The James Logan Courier

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P.E. Clothes and BART tickets will only be sold after school from 3:30 to 4:00 p.m. No exceptions! Plan ahead! Check or EXACT CHANGE ONLY.

Attention TAs – If you have not registered with Mrs. Whitaker regarding your TA assignment, you must do so ASAP. Mrs. Whitaker is located in the main office.

Attention AP Students: Time to sign up for AP testing. Come to the main office between February 22 and March 12. See Sarah Muse to pay for your exams at lunch or after school until 4:15. Your AP teacher has detailed information.

By Ocar Avila
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

CHICAGO — Kitchen worker Carlos Garcia envies the waiters who make more money and suffer fewer aches than those like him in the "back of the house." The very term, common in restaurants, speaks to a divide that is conspicuous yet often overlooked by diners.

The division of labor plays out in Chicago steakhouses and sports pubs: Taking the order or seating the clients is the girl next door or a suave older man, most likely white, while a cadre of young Mexican men construct the meal behind the scenes.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

It isn't very original to half-dismiss "Dante's Inferno" as a "God of War" knockoff, but guess what? "Dante's Inferno" isn't very original, either, because guess what? In every way beyond the source material that inspired its storyline, "Inferno" is the "God of War" knockoff to end all "God of War" knockoffs.

It's good to preface this by stating that this isn't necessarily a bad thing or even a criticism, because for the most part, "Inferno" pays pretty good tribute to the game that so obviously provided its blueprint. Dante executes his arsenal of moves with the same fluidity as does Kratos, and "Inferno" tosses nine circles' worth of demons, behemoths and the damned at him without any wear whatsoever on the action, which cruises along at the same rock steady frame rate for which "War" is so well known (and, to Visceral Games' credit, few "War" imitators get remotely right).
Though some will never see the transformation of the 14,000-line, 14th century Divine Comedy into a high-octane video game as anything short of blasphemous (and though they certainly have an argument), "Inferno" doesn't trample the poem's memory as it so easily could.

By Laurel Brodzinsky, Courier Staff Writer

The National Merit Scholarship is one of the most prestigious and acknowledged awards for students, but is also one of the simplest to qualify for. Christina Chang and Haotian Wang, both seniors at James Logan, are both National Merit Finalists.

To qualify for the scholarship, you must be a US citizen or legal resident and take the PSAT/NMSQT no later than your junior year in high school. This test is commonly taken as preparation for the SAT, which is used in college admittance, but the high scores of every year are also all it takes to be in the first cut of National Merit students. The PSAT measures critical reading, math problem solving skills, and writing skills.

From wikipedia:
Edward Davis (March 2, 1922–November 3, 1986), who performed and recorded as Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

He played with Cootie Williams, Lucky Millinder, Andy Kirk, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie, as well as leading his own bands and making many recordings as a leader. He played in the swing, bop, hard bop, Latin jazz, and soul jazz genres. Some of his recordings of the 1940s also could be classified as rhythm and blues.

His 1946 band, Eddie Davis and His Beboppers, featured Fats Navarro, Al Haig, Huey Long, Gene Ramey and Denzil Best.

Watch Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis perform with Count Basie, free from YouTube.com.