The CMS Courier - Punahou School

The Case Middle School
Courier
Volume 4
Issue 6
June
2008
Produced by the Students of Punahou School, 1601 Punahou Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Aloha Nui Loa
e Mahalo
“What we’re
experiencing this
year is a fairly
healthy, typical
pattern of a
vibrant school.”
—Principal Walker
New Experiment
in the Snack Bar
Above, these ladies need an hour to
prepare your food. At right, here’s
how the Snack Bar provides drinks.
Photos by K. Chagami
By Natalie Moore
A
t the end of this year, some of
Punahou’s best Junior School
teachers will be leaving, and new
ones will have been “Skyped”
aboard.
The CMS Courier interviewed
Mr. Walker, the Junior School
Principal, on how the leaving teachers affect the
school.
According to Mr.
Walker, the number of
teachers leaving this
year is pretty typical.
“What we’re experiencing this year is a
fairly healthy, typical
pattern of a vibrant
school,” he said.
For example, 8th
grade social studies
teacher, Mrs. Barbara
Jamile, has taught at Punahou
for over thirty years [see story on
page 13]. According to Mr. Walker,
you can’t just replace thirty years
of wisdom and perspective, so you
need to achieve a balance between
experienced teachers and new
teachers with fresh ideas.
We need to honor and celebrate
the leaving teachers and embrace
and support the joining teachers,
Mr. Walker said.
And then, there’s always the
question about what will be done
to fill the leaving teachers’ places.
With all the technology, it has
By Katelyn Chagami
W
hen you’re hungry, where do
you go to get a snack? The
Snack Bar, right? If you haven’t
lately, you’ve got to get some
money and head over.
Look for the new menu. The
menu has been changed
from only one special per
day to 10-15 specials
per day.
According to the Director of Food Services,
Mrs. Marcia Wright, she
decided to change some
things.
First, she said, she
wanted to keep students
from being bored with
the menu. Also, she
wanted to use healthier
items and to do that,
she needed more staff
to help put together the
healthier foods. She also
had to take off a few
unhealthy snacks, including pizza,
nachos, and chili, which they made
in the kitchen.
become very easy to find new
teachers from all over the world.
Mr. Walker said that he was able,
via Skype, to interview possible
new teachers from as far away as
Moscow, Italy, and New York.
Of course, the school also honors
the leaving teachers. It
does this at the Aloha
Ceremony, which was
held on May 21st this
year. The Ceremony
is a celebration for
the leaving teachers
as well as the retirees. (Also recognized
are the new babies
that were born into the
Punahou community over
the past year.) Mr. Walker
said that the school does a
good job honoring the leaving
teachers.
Mrs. Jamile has been at Punahou
for 35 years as a fifth, sixth, and
eighth grade teacher, as well as a
third/fourth grade supervisor. Also,
Mrs. Maylani Chang will be retiring
after 30 years at Punahou. Mrs.
Chang has been the mainstay Chinese teacher at Punahou and has
learned as much as her students
have learned from her, she said.
Chaplain Yukio Hamada will be
leaving Punahou as well. He has
been called a master teacher—
he was, for many years, a math
teacher in the Academy, coming to
Punahou in 1967. He also coached
football, basketball, and baseball.
In May, when Mrs.Wright started
this program, the goal was to try
improve diet and to keep choices
interesting .
A health program from the
USDA recommends that your food
intake can only have less than
30% calories of fat and only 15%
calories sugar.
You should also know that there
are only 37 staff members to run
four lunch rooms and two full
snack bars—and they do all of the
cooking and preparation work, too.
The CMS Courier
June 2008
Lenovo Tablet
PCs for Some 8th
Graders Next Year
100 Speeches
in 3 Hours!
By Scout Shutter
M
any students might be wondering which laptops are
going to be offered to 8th grade
students next year in the Academy.
The two computers that will be
the offered are the new Lenovo
Tablet and the Apple MacBook
laptop.
The main differences between
the two are that the tablet allows
students to integrate sketches
and handwritten notes with their
electronic files, and gives them the
option of annotating digital and
internet resources using handwriting.
The MacBook offers students a
familiar tool to use to make for an
easier transition to the Academy.
Punahou has decided to issue
the tablets to only 60 students
because the tablets are new to
Punahou and they want to have a
manageable number of them so
that they can provide both technical and instructional support and
ensure they will fit into the current
learning and network environments.
Punahou will choose those 60
kids by having a lottery of all the
kids who requested a tablet.
Then, after 60 students, they
will continue the drawing and have
a waiting list.
Students who later decide to
switch away from a tablet will have
the option of switching back to a
MacBook at the end of October or
the end of the school year.
In case you are worried about
how you are going to adjust to a
Windows machine, it’s pretty much
the same. You need to learn where
things are located and how to use
a right-click.
Most keyboard shortcuts are the
same, and once you are on the
internet or inside a software program, you can’t really see
too much difference,
because so many of the
programs are the same
By Kelly Langeslay
O
n Saturday, April 19, the
Punahou Speech Festival
began.
Eight middle schools like ‘Iolani, Sacred Hearts, and Maryknoll
came to this event.
Over 100 entries of speech from
the students came in four categories: Group Interpretation, Impromptu, Storytelling, and Poetry/
Program reading.
In Punahou School, we had 31
middle students attending: 11
sixth graders, 13 seventh graders,
and 5 eighth graders.
They all fought to win a 1st
place trophy for their school and
for themselves.
The way speech meets are organized is that the kids are given
name tags with a certain code on
them, like G22 or S34.
A paper is put up in a hallway
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(Word, PowerPoint, iTunes, Firefox, Safari, Inspiration, Comic Life
all work in Windows as well). The
different programs are for editing
movies, videos, and sound—but
they have a similar logic to the
iLife suite.
When asked if Punahou would
be switching to the tablets for
the Middle School students, they
replied saying, no because the
MacBook has been designed to fit
the developmental needs of Middle
School students, and the Mac has
been very successful at meeting those needs within the Middle
School curriculum.
The current 8th graders will get
to keep the current iBooks they
have now and those laptops will
not be used in the Academy.
Students that choose the tablet
will have many ways to get support and help from many people
on campus. They will be asked to
attend an hour-long workshop in
the afternoon on Registration Day
(August 22) to learn about the
tablet and the software on it.
After that, students with tablets
will be grouped together in homerooms so that their homeroom
teachers can provide support.
In addition to the homeroom
teacher, students can receive help
from the outpost throughout the
day, from one of the available
Technology Resource Teachers in
the Academy, or from on-line tutorials that will be made available.
with the code and the room number the participant is assigned to.
Students are usually assigned
with people who are also speaking
in the same genre.
All are put into a room and they
say their speech in front of two
judges and a timer.
After everybody has said his or
her speech, the judges rank each
person from 1st place to last place.
There are two rounds of this.
To win a trophy for a particular genre, a person or team must
have received first place at least
three times.
However, only one person or
group can win the trophy.
In the genre of group interpretation, Sawyer Henshaw, Maiya
Smith, and Kelly Langeslay won
the trophy. And in Impromptu
speaking, Connor Lawhorn won the
trophy. All of the other categories
were won by other schools.
The CMS Courier
June 2008
Alternative Fuels: Not
Nice to Environment
E85 is nearly all ethanol. Many
think it’s clean while ethanol is actually worse for the environment.
Stock Craze Hits
Sixth Graders
Analysis by Travis Nakamura
A
ll right, so with all this talk
about alternative fuels, are
they really that environmentally
friendly?
The answer is none of the
current alternatives are better
for our planet. I’ll evaluate two
of the most
talked about.
First, electric cars. They
come across
as great for
the environment but the
pollution is
made where
the consumer
cannot see,
starting with
your local
power plant.
Because
the cars are
fueled by being plugged
in, they run
on electricity which is
derived from
burning coal.
Burning coal
is far worse
than running
on gas. Furthermore, these cars are not efficient with the fuel they receive.
In actuality, gasoline is incredibly
efficient as the car burns it very
cleanly.
If our electricity was derived
from nuclear energy or wind,
electric cars would be very clean.
The US doesn’t have such alternatives readily available.
In addition the places where
the batteries are made are also
extremely polluted and are a
cause of global warming in themselves.
Also, the myriad parts in
electric cars are terrible for the
environment and they’ll all collect
By Noe Lum
S
ixth grade is the age of hobbies, bragging and boasting.
But many sixth graders have
found a new thing to do; watch the
stock market.
As a school assignment, these
There is a very big gap between
losses and gains in this project.
Statistics from www.finance.yahoo.com
kids invest $30,000 of “fake money” apiece in ten companies on the
stock market.
They are competing to see who
can finish the school year with
the highest percentage of gain
from their original sum of money
invested.
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in some landfill.
Doesn’t sound so nice for the
environment, does it?
Now, the other talked-about
alternative: it’s ethanol, which is
derived from corn in this country.
This is excruciatingly inefficient
because it takes 1.5 gallons of
ethanol to have the equivalent
energy of 1 gallon of gas.
This fuel is causing a major
hardship for the United States.
First, it requires American
farmers to plant corn for ethanol
as opposed to wheat.
As you know, much of our food
is from wheat. So, that means
everything with wheat costs
more. That means bread, cereal,
and meat (because the livestock
is fed wheat) will demand higher
prices.
Also, ethanol emits formaldehyde, methanol, and carbon
monoxide. Gee, I’d sure love to
breathe more of that stuff!
Because all the current alternative fuels are very poor, here
are the advantages of pricey gas.
