun Chips

ACTIVITIES:
Jostens will be here today at lunch in Colt Court.

Thandi Stewart, a 9th grader, was selected to the World Youth Track & Field Team!! Thandi will represent the USA in the Czech Republic in July. Thandi has run 54.24 in the 400, and 2.10.70 in the 800.

By John Chau, Courier Managing Editor

The night settles, and stars rose into the tranquil sky. On the ground however a group of desperate survivors were loading their weapons, adding debris onto the pile that was the only barrier between walking bags of fresh meat,

And the legions of zombies that was your life.

The first rotting mounds inches forwards, and across the bunker gunfire erupted. With a ‘boomstick’, you dispatch the shambling form that once volunteered at the local animal shelter, backing away to reload. Morale is low: eight grown men knew they have little chance to survive against the filth that hammered at their walls, eager for their morsel in their damnation.

Courier Staff Report

James Logan’s scrappy, but young, varsity baseball team bowed out of the NCS championship tournament Saturday, ousted by Clayton Valley of Concord on a late-inning hit.

Logan battled to a tie in the game, 4-4, in the top of the final inning, but fell in the bottom of the inning, the seventh, when a walk turned into a run batted in for the Eagles.

Courier Staff Report

James Logan’s acclaimed Forensics team on Tuesday brought home three championship trophies, and new national Justin Kurup from the National Catholic Forensics Leagues Grand National Tournament held in Houston, Texas over the weekend.

The team won top trophies in individual, debate and combined events, a rare occurence at the annual tournament, which is attended by more than 2,000 students from around the country.

”We did very well,” said coach Tim Campbell, “We were champions.”

From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Frederick Schiller Faust, May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) was an American fiction author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns. Faust wrote mostly under pen names, and today he is primarily known by one, Max Brand. Others include George Owen Baxter, Martin Dexter, Evin Evans, David Manning, Peter Dawson, John Frederick, and Pete Morland.

Faust was born in Seattle and both his parents died soon after. He grew up in central California and later worked as a cowhand on one of the many ranches of the San Joaquin Valley. Faust attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he began to write frequently. He did not attain a degree, as he was deemed a troublemaker, and he began to travel extensively.

Read Harrigan by Max Brand, one of 13 of his books available free from Project Gutenberg.