The James Logan Courier

LUNCH
Check out the new menu items in “Creations.” Today is a Salsa Bar!

MISCELLANEOUS
Our annual Winter Canned Food Drive has started! Please donate canned foods, new toys, and/or money to your 2nd period class and help the families in need in our own community. The top 3 classes who collect the most donations will win a continental breakfast hosted by ASB Leadership. Check with your 2nd period teacher for details, and thank you for your generosity.

By Richard Seven

The Seattle Times (MCT)

SEATTLE — Texting over your cell phone works fine to instruct, remind or arrange a meet time. If you want company or context, however, you use it the old-fashioned way and speak. It's no different for the deaf and hard-of-hearing who sign. Texting works, but they want conversation, company and context.

That has spurred University of Washington researchers to work on developing software with processing power great enough to support real-time, two-way video on cell phones that allow signing communication. Supported mainly by grants from the National Science Foundation, the team plans to conduct further field studies on the device, called MobileASL (American Sign Language), next year.

By Kara McGuire
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)

The recession has many families cutting back spending on gifts this year. But with a little resourcefulness, those of you whose bank balances lack holiday cheer can give presents without adding to your debt or picking up a glue gun.

My favorite strategy of the lot is to use what Mark Lacek calls "the other American currency": loyalty points or miles earned through credit card rewards, store frequent-buyer clubs and airline mileage programs. Lacek, a partner at loyalty marketing company Denali Marketing in Minneapolis, estimates that more than half of the consumers who have earned rewards take advantage of them. But "it is very viable that a consumer could look at the balance in their credit card program and probably find many, many options" for gifts, he said.

By Jessica Stewart, Courier Editor-in-Chief

A James Logan senior hit by a car on her way to school this morning is recovering from her injuries at home after a brief visit to the hospital.

A little bit before seven this morning, Jamie Maxfield, one of the two editors-in-chief of The Courier, was crossing Alvarado Niles on the way to her first class.

Courier Staff Report

Making a tour of her new school district, New Haven's newly appointed superintendent, Kari McVeigh, visited James Logan Tuesday morning and met some of the school's staff.

On Monday, she visited Alvarado Elementary School, and after her Logan visit, she planned to visit Emanuele Elementary, the adult school and the food services center.

She'll be introduced to the district formally at a public reception in her honor from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the district office.

By Brier Dudley
The Seattle Times (MCT)

Buying high-tech gifts is really hard.

It's almost impossible to keep abreast of the latest gadgets and know which ones are getting long in the tooth.

Deals are everywhere nowadays. Yet the frenzy is also clearing shelves to make way for next year's models.

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

If you fell madly in love with "Animal Crossing" when it debuted six years ago on the Gamecube, you might want to sit down. Because while Nintendo still loves you and treasures your company, it wants to see other people.

For the uninitiated — which was everyone back in 2002 — the joy of playing "Crossing" is almost impossible to understand until you give it a firsthand whirl. You star as a human character living in a neighborhood full of talking animals, and the purpose of the game, which has no end goal, is to be a good neighbor while earning money to afford a nicer house and all manner of things with which to stock it.

From wikipedia:
Donald Lee Hollowell (Dec. 9, 1917 - Dec. 27, 2004) was a civil rights attorney in the State of Georgia.

Early life and Education
Donald Hollowell was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas, and earned a high school diploma while serving six years in the U.S. Army's 10th Cavalry Regiment (the original Buffalo Soldier regiment). Although in Kansas, Hollowell did not encounter the racist Jim Crow laws of the South, he faced blatant racism and discrimination while serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. Hollowell recounted that “army officials relegated him to eating in the kitchen, sleeping in quarters adjacent to prisoners, and patronizing Jim Crow canteens.”



Watch an interview with Donald Hollowell, free from the University of Georgia.