First, it forces us to preserve
oil, as we can’t afford prices so
we buy fuel-efficient cars.
Also, we should have auto
makers lighten cars because all
the electric car and ethanol parts
add weight, which in turn makes
cars less efficient.
By dropping a mere 100
pounds from a car will increase
mileage by around 2 m.p.g., even
with the same engine.
In my defense for the gas
automobile, each cow emits more
C02 and methane (which is a
serious cause of global warming,
far more than human activity)
than an S.U.V.
So I’ve got a decent solution,
lets eat more steaks and burger’s. (You should know that was
a complete joke and shouldn’t be
taken literally.)
So really then, alternatives
aren’t as good as the environmentalists would say.
The losses and gains have
spanned from -2.05% to
+11.44%. Imagine if you sold
your stocks at 11.44% gain!
Here is what the students say
about the companies they invested
in.
“My best stock is probably
Apple,” - Malia Staab.
“Our best companies would
probably be Volcom, Costco and
Verizon” - Anonymous
“I shouldn’t have bought CocaCola, it’s down a lot” - Kimi
“Microsoft is really messing me
up” - Anonymous
Ms. Ching says that the stock
market project, “Gives them (the
kids) a start on investing. You can
lose a lot of money, but you can
gain a lot too. It’s good to learn
about your companies before you
invest in them.”
The CMS Courier
June 2008
School Is Out and
Summer Is In!
How to Make the Most
of Your Summer on
and off the Water!
Where Are YOU Going
over the Summer?
By Kc Lee
S
chool is almost over and
summer is coming closer and
closer.
As school comes to an end, that
means end-of-the-year test, quizzes, exams and... PARTIES!
But we have to remember that
just because school is almost over
doesn’t mean we can sit back and
cruise. Here are some things that
you can do:
The sun’s out! Go to the beach!
According to about.com, the top
things to do at the beach are
people watch, catch some rays,
walk the beach, play in the surf,
build a castle, bury someone in
the sand, cruise the beach, boogie
boarding, take photos and have a
picnic. You can also camp out and
roast marshmallows around the
warm campfire. Or if you are not a
beach person, go to the pool.
By Courtney Kosaka & Rebecca Henry
S
ummer is almost here so get
your flip flops on and throw
your school books out. There are
many things to do during the summer.
O‘ahu is an island surrounded by
clear blue water. If you are not the
daring kind, you could take a swim
in the waters or relax on the beach.
For you daredevils out there, here
are some wild ocean activities you
can do.
If you are brave and courageous,
you can visit some sharks. If you
go online, you can find some shark
tours and set up an appointment.
If you have a phobia of sharks
but love the waters, you can still
go jet skiing. Jet skiing is like riding a motorcycle on water. It is a
fast and wind-ripping-through-hair
experience.
If you really want a workout this
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Hang with friends! Shopping!
Call all your buddies and go to
mall! The mall has so many things
to do.
Go to Ala Moana. Besides shopping you can grab something to
eat or make a new best friend at
Build-A-Bear Workshop.
Or go to Windward Mall and play
mini golf at Glow Putt!
Play some sports. Shoot some
hoops or kick some grass. Grab a
friend and play one on one.
Go to the 50th State Fair! Aloha
Stadium on May 22-26, 30- June
1, or June 5-8, 13-15 and 20-22.
Are you an America’s Best Dance
Crew fan?
Watch Kaba Modern perform at
Hawaii’s 50th State Fair on June 22
at 7:30pm, at the Concert stage,
separate five dollar admission required for concert area.
Summer is the best time to
catch up with old friends and relax.
summer give paddling or kayaking a try. It may take some hard
work but in the end it’s an exciting
adventure.
Do you like to surf? If you do,
you should try windsurfing. It’s like
standing on a surfboard holding a
giant sail connected to the board.
You surf the waves with the wind
guiding you.
Okay, so say you don’t like the
water but you always wanted to fly.
Try parasailing. It’s like sitting on
a chair with a parachute attached
to it.
For you nature lovers out there,
there’s always hiking. It’s a family, fun-packed adventure. It’s a
chance to explore the outdoors
and spend time with family and
friends.
Last but not least, if you are the
lazy type, you can just sit back at
home and watch television, chat on
AIM, or play Wii tennis!
By Erika Payne
E
very summer, many people
go on some kind of vacation,
whether it’s to Maui or to somewhere in Europe.
There are many ways to travel:
By boat, car,
plain, bus.
People usually
use a plane
when going
from island
to island, but
ever since the
Super Ferry
had opened,
people have
also used that
to travel.
But unfortunately, it only
goes to two
islands: Honolulu, O‘ahu to
Kahului, Maui.
A survey was given to 30 different students in random grades,
and the results are shown on the
pie chart at left.
As you can see, many people go
to the mainland during the summer. When the survey was taken,
many said that they were going to
Disneyland (or Disney World).
When Aloha Airlines shut down,
many people who planned to travel
were affected by this tragedy.
But still, many people are still
traveling on different travel services.
The CMS Courier
June 2008
An Incredible
Dining Experience
Dinner in the Sky
Photo Credit: www.dinnerinthesky.com
The 2008
Food Crisis...
By Marissa Yuen
T
ake a moment to explore your
imagination. What is the ultimate dining experience you could
think of? Maybe you want to eat
breakfast in a rotating room. Or
maybe you’d like to eat lunch at a
dining table on an airplane. Well,
here comes the craziest and
probably most incredible experience: dinner in the sky.
Dinner in the Sky is literally a large dining table, with
twenty-two seats attached,
suspended by a crane. The
table can be lifted to a maximum of fifty feet in the air.
Each passenger is strapped
in with a four-point seat belt,
and are served by five waiters
in the center. Other options
include lights, heating, music,
TV screens, and a customized
banner underneath the table
for all on land to see.
The food itself is undoubtedly exceptional. As they answer
on their web site, their chefs
serve up anything from sushi
to lobster.
But alas, this magnificent
experience is anything but affordable. For a
party of 22 diners, it’ll cost you
about $12,400!
At dinnerinthesky.com,
they answer your
FAQs. One of the
most asked questions is, “What
happens when you
need to use the
rest room?” They
answer, “It’s like
a normal restaurant: you ask
where they are to
By Keli’i Ke
E
ver since the Myanmar crisis
of May 3rd, the supply of different foods has seen changes in
price upwards, and this is causing
international problems, as well as
local effects on this island.
Products such as rice have
been limited to
an amount of
four bags per
visit at Sam’s
Club.
Other
stores such as
Wal-Mart, and
Costco have
had reports
of customers
stacking up on
their supply of
rice bags.
As of April,
bags of rice
have gone
up to $15.40
each, causing
more, and difficult, prob-
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the waiter and...you go down. It’s
just a bit less discreet because
the whole table goes down, but it
takes less than a minute.”
One challenge that Dinner in the
Sky faces is whether the weather
is good enough to operate. After
all, who wants to be up in the sky,
buffeted by winds and getting
drenched by rain?
Due to safety issues, there is a
height restriction so that all participants can be safely secured in
their seats. To dine in the sky, you
must be at least 150 centimeters
tall, or about 4’10”.
Forbes Magazine ranks Dinner in
the Sky among the world’s to ten
most unusual restaurants. Other
restaurants on the list include Ninja in New York. There, waiters will
perform magic tricks for you while
serving sushi. Another is Heston
Blumenthal’s Fat Duck in England,
where they will serve you up a
delicious bowl of snail porridge.
A feature that many Dinner
in the Sky passengers will most
likely not use is that the chairs can
recline and swivel as much as the
passenger likes.
Would you go?
lems for the U.S. Economy. However, the government denies any
indication of a recession, although
the signs are all around us.
On the Chicago Board of Trade,
it is estimated that bags of rice
will jump up to $24.85 per bag.
As of April 29th, the United
Nations has begun a task force
designed to assist the World Food
Program.
In the world however, the
countries that are suffering the
most are in Africa and in Asia.
In some families, rice is the
basic need for poor households.
Now with this crisis, it is estimated that many people will starve
on a daily basis.
Ban Ki-Moon, the United Nations Secretary General and the
UN’s food and agricultural organization has already prepared a 1.7
billion dollar plan to assist those
in need in more poorer countries.
As of now, many fear that the
costs of basic necessities will
increase so drastically, that the
term “basic living” will be a thing
of the past.
The CMS Courier
June 2008
The City of the
Future: Masdar City
Left: solar panels
Right: windmill
http://www.masdarctf.com/
Eco Trends
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!
Photo courtesy of thatoldthing.blogspot.com
By A.J. Muth
W
ith global warming occurring
there is now the ever pressing need to reduce waste and carbon emissions to save the world.
We ourselves are very involved
in this struggle to save the world
from global warming.
What if, though, we didn’t have
to reduce carbon
emissions and
waste because
there weren’t any
emissions or waste
to reduce? Wouldn’t
that be wonderful?
Soon there very
well may be a place
like that. It will be
the city of the future. Masdar City.
Masdar City
will be a walled
community in the
United Arab Emirates that will have
absolutely zero
carbon emissions.
To you this may
seem an impossible
feat, but it really is
not. Many precautions are being
considered and even if Masdar fails
to produce zero emissions it will
probably produce a lot fewer emissions than a regular city.
Masdar City is planned to be six
square kilometers housing 50,000
residents and 1,500 businesses.
Masdar will also hold some of
the greatest minds in the field of
sustainability.
