The James Logan Courier

By Maria Soldana, Courier Staff Writer

In James Logan Drama's most recently performed play, The Diviners, Buddy Layman, played by junior Skyler Lee, is a young boy who nearly loses his life in a river while with his mother drowns. Buddy is left traumatized by this near death experience and develops a horrible fear of all water.

A former priest, C.C. Showers, played by Marcos Enriquez, comes along to Buddy's house looking for a job and tries helping Buddy get over his grand fear of water. In the end, Showers is successful because he gets Buddy to get into a river to wash, something Buddy doesn't do much on account of his fear. Showers turns his attention away from Buddy to yell at a group of women who believe that he is still a priest is baptizing Buddy. Tragedy ensues.

MISCELLANEOUS

Congratulations to the Junior Varsity Girls Soccer Team for taking 2nd place in the first Logan JV Soccer Tournament.

Congratulations to the Varsity Wrestling Team for winning the Falcon Dual at Freedom High School. The Colts won five dual meets en route to winning the tournament. Good luck at this weekend’s Elk Grove Invitational.

For new volunteer opportunities for December. Check listings on Logan website, or pick up a flyer in the Career Center.

Los Angeles Times (MCT)

LOS ANGELES — Zynga Inc., creator of "FarmVille" and other social games, is preparing to reap a billion-dollar bumper crop from its initial public offering after company executives spend the next two weeks trying to convince potential investors that their 4-year-old firm is worth $9 billion or more.

The valuation of the San Francisco online game publisher, derived from documents filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, would put Zynga's value on par with Electronic Arts Inc.'s $7.7 billion, even though EA's revenue is roughly three times that of Zynga's.

From wikipedia:
John Singleton Mosby (December 6, 1833 – May 30, 1916), nicknamed the "Gray Ghost", was a Confederate cavalry battalion commander in the American Civil War. His command, the 43rd Battalion, 1st Virginia Cavalry, known as Mosby's Rangers or Mosby's Raiders, was a partisan ranger unit noted for its lightning quick raids and its ability to elude Union Army pursuers and disappear, blending in with local farmers and townsmen. The area of northern central Virginia in which Mosby operated with impunity was known during the war and ever since as Mosby's Confederacy. After the war, Mosby worked as an attorney and supported his former enemy's commander, President Ulysses S. Grant, serving as the U.S. consul to Hong Kong and in the Department of Justice.

Mosby was born in Powhatan County, Virginia, to Virginia McLaurine Mosby and Alfred Daniel Mosby, a graduate of Hampden-Sydney College. His father was a member of an old Virginia family of English origin whose ancestor, Richard Mosby, was born in England in 1600 and settled in Charles City, Virginia in the early 17th century. Mosby was named after his paternal grandfather, John Singleton.

Read "Col. John Mosby and the Southern code of honor," free from the University of Virginia.