The James Logan Courier

By Tawab Fakhri, Courier Staff Writer

In the current console wars, things have been more heated than ever. The big three gaming companies are bringing out the big guns for the nex-gen systems and looking for the big Christmas cash-in.

Things have calmed down a bit recently in these months before the holiday rush. Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo have yet to slip up in a crippling way. For the most part, their products have been running smoothly. So everyone is at a staring contest, waiting for the holiday cash to start rolling in. Nintendo just blinked.

By Samuel Jue, Courier Staff Writer

Last week, Olympic track star Marion Jones relinquished her five medals won at the Summer Games of 2000 after pleading guilty to steroid use.

On October 5th, Jones made a public apology to her supporters about her choices and her actions.

"I have let [my family] down. I have let my country down, and I have let myself down,” A teary‑eyed Jones said in her address.

Jones had previously stated that she had never taken any steroids in her career. Even with this said, many still questioned the truth. In 2003, Jones appeared among a Grand Jury investigating BALCO. Jones told the court that she had never used performance‑enhancing drugs when she was asked.

LUNCH: Cheeseburger, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
Main Cafeteria Pizza: Pork Sausage, Bell Peppers, Mushrooms, Fresh Tomato, Olives

Wednesday's Minimum Day Schedule
Period Time
0 07:39 –08:33
1 08:40 – 09:18
2 09:25 – 10:08
Break 10:08 – 10:18
3 10:18 – 10:56
4/5 11:03 – 11:41
6 11:48 – 12:26
7 12:33 – 01:11
Lunch 01:11 – 01:41


ACTIVITIES:
Pay your CSF fee this week in Room 453 before or after school or during your lunch.

If you signed up for wrestling, you must have your clearance form completed by Nov. 1. If you still want to sign up, get the information from Coach Bagaoisan in the Boys PE Office.

Guest passes for the Homecoming dance are in your House Office. Completed and signed forms must be returned to your House Principal by October 24.

Courier Staff Report

The weather cooperated with clear and sunny skies Tuesday, as the senior class skipped first period classes to take to the home stands in the Judson E. Taylor stadium to pose for their annual panoramic picture.

The picture is usually taken in the Spring, but was moved up to today in order to include the resulting photo in the yearbook.


Click here for a higher resolution version of the picture.
Courier Photo

By Mike Wendland
Detroit Free Press (MCT)

The personal technology device that has most rocked my world this year is not the iPhone but a very affordable shirt-pocket-sized video camera called the Flip. Now a new model, the Flip Ultra, should appeal to an even wider audience.

Other than some software tweaks that make it faster to connect with computers and the Internet, the Flip Ultra doesn't offer a lot of changes from the previous one, which was released this spring. But it appears to have solved my one criticism of the old one, which got pretty dinged up with use.

The Flip came in a sort of brushed aluminum finish that was easily scratched. The new models appear much more scratch-resistant and they come in different colors.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

`THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: PHANTOM HOURGLASS'
For: Nintendo DS
From: Nintendo
ESRB: Everyone (fantasy violence)

"The Legend of Zelda" and "Diablo" are proud to announce the birth of their first child, "The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass."

At least, that's what "Hourglass" feels like. Nintendo has gone hog-wild in delivering a "Zelda" game with all-stylus controls, right down to Link's movement and swordplay. Some annoying but small missteps aside, the gamble pays off.

From wikipedia:

Allan Ramsay (October 15, 1686 – January 7, 1758) was a Scottish poet.

Life and career
Allan Ramsay was born at Leadhills, Lanarkshire to John Ramsay, superintendent of Lord Hopetoun's lead-mines and his wife, Alice Bower, a native of Derbyshire. He was educated at the parish school of Crawford, and in 1701 was apprenticed to a wig-maker in Edinburgh. He married Christian Ross in 1712; a few years after he had established himself as a wig-maker (not as a barber, as has been often said) in the High Street, and soon found himself in comfortable circumstances. They had six children. His eldest child was Allan Ramsay, the portrait painter.

Read Allan Ramsay's The Gentle Shepherd: A Scots Pastoral Comedy, free from google books.