Now as you take in all this
information you may be wonder-
By Paulina Reyes
J
ust last month, my friend
brought to school her issue of
the fashion magazine “Seventeen.”
As we were browsing and pointing at the outfits and accessories
that we like, we stumbled across
an article called “The Cutest Ecofriendly Pieces.”
On this page “Seventeen” was
showcasing “the globally conscious must-haves.” Then not
only a couple weeks later I was watching E! and
they were airing a special
episode on the Daily E!
where they were showing
the newest trendiest Eco
fashions.
These earth-friendly
trends are not only appearing in fashion magazines and TV channels
but on our local newspaper, ”The Honolulu Advertiser” who did a story
on small scale ways you
can help global warming.
It seems that with all of
the raising awareness of Global
Warming designers are taking
this as an opportunity to sell their
products as well.
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ing how in the world this could be
possible. Yes we as a world have
made wonderful advances in the
field of sustainability but isn’t this
too big of a step to take all at
once? Actually it is not. To create
this city everyone involved is giving it everything that is known to
mankind.
All of the buildings in Masdar
City will be at maximum only five
stories high and the streets will be
only ten feet wide.
Also what is sustainable without
solar energy? Almost every building in Masdar City will be equipped
with at least one solar or photo
voltaic cell on top of it. Numerous
other sustainable power sources
will also be used.
Of course you can’t possibly
have zero carbon emissions if you
have cars in the city. So of course
Masdar City will be car free. To do
this Masdar city has been planned
so that it will be only 200 meters
to the closest facility or transport
system. Instead of using cars Masdar City will have a rail system to
transport people from one end of
the city to another.
To complete this initiative there
will be 10 main principles. The first
is that 100% percent of the energy
be provided by renewable energy
sources such as photo voltaic
plants. The second is no waste and
that 99% percent of the waste be
diverted from landfills. The third
is sustainable transport and that
there will be no cars whatsoever in
Masdar City. The fourth is sustainable materials and that all materials are recycled materials. The fifth
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There is so many ways that you
can be eco-friendly.
In clothing you can purchase
clothes made from organic cotton
and other biodegradable materials.
“Mudd” has put out a cute tote
which advertises that it’s biodegradable on the side.
Also you can get a chic sun
dress from H & M which is made
from organic dyes and cotton. Or
now that summer vacation is coming up, you can show off a bathing
suit made of organic cotton, hemp,
and veggie dyes.
If making sure that your wardrobe is made of 100% organic
materials you can still help out
and be ecofriendly by wearing
clothes that support “Green” actions such as recycling or shirts
that raise awareness of things
happening around the world such
as oil spills.
Also you can get foundation and
lipstick at “Sephora” that is made
of only organic materials and has a
box that you plant that has seeds
in the side walls of the boxes that
can later grow into a flower or
tree.
Most of the grocery stores are
supporting the plastic bag ban and
are offering their customers reusable bags.
The CMS Courier
June 2008
Project Green, the
New and Improved
The Scientific Method:
1. Find a problem
2. Research the problem
3. Make a hypothesis
4. Test the experiment
5. Make a graph and chart
6. Create a conclusion
4Masdar City
…continued from page 6
By Joanna Lee
A
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A: Well, there were a few problems with the Science Celebration.
7th graders are still developing
their ability to organize and manage time. If a one-week project is
hard to plan out, imagine having
a project due in seven months.
There was lots of procrastination.
The chosen topics were also an
issue. Students would frantically
search the internet for ideas and
often end up with mediocre projects that they did not really care
about. The connection of these
topics with the environmental issues of today is something that all
of our students can relate to.
Q: How did you decide the topics for the Sustainability Celebration?
A: Last summer the 7th grade
science teachers got together for
a week and brainstormed ideas.
During first and second term, we
finalized the projects and tried to
tie up loose ends.
Q: Which do you think are the
hardest topics? Which are the easiest?
A: I think the constructionheavy projects were pretty difficult. Building multiple houses
and windmills is tough. I think
that making a solar cell or fuel
cell were the hardest projects.
The OEM projects were also pretty
tough. It seems that some of
the solar panel and plant/house
projects are the easiest. This is
the first year, and I’m sure you’ve
heard that you are our guinea
pigs. We discover mistakes every
day. Next year we hope to have a
better understanding for the difficulty levels of the projects.
Q: Which project is your favorite?
A: I think I like the OEM projects, because I have never seen
them in action before.
nybody at Punahou School
who has ever been a 7th
grader will know the terror of the
Science Celebration.
The Science Celebration was a
major science project where each
student must create his or her
own problem and solve
it with the scientific
method.
All of the work had
to be done at home.
Which meant that students had double the
science load, at school
doing their regular
work, and at home,
working on the science
celebration, trying not
to procrastinate.
However, after years
throwing hard work at
students, the science
teachers have finally
come together to create an easier world for the 7th
graders by introducing them to the
“Sustainability Celebration,” otherwise know as Project Green.
In Project Green, students do
all the work at school, and there
is a list of topics to choose from.
However, this is not a restriction
on ideas.
Project Green focuses on projects that are of course, sustainable.
From, “What color of cellophane
boosts efficiency of the solar cell?”
to “Does temperature affect the effectiveness of an OEM cell?”
The Courier talked to Ms. Katie
Vaughan of 7W about her opinions
and the science behind Project
Green.
Q: Why did you decide to
change from, “Science Celebration”
to “Sustainability Celebration?
A: Science Celebration was
never an easy thing, for teachers
or students. At the end of the year,
we all found ourselves swimming
in a sea of cardboard. We felt
that we were really contributing
to the waste problem. Also, the
fact that so many students were
ready to throw their hard work
out was a little disheartening. We
wanted to find a substitute where
the students were more interested
in their topics and proud of their
work.
Q: What were the major flaws
in the Science Celebration?
Hopefully, so it seems, Project
Green will be even more successful
than it was this year, when problems popped up everywhere, from
the OEM’s not feeding on oil to
being unable to get oxygen out of
a homemade light bulb.
Project Green is just another
step towards a greener Punahou
and a sustainable school.
And while many students are
sick of that word, would they
rather be dipping teeth in multiple
cleaning solutions?
is sustainable food which means
most of the food will be organic.
The sixth is sustainable water
which means that water consumption will be at least 50% less than
the national average and that all
unused water be reused.
The seventh is habitats and
wildlife which means that all
important species be relocated to
somewhere else.
The eighth is culture and heritage which means that the architecture will integrate local values
and culture. The ninth is equity
and fair trades which means that
everyone including construction
workers will be paid fair salaries.
And finally the tenth is health
and happiness which means that
there will be facilities for every
type of group.
This is certainly a very ambitious project and a very interesting one. It is almost completely
unheard of a zero emissions city
and this will certainly be the starting point of other zero emission
projects that will start to develop
all over the world.
The CMS Courier
June 2008
Free Rice:
A Benefit for the
Hungry and Students
The Free Rice program
has helped to feed
thousands of people
around the world. They
fed 27,000 refugees
from Myanmar that were
in Bangladesh for two
weeks. In Cambodia,
they provided takehome rations to 13,500
pregnant and nursing
women of 4 kilograms
of rice for two months.
That makes 240,000
pounds of rice in all
that were donated.
By Carole Kau
D
o you know what “amygdaloidal” means? And can you
believe that “flagellate” means
to whip something? Where do all
these weird words come from?
They’re from the Free Rice program!
The Free Rice web site
was made by the UN
World Food Program to
help end hunger. People
ask, “How does it work?”
There are vocabulary
words on the site. You
click on one of the choices that you think best
defines the vocabulary
word. For every question
you get right, 20 grains
of rice are donated to the
hungry.
Now how are the
amounts of rice donated? When you play on Free Rice,
advertisements appear on the
bottom of your screen. The money
received from the advertisements
is used to buy the rice you donate by answering the vocabulary
questions. Then the United Nations
World Food Program distributes
the bought rice to the hungry.
This non-profit site lets people
make a difference in the world
just by going on the computer and
clicking a mouse. But people wonder, are we really making that big
a difference, or are we just wasting our time?
The sad truth is, about 25,000
people die each day from hunger. Sometimes, it’s not just from
hunger. People with deadly diseases die because without food,
they don’t have the strength or
immunity to fight the diseases off.
And most of these casualties are
children, never having a chance to
finish school and live a happy life
like any other person.
Quote from Free Rice web site:
“To a mother or father watching a loved child die in their arms
from hunger, the rice you donate
is more precious than anything in
the world.” And donating rice from
the site not only saves lives but it
also helps nourish young minds.
Children who eat well have been
proven to learn and work better
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in school. They also have been
discovered to have better stamina
and health.
So the rice you donate keeps
them full, strong, and focused!
The Free Rice program has
helped to feed thousands of people
around the world. They fed 27,000
refugees from Myanmar that were
in Bangladesh for two weeks. In
Cambodia, they provided takehome rations to 13,500 pregnant
and nursing women of 4 kilograms
of rice for two months. That makes
240,000 pounds of rice in all that
were donated. And in Uganda, the
Free Rice program helped make
feeding 66,000 school children for
a week possible!
Because of the vocabulary questions in the site, Free Rice also
helps you improve your vocabulary.The site is full of words that
are found in the SAT and can easily be found on vocabulary tests.
When you get a word wrong,
you drop down to an easier level.
Later, the word you answered
wrong will reappear for you to
answer. If you answer it wrong
again, you will drop again to lower
level and the word will once again
appear for you to answer correctly.
