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Wednesday was Banana Day at West Chester University, with volunteers handing out thousands of - what else? - bananas to people across the campus. Stands were set up at four sites on campus where people handed out bananas, talked bananas, and set up banana games (banana eating races, singing banana-theme songs, etc.) The whole day is the brainchild of Rodolfo Tellez , a 1996 WCU alumnus and a resident assistant, to distribute a healthy snack to WCU students. Aramark led a host of sponsors, many of them WCU organizations, in helping provide the 10,000 bananas for Banana Day, now in its 11th year. - Will Hobson .
From Haiku to the Blues
I'm doing a long essay, “From Haiku to the Blues," because I began to talk about the connection between the two. People say, “Ah, the haiku, you capture this great image, like the sun is setting or the sun is coming up," but the thing about the haiku is always the other side of that brightness. There's darkness there. When the sun sets you have also what happens in the night, what happens on the other side of the haiku. I think Rilke says, “After beauty comes terror." And the same thing happens with the blues. I want to let people see the connection between that form and the people who invented it. I think that form has a lot to do with staying alive. When the Japanese were incarcerated in concentration camps, in order to survive they wrote the haiku. The whole idea of beauty and horror at the same time occurs in the haiku…the haiku is a discipline about living.
Chinese language is on the rise
American students have been learning to say "hola" and "bonjour" for years now, but lately, more and more of them are learning to say "ni hao."
An interest to learn Chinese has surged in the United States as China has risen as a global and economic power. In 2000, there were about 5,000 students studying Mandarin Chinese in U.S. public schools, according to the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Now that number is between 30,000 and 50,000, leaving states and districts scrambling to find enough qualified teachers.
The College Board, which administers college-related exams, will debut an Advanced Placement (AP) test in Chinese this spring. A 2004 survey that found that about 2,400 high schools wanted to offer AP classes in Chinese.
"That was quite unexpected," said Selena Cantor, the College Board's director of Chinese language and culture.
Hasbro Shares Play Well After Surprise Profit
Hasbro - whose brands include Monopoly, Play-Doh and Tonka - said all its major product lines saw strong growth, notably its products for Marvel Entertainment Inc. (MVL) comic-book characters. That company has been preparing for the May 4 release of "Spider-Man 3," with Hasbro launching numerous products related to the movie. North American sales increased 36% to $421.1 million, and international revenue climbed 29% to $187.7 million. Hasbro is the nation's second-largest toy maker behind Mattel. -By Angela Pruitt, Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-2269; angela.pruitt@dowjones.com (Kevin Kingsbury contributed to this report) (END) Dow Jones Newswires 04-23-07 1059ET Copyright (c) 2007 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Teacher mistreating student in the classroom
In Milan, Italy, February 20, the newspaper headlines reported the horrible incident of a Milan school teacher brutally cutting a young Tunesian-Italian boys tongue with a scissors. The boy required five stitches in the hospital emergency room. Since then the Marco Ghezzi, the prosecutor in Milan working on the case, has made strong effort to start legal proceedings against the former teacher. Read the original story here: http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/news_collection/awnplus_english/2007-04-13_11381802.html http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/news_collection/awnplus_altrenotizie/visualizza_new.html_2138800701.html How can any teacher want to bring bodily harm on a young child? Since the incident, all sorts of versions have appeared in the media, that is, the teacher is trying to find ways to cover up her actions.
Crimson Falls
So we consider 2004 as the real start for Crimson Falls. With this line-up we wrote, recorded and released our debut mcd Ruins 2K5 by ourselves. This cd helped us to build up our name in the metal and hardcore scene.
Are there really that many rivers in Belgium?
Actually there are. Theres a lot of water in Belgium through rivers and pools but that didnt influence the choice for our bandname.
Is there a story involving bloody rivers behind the band name?
We choose that name because it sounded cool and the meaning, which is bloodred (bloody) waterfalls, was a cool image for us. So, afterwards we gave the bandname more meaning. Kristof wrote the text Behold The Crimson Falls ( which is a song on our MCD ruins 2k5) and that text gives a good impression of what the Crimson Falls stands for.
South Bulletin Board
Dormont -- The Daguerreian Society, 3043 West Liberty Ave., will hold an opening reception from noon to 7 p.m. Saturday for an exhibit called Daguerreotypes Past & Present. The exhibit continues from noon to 8 p.m. Thursdays and noon to 5 p.m. Fridays through Sundays through May 5. It is being held in conjunction with a symposium, Lensless, Alternative and Adaptive Photographic Processes, next Thursday through April 29. For more, call 412-343-5525. West Homestead -- An exhibit of traditional Bulgarian textiles is part of Fiber Arts Guild of Pittsburgh's Fiberarts International 2007 through June 15 at the Bulgarian Macedonia Cultural Center, 449-451 W. Eighth Ave. Also view a 400-year-old silk, hand-woven tablecloth. Free admission. Call 412-461-6188 for viewing times. Elizabeth -- Penn View Art Center, 999 Rock Run Road, will hold a quilting class from 9:30 a.m.
I sing in a Gaelic choir
Press Packer Rachel sings in a Gaelic choir and in her report she tells us why learning the Gaelic language is important to her. "I go to Gaelic choir practice. Gaelic is a language that was spoken in the Hebrides in Scotland. It is a very old language and it is dying out. Tricky words In the choir you normally get a Gaelic teacher and a music teacher. It can be tricky to learn your words but in the end it is worth it! I think that if more people learn Gaelic it won't die out. Family connection It is a lovely language and also it is part of my family on my dad's side. My gran is from Lochboisdale, Uist. She lived there until she was in her late teens and then moved to Oban where she met my granddad - she lives there now too! More choirs I think it is important for people to learn Gaelic.
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