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JENNI HUYNH & PHILIP MELSONTech Pep News Reporters
She Says:High School life is fun; getting to try out the good life without much of its consequences and doing things that you wouldn’t nec-essarily think about doing as a kid. These things could be anything from a part-time job, an internship in a field you might later want to pursue a career in, different sports, going on dates, being in re-lationships with different kinds of people, and so on.Let’s talk about relationships for a second. How many peopledo you know are in a relationship, going on casual (or maybe alittle more) dates, or just totally crazy about somebody? Most of the time, it’s the girls that go crazy over the guys. It almost seems asif they’re letting them RUN THEIR LIFE! Take some time out to think about this. When does it ever oc-cur to you that one of your girlfriends is ditching their man for you?It always seems to be that they leave you for him.He Says:Well, I don’t want to beat around the bush, so I’ll jump right into it. Men aren’t the ones controlling women, it’s women whomare controlling men.
SANDRA VANTech Pep Editor
For all you students who remember English teacher/skateboardclub advisor, Dave Mylet, will remember his big bushy beard andmustache combo. Where did it go? You may ask. Mr. Mylet shavedhis beautiful trademark to be featured in Dale Johnson’s yearbook cover entry as Luke Skywalker of Star Wars. Though this entry wasnot chosen to be featured, “it will be a souvenir photo” says beard-less Mylet. What about Skate Club? Mr. Mylet has briefed us that he hasnot been skating lately due to a hurt knee while playing soft-ball.
SANDRA VANTech Pep Editor
The junior class of 2010 have been hosting a “Valentine Singing Grams” event for the last couple weeks. With this program, stu-dents will be able to purchase a song to be sung for someone sig-nificant during class by another student. They committee has al-ready gotten permission from all the teachers beforehand to doso. The student will be sung a verse of the song chosen for themduring either their 5
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Juniors sing to your love
He Said, She Said
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Mylet doffs beard for role
BY STEVE ALEXANDERStar Tribune (MCT)
Q. How do 3G (third genera-tion) data networks of the cellphone companies compare when it comes to Internet speed? A. The 3G cell speeds can vary because of distance from a celltower or how many other peopleare using the network. But they're usually less than the ad- vertised maximum speed.Last spring, a Computerworldmagazine study of cellular broad-band speeds for laptops found AT&T was the fastest. But it alsofound average 3G network speeds
BY DAN DELUCAThe Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)
The unlikely duo of Led Zeppelin singer Rob-ert Plant and bluegrass fiddler Alison Krauss ledthe Grammy Award winners Sunday night in Los Angles with five, including for best album for their ethereal, country-flavored "Raising Sand."New Orleans rapper Lil Wayne, who had led wit .0h eight nominations, won four awards, in-cluding for best rap album, "Tha Carter III," whileBritish soft-rock band Coldplay took home three,including the best-song honor for "Viva La Vida.""I'm bewildered," the golden-haired Plant, 60,said during his acceptance. "In the old days, we would have called this selling out, but this is agood way to spend a Sunday." A shadow was cast over the 51st Grammys whenofficials announced just before the show that multiple-nominees Chris Brown and Rihanna would not perform at the Staples Center. Brownturned himself in and was booked last night by Los Angeles police on suspicion of making felony criminal threats in an alleged domestic-violenceincident involving his girlfriend, Rihanna, accord-ing to the Los Angeles Times.Brown was expected to post $50,000 bail. Thealleged incident took place the night before, after the couple appeared together at record executiveClive Davis' pre-Grammy gala in Beverly Hills.Neither Rihanna nor Brown won an awardSunday night (though Rihanna's Cover Girl cos-metics ads did air during the telecast). The incident was not mentioned during the show. The evening also began on an uncharacteristi-cally serious note when, after U2 opened the showby performing "Get on Your Boots," the singlefrom their forthcoming album, "No Line on theHorizon," Jennifer Hudson took home the show'sfirst award, beating Al Green and others for best R&B album.Hudson, whose mother, brother and nephew were murdered in October, said, "I would like tothank my family in heaven, and those that are heretoday." Later, she held back tears after singing, "YouPulled Me Through."Her performance was one of the highlights of