This helps you learn new words
and remember them after answering them multiple times.
Their levels go from nice and
easy to challenging even the most
scholarly professors. There are 60
levels in all, but it is found rare for
people to get above the level 50.
Their vast amount of definitions
comes from their wide variety of
dictionaries, thesauruses, and
books of synonyms. Some of their
definitions you probably have
never seen in your whole life,
which is perfect for widening your
vocabulary.
And to make sure you don’t run
out of words to learn, a team of
professional lexicographers from
the firm of Lexiteria helps add new
words and harder levels to Free
Rice database.
Because of their help, five new
levels were added in January
2008 and even five more in May
of 2008. But not only do they give
you challenging words to learn
that may be helpful.
They also look for easy, and medium level words that will always
be useful for you to know.
Because you can improve your
vocabulary on the site, people who
play the site receive tremendous
benefits. Or so it says on the web
site. According to Free Rice, learning new vocabulary can help you:
• Formulate your ideas better
• Write better papers, emails
and business letters
• Speak more precisely and
persuasively
• Comprehend more of what
you read
• Read faster because you comprehend better
• Get better grades in high
school, college and graduate
school
• Score higher on tests like the
SAT, GRE, LSAT and GMAT
…continued on page 9
The CMS Courier
June 2008
*HICCUP!* *HICCUP!*
The Annoying Hiccup
Graphic from http://www.jobeaufoix.com
4Free Rice
…continued from page 8
By Nicole Kim
T
o many people a hiccup is just
an annoying thing that comes
and goes. It usually is not a big
problem and goes away after a
short period of time.
But to some unlucky people, it
lasts for more than a day. Maybe
even for more than a week.
A hiccup or hiccough
(a less common name but
what they are also known
as) is a spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm that
normally only repeats several times per minute and
goes away in a little while.
Some cases such as the
case of Jennifer Mee lasts
at least a month. Jennifer
Mee was just an ordinary
girl, sitting in science class
when the hiccups started.
The hiccups went at a
rate of 50 hiccups per minute, almost a hiccup per
second—way more than
the normal rate of hiccups
and practically nonstop.
The only times when the
hiccups stopped was when
she was either sleeping of
talking.
She tried a bunch of cures to
fix the endless hiccups like hypnotism, acupuncture, drinking
pickle juice and even visiting an
infectious disease specialist. But
nothing worked.
• Perform better at job interviews and conferences
• Sell yourself, your services,
and your products better
• Be more effective and successful at your job
We know that you can get many
good outcomes from playing on
Free Rice, but how hard are the
levels? What kind of levels do
people get from playing on Free
Rice? From a survey taken by six
people, their individual levels were
21, 35, 28, 35, 14, and 23, all by
Middle School students ranging
from 6-8th grade. The calculated
average level for these Middle
School students was 26.
Now that we’ve seen the result
of Middle School students playing
on Free Rice, why don’t we see
what levels the teachers of Case
Middle School can play up to?
From another survey of 5 teachers, their highest levels were 53,
43, 43, 35, and 41. From this information, the average vocabulary
level of an average Case Middle
School teacher would be level 43
on Free Rice.
We now see the benefits of the
Free Rice site, such as feeding
the hungry and improving one’s
vocabulary. Here’s what some
teachers think:
Mr. Wagenseller (News Journalism teacher): “Not only can one
augment his or her vocabulary
through this ingenious divertissement, one can quite expeditiously
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There are many theories about
the cause of hiccups although
many just happened by itself.
They are known to be triggered
by eating too quickly, being hungry for long, drinking a cold drink
while eating a hot meal, belching, eating very hot or spicy food,
laughing really hard, coughing,
and drinking alcoholic beverages.
It is also caused by crying out
loud because of the air that enters
the stomach, talking for too long,
clearing the throat, and also from
lack of vitamins.
Although no one knows the one
exact cure for hiccups, there are
tons of suggested cures.
When searching “hiccup cures”
in Google there are about 569,000
results.
On the internet the hiccup cure
myths range from the most known
ones which are drinking water and
trying scaring it away.
To very strange ones such as
eating a spoonful of mustard,
swallowing a spoonful of sugar,
and the weirdest one, thinking of
all the bald men you can.
To see more very strange but
also maybe untrue cures you can
go check out, http://www.musanim.com/mam/hiccup.htm, and
test out these strange “cures.”
The hiccup often comes and
goes, and sometimes could stay
if you’re unlucky. Stay strong!
Because most likely it will go away
in a little while.
provision those in need with a
delicious carbohydrate foodstuff,”
Mr. Wagenseller proclaimed in his
orotund manner.
Mrs. Kaulukukui (English
teacher in Team 7Z): “What’s to
hate about the free rice program?
I applaud any organization that
looks for ways to help feed the
world’s hungry. Those are some
hard words. I’m either smarter
than I thought or I’m a pretty good
guesser. I think it is the latter.”
Ms. Lindgren (Science teacher
in Team 7Z): “Love this site. Learn
vocab and do something positive
while you’re at it! Fun to improve
your vocabulary, and in just a few
minutes, I racked up 3500 grains
of rice. It’s a win-win situation for
everyone. Thanks for introducing
me to this!”
Mr. White: (Science teacher
in Team 7Y): “I read about the
program and it seems like a terrific
idea. What if a zillion people did
this, where would they get all the
rice to give to hungry people? At
any rate, there ARE hungry people
on our planet so any scheme to
feed them is a good idea. Thanks
for sharing this site!”
The Free Rice web site really
helps make a difference in the
world. But Free Rice can’t do it
alone. So help contribute by going
on to www.freerice.com. A period
of only 20 minutes can really benefit everyone, including you.
The CMS Courier
June 2008
Lend a Hand,
Lend a Heart,
Give a Cellphone
Damien Brown hands out phone
cards to his friends and fellow Soldiers Charles and Miguel.
Photo courtesy of cellphonesforsoldiers.com
Tropical Cyclone Nargis
Devastates Burma
By Sijing Qiu
A
s promised, here is your
follow up on cell phones for
soldiers. Currently the Luke Center
is receiving cell phones, but come
on—you can do way better, and
you know it!
Take part in your community
and if you have any poor
lonely emo cell phones
hiding in the corner of
your room, you can drop
them off at the Luke
Center for Public Service
and then maybe your
cell phones can be happy
again. Maybe.
Knowing that your cell
phones are going to be
used for something else
then an antique decoration it should make you
and your cell phone feel
better. The Luke Center
will be accepting your
old cell phones from May
12-30. Remember, May is Military
Appreciation month!
OK, now so far you’ve been told
about the program cell phones for
soldiers, but what about the two
teens who started the program?
Here are some of the highlights!
On March 10th, 2006, Brittany
Bergquist and members of other
grassroots organizations connected to the Pentagon’s America
Supports You program met at the
White House to discuss how they
are trying to support the soldiers
of the U.S. armed forces with the
President and the First Lady.
Another highlight was when
AT&T helped cell phones for sol-
By Olivia Barahal
I
f you haven’t heard about it,
you’ve been living in a closet.
The cyclone that hit Burma has
killed and injured thousands with
the fatality toll rising. Thousands
of buildings have been destroyed,
leaving 90,000 people homeless.
Although desperate attempts
from nations around the world,
they amount of help given still
falls short of the amount of help
needed.
Clean water is scarce, and the
people of Burma fear that disease
will soon follow this disaster, wiping out the survivors.
Due to lack
of clean water,
and basic
sanitation,
outbreaks of
typhoid and
malaria have
already occurred.
It has been
said that Burma urgently
needs medicine, water purifying tablets,
and mosquito
nets.
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diers by donating half a million
dollars in phone cards and has
established CPFS drop off locations at each of more than 2,000
company owned stores across the
United States.
Also, Brittany and Robbie
Bergquist won the Microsoft Above
and Beyond Youth Leadership
award.
Crazy Random fact; country music star Maggie Austin is a sponsor
for Cell Phones for Soldiers. She
will donate one dollar from every
CD sold from CDBaby and twenty
five cents for ever download from
MPeria to the CPFS fund.
I contacted Brittany Bergquist
but sadly she was unable to visit
us during her recent visit to Hawaii.
She’s pretty much as famous
as a rock star, and you know how
are rock stars are. They’re always
busy and always have something
to do.
Another end to another story.
Thank you for helping out your fellow soldiers.
How can they not appreciate
that?
Remember, it’s not the amount
of cell phones you donate (although a lot would be good ), but
it’s the fact that you’re willing to
make a difference and that’s what
counts.
You can’t force someone to do
something you want them to do
because they need the willingness
to do it.
Once they have the willingness,
the passion, soul, and pure heart
will follow. So lend a hand, lend a
heart, and give a cellphone.
Sadly, the cyclone victims are
still not getting sufficient care. The
Burmese junta has blocked many
food supplies, and does not allow
foreign aid workers to enter the
disaster area.
If the supplies don’t get in,
those injured will die, and the
survivors will most likely be hit by
infectious diseases like mentioned
above.
The French ambassador, JeanMaurice Ripert, says that the cyclone is “turning into a man-made
catastrophe by negligence and the
inhumane treatment of the Burmese people by a regime that is
failing to act.”
The CMS Courier
June 2008
Doodle 4 Google:
An Artistic, Innovative
Competition
Grace Moon’s winning design, “Up
in the Clouds.”
One of Dennis Hwang’s many designs, depicting Albert Einstein’s
birthday.
New iPhone:
Rumor or Reality?
