Weekend Post: Popular Culture: Sade's Comeback

How do you make it to No. 1 on the Billboard chart? Sade’s strategy: take a decade off and remain mysterious.

Last week Sade, the Nigerian-born singer whose song “Smooth Operator” has been a radio staple for a quarter-century, released “Soldier of Love” (Epic), her first album in 10 years, and it zoomed past all competition. It reached No. 1 with a remarkable 502,000 sales, according to Nielsen SoundScan, a better debut week than Jay-Z, U2 andBritney Spears had for their latest albums.

“Soldier of Love” has received strong reviews. But the album’s success also points to the consumer power and loyalty of older listeners, who helped make Susan Boyle’s album “I Dreamed a Dream” (Syco Music/Columbia) the second-best selling album of 2009. No. 1 was “Fearless”Taylor Swift (Big Machine). Sade is a Nigerian-born singer who is 51 years old. She started her musical career in 1983 and has delivered successful albums since then such as, Diamond Life, Stronger than Love, and her most recent, Soldier of Love.

In my opinion, I love Sade and I'm glad she's back. My favorite song by her is Soldier of love. I use to always hear my aunt listen to her musci when I was 11 and that's when I first listened to her awesome and talented voice. I saw her perform it live on 106&park and I was completely blown away by her awesome and timely comeback. Keep it up Sade! This article was retrieved from the NYTimes website .

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Weekend Post: Teen Issues: Fundraiser in memory of teen who died

RANDOLPH — Taisia Grigore would have graduated Randolph High School this June, but that prospect ended one night last month when she was fatally hit by a car while crossing Route 10

Grigore will never attend college, but her friends are now raising money for a scholarship in her name to help future Randolph High School graduates.

The Nash Dancenter on Emery Avenue will hold a Zumbathon dance event on Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to help fund that future scholarship.

"We are going to have an hour and a half with Zumba followed by a 20-minute workout," Mary Massey, a Zumba instructor there, said Friday. Zumba is an aerobic workout set to Latin and world music.

"It's very popular in New Jersey," Massey said.

Organizers are asking for $20 donations to attend.

Those planning to attend should wear comfortable clothing along with cross-training or dance sneakers, and bring a towel and water.

Massey said Randolph High School students will be on hand and will perform music to some of the workouts.

Grigore, 17, had just finished her waitress shift at the Randolph Diner on Jan. 5 when she attempted to cross Route 10 to return to the Gateway Apartment building where she lived with her mother.

She apparently made it across the eastbound lane but was hit by a car traveling westbound. Morris County Prosecutor Robert A. Bianchi said that while the investigation was continuing, authorities are unlikely to charge the driver who struck Grigore.

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Weekend Post: Women's Issues: AFRICA: "Women's Decade": Greater Attention to Implementation

This article is about the unfair events occurring due to gender issues. Tanzania was the first to announce a 25 percent budget cut early in 2009. Gender, which already receives the lowest budget allocation in most African countries, will suffer more.

According to UNIFEM's (United Nations Development Fund for Women) 2008 Progress of the World's Women report, government budgets are the largest single source of financing for gender equality and women's empowerment in most countries.

But even with overseas development assistance (ODA) accounting for five to 10 percent of national budgets, the amounts actually allocated to gender equality are negligible and often hard to quantify because of a lack of sex disaggregated data.

Decade in defence of women's rights

This has prompted the Women and Gender Development Directorate at the African Union (AU) to initiate the African Women’s Decade – to rescue gender issues from being dropped from member states’ budget lines altogether.

Here women are not treated equally and they are seeking to be treated equally. I personally do not agree with how the women are treated in these third-world countries because us women have always been treated unfairly. We need to gain our power as women and fight for our rights. This article was taken from google news.

Weekend Post: International

This article s about in Port-Au-prince Haiti at a fly-infested clinic one man is left to care for all the patients alongside a tuberculosis sanitarium. Pierre Louis Monfort is left alone to care for patients all alone after the earthquake. The 50 nurses and 20 doctors died in the earthquake or have refused to return to work. There have been over 30,000 cases of Tuberculosis in Haiti and the disease is constantly spreading and this man has been overwhelmed and drowning in the pressure to save these people. His wife and children don't want him to get up everyday and go to work but he does out of pure care to save his country's people. This was from the NY Times Website.

Police Taser Student at Basketball Game

Police Taser Student at Basketball Game

High School student Tasered in PA

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