The James Logan Courier

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James Logan students age 16 and up, donate blood at our semi-annual fall American Red Cross blood drive event on October 4th. There will be a table in Colt Court during both lunches all week for sign-ups and information. If you donate blood you will receive a free t-shirt and would save three lives!

Need Driver’s Ed? Check out the Adult School! Cost is $125. December 19, 20 & 21, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.

More colleges and universities are visiting Logan’s campus than ever before. The latest to join the list is Cal Poly – SLO. For a complete listing of which colleges are coming and when, check the Logan website under college & career info. Then stop by the Career Center to sign up. But don’t wait too long as space is limited and open spots fill up quickly.

By Zohal Sharif, Courier Staff Writter

Jessica Diaz, a James Logan student, passed away due to heart failure on June 18th, 2011. An autopsy revealed that an enlarged heart was her cause of death.

An outstanding girl with the future ahead of her, Jessica finished her Sophomore year smiling brightly as always. Family and friends were in total shock after hearing this unfortunate loss of life. She was a part of the Puente Program at Logan, who serves Latino and other traditionally underrepresented students.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

For all who thought "Resistance 2" was a case of a game losing its nerve and simply fitting in, "Resistance 3" has good news: It agrees.

That carry-two-weapon-at-a-time limit from "R2?" It's gone. Outside of one story-mandated occurrence, when you find a weapon, it's yours to keep — to the eventual tune of a 12-weapon cache that's easy to manage and so much more fun to maneuver than the convenient but boring two-weapon maximum.
If you're familiar with developer Insomniac — masterminds of "Ratchet and Clank" as well as "Resistance" — you also know weapon design is their forte. "R3's" magnum isn't just a pistol: Its bullets also explode when you pull a secondary trigger. The stock rifle can tag enemies and pelt them from around corners with homing bullets, and the already-dangerous Atomizer's secondary function creates what is, by any other name, a black hole. Every firearm in "R3" has some bonus ingenuity in its standard or alternate fire modes, and you can upgrade each twice — simply by using them — to do even more outlandishly useful things.

From wikipedia:
Thomas Nast (September 27, 1840 – December 7, 1902) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist who is considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon". Among his notable works were the creation of the modern version of Santa Claus, and Uncle Sam (the male personification of the American people), as well as the political symbols of both major United States political parties: the Republican elephant and the Democratic donkey.

Read Thomas Nast: his period and his pictures, by Albert Bigelow Paine, free from Google Books.