The James Logan Courier

Courier Staff Report

Some James Logan students who are 18 years old are casting their first votes in today's election.

"It feels good to have a voice. It is one thing to listen to the news, but it's different being a part of it," said Justin Santos, a senior.

Eighteen-year-olds have had the right to vote since 1972, when President Richard Nixon the 26th Amendment, which lowered to voting age from 21 to 18.

By Etan Horowitz
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)

After a campaign that seems like it will never end, it's finally time for the nation to pick a new president. And if you're a political junkie, or just an average person with a few questions about the election, technology makes staying informed and active easier.

Here are a few tech tools to help you out:

By Tawab Fakhri, Courier Staff Writer

The James Logan high School administration has been cooking up a new system that will be very bad news to class cutters and tardy students. The school's new Automated Dialer System, known as ParentLink, will soon be up and running, reporting all tardy and uncleared absences that day to parents via phone.

Last year the previous automated attendance machine, which notified parents, was broken beyond repair. This opened an opportunity to retire the flawed machine, and replace it with a new system.

By Chad Brady, Courier Daily Editor

Elephants in Kenya are sending text messages to rangers to warn them if they get too close to villages.

Its a new sort of security system put in place by the Save the Elephants group, which works by setting up a virtual fence around villages using a global positioning system.

Whenever an elephant crosses this "fence", coming too close to the village, sensors in the elephant's collar detect it and send a text message to the phone of a local ranger, who then drives to where the elephant is and scares it away with the car's headlights.

LUNCH
Featured entrée selections include Pasta, Pizza, Chinese Dishes, Burgers, Spicy Chicken Patty & various Deli items. Lunches include a variety of fruits, veggies and milk.

MISCELLANEOUS
Tuesday, November 11th is Veterans’ Day. There will be no school. Monday, November 10th, is a regular school day.

A U.S. Naval Academy Candidate Awareness Seminar will be held on Sunday, Nov. 23, on the USS Hornet docked in Alameda. For more information and directions, pick up a flyer on the military table in the Career Center.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

Like an increasing number of games sophisticated enough to do so, "Fallout 3" trades in conscience, delivering one moral quandary after another and letting players tell the story on their own terms.

On paper alone, it's impressive. Bethesda claims "Fallout 3" has more than 200 possible end scenarios, and it's easy to see why. Your playing field — post-nuclear Washington, D.C. and surrounding areas — is gargantuan, and while a few linchpin characters are off-limits for storyline purposes, the overwhelming majority of them are fair game for whatever degree of good or evil (including death) you wish to impose. Between the lengthy main story and the ridiculous bounty of optional side missions, it's a given your character has so many possible fates.

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By Gail Pennington
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)

Jim Lehrer doesn't Twitter. At least, not yet.

But Lee Banville has hopes. As editor of the 12-year-old "Online NewsHour," Banville bridges the gap between traditional PBS viewers and twentysomethings who want news on demand.

On election night, while Lehrer is anchoring coverage on PBS, Banville and his "Online" team will be reaching out to an audience that's not necessarily anchored to the sofa. That means not just delivering election news to computers and phones and streaming "NewsHour" coverage on the website (www.pbs.org/newshour) but also partnering with YouTube on a video project and embracing Twitter as a reporting tool.

From wikipedia:
Scherrie Payne (born November 4, 1944 in Detroit, Michigan} is an African-American singer. The younger sister of singer/actress Freda Payne, Scherrie Payne was lead singer of The Supremes from 1973 to 1977, after Jean Terrell left the group in the fall of 1973. Payne is sometimes referred to as "the little lady with the big voice".

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