The James Logan Courier

By Alexa Rocero, Courier Staff Writer

Every Halloween, youth of all ages rule the nighttime, running from door to door in search of free candy. This year, however, Logan teacher Michelle Galaria is proposing something a little different, called a “reverse trick-or-treat.”

A reverse trick-or-treat is where a student, in the event of receiving a piece of chocolate as a treat, would in turn hand the giver a flier. This flier explains how most chocolate companies do not follow fair trade laws. They would then hand their neighbor a piece of fair trade chocolate and encourage them to buy it in the future.

By Anthony Colarossi
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)

TAVARES, Fla. — On the YouTube video-sharing Web site, Edward Muscare is known by his user name "Edarem," and his recordings show an older man lip syncing and singing songs such as Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman." Many of them have drawn hundreds of thousands of page views.
Muscare's online fame, though, helped land him back in jail.

Muscare's videos have become so viral that law enforcement in Florida and South Carolina, where he has been living, became aware of his online presence. The former Lake County, Fla., resident was jailed for violating probation and for not complying with conditions related to his status as a registered sex offender.

By Mike Swift
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Google launched a new product Monday that will allow users to find recently updated public online postings by a person's network of friends, colleagues or media sources.

The goal of "Social Search," which came Monday afternoon at http://www.google.com/experimental, is to find relevant postings on Twitter, in blogs or other public Web content published by a user's circle of online colleagues.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

Say this for "Saw's" video game debut: Be it on purpose or by accident, it pretty bluntly captures (as best a video game can, anyway) what it must feel like to find yourself trapped inside one of the Jigsaw Killer's traps.

Mostly, that's to the game's credit. From the very first moment "Saw" cedes control to the player, you're trapped inside a puzzle, and the only assistance the game provides is a simple overview of the basic controls. The puzzle isn't exactly a mindbender, but it is smarter than your typical "hit switch to open door," and it's awfully nice to see the game respect its audience's intelligence and expect players to figure their way out without help.

ACTIVITIES
Anyone interested in playing boys soccer should see Coach Sills in Room 73 and attend open field after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Boys Basketball is hosting open gym on Tuesdays & Thursdays from 6 to 9 p.m. Boys and girls wishing to play basketball are welcome to come.

Boys Basketball tryouts are Mon.–Weds. 11/9 –11/11. Any young man wishing to try out must have a completed physical packet turned in to Coach Fortenberry prior to 11/9.

From the New Haven E-News:

Superintendent Kari McVeigh will host the first in a series of after-school forums for staff members today, and an evening forum for parents is scheduled next week.

Staff members who work on the west side of Interstate 880 are invited to join the Superintendent at 2:50 p.m. today in the Media Center at Alvarado Middle School. Ms. McVeigh will answer questions and receive comments in a session scheduled specifically for employees at Alvarado, Eastin and Pioneer elementary schools, Alvarado Middle, the Cabello Student Support Center, the Corporation Yard and Food Services.

From wikipedia:
Emily Post (October 27, 1872 – September 25, 1960) was an American author on etiquette.

Post was born as Emily Price in Baltimore, Maryland, into privilege as the only daughter of architect Bruce Price and his wife Josephine Lee Price. She was educated at home and attended Miss Graham's finishing school in New York, where her family had moved. She met Edwin Post, her husband-to-be, at a ball in one of Fifth Avenue’s elegant mansions. Following a fashionable wedding and a honeymoon tour of the Continent, Mrs. Post’s first home was in New York’s Washington Square. The couple had two sons, Edwin Main Post, Jr. (1893) and Bruce Price Post (1895). The couple divorced in 1905, because of her husband's affairs with chorus girls and fledgling actresses, which had made him the target of blackmail.


Read Etiquette, by Emily Post, one of two of her works available free from Project Gutenberg.