A walk to Remember

Let’s start this article by saying CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2016! On May 24th 2016, the seniors celebrated their final moments as students in Escuela Bella Vista by walking in the courtyard following clapping and cheering from the other students. “ I feel like this definitely teaches the younger students that they can do it and not to give up” said a fellow eighth grader Nicolas Rangel.  “I wish that was me.” told us another fellow middle school-er Gustavo Sanchez. Don’t we all wish we could be them? After the walk when everyone was headed to class, the seniors were greeted by their parents cheering for them and making cheerful noise as they left the campus with smiles on their faces and memories they will never forget. One day, all of us will leave this school, and we do we will look back at all the memories we had here. Let’s just wait our turn. BEST OF LUCK SENIORS!

World leaders are “rattled” by Trump

President Obama shares his opinion about Donald Trump.

            Barack Obama currently expressed his feelings about the republican presidency contender Donald Trump to reporters in Ise City, Japan. During which he announced that heads of state were “rattled" by one of the candidates for the U.S. presidency, "and for good reason”. In addition, he explained that, “the proposals made by Trump displayed either ignorance of world affairs or cavalier attitude”. Obama also addressed the fact that Trump was evidently more interested in his investment in social media and popularity rather than the importance of keeping America “safe, secure and prosper”.  President Obama simply stressed the fact that the world is worried about Donald Trump; not only himself, but also other government officials find themselves concerned towards the candidate’s propositions. Who better to shine light on Trump’s current status around the world than the president of the U.S. himself, who is held in high esteem by most United States citizens?

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Infections may be the cause Alzheimer’s?

According to recent studies Alzheimer’s may be caused by a fierce reaction that origins from infections.

“Could it be that Alzheimer’s disease stems from the toxic remnants of the brain’s attempt to fight off infection?

Provocative new research by a team of investigators at Harvard leads to this startling hypothesis, which could explain the origins of plaque, the mysterious hard little balls that pockmark the brains of people with Alzheimer’s.” Writes the New York Times, as new medical investigations have been tried that may explain the cause of one of the world’s most infamous diseases; Alzheimer’s. Experts have developed the idea that infections, even the most simple one’s, may cause a fierce reaction, leaving debris in the brain that may be the cause of Alzheimer’s. According to the New York Times, Harvard researchers have confirmed their hypothesis using “neurons growing in petri dishes as well as in yeast, roundworms, fruit flies and mice.” Even though scientists may have had a groundbreaking discovery that can change the face of medicine in the future and makes us closer to being able to cure people from this terrible disease, there is still much to be done such as experimenting on human brains and performing clinical trials.

                                           

Battling in minecraft will never be the same!

Recently there was a Minecraft update. The 1.9 pvp update changed how people battle and added multiple items and features that change how battling works.

Shields were an item that they added in. Shields, when holding right click, will block incoming arrows wherever you have your shield pointed at. They also added in an option where you can hold items in your other hands. For example, in your main hand, you can hold a sword while in your other hand you can have a shield or a bow or even another sword! You can have any item allowing for different PVP strategy to occur. You can someone to protect others by having a shield or golden apples, or you can be an archer with a bow. The possibilities are limitless.

They also added changes to pvp in general. There are now abilities on your swords and axes. The Shield Breaker ability is on axes and causes all shields hit by an axe to have to recharge for 7 seconds. In that recharge time, your shield is unusable. The swords have the swing ability, which causes area damage. Another addition is that your swords have a recharge time after you swing. They also made axes do a lot more damage and gave them a long recharge time. Here are exactly the amounts of damage if the sword had been fully recharged:

Swords: 0.625 seconds to recover                                                        DMG: damage per second

Wooden Sword:      4 damage                                                     6.4

Gold Sword:            4 damage’                                                               6.4

Stone Sword:          5 damage’                                                               8.0

Iron Sword:             6 damage                                                                9.6

Diamond Sword:     7 damage                                                               11.2

Axes: Different attack speeds depending on weapon

Wooden Axe:           7 damage       1.25 seconds to recover                  5.6

Gold Axe:                 7 damage       1.00 seconds to recover                  7.0

Stone Axe:               9 damage       1.25 seconds to recover                  7.2

Iron Axe:                  9 damage        1.11 seconds to recover                 8.1  

Diamond Axe:          9 damage        1.00 seconds to recover                 9.0

How would you like to eat the world?

Tasty planet 2 is an insane 2d game where you are a “grey goo” traveling through time and eating all sorts of historical monuments. Jayisgames.com Says that “It is extremely satisfying to run from enemies, just to turn around and them yourself.

The concept of this game is that you can eat everything smaller than yourself. When you eat, you grow, and then you can eat bigger things. While you are growing in the normal timeline, you somehow eat a time machine. The time machine takes you to a15ll sorts of lands. These include ancient Rome ( where you eat the Colosseum), ancient Egypt (where you eat the Sphinx), the Jurassic period (where you eat a volcano) and so on. There are things that are bigger than you, that can hurt you. This makes you lose your size. But all in all, this game is deliciously good.

Venezuelan to an Oscar

Edgar Ramirez is a Venezuelan actor, whom in his 39 years, has achieved to be in movies co-starting Jenifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games) and Teresa Palmer (The Sorcerer's Apprentice), not only that but he is so good that he was nominated to an OSCAR. Edgar Filiberto Ramirez Arellano was born on March 25, 1977, he became known when he played the starting role in Carlos, and was given the Cesar Award for Most Promising Actor in 2010. Recently, he was nominated to the 2016 OSCAR awards and his upcoming movie is The Girl on The Train.

Photo courtesy: variety.com

Venezuelan Musicians Enlighten The World

         The 'Sistema Nacional de Orquestas y Coros Juveniles', the national system of juvenile orchestra and band was founded in 1975 by the teacher musician, Jose Antonio Abreu. Now, in its forty-one years. They have succeeded on a tour through whole Europe. It is now directed by Gustavo Dudamel. In 2015, they performed nine concerts in England, Germany, Belgium and France. It is one of the most successful orchestras in the whole world! Congratulations to our Venezuelan musicians!