The James Logan Courier

MISCELLANEOUS
STAR testing will be from April 23rd - 25th and 30th and May 1st, 3rd, and 4th. Please arrive to school on time for testing. Testing will occur in 3rd period classes, with some students testing in alternate locations. Check with your third period teacher if there are any questions.

Attention off-campus ROP students: This Friday is a furlough day for Logan, but not for Fremont ROP. Therefore, you must attend your Fremont classes, and yes, busing will be provided as usual. Next week is STAR testing and off-campus ROP students will be remaining on Logan’s campus on Monday and Tuesday for the STAR tests. Fremont ROP is aware of our STAR testing schedule, and you will be excused from your Fremont classes on those 2 days only. On Wednesday, ROP busing will start up again and everyone is to follow both the Logan and Fremont ROP schedules. There are no conflicts on this day, or any of the remaining STAR testing dates. If you have any doubts what to do, remember that Logan classes always take precedence over off-campus ROP classes, and when this occurs, Fremont ROP administration and teachers are well aware of the situation and you will be excused from your off-campus classes.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

No single gaming genre is mired in a longer slump than the Japanese role-playing game, which (scattered exceptions aside, naturally) has been consistently reeling for years.

"Xenoblade Chronicles" is the arguable slumpbuster — a massive adventure that arrives with significant fanfare and, instead of using that hype as a crutch, cashes it in to teach a tired genre some overdue new tricks. It liberally adopts concepts that have propelled Western RPGs forward, but merges them with a flavor and storytelling approach that leaves no doubt where its lineage lies.

Crucially, "Chronicles" lays most of it — a monstrous open world, versatile side quests, customizable armor and weaponry run wild — almost immediately at your feet following an opening sequence that's similarly generous with its combat system.

From Wikipedia:
Donald Christopher 'Chris' Barber (born 17 April 1930, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England) is best known as a jazz trombonist. As well as scoring a UK top twenty trad jazz hit he helped the careers of many musicians, notably the blues singer Ottilie Patterson, who was at one time his wife, and vocalist/banjoist Lonnie Donegan, whose appearances with Barber triggered the skiffle craze of the mid 1950s and who had his first transatlantic hit, "Rock Island Line", while with Chris Barber's band. His providing an audience for Donegan and, later, Alexis Korner makes Barber a significant figure in the British rhythm and blues and "Beat boom" of the 1960s.

The son of a statistician father and headmistress mother, Barber was educated at St Paul's School in London and the Guildhall School of Music.

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