The James Logan Courier

MISCELLANEOUS
Attention AP students: Time to sign up for AP testing. Come to the main office windows in Colt Court between February 28 and March 18. See Sarah Muse to pay for your exams at lunch or after school until 3:50 p.m. Your AP teacher has detailed information.

Attention TAs: TA passes are ready for periods 0 through 7. Please pick yours up from Mrs. Whitaker during your TA period only.

Need Driver’s Ed? Your place is at the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday; April 4, 5 & 6, 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 Brian McCollum
Detroit Free Press (MCT)

DETROIT — Spider Stacy knows it's been a while.

"Sorry about that, Detroit," the Pogues cofounder says immediately after picking up the phone at his London home, sounding almost sheepish. "It's been way too long."

For Michigan fans of the Pogues, the iconic group that singlehandedly launched the Celtic-punk genre in the 1980s, it's been an eon indeed: The band's definitive lineup hasn't played here since a 1989 show in Ann Arbor, when vocalist Shane MacGowan — one of rock's all-time debauched front men — was too drunk to make it through the night's first song. He was booted from the band two years later.

From wikipedia:
Charles Ponzi (March 3, 1882 – January 18, 1949) was born in Italy and became known as a swindler for his money scheme. His aliases include Charles Ponei, Charles P. Bianchi, Carl and Carlo. The term "Ponzi scheme" was coined because of Charles Ponzi's scam and today it is the description of any scam that pays early investors returns from the investments of later investors. Charles Ponzi promised clients a 50% profit within 45 days, or 100% profit within 90 days, by buying discounted postal reply coupons in other countries and redeeming them at face value in the United States as a form of arbitrage. Ponzi was probably inspired by the scheme of William F. Miller, a Brooklyn bookkeeper who in 1899 used the same scheme to take in $1 million.

Read more about "Ponzi schemes," free from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.