‘Click to Give’
Gives When
You Click
By Marissa Yuen
“W
hat if everyone recycled?
Would Earth have a
chance for survival? If we start today, imagine what can happen tomorrow.” So says Leslie Saldana of
Spring Valley High School, Nevada,
of her “Doodle 4 Google” design.
What exactly is “Doodle 4
Google?” It is a competition open
to all U.S. students from Kindergarten to grade 12. This competition challenges students with the
theme, “What if…?” Doodles reinvent the original Google logo with
beautiful, colorful, imaginative, and
creative designs. This year’s winner, “Up in the Clouds,” is by Grace
Moon of Canyon Middle School,
Castro Valley, California.
Google holds this competition
to “encourage and celebrate the
creativity of young people, and are
excited to see the range of creative
doodles that are submitted,” as
they say on their FAQ page.
The national winner will have his
or her doodle on the Google home
page for a day. He or she will also
By Thalen Masada
T
he “Cingular” hit (the iPhone)
was made by the company who
made the iBookG4, MacBook, iPod,
iPod touch, and many other sell
outs: Apple, Inc. It was first distributed on June 29, 2007.
When the iPhone first came out,
it was selling for $599.99; the price
has since come down. There are
many features on the iPhone to
meet your needs. like free internet,
widgets, mail, maps, YouTube, and
much more. They also have your
actual phone calls, SMS, voice mail,
photos, ring tones, iPod, music, videos, Wi-Fi, touch screen, and touch
screen keyboard.
Apple has influenced Punahou
By Juleen Wong
L
ooking for a fun, easy way to
help hunger, animals, the rainforest, and more? Click to Give is a
site that does all of that.
The hunger, breast cancer, child
health, literacy, rainforest, and
animal rescue sites display ads from
their site sponsors and 100% of the
money from the advertisers go to
charity partners who fund programs.
Their stores also give money to charity partners.
Every time you click at the hunger
site, 1.1 cups of food are donated to
hungry families. If the whole Case
Middle School clicked, approximately
1100 cups of food would be provided
to help world hunger crisis.
By clicking at the breast cancer
site, you are helping a woman in
need get a mammogram. This goes
to protecting more women’s health.
A click at the child health care site
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receive a $10,000 college scholarship, a trip to the Googleplex,
a laptop computer, and a T-shirt
with their doodle printed on it. The
winner’s school receives a $25,000
grant towards computer labs.
The winning doodle is judged
based on the artistic merit, creativity, theme communication, and
appropriateness.
The competition is divided into
10 regions. Hawaii is part of region
10, along with Alaska, California,
Oregon, and Washington. Doodles
are also put into separate grade
divisions. In the 2008 competition,
Hawaii had eight state finalists,
though none were from Punahou.
“Doodle 4 Google” was started
by Dennis Hwang, the 29-yearold Google Webmaster who is the
artistic mastermind behind the
logos that sometimes decorate the
Google homepage. He shares tips
for aspiring artists on the “Doodle
4 Google” website.
Any student interested in entering the 2009 competition should
see the competition’s website:
www.google.com/doodle4google.
School’s “way of life” a lot. In
middle school (Case Middle School),
every child has either an iBookG4 or
a MacBook laptop.
The new students to Punahou
School have to rent the MacBook,
and the returning students had to
buy their iBookG4’s.
According to the Apple’s Europe
division, they are thinking of making a new iPhone that has a bigger screen. There are many new
applications for this new iPhone, for
example, an application that allows
you to take a video with it.
People are probably thinking,
“Wow I want this new iPhone.” Reality is, it’s currently sold out and if
you want one, you would have to
wait until summer to get one.
helps by providing needed health
care for a child. “Every child deserves a lifetime,” they say.
The literacy site helps attain literacy for children. By clicking, you are
donating books. Sometimes, every
e-card viewed from the site donates
a book, so spread the word!
Anyone can help save 11.4 square
feet of rainforest just by clicking at
the rainforest site. If everyone in
Case Middle School clicked, in one
day, 11400 square feet of rainforest
would be saved. This a huge step to
saving unique plants and animals of
the world.
“Rainforests are living emeralds
which adorn our world with rare
beauty and natural wonders,” said
Barbara J. Feldman.
The animal rescue site helps by
donating 0.6 bowls of food to rescued animals. Support go to giving
homeless animals a chance to find a
loving home.
The CMS Courier
June 2008
This Show Gets
a 30 out of 30!
The Rebirth
At the top there are Nissan Skyline
GTR models of years 1991, 1999,
and 2009. Below that is the Mustang Bullitt models of the years
2008, 2001, and 1968
Photos courtesy of the internet
By Kelly Langeslay
T
his year, Dancing With The
Stars has been more dramatic
and entertaining than ever.
There have been injuries, harsh
critiquing, and of course, intense
dancing.
Kristi Yamaguchi, this years
winner of Dancing With
The Stars, is now the
second female to win.
Kristi Yamaguchi is
an Olympic Gold Medalist and World Champion
of figure skating. She
won the 1992 winter
Olympics, and since then
she had retired from
competitive skating, and
performs for television
specials like Stars On Ice
Tour. She is a member
of the US Figure Skating Hall of
Fame. Not many people know that
Kristi skated as a child because it
was physical therapy for her “club
feet.”
In second place was Jason
Taylor.
Jason Taylor is this year’s NFL
Man of the Year award winner in
2008 and Defense Player of the
Year in 2007.
He plays for the Miami Dolphins, and has many NFL records
awarded to him. For example:
Most Touchdowns by a Defensive
Lineman (7).
He is married to Katina Taylor,
By Casey Mark
F
or the 40th anniversary of the
movie Bullitt, Ford announced
the release of a limited-edition
Ford Mustang.
In the film Bullitt, it is a 1968
Ford Mustang GT. It includes a
famous nine-minute chase seen
with Steve McQueen through the
streets of San Francisco.
The unique color of Dark Highland Green is found on only two
other Mustangs; the 2001
and 1968 Bullitt GT.
The only other available
color is the gloss black finish seen on the cars that
the hit men drove in the
chase scene.
This 2008 Mustang
packs a 4.6 liter V8 with
315 horses. It also has a
rear axle from the Shelby
GT500.
With a production of
only 7,700 Bullitt’s, it
makes this car very unique
and special.
The Bullitt is just like a
regular Mustang (except
no spoiler), a unique black mesh
grille with metallic surround, black
leather interior with engine turn
aluminum trim and a rumbling
exhaust tone that matches the
movie car, and, of course, the Dark
Highland Green color.
Compared to the Mustang
Coupe GT Deluxe, it has a 4.6 liter
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and has two sons and one daughter.
Someone in Dancing with the
Stars has injured himself in the
middle of a dance. Cristián de la
Fuente was dancing the samba
with partner Cheryl Burke, and
accidentally ruptured his tendon.
He decided to carry on with the
dance but his arm eventually gave
away and he dropped Cheryl to the
ground.
He will need surgery to reattach the tendon to the bone, but
the doctor gave him the clear to
continue dancing. Cheryl made
sure to choreograph the dance so
he wouldn’t overuse his bad arm.
And it worked, because they ended
up in the finale of the show getting
them 3rd place.
There has also been another
Dancing With the Stars show, only
they danced during the results. This
was the Dancing With the Stars
Juniors competition. There were
three kid couples in the competition. Brandon and Brittany, Jaryd
and Cara, and Aaron and Michelle.
Jaryd and Cara were the youngest
in the group, dancing to cute songs
and making the audience sigh at
how adorable they were.
But Brandon and Brittany
ended up taking the trophy with an
amazing Paso Doble to “Phantom
of the Opera.” They were rewarded
with a mini disco ball trophy given
to them by the Dallas Cowboy
cheerleaders.
V8 engine, with 300 horsepower.
It is not that much of a change.
With it being a limited edition and
a rebirth of an older Mustang, this
is an honor.
Another rebirth comes courtesy
of Hiroshi Hasegawa, a famous
designer and the parent of the
designs of Infiniti G35 sedan and
coupe. He is also the parent of the
designs of the new Nissan Skyline
GTR. It looks just like a rally car
in the front, with the traditional
Skyline in the back with four round
tail lights.
The new 2009 Nissan Skyline
has a 3.8 liter twin-turbocharged
24-valve V6. Similar to race cars,
its engine is built by hand. It has
480 horse power at 6,400 rpm. Its
top speed is a staggering 193 mph.
Compared to the 1999 Nissan
Skyline GTR, the 1999 GTR has a
4 valve twin turbo charged engine.
Its exterior has bulging fenders
creating an “in your face” attitude.
Right now the 2009 Nissan Skyline GTR’s biggest competition in
its class is a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo.
As time moved on the Mitsubishi
Lancer Evo., or Evolution, has
also evolved. The Lancer Evo. has
a 2.0L MIVEC I4 turbocharged/
inter-cooled engine with 291 horse
power at 6,500 rpm, which is 189
horses less than the GTR.
Overall the exterior has a very
similar look to the GTR. They both
have a rally car inspired look, with
an “in your face” attitude.
The CMS Courier
June 2008
Mrs. Jamile,
a Punahou
Teaching Legend
“I have thoroughly
enjoyed my years
at Punahou and
leave knowing the
faculty is stronger
than ever, and will
continue to uphold
the highest standards
of Punahou. I am
very happy to have
been a part of such
a fine school.”
