Written on August 25, 2010 by moe2love
Category: General Talk
Although I just graduated from Armijo, one of my good friends Kaila Cauthorn is going to be holding a meeting in the school so she can start her own Teen Publish Club. I’m planning on making a lot of changes to this site, and getting it hopefully much more active (assuming I’m not going to be a lazy ass).
If you’re reading this, I hope you come to the meeting. It will be really worth it, because writing to help others can be a rewarding experience and this will be reaching out to as many people as possible.
Thank you,
Moe2love
Written on July 26, 2010 by moe2love
Category: Media & Entertainment, Music & Mix
Introducing Tray Eberle, a 16 year old up-and-coming Acoustic and Pop artist from Georgia. The first thing that sets Tray apart from most artists is the fact that he doesn’t just write music for people to relate to, but he writes music for himself. Tray writes about everything that he has been through in his teenage years, whether it be Love, Death, Loss, Friendship, or Depession. But no matter what he writes, Tray is determined to let everyone into his life… One word at a time.
Not only does Tray have substantial vocal talent himself, but he also has a family background of notable singers. His grandfather, Ray Eberle was a lead singer on the Glenn Miller orchestra, the “most sought after big band in the world today”. Their music comes from the notorious Big Band Era, when large jazz orchestras were more popular (you may or may not know this, but our contemporary music is only a large derivative of jazz music).
If you’d like to enjoy Tray’s new acoustic song, enter his MySpace music profile and click on the play button. The song is called “Destiny (Our Anthem)”
Tray’s grandfather singing in the Glenn Miller Orchestra
Written on July 6, 2010 by stayingwithit
Category: Current Events
Well, true to word, this article has not been late, although it IS a little… empty because I’ve been busy lately, what with Fourth of July and all. I hope you enjoy this article any ways.
Oil in Texas
About five gallons worth of tar balls washed up the shores on beaches in Texas
Evidence of the oil spill has now officially reached Texas, in the form of tiny tar balls. This confirms that the oil spill has reached all of the Gulf states, and the affected region spans a total of 550 miles.
FIFA World Cup
Germany has made it to the top 4 for the first time in many years. Will they reach the championship? This octopus says that it won’t – it decided that Spain is to be the winner in this upcoming match, and it’s been right for all of Germany’s games so far. Will the octopus oracle be right again?
Would YOU turn down a million dollars?
I know I certainly wouldn’t. Grigory Perelman, a once struggling mathematician, found the solution to a 100 year old problem that has confounded many of the Read More
Tags: a ,Cup ,divorce ,dollars ,Elin ,grigory ,Gulf ,million ,Nordegren ,oil ,perelman ,settlement ,spill ,Tiger ,Woods ,World
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Written on July 4, 2010 by TeenPublish Dude
Category: General Talk
I hope everyone has a fantastic Fourth of July, and remember not to get too crazy setting off fireworks.
Written on June 30, 2010 by stayingwithit
Category: General Talk
Well, this is embarrassing - my first post of significance and already late. Sorry, but I hope the interesting topics in this article will make up for it
iPhone 4 – good or bad?
Apple sold and incredible 1.7 million iPhone 4’s between Thursday and Saturday. For a span of three days, the iPhone is doing very well. But is it actually worth it? Apple added quite a bit to this new generation. The camera is now 5
The iPhone 4, in all it's glory
megapixels along with high resolution recording capabilities (HD, or 720p for you technical folk out there), a faster CPU (which essentially means the ability to use better iPhone apps, and games, and does everything the previous iPhone could, but a lot faster), and VIDEO chatting, which is quite amazing in itself. Also, the display of the iPhone is brilliant and unrivaled, even under the sun. It is also thinner than the iPhone 3GS
But there are some problems that you have to watch out for too. Apple is known for the durability of its products, but in the iPhone 4’s case Apple’s reputation is at stake. If dropped, you may find a broken back piece, which has already happened to quite a few people in their first three days of ownage. If the iPhone is held incorrectly, it has poor reception, and the screen may have some strange yellow blotches that are supposed to disappear. The battery life is also Read More
Tags: 4 ,Apple ,Camera ,closes ,HD ,iPhone ,Of ,oil ,result ,Review ,Seafood ,shrimp ,spill ,store
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Written on June 28, 2010 by stayingwithit
Category: General Talk
Hello all,
At least once a week, I’m going to be posting an article about events that are going on right now. If you want, check back every Tuesday and see what I have to say. If you miss one of my articles and want to read about some past events, you can always click my name and read all my past articles.
If there’s something going on that YOU want to post about, then feel free to do so. Teen Publish is always welcoming posters, and we could use all the writers that we can get.
