This just in, the Cab Calloway janitors have gone on strike. They refuse to clean up any more messes or wipe down any more tables. After school, students have been accused of dropping trash and mainly gum wrappers on the hallway floors after the janitors leave. This creates a mess that the janitors have already cleaned up once that day but now have to clean up again the next morning.
“They leave their trash everywhere,” states one of the janitors, “one time in the boy’s bathroom there were bags of chips all over…there must have been like 50 of them!” The janitor’s are getting tired of cleaning up after everyone. Another janitor said, “We don’t want to lose our jobs, we’re simply doing this in order to teach kids a lesson about littering.”
Simply stated, they want us to live cleaner. Each day we here about the causes of global warming, littering appears in the list. Littering is one of the main causes of the ozone layer destruction, so the janitors think that if we trash the school, we’re doing the same things outside. They’re really just worried about the earth.
So kids, stop leaving your trash and gum everywhere throughout the school and throw it in a trashcan. There is at least one located in every classroom and even some in the hallways and lobby. Living cleaner benefits everyone-including you. So stop being lazy and drop your trash right in the trash can.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
3rd Arts Item. (Picture)
http://tinypic.com/r/o0c4k3/6
this is a link to the picture that i took and edited of a fallen tree.
--3rd arts item/3rd MP
this is a link to the picture that i took and edited of a fallen tree.
--3rd arts item/3rd MP
3rd Arts Item. (Picture)
http://tinypic.com/r/o0c4k3/6
this is a link to the picture that i took and edited of a fallen tree.
--3rd arts item/3rd MP
this is a link to the picture that i took and edited of a fallen tree.
--3rd arts item/3rd MP
The Fear of Religious Persecution. (2nd arts article/3rd mp.)
Slender beams of accusation
enter this darkened hall
as I kneel,
always forlorn,
always alone,
frozen here,
waiting.
Tortured forms wrought in panes of glass
loom as dust dances in the air,
forming an image in my mind,
penetrating my darkened soul.
Terror on humanity's face.
I raise my head,
now submitting
to this uncaring
fate.
enter this darkened hall
as I kneel,
always forlorn,
always alone,
frozen here,
waiting.
Tortured forms wrought in panes of glass
loom as dust dances in the air,
forming an image in my mind,
penetrating my darkened soul.
Terror on humanity's face.
I raise my head,
now submitting
to this uncaring
fate.
Cab Is Such a Great School *(1st arts article/3rd mp)
We may have backwards dictionaries, as well as construction all year long, but at least our mascot isn’t a calculator! We share a building between three schools-Charter School of Wilmington, Cab High School and Cab Middle School. Charter Wilmington focuses on math and science as well as having sports teams. Their mascot is a calculator. Cab, on the other hand, hasn’t got a sports team because we focus on the arts, as you should know.
Our majors include vocal, visual arts, communication arts, drama, strings, band, and piano. What a great school. Full of kids with trip pants and black high-top shoes, our school is genuinely different. We don’t wear uniforms and when you show up to school with multicolored hair and a ridiculous neon outfit, people think you’re cool. At any school other than cab, we would all be outcasts and freaks.
Cab is full of talented people. Singers, dancers, musicians, artists and writers roam the halls every day. We’re witty and sarcastic with our humor and insults but you rarely see a brawl in the hallway. Our hilarious teachers keep things funky. Have you all met Mr. Mazz, Mr. Patton and Mr. Drake?
Without out fabulous staff and students, Cab wouldn’t be as great of a school. So keep in mind how lucky we all are to go to Cab Calloway School of the Arts.
Our majors include vocal, visual arts, communication arts, drama, strings, band, and piano. What a great school. Full of kids with trip pants and black high-top shoes, our school is genuinely different. We don’t wear uniforms and when you show up to school with multicolored hair and a ridiculous neon outfit, people think you’re cool. At any school other than cab, we would all be outcasts and freaks.
Cab is full of talented people. Singers, dancers, musicians, artists and writers roam the halls every day. We’re witty and sarcastic with our humor and insults but you rarely see a brawl in the hallway. Our hilarious teachers keep things funky. Have you all met Mr. Mazz, Mr. Patton and Mr. Drake?
