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The Worthington ALC Insider
Volume 2, Issue 18 February 16, 2005
ALC school store receives cash register grant Southwest Minnesota Private Industry Council gave the ALC School Store a grant for $500 for a cash register. The School Store submitted the grant so they could have more security and also help students learn how to run a cash register.  School Store president Lanoy Insixiengmay accepted the grant on behalf of the ALC. The $500 will actually remain in the ISD 518 district fund until the purchase is made. The district will pay for the register with the grant money at that time. ALC student Brandon Nelson researched prices and models of various cash registers on the web.   The class then chose an appropriate model. The register will help the students keep track of sales. It will also be a more secure place to keep cash.	Lanoy Insixiengmay and Brandon Nelson, along with ALC teacher Patty Moser and Dean of Students Paul Langesth accept a grant for a new cash register. The idea behind the grant is to encourage vocational training among high school students. That is also the purpose of the School Store class – to teach students the variety of skills needed in the retail trades. The cash register will help maintain inventory and accounts at the store. In that respect, it will provide a real-world learning opportunity for the students.

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Quinceañeras By Carla Cazares A quinceanera is a celebration of a girls fifteenth birthday. It’s a special occasion because it is when a girl becomes a woman. Hispanic girls all over the world celebrate this occasion. The difference between a Quinceañera and any other birthday party is that it is fancier and you invite more people. The first thing you do is go to church the day of your quinceanera. You invite your closest relatives like aunts, uncles, parents, godparents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, cousin, and close friends. The priest talks to you about becoming a woman. Once the spiritual ceremony is over you move on to the social part of the Quinceanera. At this time your many invited guests come to celebrate your becoming a woman. This is where you celebrate by having a band play live music and dance all night. (Continued à)

This is all like sweet 16 but we do it on the fifteenth birthday. In a quinceañera, the girl has to do a lot of things because she must have fouteen ladies representing each year of her life. The girl turning 15 represents girl number fifteen. If you want you can get partners but it is not necessary. You don’t have to have fourteen girlfriends, you can get seven girls and seven boys and that would make fourteen. For a quinceñera you need a lot of things. You must have people to be your godparents and you must also choose the dresses for the ladies and tuxedos for the guys. Long ago the tradition was different because when you were fifteen you where a lady and you were ready to get married. Now it is different because almost all people wait to get married.

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Movie Reviews: White Noise By Carla Cazares MICHAEL KEATON plays a successful architect Jonathan Rivers, whose peaceful life is shattered by the unexplained disappearance and death of his wife, Anna (CHANDRA WEST). As the film unfolds, Jonathan is contacted by a man (IAN MCNIECE), who claims to be receiving messages from Anna through EVP. What is that, you might ask? It is process through which dead individuals communicate with the living through household recording devices. Similar bizarre recordings, captured by people all over the world, seem to confirm what many have long believed – that it is possible for the dead to communicate with the living. At first Jonathan is skeptical. He later becomes convinced of the messages' validity. He began to believe after he started listening to voices in his own house that proved to be the voices of Anna. He soon becomes obsessed with trying to contact her on his own. His experience with EVP unwittingly opens a door to another world. This, in turn, brings something uninvited into his life. To find out more, you’ll have to go see the film…

Movie Reviews: Spanglish By Rosa Hurtado   The movie Spanglish is a teenage/family movie. This movie is rated PG 13. It’s mostly comedy, but it wants to leave a mark in the heart for most Hispanic families. The film is about a Spanish undocumented housekeeper. She doesn’t know English and her bosses don’t know Spanish so they use a friend to translate, but the friend isn’t always there. There are a lot of problems between the family and the housekeeper. She can’t really understand much of what’s going on. The family wants to go to a beach house for the summer, but the family doesn’t know that the housekeeper has a daughter. The mother of the family wants to change the housekeeper’s daughter, but the housekeeper gets bothered by this. She doesn’t want her daughter to forget where she came from which was Mexico. The movie is a feeling movie. It wants you to remember where you come from and not to change simply because of who you hang out with. This movie was an okay movie. If you want a change or to learn something new you might want to go see this movie.