—Mrs. Jamile
Labels: The Real
Reason Why Teens
Are Buying Clothes
By Josh Jamile
B
arbara Jamile, most know
her as the eighth grade social
studies teacher in team 8Y, I happen to know her as my grandmother. But many don’t know how
much she has done for this school.
Sadly, this happens to be her
last year at Punahou.
Born in Long Beach,
California, Mrs. Jamile
was one of four children in her family.
She graduated from
Long Beach Poly
High School. She
received her bachelors degree at Mills
College in Oakland,
California, and got
her masters degree at
Pepperdine.
She married Alex
Jamile, a Punahou student
and athlete.
After teaching seven years in
California, she moved to Hawaii
where she taught a year at Bingham Tract Elementary School
before coming to Punahou where
she taught seven years at fifth and
sixth grade.
She was later promoted to
Supervisor of the third and forth
grades.
After she was a supervisor,
she started teaching eighth grade
Social Studies, where she currently
teaches today.
Mrs. Jamile has done a lot for
Punahou. She was on the committee with famous architect Val
Ossipoff who was assigned to build
the Ing Learning Center.
She was also on the pilot team
who helped experiment with
middle school practices and moving into the brand new Case Middle
School.
By Kathy Lau, Meagan Lau,
& Ashley Kakazu
W
alking into Hollister, you see
a really cute top. “Mom,
please can I get that?” you plead.
Your mom’s response?
“Honey, that’s almost exactly
like the one I just offered to you
at Wal-Mart and it was seven dollars, not fifteen!” Ever been in that
scenario?
Here’s the thing: most teenagers buy clothes at super expensive
brand stores, when they can get
the same thing at a cheaper price
in a discount store. You can see
that here in the sixth grade at
Punahou School.
Sophie Johnson ’14, said that
clothes with labels just look good.
Indygo Heim said that designer
stores are better than discount
stores such as Wal-Mart.
Wyatt Hullick, Chasen Himeda,
and Griffin Saunders said that the
clothes from brand stores look
better.
Ashley Tom, soccer girlie, said
that she doesn’t care about super
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She currently is the advisor of
the Eighth Grade Student Council.
She won the Above and Beyond Award from the Punahou PFA
for years of working at Punahou
Carnival and sponsoring Academy
Dances.
Like everybody, Mrs. Jamile has
a home life.
She is a huge sports fan
of the high school and
college levels.
She is an avid
reader, and an
enthusiastic traveler. She has been
on many cruises
all over the world,
and wants to go on
more.
She enjoys being
a grandmother to
five children, me, Josh
Jamile, my sisters:
Tiare and Alexis Jamile,
and my two cousins: Kevin
and Matthew Farley. She loves
us all and takes great care of each
and every one of us.
As I have said, this is her last
year at Punahou, so that means
she is retiring. On retirement, she
plans to do many activities. She
plans
to: get some rest, work on
home and garden projects, travel,
do volunteer work, and connect
with other retired friends for relaxed fun.
Mrs. Jamile will always miss her
days at Punahou, and the great
experiences she had.
“I have thoroughly enjoyed my
years at Punahou and leave knowing the faculty is stronger than
ever, and will continue to uphold
the highest standards of Punahou.
I am very happy to have been a
part of such a fine school.” -Mrs.
Jamile.
expensive clothing brands like Abercrombie and American Eagle.
“I like Adidas Outlet better. They
sponsor me and they always have
pretty cool stuff,” she said.
Caylee Kurasaki said that stores
such as Hollister are cool because
she likes the logos and the colors
that they have (such as orange)
which you can’t get at discount
stores.
Some students take a different opinion. Christian Agmata said
that brands didn’t matter to him.
“They’re just extra money for a
label,” he said. “I could spent that
money on my family or tuition.”
Kainoa Harrison said that he
likes brand and designer clothes
as much as anyone else, but the
over-expensive T-shirts are a
waste of money and he could have
spent it on something else. “I just
need something to wear,” he said.
Brian Yanagi chose the cheaper
option and said that he didn’t like
wasting money.
According to lovetoknow.com,
clothing choices get more expen…continued on page 14
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June 2008
Hollywood’s Richest
Teen Celebrity
By Kika Masunaga
F
rom a hit Disney Channel
series, to a multi-million dollar
merchandise line, Miley Cyrus has
become known all over the world
for her talented singing, dancing,
and acting. As her carrer hits its
all time high, she thanks her family for keeping her grounded.
Her merchandise line and con-
The billion dollar smile of Miley
Cyrus.
Photo Credit: www.fanpop.com
Nobody’s Perfect,
So Don’t Work It
4Labels
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cert tour has been a hotter draw
than Bruce Springsteen’s or the
Rolling Stones’s. Her two CDs
have sold millions of copies and
her TV show is extremely popular.
This 15-year-old young celebrity has just been named Hollywood’s Richest Teen Celebrity, by
multiple sources, including People
Maganize, and Forbes. She is already way richer than her celebrity
dad, Billy Ray.
She will be worth an estimated
1 billion dollars by the end of the
year—or at least, her industry will
be. She doesn’t get to spend it
herself. “She can’t touch it until
she’s 18,” says her mom. “Most of
it is invested.”
Despite of her earnings, Miley
remains a down-to-earth teenager.
Her favorite singers are Hilary
Duff, Kelly Clarkson, Mariah Carey,
and Ashlee Simpson.
Other celebrities topping the
money list include the Jonas
Brothers, making about 12 million dollars a year, and 12-year-old
Abigail Breslin makes 2 million
dollars a film.
hildren’s show stars everywhere seem to be doing
inappropriate things. Should we
really have them exposed to little
children?
Vanessa Anne Hudgens played
the role of Gabriella Montes in the
hit movies High School Musical,
High School Musical 2, and will be
continuing the role the upcoming
High School Musical 3.
Gabriella Montes is a sweet,
smart, shy girl who has a voice to
match.
She is basically the “Little Miss
Sunshine” of the movie. However,
Hudgens was recently found taking
nude pictures for her boyfriend!
Wow. She’s totally sweet, smart,
and shy, way to go “Little Miss
Sunshine!”
Jamie Lynn Spears, little sister
of Britney Spears, was announced
pregnant earlier this year. And to
think that she’s the star of a preteen show! Should we really have
a pregnant teenager, be the icon
of many pre-teens? We don’t need
more underage pregnancy.
Miley Cyrus, otherwise known
as Hannah Montana, has recently
taken a cover shoot for Vanity Fair.
Not only was her appearance on
the cover vulgar, she was topless!
A thin satin sheet, and her hair
were used as her only cover up.
Talk about “Nobody’s Perfect.”
Jesse McCartney, the former
Disney Channel heart throb who
sang innocent love songs such as,
“Beautiful Soul”, and “Because You
Live” is now singing “grown-up”
songs, like his new single “Leavin’.”
This “grown-up” song, has a
“grown-up” video to match, featuring Jesse, and the girl together...
doing inappropriate things... I
don’t think we should encourage
little girls looking at him as a “total
cutie” anymore.
Mary Kate Olsen. Eating Disorder. In 2004, the actress was seen
sickly skinny, and was accused for
being anorexic.
The rumors were found out to
be true. Many girls are already
insecure about their body appearance.
We don’t need celebrities encouraging them to go anorexic or
bulimic.
So, do we really need stars like
these be the role models of little
children? If you must have someone be the star of a children’s
show, you should have one that’s
responsible enough to take the
part of a good role model as well.
sive as kids get older. Social pressures about buying brands come
into the picture. Clothes and the
way people dress persuade kids to
dress a certain way.
There’s nothing wrong with
buying brands. Mr. Agena from the
6th grade Ka Honua team space
buys brand clothes off the Internet
because they’re cheaper. Clothes
tend to be cheaper online. It might
sound gross, but there’s a lot of
good deals that can be made from
second-hand stores like Goodwill
and Salvation Army.
So whether you like brands or
prefer to buy cheaper clothes,
there’s always a deal to be made
somewhere with clothes that you
will fall in love with.
Point-of-view by Sienna Aczon
C
The CMS Courier
June 2008
Jordin Sparks: Will
She Never Sing Again?
Jordin
Sparks,
18-year-old
American
Idol winner.
Image from www.
musicremedy.com
Walt Disney
History
Walt Disney, surrounded by some
of his creations.
Image from www.phil-sears.com
By Liana Lau
J
ordin Sparks, 18-year-old
youngest American Idol winner,
may permanently lose her singing
voice forever.
Her hits include “Tattoo”
and “No Air” but vocal
problems have forced her
to temporarily withdraw from her singing.
Sparks was
scheduled to be
the opening act on
Alicia Keys’ tour,
which kicked off
in Hampton,
Virginia. Sparks
was forced
to withdraw
from the tour
since she was
stricken with a
throat injury—
acute vocal cord
hemorrhage—
that doctors
warn could
cause permanent damage to
her vocal cord.
She has
been ordered
to go on vocal
rest and will
miss all April
concert dates.
She will not be
able to perform
anywhere until her
By Thalen Masada, Brittany Yeh
& Kyra Ing
W
alt Disney is well known
worldwide. He was born on
December 5, 1901 in Chicago,
Illinois to his mother Flora Call
Disney who was a German-American descent, and to his father Elias
Disney, who was
an Irish-Canadian.
He was one of
the five children,
four boys and
one girl. Soon after his birth, his
family moved to
Marceline, Missouri. He lived
most of his childhood there.
From a very
early age, he
loved to draw
and loved art.
He was about
seven years old when he sold tiny
sketches and drawings to some of
his neighbors.
