The James Logan Courier

By Zola Boyd, Courier Staff Writer

Recently I had the chance to try a new restaurant in Aptos, California, near Santa Cruz. Located in the Seascape Resort, the Sanderlings restaurant specializes in seafood but features an array of different dishes and wines for those over the age of twenty one. Unfortunately, though, my dining experience was far from spectacular.

By Shamal Asnani, Courier Films Editor

One of the first movies to be released in the New Year is Daybreakers, which was released January 8.

Although the movie's main focus involves vampires, Daybreakers definitely provides a different type of entertainment than other vampire related movies, such as Twilight. The movie takes place in the year 2019, when a plague has spread across a large percentage of the American population, turning them into vampires.

By Beatrice Esteban, Courier Staff Writer

Filipino food has always been a favorite of mine – and not just because I’m Filipino. There’s something about the diversity offered by Filipino food that I find difficult to parallel. The soups can be had in so many different ways: one can drink it straight as soup, mix it with rice, or even add other foods to enhance the flavor. The meats can be dipped in a variety of different sauces and cooked with a plethora of methods. It is quite possible that two people can order the same exact dish and have completely dissimilar experiences with it.

By Denise Martin and Joe Flint
Los Angeles Times (MCT)

LOS ANGELES — Simon Cowell is on the move.

"American Idol's" star judge and Fox plan to launch a U.S. version of his wildly popular British music talent show "The X Factor" in 2011, people close to the situation said. As a result, this year may be Cowell's last with a full-time presence on the nation's most popular television series, which begins its ninth season Tuesday.

Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (also known as Sonia Kovalevsky) (January 15, 1850 – February 10, 1891) was the first major Russian female mathematician and a student of Karl Weierstrass in Berlin. In 1884, she was appointed professor at Stockholm University, the third woman in Europe to become a professor.

Early years
Kovalevskaya was born in Moscow, Russia. Her father was Vasily Vasilievich Krukovsky (1800-1874), an artillery officer of Polish descent, later general and commander of the Kremlin arsenal. Krukovsky was a distant descendant of the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus; in 1858 the Russian authorities confirmed his noble status, and Krukovsky was permitted to change his surname to Korvin-Krukovsky, in other words, to add "Korvin" (the Krukowski's coats-of-arms) to his family name. "Korvin" comes from "Corvus" (Latin "crow"), and the Polish name "Krukovsky" comes from "kruk" (Polish "crow"), too.

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