The James Logan Courier

LUNCH:
Chicken Caesar Wrap, Milk, Baby Carrots, Fresh Fruit, Cookies, Fun Chips

ACTIVITY:
ASB elections are this Friday, March 16, in your second period class. All grades vote!!

PE students - check the top ten 1600 meter times in the Boys & Girls Locker Rooms. Congratulations to all students who made this impressive list!

Wednesday's Minimum Day Schedule

By Eric Benderoff
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

This week's column is a collection of odds and ends from a tech reporter's inbox. Let's start with the odd:

EVERYTHING iPOD: The iPod continues to push our culture forward in significant ways. No longer is bringing reading material to the bathroom enough; now you can have a soundtrack.

Just pop your iPod into this dock built in to the toilet-paper holder. It comes with moisture-free speakers but is powered by batteries. So don't spend too much time lost in reverie.

Game Informer Magazine (MCT)

IPTV on Xbox 360
Manufacturer: Microsoft
Web site: www.xbox.com
List price: TBD

At January's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft's Bill Gates unveiled a new functionality for the Xbox 360. The company is planning to debut an IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) service before the end of the year that will allow the platform to act as a digital video recorder similar to TiVo, so users can record and watch TV programs. This new functionality works seamlessly with the 360. For instance, users can play 360 games while recording a favorite TV show or watch TV while talking with someone on their 360 friends list. Users will also have access to Xbox Live Marketplace, and the service would enable picture-in-picture channel browsing, movies and TV on demand, and searches for specific actors or directors.

James Logan's daily online student newspaper, The Courier, received the one millionth hit on its website Monday night, just less than a year after it started posting stories there.

The newspaper started operating at www.jameslogancourier.org on March 20, 2006. As of this morning, the site had received 1,003,433 hits, according to The Courier's website traffic analysis program, Webalizer. Almost 67,000 visits have been paid to the site, according to the software.

"It's a great improvement in such a short time," said Sports Editor Jezza Pimentel.

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

MLB 07: THE SHOW
For: Playstation 2 and PSP (coming April for PS3)
From: Sony
ESRB Rating: Everyone

It was always a little disappointing that the coolest part of Sony's so-so basketball game — the rags-to-riches career mode — wasn't instead instilled into its endlessly-better-than-so-so baseball franchise. The career mode in "MLB 06" was terrific, but it lacked the lone-wolf mentality that could really set it apart.

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (March 13, 1884 - June 1, 1941) was an English novelist.

He was born in Auckland in New Zealand and educated in England at the King's School, Canterbury and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He worked as a teacher before turning to writing full time. His first novel was The Wooden Horse (1909), with Fortitude (1913) his first great success. He worked for the Red Cross in Russia during World War I, experiences which fed his The Dark Forest (1916) and The Secret City (1919). The latter won the inaugural James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

Read The Dark Forest by Sir Hugh Walpole, one of nine of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.