He loved drawing more than
school. He especially loved to
create his own type of art forms.
Mike Martin was Walt’s uncle who
worked as a train engineer for
route Fort Madison in Idaho. Walt
later took a summer job for his uncle selling “newspapers, popcorn,
and sodas to travelers.” He attended McKinley High School which
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condition improves.
“All of her April activities have
been postponed or canceled so she
can take care of her voice properly,” a Jive Records spokeswoman
told The Associated Press.
But Sparks is under a doctor’s
care and is expected to rejoin
Keys’ tour in May or perhaps sooner if she progresses well. Sparks
has been going nonstop over the
past two years and now she has to
learning how to manage and care
for her voice.
That was last month in April
when Sparks found out that she
wasn’t in jeopardy after all. She
insists that her illness wasn’t as
bad as it was reported after all.
She says, “They were saying
I would never sing again, and I
knew I could because, well, it’s my
throat. My career could have been
in jeopardy if I hadn’t done anything about it. But I knew something was wrong and that I needed
to get it checked out.”
Jordin Sparks’ left vocal cord
was bleeding and she needed to
check it out. But now it’s almost
healed. Jordin Sparks couldn’t
even talk, sing, laugh, or giggle for
two weeks.
She claims that it was the hardest thing she had to do in her life.
But since, her throat has almost
healed from her acute vocal cord
hemorrhage.
Soon she will join Alicia Keys on
her tour sometime in May.
is in Chicago. He used his amazing drawing ability to work for the
school paper.
And at night, he went to the
“Academy of Fine Arts.”
This famous cartoonist also has
quotes that he lives by. Some are:
“You can design and create, and
build the most wonderful place in
the world. But it
takes people to
make the dream
a reality.”, “When
you’re curious,
you find lots of interesting things to
do. And one thing
it takes to accomplish something
is courage.”, “The
way to get started
is to quit talking
and begin doing.”,
“You reach a point
where you don’t
work for money.”
On December
5, 2001 it was Walt Disney’s 100th
birthday celebration.
There is a birthday card that
was made for Walt Disney’s annual
birthday. This card has a total of
10,314 names on it.
Walt Disney has made many
famous movies such as, Mary
Poppins (1964), Sleeping Beauty
(1959), Peter Pan (1953), Alice
in Wonderland (1951), Cinderella
(1950), Bambi (1942), Snow White
and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).
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June 2008
Iron Man Review
By Kenny Yamashita
T
he new Iron Man movie deeply
revealed my love for those
nerdy gadgets that are often seen
in movies and cartoons today.
The great cast of Robert
Downey Jr., Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth
Paltrow, Terrence Howard, Shaun
Toub, Leslie Bibb, Bill Smitrovich,
and Nazanin Boniadi fit the parts
perfectly. The movie strictly followed the original comic books by
Marvel, but underplayed Tony’s
well-known reputation of womanizing, alcoholism, and vanity.
The story starts with a wealthy
more self-conceited Tony Stark,
who is the CEO and genius of a
powerful weapons company. While
on a trip to the Middle East, Tony
finds himself hostage to a group
of terrorists who are using his own
weapon designs.
During the kidnapping, Tony is
severely damaged and is given
a mechanical heart by a fellow
captive named Yinsen. After the
murder of Yinsen, Tony escapes
with the iron suit the two of them
Twilight: a Love
Story that Literally
Sucks You In
By Jamie Chan & Selena Montania
“I
t doesn’t matter to me what
you are.” A hard, mocking
edge entered his voice. “You don’t
care if I’m a monster? If I’m not
human?” “No.”
Ever heard of Twilight? It’s
a bestselling novel written by
Stephenie Meyer, and it draws in
readers the moment they start to
turn the first few pages.
In fact, it’ so good, it’s being
made into a movie.
The story is about an average
girl who, basically, “falls in love
with a vampire,” to quote Robert
Pattinson, the male lead of this
movie, Edward Cullen.
This story revolves around Bella
Swan, a 17-year-old girl from
Phoenix, who moves to Forks, a
small town that barely has any
sun. She is living with her dad
and starts attending the town’s
high school.
Then, while in school, she
notices a group of students, five
mysterious, graceful, and beautiful creatures: the
Cullen family. The
Cullen family consists of 7 family
members: Carlisle
and Esme Cullen (the
parents), Rosalie
and Jasper Hale, and
Emmett, Alice, and
Edward Cullen.
Bella starts to
take an interest in
them, especially
Edward, the youngest of them all, and
from first glance, the
coldest of them too.
Her first impression of
him was that he detested her, but
she later figures out what it all
was about.
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were secretly building.
When returning to America,
Tony is haunted by the fact that
terrorist are using his weapons
to wreak havoc across the Middle
East.
The guilt of Yinsen’s death motivates Tony to create an even more
powerful weapon than ever, a new
Iron Man suit. This time he isn’t
selling it or the designs to anyone.
He’s done with being a merchant
of death. Tony uses this new Iron
suit to fight the evils of the world.
The movie’s effects do a great
job of making us believe that
this could really happen and that
somewhere this technology is
available.
In almost every scene of the
movie there is a wonderful display
of what future technology could be
like.
The best part is that it is all believable, so your geek brain won’t
trigger alarms at the fictional
gadgets.
In Stark’s epic adventure as a
super hero, he soon learns who his
true friends are.
No matter how much they try,
they cannot kill the unbearable attraction between them, so strong
that nothing can stand in the way.
Even his being a vampire.
A monster or not, Bella doesn’t
care who or what he is, and later
in the series, their relationship
gets tested, and grows stronger.
This book is only the first of the
Twilight saga, the sequel to Twilight is New Moon, the sequel to
New Moon is Eclipse, and the final
sequel to Eclipse will be Breaking
Dawn.
The series has numerous fans
throughout the entire nation,
maybe even the globe.
Stephenie Meyer, the author of
the Twilight series, is considered
the “New J.K. Rowling,” according
to TIME Magazine. This story has
been a best-seller novel on the
New York Times Best-seller list for
11 weeks.
“People dream about this book,”
says Kristen Stewart, who will be
playing Bella Swan. The popularity
of Twilight has increased tremen-
dously since its first release; they
are now making a movie of it.
Starring Kristen Stewart as Bella
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June 2008
Megan Meade’s Guide
to the McGowan Boys
Prom Night
Review
4Twilight
…continued from page 16
Review by Marissa Yuen
“I
’m not going. I’m not moving
to South Korea,” Megan said.
Megan is an army brat. She’s
moved around all her life. But she
draws the line at Korea.
Her only alternative and her only
chance to stay in the States? To
live with her father’s friend, John
McGowan, his wife Regina, and
their seven boys: Sean, Evan, Finn,
Doug, Miller, Ian, and Caleb.
The last time she’d seen them,
seven years ago, they were all
popsicle-licking, chubby, annoying,
typical little boys.
Now? Evan and Finn are H-O-T.
This book was very easy to connect to, since many of us do have
younger or older brothers who get
on our nerves every once in awhile
(though I’m not sure many of us
have seven)!
It was also entertaining to read
about the vicious, intense rivalry
between Megan and Hailey, Evan’s
jealous girlfriend. After all, wouldn’t
you be jealous if your boyfriend
was a major flirt and another girl
had just moved into his house?
And to make matters worse, this
new girl has a major crush on him!
All throughout the book, Megan
keeps in close contact via email
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with her best friend, Tracy, back
home in Texas. In the emails, she
compiles a list of observations of
the McGowan boys, such as:
Observation #2: Forget evil,
laughing, little monsters. These
guys have been touched by the
Abercrombie gods. They are a blur
of toned, suntanned perfection.
Observation #4: Three words:
six-pack abs.
Observation #5: Do not even
get me started on the state of the
bathroom. I’m thinking of calling in
a hazmat team. Seriously.
And thus, “Megan Meade’s Guide
to the McGowan Boys” is formed.
Kate Brian is a writer of several
other popular teen books, including
Lucky T, Private, and Princess and
the Pauper.
She grew up in Bergen County
and graduated from Rutgers
University with a double major in
English and Journalism.
As with many other young adult
books, there is some minor and
brief language, as well as some
references to sex.
Megan Meade’s Guide to the
McGowan Boys is an irresistible
read detailing what happens when
one girl and seven boys live under
the same roof. Definitely a great
book for any teen girl.
f you like scary movies, this is a
great movie to see in your spare
time, especially with a group of
friends at night.
This movie will keep you on the
edge of your seat from the suspense,
and will leave you wondering what
will happen next.
This is a scary, suspenseful movie
with a good story line.
The main actresses and actors in
this movie are Brittany Snow, Johnathon Schaech, Brianne Davis, Kelly
Blatz, Jana Kramer.
The main character, Donna, came
home one day, and she walked into
her brother’s room like nothing was
wrong and finds her brother dead.
Then Donna went to go hide and
sees the killer ask her mother where
she was.
The killer was looking for Donna.
Donna’s mother wouldn’t tell the
killer where she was. Then the killer
whispered “I did it for us,” and then
stabbed her mother five times in the
stomach. Donna witnessed her family being brutally killed.
Later in the movie, Donna—still
haunted and in shock about what
happened to her family—gets ready
for prom, thinking everything will be
okay. But she was wrong. The killer
has escaped from prison and tries to
get to Donna during her prom night.
Towards the end of the movie
Donna was about to get stabbed
to death by the killer but Detective
Winn shoots him four times, and he
dies.
