The James Logan Courier

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Congratulations to the Varsity Girls Soccer Team for taking 2nd place in the Tri-Valley Tournament Invitational Bracket, beating Bishop O’Dowd, Carondelet, and tying Monte Vista. Congratulations Girls Soccer!

PSAT and PACT scores are back and available for pick-up before or after school, or during student’s lunch period in the Career Center.

Looking for a place to do school work? Need help? There’s a place from 9 to noon this Saturday, January 7th – Room 77. Please enter by the carpeted hall near the library.

By Yari Nieves-Rivera, Courier Staff Writer

Historical fiction has never seen a book like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith. It is about the life of our sixteenth president,with a view of the history that we don't know. Mostly, it says one of two things: the United States was not torn between ending slavery, but to end the vampire's trying to turn humans into slaves and that Abraham Lincoln sets out to get them out of the country, with his axe.

The book revolves around the life of the famous man, from when he was young to when he was good and gone. Every point in the book is fixed so that it fits perfectly into the events we know of, and the events that we find out about in the book.

From wikipedia:
Sir Isaac Pitman (4 January 1813 – 12 January 1897), knighted in 1894, developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand. He first proposed this in Stenographic Soundhand in 1837. Pitman was a qualified teacher and taught at a private school he founded in Wotton-under-Edge. He was also the vice president of the Vegetarian Society.

Read Sir Isaac Pitman: his life and labors, by Sir Isaac Pitman, free from Google Books.