Tag Archives: Web

Jan 2012

Season Four of The Mentalist: Another Booming Success

“The Mentalist” starring Simon Baker as Patrick Jane, is consistently one of the best cop shows on television. The plot revolves around Jane, an agent for the California Bureau of Investigations (CBI), who is so in tune with his surroundings that he solves crimes by picking up on clues that others miss. The overarching plot [...]

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Oct 2010

Festival of nations welcomes all people, living up to name

The St. Nicholas Greek Dancers line up for performing. Georgia Johnson, the instuctor, puts much time into preparing the dancers for this festival as well as for the St. Nicholas Greek Festival later in the year. (Maria Massad) The sign welcomes all people to the festival. The festival was a success. Hello! Bonjour! Hola! Γεια [...]

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May 2010

What WebM means for the web

With the arrival of the iPad, the web has become even more readily available. However, Apple decided not to support Adobe Flash, a popular tool used to deliver dynamic content on the web, and rather pledged their support of HTML5 technology, which also has support for dynamic content, for the iPad. Most of the major [...]

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May 2010

Summer Unraveling

It is the end of the school year, meaning students are scrambling to find old assignments to turn in, digging up old tests and quizzes, and most importantly, cramming night after night in preparation for finals. However, despite this frantic worrying sweeping the school, finals has actually become a peaceful time of the year for [...]

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May 2010

‘Panera cares’ brings out the humanity in you

How far can human goodness go? That’s the question that the new “Panera Cares” café seeks to explore. A formerly run-of-the-mills Panera, it is now the first pilot restaurant in the franchise to try a novel idea: pay what you want. But it’s not just offering negotiable—or even negligible, if you prefer—prices. It is completely [...]

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May 2010

Media sets poor example for adolescent girls

Far too often, I meet girls who act, or attempt to act, much older than they are. I’m certainly not saying they are too mature or wise because some teenagers simply are more mature than their peers. Rather, it’s the appearance and behavior of some girls that bothers me. Some wear heavy makeup on an [...]

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Mar 2010

President Obama and the First Lady aim to cut down obesity

On Tuesday, February 9, Obama formally introduced the Let’s Move campaign, aiming to reduce obesity in the United States in all ages, beginning with our current generation. Childhood obesity is a condition where excess body fat negatively affects a child’s health and wellbeing. Due to the rising spread of obesity in children and its many [...]

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Feb 2010

Winter Olympics Men’s Hockey Recap and Predictions

It brings the sports fan out in everyone to see their country triumph at the Olympics. Those who don’t pay attention regularly don’t go as far as learning the names of the players or even the rules of the game, but they are overheard saying, “Yeah! Of course we beat so and so!” Winter Olympics [...]

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Jan 2010

Warm weather didn’t stop fun at Hidden Valley

Although the weather’s been getting much warmer than the previous two weekends, the above-freezing temperatures still made for a great time at Hidden Valley Ski Resort. On Monday, Jan. 18, the temperatures reached above 50 degrees Fahrenheit but that didn’t stop devoted ski and snowboard fans from making the long trek out to the slopes. [...]

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Jan 2010

Dishonesty proves the ‘me first’ syndrome

A classful of plagiarized papers, two stolen dresses. These are, undoubtedly, not the only occurrences of dishonesty at CHS to ever have happened recently. However, I find it disturbing that such things have happened at all. How can one cheat a lab report without realizing that it only gets everyone in trouble? Or stealing clothing; [...]

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