I recommend this movie if you
enjoy scary movies. It has a good
plot and story. The actors are also
good. This movie kept me at the
edge of my seat.
WARNING: This is a PG-13 movie,
make sure you ask your parents
before seeing this movie.
Swan, and Robert Pattinson as
Edward Cullen, Twilight is being
directed by Catherine Hardwike.
Filming is now in process for
the upcoming movie, with plans
for it to open on Dec. 12, 2008.
All of the main characters from
the book will be featured in the
film, including Bella, the Cullen
family, and many more.
This incredible movie will bring
all of the book’s delicate aspects
to real life. There will be great
stunts, suspense, wonderful
chemistry, and many luxury cars.
The fan base around this movie
is huge. But a story must take its
end sometime.
The series will end on the
release of its last book, Breaking
Dawn, Aug. 2nd, 2008. There will
also be another side story book,
called Midnight Sun (Edward’s
version of Twilight).
Although the Twilight series
will come to an end, it is only the
beginning for Meyer.
She has another book out
called, The Host, which was released on May 6.
Review by Ariel McKenzie
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June 2008
Review for
Baby Mama
Review by Katherine Lee
B
This is a picture of the two stars of
‘Baby Mama’, Tina Fey (on left) and
Amy Poehler (on right.)
www.yourmoviestuff.com
Jammin’
Hawaiians
aby Mama is a PG-13 movie.
It is a great movie to watch,
but if you are underage you might
want to get some parent permission before attending it!
This movie stars two people
connected to Saturday Night Live,
so you just know that it’s going to
be hilarious.
The two main characters are
played by Amy Poehler and Tina
Fey.
Picture this: you’re a 37-yearold woman with no husband or
child. If so, you’ve just been introduced to the life of Kate Holbrook
(Tina Fey).
This workaholic is crazy about
having a child of her own.
Kate has gone as far as going to
adoption agencies to find a way to
have a baby.
Then the drama starts when
she goes to the doctor and finds
out that she has a one in a million
chance of having a baby.
You couldn’t even imagine how
she felt knowing that her dream
of having children is basically
smashed into the ground.
She still doesn’t have the capability of producing a child, and the
adoption agency just isn’t getting
By Casey Mark
T
he 11th annual Jammin’
Hawaiians was located at the
Waikiki shell on April 12, 2008. It
is a concert featuring all sorts of
local bands in the islands, this year
featuring artists such as Fiji, Laga
Savea, Beach 5, Kawao, B.E.T, The
Mana‘o Copany, and
Rebel Souljahz.
George Veikoso
or Fiji, is a legend in
Hawaiian music. His
most popular songs
are “Morning Ride”,
“Tiquila Sunrise”, and
“Come On Over”. Fiji
has worked with a lot
of other artists, like
Laga Savea. Overdrive live says that
“Fiji may be the most
versatile male vocalist in Hawai‘i”. Fiji is
the most in-demand
male studio back-up
singer in the islands.
Speaking of Laga
Savea, he is a young
artist, and Overdrive Live on OC16
said, “Laga Savea has such a mature voice when he sings”. Some
of his most popular songs are “I’m
Too Shy”, “Pretty Lady”, and “Take
Me Away.”
Beach 5 has one major song
that is the most popular right now
and that song is “The Way She
Moves”. Beach 5 also has a very
mature voice when he sings.
Kawao is a major hit. Their most
popular songs are “One Heart, One
Sound”, and “Girl, Let Me Know.”
Kawao consist of Wait G. and
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back to her fast enough.
Later, Kate finds that her career
is sky-rocketing! With her new
promotion to being the vice-president of the company, she has a lot
on her mind.
She finally finds some hope
when she arrives at a company created by Chaffee Bicknell
(Sigourney Weaver.)
Kate will have to pay one-hundred thousand dollars to someone
at this company to hold the baby
for her.
Will she be okay with this condition?
This is basically her “baby
mama”.
She has meetings with her
“baby mama” named Angie Ostrowiski (Amy Poehler) and tries to
take care of her as best as possible. However, could romance,
work, the pain of having to deal
with Angie, or some kind of hidden
secret might hold her back from
having the baby of her dreams?
Find out what happens by
watching this great comedy, in
theaters now.
This story truly shows us that
miracles are always happening.
When we’re then and there, we
just have to embrace the fabulous
moment like no other.
China H. on both voals and instrumention. Kawao is described to be
familliar, comforting and makes
you feel at home. B.E.T or Big Every Time was
started by Tim Troxell and Joe
Daniels Jr. in 1993. B.E.T started
as back up singers for Butch Helemano, Diane & the Boys, Bruddah
Walter. Ever since the
duo released their
first album in 1998
and second album
in 2000 they have
shared he stage with
international artist like Yellowman,
Eek-A-Mouse, Mikey
Dread, Half Pint,
Steel Pulse, The Marleys, Big Mountain,
and Lucky Dube.
B.E.T’s most popular songs are “Your
Love”, “Trust In Me”,
and “Let’s Hook Up.”
The Mana‘o Company is a band of five
and is the artist who
composed the song
“Aloha.” “Aloha” also happens to
be their most popular song.
Rebel Souljahz is a band of five
and all attended Waipahu High
School. Rebel Souljahs are espeacially known for their song “Nothing to Hide”,their most popular
song.
Jammin’ Hawaiian’s was a benefit for Musical Youth Hawaii and
was a presentation of Mass Appeal
and United DJS.
Blake Lyon is one person who
attended the concert and said “It
was the bomb”.
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June 2008
Quick Picks:
Previews & Reviews
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A number of books and movies caught our attention
lately and we’d like to tempt yours with these previews and reviews from our staff. Enjoy!
Movie preview by George Corpuz
Indiana Jones and the
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
I
am really looking forward to
seeing this movie because
there hasn’t been an Indiana Jones
movie in almost 20 years.
It starts when a famous archaeMovie preview by Joseph Verghese
The Dark Knight
B
atman returns to face his most
famous opponent, the Joker, in
The Dark Knight, the sequel to the
movie Batman Begins. The Dark
Knight is coming out on July 18,
2008 in North America.
The movie may be famous but
may be even more popular since it
has Batman’s long time enemy, the
Movie review by Jackie Emley
Nim’s Island
N
im’s Island is an exciting
movie for the whole family.
When Nim’s father (Gerard
Butler) is stranded on his boat
hundred miles from shore, Nim
(Abigail Brestlin) is contacted by
Alex Rover (Jodie Foster), the famous adventurer.
Book review by Zhaodong Chen
Ranger’s Apprentice:
The Battle for Skandia
N
ow I am here to tell you about
a thrilling and exciting episode
of the Ranger’ Apprentice series.
This book has more action, strategy,
and danger than any of the previous
Ranger’s Apprentice books.
It started when the ranger apprentice Will and his friend Evanlyn
escape from the Skandians while
hidden in a winter shelter. But
Evanlyn was captured by a mystery
horseman while Will uses his Ranger
skill to track other down.
Meanwhile Halt and Horace—
Will’s other friends—arrive at the
Book review by Ryan Twigg-Smith
The Supernaturalist
Y
oung adults will enjoy the action and the gadgets, especially
a gun that shrink-wraps its target.
The ending hints so broadly at a
sequel that you wonder, why not?
This book has great potential to
become an awesome series but Eoin
Colfer said that he has a lot on his
plate. For those of you who love
Artemis Fowl you my notice that
there are certain references to the
Artemis Fowl series so keep an eye
out while you’re reading.
ologist and adventurer named Dr.
Henry “Indiana” Jones, Jr., is back
in action.
He is involved in a Soviet plot
to uncover the secret behind a
mysterious artifact known as the
crystal skull.
There may be long lines in front
of movie theaters but I know that
I’ll be in one of them.
Joker. I mean, everyone knows
the Joker and how weird he looks.
Batman must fight a battle
physically with the Joker and emotionally at home.
Joker wants to have Batman
killed, so he spreads terror, getting
the police almost into ending the
life of Batman himself.
So don’t forget to see who the
real victor is in The Dark Knight.
This movie is something you don’t
want to miss.
Nim asks Alex to come and help
her find her father. In the meantime, Nim’s island is being invaded
by fat tourists on the cruise ship
the Buccaneer.
When will the mistaken Nim be
safe and when will Alex and Dad
show up?
Come along on the adventure
with cute animals on a hidden
paradise, watch a volcano erupt
and a storm roll in Nim’s Island!
Skandia border to rescue Will. But
they discover Temujai has killed all
the border guards and Evanlyn discovers the entire border of Skandia
was breached with Temujai.
Then Halt and Horace join forces
with Will and rescue Evanlyn and
form an alliance with Skandians
and discover there are at least five
thousand well-trained horsemen to
conquer Skandia. But the Skandians
can only form an army of fifteen
hundred and no one seems able to
defeat the Temujai and their superb
strategy.
Will Halt’s experience of Temujai
be enough to train the simple-minded Skandians into a force strong
enough to withstand the Temujai?
Read this book to find out.
From the book:
“His spine arched in shock and
panic, bucking the creature on his
chest, but it held on effortlessly.
It reached out a blue hand. Four
fingers, thought Cosmo, only four.
The hand settled on his heart and
sucked. Somehow the hand was
pulling the pain from his body. The
agony dipped, faded, and was gone.
The more the creature sucked, the
brighter its light became, until its
blue glow morphed into sunset gold.
Cosmo used the last of his energy
to look down. Something was flowing from him in a starry stream. He
knew what it was. Life.”