The James Logan Courier

LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Cheese & Pepperoni pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, Burritos!


MISCELLANEOUS
Do you like helping others? Do you have time to spare at lunch? Are you in need of Community Service hours? If you just answered YES to these 3 questions, then how about helping Ms. McCombs and her students in Room 88 during either 4th or 5th period lunch?

PSAT scores are back. Pick yours up in the Career Center.

By Liz Sly
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

BEIRUT — President-elect Barack Obama's silence on the eight-day-old offensive in Gaza is drawing criticism among Arabs who have grown skeptical about hopes that his administration will break with the Mideast policies of the Bush era.

Obama, who is moving to Washington this weekend, was on vacation in Hawaii when the crisis erupted and has made no statements, either about Israel's assault on Gaza or Palestinian rocket attacks against Israel. His aides say that he does not wish to address foreign policy issues in any way that could send "confusing signals" about U.S. policy as long as President George W. Bush is in office.

"The president-elect is closely monitoring global events, including the situation in Gaza. There is one president at a time, and we intend to respect that," Brooke Anderson, chief national security spokeswoman for the Obama transition team, said Saturday.

The Tao of Sunday, by Idy Tao, Courier Daily Editor

Sketchbook by Suzanne Wu, Courier Staff Writer

From wikipedia:
Louis Braille (pronounced /ˈbreɪl/ in English, [bʁɑj] in French; January 4, 1809 – January 6, 1852) was the inventor of braille[1], a world-wide system used by blind and visually impaired people for reading and writing. Braille is read by passing the fingers over characters made up of an arrangement of one to six embossed points. It has been adapted to almost every known language.

Louis Braille became blind at the age of 3, when he accidentally stabbed himself in one eye with an awl, one of his father's workshop tools and got an infection, the other eye went blind from the infection spreading to it. At the age of 10, Braille earned a scholarship to the Royal Institution for Blind Youth in Paris, one of the first of its kind in the world. However, the conditions in the school were not notably better. Louis was served stale bread and water, and students were sometimes abused or locked up as a form of punishment.


Read excerpts from Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille by Russell Freedman, free from googlebooks.