That being said, I hope to see you all on Tuesday =)
StayingWithIt
Written on June 25, 2010 by moe2love
Category: Colleges
A giant, looming campanile stands over the campus of UC Berkeley, extending its dominating presence over all those
The everseeing clock tower of Berkeley
who dare to run late on its prestigious grounds. Along strawberry creek, a group of students collect samples of the water for their science experiments. A lone old man stands in the middle of the square, dangling a watch from his fingers, his eyes locked on the object that fascinates him for reasons unknown. Another homeless man yells at those who dare to use any form of science in front of him. In the Greek houses by the Clark Kerr dorms, walls shake to the bumping music of sorority parties.
This past weekend I participated in the Overnight Stay Program (OSP) at UC Berkeley. I was the only one from my school at this program (no one else even knew this existed), and I enjoyed it immensely. The experience was amazing, and it was well worth the 90 bucks (in my opinion, the experience was even better than prom, although that’s debatable). By taking this program, I truly understood the hype behind the Cal Bear experience.
Bears: The Superstitious Animals of California
We first started the program with a tour of the campus. Our tour guide told us about the numerous superstitions of UC Berkeley. One of them revolved around the statue of the Greek goddess, Minerva (not actually Athena as many believe, but essentially her Roman counterpart) in front of the library. The belief goes that when walking into the library entrance Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, will imbue you Read More
Tags: 4.0 ,Award ,Berkeley ,Big ,C ,Cal ,California ,Campanile ,Campus ,Clark ,Clock ,Dorms ,Hill ,Kerr ,Leadership ,Of ,OSP ,Overnight ,program ,Stay ,Student ,Superstitions ,Tower ,University
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Written on June 21, 2010 by moe2love
Category: Current Events, General Talk
I’m not one to spend a lot of time cynically complaining about our government, but its agencies have been quite active
All who consume will live a cursed, immortal life
lately working hard on making things right with this world. For example, lately they have been trying to stop the sales of “unicorn” meat – an April Fool’s Joke that ThinkGeek started this year. Yes, that’s right – ThinkGeek, a company that specializes in producing, well, geeky products, has been given a cease-and-desist order by the National Pork Board (heard of this before? It was founded by the Pork Act) on their production of Unicorn meat. Apparently, their slogan – “The New White Meat” will result in consumers confusing Unicorn meat with “Pork: The Other White Meat”. Interestingly enough, that slogan is going to be changed soon anyways, so could we list this as another example of an agency using its power just because it can? Yeah, we probably could.
Here’s another benevolent act a government agency has committed for the betterment of American society. A while ago, a shipment of toy airsoft guns were confiscated because apparently they can be converted into machine guns… REAL ones. Every gun expert has denied that this has true, and that there’s no way that “anyone with knowledge of guns” can turn a toy airsoft gun into a machine gun – for one thing, the bullet rounds just wouldn’t fit. Feel free to watch and decide what you think: 
Tags: Airsoft ,American ,April ,ATF ,Betterment ,Efficieny ,Fool's ,government ,Guns ,Joke ,Meat ,Of ,Our ,Society ,stupid ,ThinkGeek ,Unicorn
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Written on June 20, 2010 by moe2love
Category: Books, Movies/Shows
“New Line should be ashamed of themselves at this most blantant example of double-dipping. They clearly have put on the ring and are in cahoots with Sauron.”
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I’m talking about the HD version of the films by the way : ).
I just watched Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring extended DVD version for the first time, I’ve practically lost count of how many times I’ve seen the epic tale’s theatrical release myself. After finishing, I could not only wonder whether there was a Blu Ray format coming out to where I could see LOTR in full HD quality. Upon browsing on Amazon, I noticed they recently threw out a 3 film box set, but noticed that there was over 3,000 ONE (1) star reviews with only 350 , 5 (FIVE) star reviews. Why? I personally rate the films 10/10 and same with the book, and it is well known that Amazon reviews are the real deal untarnished reviews. I say, why the hate?
Lord of the Rings HD edition Blu Ray, but no extended?
I then found out that the filmmakers had done it again: release the theatrical release again and plan to re-release the extended version on HD, after it was ALREADY made. I mean, it makes sense for the first time. So you’re going to release a re-release of re-release of a re-release? Great way to piss your fans and collectors off tbh.
Some comments from Amazon that made me just laugh were:
16,502 of 17,135 people found the following review helpful: Read More
Written on May 25, 2010 by moe2love
Category: Media & Entertainment, Movies/Shows
Keifer Sutherland 24 Season & Show Finale
My favorite show of all time ended just last night with its last season and season finale.
