The NBA All-Star Weekend is a festival held every February in the middle of the season as a break for the players and fans from regular-season basketball. The weekend consists of basketball games, exhibitions, and performances, giving both the fans and the players a memorable time. It is also right after the trade deadline, which included many blockbusters from team to team, such as Kyrie Irving to the Dallas Mavericks and Kevin Durant to the…
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Where will I end up when I am older and how will I get there? This is a question many adolescents and teenagers ask themselves, especially as they inch closer to high school graduation and adulthood. What options are out there and how do you get information for that field of study? The main and most popular option is college, but that path is not for everyone. With more and more options for post-secondary education…
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Winter is still here and giving us snow. The roads are still slushy and the sidewalks are still icy. A winter storm just happened. From midday Wednesday to Thursday night we got lots of freezing rain and snow from the winter storm. Northern Michigan above Big Rapids received mostly snow, mid-Michigan areas of grand rapids, Lansing, Saginaw and Flint received freezing rain and sleet as well as snow. Southern Michigan got freezing rain with normal…
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Swirl is almost here! It is taking place tomorrow, February 25 from 8-10 pm. The theme for this year’s swirl is winter wonderland. Tickets are being sold for $15 on Monday – Friday. Because of the two unexpected snow days this week, tickets sold at the door will also be $15, but the lines will be long, delaying your entrance into the dance. Is there anyone that you would like to bring to the dance?…
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Teaching Black history has always been silently discouraged in the past, but now many more schools are emphasizing the importance of knowing and understanding Black history. Black history should be recognized and taught even if it exposes the faults and problems of our country. You can understand and learn the culture and history of Black Americans through books, films, and other forms of media. Here is a list of movies that help share the history…
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After a long time, 30 minutes, but it felt like 2 hours of shopping, the children have finally begun the descent to exhaustion. Their weary eyes flutter, and feet drag languidly through the isles. Many other shoppers hear the usual, “Can we go home now?” from the begging child. Yet, once kids arrive at the checkout line, their faces are alight with glimmers of interest for one particular reason: a sticker. A light at the…
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Artificial intelligence, also known as ai, is a new-ish experimental robot that is supposed to answer questions in a simple, easy-to-understand form. Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, commonly called ChatGPT, is a chatbot launched by OpenAI in November 2022. It can answer questions from what is 2 plus 2 all the way to describing quantum mechanics in a simple paragraph. AI is an interesting concept that can help many people but it can also harm humanity…
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After suffering a heartbreaking loss on Tuesday against Kenowa Hills, the Hawks longed for a win to redeem themselves. The boys’ freshmen team had the perfect chance against their rival Catholic Central. The last matchup ended with Eastern losing by 1, and was filled with a lot of trash talk from both sides. The game started rocky, with several turnovers and an injury to electrifying guard Logan Jacobs. Following the rough start, Sawyer Donley and…
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Today in 1564, Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy and nothing would be like it ever was. The great physicist would shake the world by its core and challenge the catholic church. Later in his life, Galileo will be tried for heresy and eventually found guilty. “Eppur Si muove [yet it moves]” were Galileo’s last words before the catholic church found him guilty in 1942. Galileo taught the Heliocentric worldview, in which the sun…
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Valentine’s day hasn’t always been about love. Long ago, people weren’t giving out love letters, heart-shaped chocolates, or sending teddy bears to the people they fancied. Although historians don’t know exactly how the holiday or love came to be, these are a few of the ideas about how the holiday evolved into what is today. Valentine’s day origins were not all lovey-dovey; they were in fact very gruesome. Valentine’s day’s earliest possible origin was the…
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