The James Logan Courier

LUNCH
Featured entrée selections include Pasta, Pizza, Chicken Chow Mein, Beef Teriyaki, Burgers, Spicy Chicken Patty & various Deli items. Lunches include a variety of fruits, veggies and milk.

MISCELLANEOUS
The Logan Health Center will be closed on Thursday, 9/25 and Friday, 9/26. The Health Center will reopen on Monday, 9/29.

National Guard recruiters will be in Colt Court today during lunch.

Union City Library is looking for volunteer tutors to work with elementary and middle school students. Information flyers are available in the Career Center.

School pictures are in! Come pick them up today in Colt Court during lunch.

By Tawab Fakhri, Courier Assistant Editor

The hint of fall in the air recently signals the start of the seemingly never-ending cycle of youngsters and their parents getting serious about school, which unfortunately means a dramatic decrease of overnighter frag fests and questing.

To fill the emptiness and hollowness of life without all day and all night gaming, players can turn their attentions to wanting, as in wanting the new games due this winter.

That'll be just in time for the holiday gift-giving, game-buying season. To give gamers something to buy, a large array of new generation RPG’s is flowing out once again, in addition to new battle systems which are growing increasingly popular, after the breakthrough Final Fantasy 12.

By Patrick May
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)

SAN JOSE, Calif. — They called it the Fresno Drop.

Fifty years ago this month, Bank of America mass-mailed to nearly every home in Fresno, Calif., a small piece of plastic called the BankAmericard. The credit card had arrived, a shiny corkscrew for each recipient to unbottle thousands of dollars in spending money that hadn't existed before they ripped open those envelopes.

That first taste went right to Fresno's head. By the second year, cardholders had racked up nearly $60 million in purchases. BankAmericard morphed into the Visa powerhouse. And a half-century later, as America embraced and then exported the concept of buying things with money folks didn't necessarily have, the whole world has gotten tipsy.

By Emma Graves Fitzsimmons and Bonnie Miller Rubin
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

CHICAGO — Lauren Pfeiffer said she doesn't have to worry about what's on her Facebook profile, but she can't say the same about her fellow students.

"Some of my friends could get in trouble with their photos," said the junior at Andrew High School in Tinley Park, Ill. "I wouldn't want it to be a deciding factor in their future."

The idea that a lapse in cyber-judgment could alter a life trajectory might once have been dismissed as paranoia.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)


In terms of features alone, "Facebreaker" easily signifies a turning point not only in boxing games, but fighting games in general.

That is entirely a credit to the game's boxer creation engine, which provides a sky-high level of freedom in terms of creating the pugilist of your dreams or a fighter entirely in your image. For those seeking the latter, "Facebreaker" allows you to import headshots via the Xbox Vision cam, the Playstation Eye or EA Sports' community Web site.

For those less creatively inclined, "Facebreaker" also lets players download boxers others have designed and uploaded to EA's servers. The game sorts user creations by a number of criteria, making it easy for anyone to stockpile their game with an endless parade of astonishingly good representations of real and fictional characters.

From wikipedia:
George Jackson (September 23, 1941 – August 21, 1971) was a Black American militant who became a member of the Black Panther Party while in prison, where he spent the last 12 years of his life. He was one of the Soledad Brothers and achieved fame due to a book of published letters.

Born in Chicago Illinois, Jackson spent time in the Youth Authority Corrections facility in Paso Robles because of several convictions. He was convicted of armed robbery, a felony, for robbing a gas station at gunpoint and at age 18 was sentenced to serve one year to life in prison.

Read excerpts from George Jackson's book, Blood in My Eye, free from googlebooks.com.