For those of you that haven’t checked it out, you are REALLY missing out. It had the best cinematic ending ever. I truly did not expect President Taylor to come clean as she did, it takes a true person to do so. Furthermore, I completely sympathize with her reasons for wanting to keep the peace treat. I believe the biggest mistake on her part was just to trust President Logan. This is a classic example of how a conspiracy & lies snowball into uncontrollable fixation. One lie after another. We can call this the “untruthful snowball effect”. Ex-President Logan (Gregory Itzin) had an end deserving of what was coming to him, but I did not like how he killed his own aide with the classic gunshot through the pillow (I never got why they do that, maybe because they won’t to see the face of the murdered man? I’m sure a psychologist could write a novel on why..). Moments before I figured out Charles Logan was going to go all Hitler-esque (a referral to Hitler’s suicidal end with gunshot), I was thinking “show what’s Logan’s next move”? What’s the Russian president going to do? I definitely DID get a kick when Jack Bauer went Mike Tyson on Jason (Logan’s aide).. bought him and Chloe O’Brian a few more moments. Read More
Written on May 19, 2010 by moe2love
Category: Art, Movies/Shows, Popular Culture
Jack Bauer pwning away on a vengeance!
I was watching the hit Fox show Twenty Four (24) and the way the season’s been turning out has given me some insights on the way Jack Bauer’s character has turned out. For those of you that haven’t seen 24 probably will not know the character names I talk about here, but hopefully understand the point of this post =).
Jack Bauer is (or was) a true protagonist of American cultural heroics (or the definition of “hero” in any culture), the good guy that avoids killing bad people but stopping them no matter the cost. Jack Bauer’s methods may have been questionable, but the audience always knew that he was doing it for good reasons. From my memory, Jack has lost several women in his past, including through death, and he allowed the justice system to take over after capturing said individuals. We all know the justice system has its disarrays of corruption. The bad guys with the connections have the best chance at getting away (example, Charles Logan). Its tough to change a bad guy into a good guy, so he/she will come back at you with revenge on their mind. Read More
Tags: 24 ,bauer ,charles ,fox ,hit ,jack ,logan ,reality ,show ,television ,tv
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Written on May 17, 2010 by moe2love
Category: General Talk
As the safety checkers made sure we were strapped in, my feet tingled with anticipation as if it knew the stress and pain it was about to go through again. As it was my third time riding Flight Deck (previously known as Top Gun), I had lost
This ride was even better at night
all notions of fear and instead was preparing to have adrenaline course through my veins, bolstered even more so by the fact that I was sitting in the very front seat.
The “flight attendant” (really just the guy handling the controls) counted down… and as soon as he reached one the roller coaster jerked forward and began climbing, making the scary rickety noise that tends to scare people into thinking it’s weakly constructed. This, of course, prompted everyone to make the same jokes about Final Destination that we’ve heard all day. The coaster slowly travelled to the top, and once we travelled beyond the platform our legs were dangling above a wide open space of at least 100 feet. Then the coaster reached the top, and it stayed there for just a moment. Then all of a sudden, it dropped! The acceleration of the roller coaster felt like it was going at superhuman speed, and I was travelling with it. As I went through the loop de loop and a nicely made Zero G Roll, the blood rushed to and away from my feet, repeatedly making it seem as if my feet were going to explode off my legs (brutal description, I know, but it really wasn’t a very good experience for my feet. The adrenaline that had finally reached my brain, however, made it a very good experience for me).
But then all of a sudden, the coaster headed toward the water. Panic entered me. I didn’t remember this part of the ride, and I was sure that I was going to make painful high speed contact with the water. My heart skipped a beat as I was about to touch the water when all of a sudden the ride yanked me away from the death throes into another insane loop-de-loop. I would’ve sighed with relief if I didn’t have the involuntary reaction of yelling for the rest of the ride. No wonder I was forgetting things about the ride so easily. I didn’t have time to concentrate on any one portion of the ride. Even on the third time of riding fight deck, the thrilling ride still managed to surprise me and instill within me with a strong dose of adrenaline (although the ride finally began to follow a pattern of lethargy by the seventh ride).
That was just one of the numerous enjoyable moments I had a couple nights ago during senior trip at California’s Great Adventure. We also went on many other exciting attractions, and after dinner even played an intense game of volleyball for 2 hours. The great thing about this trip was that we were given a great number of side perks that were well worth the money we paid. We were given free drinks all day, ten bucks for lunch (courtesy of the Senior class), dancing after dinner, and we got to ride all the attractions as much as we wanted after 6, the normal park closing time. This way we basically didn’t even have to wait in line any more.