Plant, Krauss lead winners with five Grammy Awards
an evening that started slow but gained credibility as it went on. Rihanna was scheduled to follow U2.Instead, Green, Justin Timberlake, Keith Urban, andBoyz II Men got together to sing Green's "Let's Stay Together." That hastily thrown-together aggregation deliv-ered a performance that was a little rough, but it least it made a measure of musical sense. Not sosome of the others. Neil Diamond, singing "Sweet Caroline," was more tuneless than usual. A particu-larly awkward pairing had Stevie Wonder backing up the Jonas Brothers before he got to sing his own"Superstition."Many of the performances later in the show,however, were strong. Paul McCartney and DaveGrohl of the Foo Fighters tore through the Beatles'"I Saw Her Standing There." With a nod toFleetwood Mac's "Tusk," Radiohead did a wildly percussive "15 Steps," from album-of-the-year-nominated "In Rainbows," with the help of theUniversity of California marching band. Timberlake joined rapper T.I. for a moving ren-dition of T.I.'s "Dead and Gone." Lil Wayne wasjoined first by Robin Thicke and later by fellow NewOrleanians Allen Toussaint and Terence Blanchardfor the sorrowful (and then celebratory) HurricaneKatrina-inspired "Tie My Hands." The killer performance of the evening came fromthe so-called Rap Pack, the teaming of a tuxedoed T.I., Kanye West, Jay-Z and Lil Wayne and a polka-dotted, pregnant M.I.A. _ whose baby was due Sun-day _ for a cock-of-the-walk, standing-ovation-in-ducing "Swagger Like Us." The battle lines were drawn early betweenColdplay and Plant and Krauss, widely supposedto be the Brit band's chief competition for topawards. The singer and fiddler won for pop collabo-ration with vocals for "Rich Woman," and won twomore awards in a pre-telecast ceremony. Later, whenPlant and Krauss won the record-of-the-year awardfor "Please Read the Letter," which Plant wrote withhis Led Zep partner Jimmy Page, T-Bone Burnett, theproducer of "Raising Sand," stressed the unpredict-able nature of the project. All he could think of tosay as a thank-you was, "Good things come out of nowhere."
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Led Zeplin front man Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ folk sound brings them 5 awards
were less than half the "peak"speeds.In the test, AT&T's averagedownload speed was 755,000bits per second (47 percent of itspeak speed), Verizon Wireless'average download speed was592,000 bits per second (46 per-cent of peak speed) and Sprint'saverage download speed was494,000 bits per second (41 per-cent of peak speed). That put allthree below the definition of broadband used by research firmGartner, which is a downloadspeed of more than 1.5 millionbits per second. Another 2008 comparison(www.mobile-broadband-reviews.com/wireless-broad-band-reviews.html) shows AT&T, Verizon and Sprint in a dead heat for average download speeds. (T-Mobile lagged behind.) But Verizon was given the edge for "bigger bursts of speed nation- wide." As recently as last month,Gartner said average cellular broadband speeds are often300,000 to 700,000 bits per sec-ond slower than advertised topspeeds.Bear in mind that these speedsare constantly being increased, so who's faster is a moving target.Q. Recent news reports talkedabout a computer worm that could affect 30 percent of Win-dows-based computers. How canI tell if my Windows XP systemhas been protected? A. If you have antivirus soft- ware, it should be protecting youagainst the Conficker or Downadup computer worm. (A worm is a self-copying programthat works without you taking any action.)Most antivirus software is up-dated online frequently, so thechances are that you've been pro-tected since late November, themonth the worm was discovered. To make sure, click the antivirusicon on your PC's toolbar to seeif the software is up to date.Eventhough you're probably safe, the worm still infects an estimated 3million computers worldwide.Microsoft, whose Windows soft- ware was affected, is offering a$250,000 reward for informationleading to the arrest and convic-tion of the worm's creators.
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