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Students…..Listen Carefully…...Regarding any attendance related items you may need to take care of, please report to your House Office. The windows in the Admin Office are no longer for this purpose!

Attention Students: The carpeted hallway is for traveling from one side of the school to the other. Students are not allowed to eat or loiter in the carpeted hallway.

Need Driver’s Education? Your place is the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, December 20, 21 & 22, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.

By Sean Zhu, Courier Correspondent

Candidates for the New Haven School Board responded to questions at a forum held at the New Haven Unified School District Education Services Center on October 8.

The incumbent Gwen Estes, along with Jerico Abanico, Linda Canlas and Sarabjit Cheema are all running for board positions. Abanico is an alumnus of James Logan High School; Canlas and Cheema are parents of New Haven students. Canlas has also served the district for over 20 years as a teacher, vice-principal and principal.

The questions posed can be divided into two categories: funding and student performance.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

There's a perfectly valid argument to be made in favor of "Despicable Me's" opening tutorial level, which holds players' hands at a pace that can generously be described as agonizing. The primary gameplay — straightforward 2D running and jumping — needs no introduction, but Gru's weapon (a multifunction raygun whose functions can be combined) and minions (those cute yellow guys, who help Gru solve puzzles and reach previously unreachable areas) justifiably merit some explanation.

By the end of the 20-minute tutorial, though, all the unskippable stopping and explaining is enough to make seasoned players wistful of the days when games had no scruples about dropping kids into a gauntlet and daring them to figure it out themselves.

By Tara Malone and Lisa Black
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

CHICAGO — With the election weeks away, Fremd High School teacher Jason Spoor asked students in his government class, some of them first-time voters, to research local candidates vying for office.

They would have 15 minutes and one learning tool: their cell phone.

"If you are driving down the street and headed to vote, you don't have a computer at the touch of a hand. You have a cell phone," Spoor told his students last week.

From wikipedia:
Samuel Lloyd Haynes (September 19, 1934 – December 31, 1986) was an African-American actor and television writer. Haynes was a member of the Bahá'í Faith.

Haynes served in the Marines from 1952–1964 and during the Korean War. He was a public-affairs officer for the Naval reserve with the rank of Commander.

See a summary of Lloyd Haynes' acting career, free from the Internet Movie Database.