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Tania’s Horoscopes Aries (March 21-April 19): Don’t eat turkey today, or you’ll get sick. Taurus (April 20-May 20):Ever get the urge to go out in your birthday suit? You should! Today is the perfect day. Gemini (May 21- June20):You know what you need to do and trust me, you’ll do it just the way you want to. Cancer (June 21-July 22):Next person to give you a problem, give them a piece of your mind. Leo (July 23- August 22): Don’t think yourself burnt. Just go with the flow. Virgo(Aug.23-Sept.22): Go on with your bad self. Libra(Sept.23-Oct.22):Feeling lucky. Keep an eye out and you might get a surprise. Scorpio(Oct.23-Nov.21):You should put your ego away, then try and make an important decision. Sagittarius(Nov.22-Dec.21): Feel like acting crazy? Go out and punk your friends. Capricorn(Dec.22-Jan.19):Stay away from those who bring you down. They’re no good anyway. Aquarius(Jan.20-feb.18): You should learn from your past mistakes, and pay attention to others’ advice. Pisces(Feb.19-March 20): Try not to worry about what is going on around you. How can you help others if you can’t help yourself?

Iraqi elections turn into nightmare Two weeks ago, President George Bush was riding high after successful elections in Iraq. More than 80% of the population turned out to cast votes. It seemed as though President Bush had, indeed, brought democracy to Iraq. But when the votes were counted, Bush was feeling a bit stunned. It seems that 94% of Iraqi voters voted to transform Iraq into the fifty-first state of the United States. Moreover, voters demanded that Iraqi citizens over 65 begin receiving social security checks immediately, and that the unemployed and underemployed be eligible for welfare and Medicaid benefits. “The news has hit us like a ton of bricks,” a Bush aid privately told The Insider. “This will bust the budget ten times over.” Environmental groups were quick to point out that Iraqi oil production methods are in violation of U.S. environmental protection laws. As a result, if oil rich Iraq becomes part of the United States, it will end up being an oil importer, rather than an oil exporter. Bush aids were privately floating the idea of releasing Saddam Hussein from prison and placing him back in charge of Iraq. “Saddam will put an end to this democracy nonsense,” one aid told The Insider. Things were looking grim, until President Bush woke up and realized it was all just a bad dream.

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Why I hate Lindsay Lohan, Hilary Duff, and Ashlee Simpson By Alie Paine Why do I hate the people mentioned in the title? For one thing their music stinks. They sing girly little pop music for all the small children. And for another thing they are big fat POSERS!!!! Hilary acts all sweet and innocent but really she’s not. Ashlee Simpson says she’s punk rock, but really her music is pop. She also lip-syncs and starts dancing like a hillbilly when she gets caught doing so on Saturday Night Live. Lindsay Lohan also tries to be punk but girly all at the same time. I also hate her because she flaunts her body around like it’s the best thing in the world. Furthermore, her video for her song “Rumors” was totally ripped off from Britney Spears. What I really hate about all these singers is that they didn’t even have to try to become singers. They were all already famous because they were in movies, television shows, or related to someone who’s famous. They wanted to become singers and BAM their record deals were handed to them on silver platters without even sending in a tape or anything. Plenty of young people try for years to get a record deal and end up with nothing while these three famous chicks get what others have been striving for without even breaking a sweat. There are probably more reasons why I hate these people, but I can’t think of them at the moment. So for now I am done. Who knows, maybe I’ll end up writing a continuation of this article.

Poser’s Gallery Lindsay “Loser” Lohan Hilary “Doubledumb” Duff Ashlee “Lipsynch” Simpson

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Domestic or Import I’m betting most of you out there don’t really have a preference on imports or domestic vehicles. Well I’m going to let you in on a few reasons why American-made domestics are better than the Honda rice burner. The only place to get your Honda fixed is in Sioux Falls or Mankato. Parts for the import take twice as long to get here because they have to come across an ocean. Junk import	Domestic vehicles have true American muscle underneath the hood, opposed to the little rubber band engine in an import. When you drive down the road and you see a pick-up truck pulling a trailer, that pick-up is 10 times out of 10 made by Ford, Chevy, or GMC. Rice burners are loud and annoying. In the middle of the night they sound like a bean can rolling town the road. Domestics on the other hand were made loud and proud. But they have a low beefy brave sound to them that no rice burner will ever match. American beauty
If we were movie stars…

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