The James Logan Courier

As James Logan High School prepares for this year's round of federally mandated standardized testing, federal officials have announced changed rules governing the testing of students with learning disabilities.

Logan Assistant Principal Linda Kingston today sent staff the schedule for the STAR testing this year. This year's' schedule, like last year's spans five days, starting on April 24, a Tuesday, and continues for the rest of that week, and finishes, after a break from testing on Monday, on Tuesday, May 1.

Reviewed by Iona Childers, Courier Restaurant Editor

The Cheesecake Factory
925 Blossom Hill Road, San Jose, CA 95123
(408) 225-6948

Fellow Courier Staff Writer, Jacqueline Truong, stared at me in utter disbelief when I told her I had never eaten at The Cheesecake Factory. Her shock was justified when I later found out that The Cheesecake Factory is a chain restaurant, and I had just admitted to never having eaten at one of the many Cheesecake Factories. Four restaurants happen to be within a twenty-five mile radius of Union City, twenty-eight total restaurants in California alone, and there is at least one Cheesecake Factory in thirty-two out of the fifty US states. Wow.

By Carmen Shiu, Courier Entertainment Editor

Being a fan of sushi and seafood, there is no doubt that I loved Todai, one that used to be one of the best seafood buffets that I have ever been to.

After shopping in Stoneridge Mall in Pleasanton recently, my family and I decided to eat there. It was a place where you cannot eat too frequently or else the food just will not taste as good, similarly to the economic concept of the law of diminishing marginal utility. Wow, I cannot believe I just used a term I learned in economics class. Anyway.

By Dana Llarena and Jessica Rosales, Courier Staff Writers

For the third in the series of Spirit Week skits, the Freshmen delivered a skit deemed confusing by many audience members.

The set up was plain: the only way one could tell where the scene was taking place was because of a single sign. They even had technical difficulties, especially with their simple backdrops. There were many cast members in the Class of 2010’s skit compared to the Juniors, but fewer than the Sophomores. With all those members we would have thought they could have come up with a more original storyline. It was difficult to catch the lines that were said to introduce the plot, which is what led to confusion and the reason why we could not hear the names of the characters.

Note: The Courier received two free tickets to a special premiere of this film from radio station Wild 94.9 in return for a promotional consideration.

Grindhouse Sends-Up B-Movies with Horribly Hilarious Results
Review by Fermin Sierra, Courier Staff Writer

Seemingly dropped on American Cinema’s doorstep out of nowhere, the action movie event of the year, Grindhouse, has finally arrived. Paying homage to the shoddy filmmaking of 1970’s exploitation movies, directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino have crafted a double feature (complete with fake trailers crafted by other contemporary filmmakers) that rivals their predecessors in both gore and poor editing.

By Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News (MCT)

NEW YORK — In his new film "The Hoax," Richard Gere does a lot of fast-talking. As Clifford Irving, one of the most notorious scam artists the last century ever produced, Gere — wearing a bit of putty on his nose — shmoozes, cajoles, insinuates and babbles. As fast as the actor's feet moved in "Chicago," his mouth moves in this movie. And when Gere-as-Irving isn't talking, you can still see him thinking about what lie he'll concoct next.

Who is this guy, and what has he done with the real Richard Gere?

Not so fast.

By Stephen J. Hedges
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

WASHINGTON — Children eight to 12 years old are exposed to an average of 21 television food advertisements each day, commercials that predominantly push candy, snacks and other unhealthy foods contributing to childhood obesity. Fully half the ads on children's programs involve the sale of food items.

And they're not pushing healthy foods. "The vast majority of the foods that kids see advertised on television today are for products that nutritionists would tell us they need to be eating less of, not more of," said Vicky Rideout, a vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, which reported the research March 28 as part of what Kaiser billed as the first comprehensive study of food advertising and children.

Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton, Sc.D. (April 6, 1903–January 4, 1990) was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device seen in nearly every camera.

He grew up in Aurora, Nebraska and attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After graduating, he married Esther Garret in 1928. During their marriage they had three children: William, Robert, and Mary Lou.

See Harold Edgerton's breakthrough photos free from the Massachusett's Institute of Technology website.