The James Logan Courier

LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!

MISCELLANEOUS
HopeConnections elections meeting today in Room 521. This will be the last meeting of the year!

Devry University will have an info table in Colt Ct today during lunch.

By Melanie Blanco, Courier Staff Writer

On May 9th, Johnny Rodelas was in a tragic accident on Central Avenue in Union City. He was so young and still had such a wonderful life to look forward to. Many of you probably know Johnny because of his sense of humor and great smile. There was never a time in life that he would get mad or hold grudges.

As many of you already know, many of Johnny's friends shared their time together on Monday May 11th, in the Spot. At this time teachers, counselors, friends and family got up in front of all of Johnny's fellow classmates and loved ones and shared their memories, which will never be forgotten. Everyone was given a chance to sign posters and make cards for the family.

The Yomiuri Shimbun (MCT)

TOKYO — The uproar over a Japanese video game featuring the rape of two girls and their mother has led to increased calls by the public to more strictly regulate child pornography.

Although the sale of the rape game has been suspended in response to a protest from an international human rights organization, a large number of similar games are still on sale across the country.

In the computer game, developed and first sold in 2006 by a Yokohama-based game software maker, a player gropes two girls — who appear to be teenagers — and their mother while in a subway carriage, then confines and rapes the three, making them pregnant. The player then forces the three to terminate their pregnancies.

By Jericho Faustino, Courier Daily Editor

In the large scale WW2 strategic game, Order of War, you command either the Axis or Allies. The developers Wargaming.net has partnered with Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix in hopes to create a comparably epic game. Order of War offers huge battles in both single-player and multiplayer with upwards of 1.000 soldiers actively fighting.

The game has been in development for some three and a half years; in fact, it has been released in Russia under the name "Operation Bagration." Although "Operation Bagration" only had Eastern Front combat, it still went on to win several Russian gamer community awards.

Velvet Assassin
Reviewed for: Xbox 360
Also available for: Windows PC
From: Replay Studios/Southpeak Games
By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)


ESRB Rating: Mature (blood, strong language, intense violence, use of drugs)

Provided you have your wits about you, "Velvet Assassin" — which loosely takes its inspiration from the heroic efforts of World War II Allied Forces secret agent Violette Szabo — is a game with small issues that only occasionally prove troublesome to the overall experience. That's saying something, because if there's a kind of game that really can't afford to get sloppy, it's a stealth action game that, like this one, penalizes you hard for your own lack of self-discipline.

From wikipedia:
Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH, (May 19, 1879 – May 2, 1964) was the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the British House of Commons. (Constance Markiewicz was the first woman elected to serve in the House of Commons after running for the Sinn Féin party in 1918, but in line with Sinn Féin policy she did not take her seat.) She was the wife of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor.

Astor was born Nancy Witcher Langhorne in Danville, Virginia, in the United States. Her father was Chiswell Dabney Langhorne and her mother was Nancy Witcher Keene. Her father's earlier business venture had depended at least in part upon slave labor and had been badly damaged by the fallout from the American Civil War, causing the family to live in near-poverty for several years before Nancy was born. After her birth her father began working to regain the family wealth, first with a job as an auctioneer and later with a job that he obtained with the railroad by using old contacts from his work as a contractor. By the time she was thirteen years old, the Langhornes were again a rich family with a sizeable home. Chiswell Langhorne later moved the family to their estate, known as Mirador, in Albemarle County, Virginia.