Without out fabulous staff and students, Cab wouldn’t be as great of a school. So keep in mind how lucky we all are to go to Cab Calloway School of the Arts.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
The "Fail Whale" (2nd article/3rd MP)
On Wednesday morning, January 20th, Twitter crashed. It was only down for about an hour and a half. While the site was down, users saw an extremely high volume of "whales." When Twitter crashes, the site owners have it set up to post a picture of what is appropriately names The "Fail Whale". It is simply a picture of a whale lifted slightly above the ocean with birds pullling it up via thin strings. The Fail Whale pops up whenever users try to access the site when it crashes. It has become an iconic symbol for Twitter and is a way for the site to embrace its crashing and shortcomings and turn them into a funny symbol. During the recent outage no data was lost. It was the first major outage since August when other social networking sites were also attacked and crashed. Twitter has been growing rapidly with it's number of users so the reliability needs to stay strong. "Reliability has been an ongoing project for Twitter as the service has scaled up to handle growing traffic," Rich Miller wrote. Benn Parr also said that recnet news about Haiti and the frantic status updates on that topic may have contributed to the site's crash. So next time you visit Twitter and see a "Fail Whale", you'll know that the site has crashed.
Pants On the Ground (1st Article/3rd MP)
In Boston, Massachusettes, the first set of American Idol auditions were held. This was the first set of the first round auditions in the 9th season of the show. American Idol is a singing talent show where people from around the country audition and move up through the round until eventually, 1 winner is picked. In the beginning of the process, the judges vote if the contestants go to Hollywood or not and if they progress from there. Once the number of contestants gets to a certain round, the audience members and people across America get to put in their votes on who should be the next American idol.
On January 12, 2010, the Atlanta auditions were aired. On this particular episode, a 62 year old man names General Larry Platt auditioned. One of the audition requirements states that you must be between the ages of 16 and 28. Larry was already too old to audition although the judges let him sing anyway. He performed his own original song, appropriately titled "Pants on the Ground". His performance became a viral hit, since the show was aired. The lyrics to the song go something like this:
"Pants on the ground
Pants on the ground
Lookin’ like a fool with you pants on the ground
Gold in your mouth
Hat turned sideways, pants hit the ground
Call yourself a cool cat looking like a fool
Walking down town with yo pants on the ground
get it up!"
Platt was a civil rights activist in Atlannta, Georgia. In fact, September 4th, 2001 is designated as "Larry Platt Day" becuase he was honored for his civil rights movements. His goal with this song, "Pants on the Ground", was to reach out to African Americans that have come so far in society since the times of Rosa Parks and MLK. Platt is trying to point out that African Americans have finally gained respect in society and now they stereotypically walk around with, well, their pants dragging. Platt is saying that they need to honor their gained respect and pull up their pants, straighten their hat, and look appropriate.
On January 12, 2010, the Atlanta auditions were aired. On this particular episode, a 62 year old man names General Larry Platt auditioned. One of the audition requirements states that you must be between the ages of 16 and 28. Larry was already too old to audition although the judges let him sing anyway. He performed his own original song, appropriately titled "Pants on the Ground". His performance became a viral hit, since the show was aired. The lyrics to the song go something like this:
"Pants on the ground
Pants on the ground
Lookin’ like a fool with you pants on the ground
Gold in your mouth
Hat turned sideways, pants hit the ground
Call yourself a cool cat looking like a fool
Walking down town with yo pants on the ground
get it up!"
Platt was a civil rights activist in Atlannta, Georgia. In fact, September 4th, 2001 is designated as "Larry Platt Day" becuase he was honored for his civil rights movements. His goal with this song, "Pants on the Ground", was to reach out to African Americans that have come so far in society since the times of Rosa Parks and MLK. Platt is trying to point out that African Americans have finally gained respect in society and now they stereotypically walk around with, well, their pants dragging. Platt is saying that they need to honor their gained respect and pull up their pants, straighten their hat, and look appropriate.
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