The James Logan Courier

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Both Emanuele and Kitayama Elementary are in need of student volunteers for their upcoming Math & Science Nights. For more information, see postings on Logan’s website under the College/Career Center link, or pick up fliers in the Career Center.

This week ROP buses will be running on their regular schedule. However, on Monday, January 23rd there will be NO bus service to MVROP and students will have to find their own transportation. While Logan will not be in session on January 23rd, MVROP will be, and students enrolled in Fremont classes are expected to attend.

By Yari Nieves-Rivera,Courier Staff Reporter

The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins, is a far more gripping novel than the title may suggest. The first in the Hunger Games trilogy, this book is bound to keep you entertained and hooked.

From the moment I started reading, I just couldn't put it back down. It leaves you hanging on every sentence and every word. What's most shocking is the realization once you finish reading the series; this could be the future, and its really possible for it to all happen.

In the country of Panem (a post-apocalyptic version of North America), there are thirteen districts, and the Capitol. After a global Nuclear War destroyed most of the Earth, Panem was created. Seventy five years before the novel began, a rebellion sparked up against the Capitol and District Thirteen was completely obliterated, an example to those who attempted to rebel against their leaders. Because of the Dark Days, as the rebellion is called in the book, the Hunger Games were created as a reminder that rebellions are futile.

By Mike Fischer
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)

Read any good North Korean fiction lately?

I didn't think so.

In Adam Johnson's "The Orphan Master's Son," a terrific new novel about life under North Korea's recently deceased Kim Jong Il, we're told why:

"Real stories," "human ones," "could get you sent to prison, and it didn't matter what they were about." If a story "diverted emotion from the Dear Leader, it was dangerous."

Pak Jun Do, titular hero of Johnson's novel, therefore spends his formative years sticking to the script written for him. As an early mentor instructs him, "if a man and his story are in conflict" in North Korea, "it is the man who must change."

From wikipedia:
Thomas Augustus Watson (January 18, 1854 – December 13, 1934) was an assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, notably in the invention of the telephone in 1876. He is best known because his name was one of the first words spoken over the telephone. "Mr. Watson - Come here - I want to see you." were the first words Bell said using the new invention, according to Bell's laboratory notebook. There is some dispute about the actual words used, as Thomas Watson, in his own voice, remembered it as "Mr. Watson - Come here - I want you," in a film made for Bell Labs in 1931 which is referenced below in "The Engines of our Ingenuity."

Born in Salem, Massachusetts, United States Watson was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston. He was then hired by Alexander Graham Bell, who was then a professor at Boston University.

Listen to Thomas A. Watson describe the development of the first telephone, free from Project Gutenberg.