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Today marks the second day of Achievement Week, where we celebrate academic achievement! Today we are honoring all of our students who are on the Honor Roll with a 3.0 to 3.74 GPA. We are proud that you are maintaining a high GPA and striving for success!

All students! Mark your calendars for Thursday night! All students are welcome to come with their parents. We have an NCAA workshop for student athletes, community colleges, 4 year colleges, and lots of great information. Food! Performances! A chance to connect with your teachers! Please come! There will be a bbq at 5:00. Come and support the Marketing Academy!

Congratulations and good luck Varsity Girls Soccer for making NCS and hosting. Come support the Lady Colts tonight at 7:00 p.m. in Logan’s stadium.

By Omar Alimi, Courier Correspondent

In the world of synthesizers, DJ’s, and house music, the OP-1 by Teenage Engineering has become the object of desire for many not only because of its sleek look or compactness, but because of the new capabilities it brings as a synthesizer.

The OP-1 was scheduled for an early 2011 date, priced at $800 in the United States. In just a few weeks, Teenage Engineering has already run out of stock for this wonderful synthesizer. The synthesizer started out ten years ago as a from a group of dedicated Swedish musicians and engineers who came together to make something that no one else has. The group has surely made something in a new completely new category.

By Jeremy Roebuck
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)

PHILADELPHIA — She wished in her personal blog that she could call students "ratlike," "frightfully dim" or "dunderheads" on their report cards. But administrators at Central Bucks High School East wish she had never said anything at all.

Principal Abram Lucabaugh assured students at an assembly Thursday that the blog posts English teacher Natalie Munroe made did not reflect the attitude of the school's faculty.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

Everyone makes third-person shooters now. But nobody has made anything like 2008's "Dead Space," which took a suddenly oversaturated genre, doused it in ingredients normally reserved for horror games, and turned that combination into a brutally claustrophobic shooter with a fiction that puts most contemporary science fiction to shame.

"Dead Space 2" expands its playing field from a solitary spaceship under siege to an enclosed space city that's been left in ruin by the invading mutant Necromorphs (who, depending on your interpretations of the first game's events, are either evil incarnate or victims of fanaticism gone obscenely wrong). But while the environment is larger and more diverse — a point driven home by portions of the game that take place in wide-open, zero-gravity space — the storytelling is considerably more personal.

From wikipedia:
Leland Devon Melvin (February 15, 1964, Lynchburg, Virginia) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. He served on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis as a mission specialist on STS-122, and as mission specialist 1 on STS-129.

Melvin attended the Heritage High School and then went on to the University of Richmond on a football scholarship, where he received a bachelor's degree in Chemistry. In 1991, he received a Master of Science degree in Materials Science Engineering from the University of Virginia. His parents, Deems and Grace Melvin, reside in Lynchburg, Virginia. His recreational interests include photography, piano, reading, music, cycling, tennis, and snowboarding.

Read an interview with Leland Melvin, free from National Public Radio.