Deciding to go on senior trip was probably one of the best decisions I’ve made this year, and I’m glad I got the money together to go. The experience was well worth it, and I truly enjoyed spending time with the other seniors only three weeks before graduation. If you ever have the choice between choosing to go to Senior Trip and not, I hope you choose yes.
Written on May 10, 2010 by myspi
Category: Advice, General Talk
This is in response to an earlier article about making choices. It really hit home, especially since I’m a senior, and I just wanted to elaborate on a subject along the same lines.
One of the major problems with making decisions is… hesitation.
The girl considers entering the mysterious waters...
Hesitation.
It should be one of the deadly sins. Maybe more dangerous than lust, pride, sloth, greed, envy, gluttony, and wrath put all together. (Ok, I may be exaggerating a bit there.) Hesitation is the cause of many regrets and failures, as evidenced through numerous clichés in literature and media.
Because in that moment, before making a decision or taking an action, the consequences of what follows may lead to the remaining sins. And I don’t mean that Read More
Written on April 22, 2010 by flacanda
Category: General Talk
Mission Solano is a well-known name for community service and help in Solano County. Partially fueled by volunteers and by donations, it thrives in more ways than most people know. I volunteered in a Mission Solano Event through my school’s KEY club earlier this month. When I first went, I didn’t really know what to expect. Sure, I’ve gone to a bunch of volunteer events, but all any of us knew was: we were going to feed people – that’s it! What I didn’t know was that Mission Solano had this HUGE (not to mention amazing, great, fantastic, and other redundantly positive synonyms) site to help phase the homeless out of, well, homelessness.
Praying for those who need the help
This Mission Solano site currently has some construction and beautification projects in the works, but it was still effective in its purpose. It houses single women with their children and whole families; but it did more than that. It enforced a positive feeling for those living there, and it’s lively optimism made me feel energetic and diligent. When we had the tour, we saw that the rooms for the kids had bunk beds and were all neatly made. The family units reminded me of a dorm and hotel room combination- everything was clean but at the same time was well fitted.
So I showed up on that breezy afternoon with a salad and numerous varieties of salad dressings in tow. I walked in and was greeted by over a dozen people living on the site. They were all walking in or sitting, chatting with each other, while the volunteers that showed up were scrambling to get the food organized. A man whose name I cannot remember announced that we should say Grace for the wonderful food before digging in. Out of 16 teen volunteers, we had enough food to feed the people at the site over the next days! I think that for all of us, it was empowering to know that sure, we’re “just” teenagers, but we still helped people right here in our own community. People…who are finding their way back into their own homes again, people who we never would have met otherwise. These people were grown adults and growing kids who relished the homemade spicy Indian soup, the Mexican enchilada casseroles, and the señorita breads that us teens pulled together for them. And it was a great time enjoying their company – even helping clean up felt more satisfying than cleaning up after my family during dinnertime.
This experience with helping Mission Solano was a prodigious one, and I would never pass up a future opportunity to help them if it comes.
Written on April 5, 2010 by theboneshavespoken
Category: Advice, Solving a Problem
…Huh? You’re probably wondering why I butchered the popular idiom, “read between the lines.” I don’t normally butcher idioms, or anything else for that matter, but that cliché idiom just begs to be butchered, especially for the purposes of this article. I’m going to be talking about outlining – the ways outlining can be used, the reasons to use it, its qualities, its flaws, and its traps.
Writing Between The Lines
You probably hate that word, “outlining.” Especially if your teacher just told you to outline twenty pages from your history textbook (don’t worry, at least five of those pages will probably be sources – wink). Well, I like the word; it’s euphonic. (If you want a truly cacophonic word, try “drill;” nothing makes me wince like being reminded of the dentist.) Anyway, getting back on track, not only do I like the word “outlining” for the way it sounds, I like it for what it is, too. It’s useful for a couple of different things – like note-taking for school, or for forming the plot of a story.
Personally, I find outlining to be the best form of note-taking there is. (This must be said: Cornell notes, you suck. I’m sorry, but you do. You’re a waste of paper.) Especially, especially, especially if you’re outlining while you’re reading. (I don’t know about you guys, but I can’t flat-out read a history book to save my life. I’ll fall asleep within minutes, no matter how interesting the material is or isn’t. So writing while I read really helps me focus on what’s important – while actually getting through the reading.)
In addition, outlining makes your notes organized in a way that just taking straight bullet points never will. “Pilgrims sail to America…Colonies form…Wait, how did I get all the way to the American Revolution?” With outlining, everything is under headings, and each heading tells you exactly what you’re looking at (this satisfies the first rule of teaching: “tell them what you’re going to tell them”). That way, you don’t have to squint at your notes, wondering where the breaks are and why everything seems like one huge, jumbled pile of facts. Read More
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