Taylor Dance Off

By Rachel & Taylor

  Taylor Middle School had a big dance off held in the gym after school on Wednesday. Students added their own moves to the swing dance. There were 65 pairs of dancers participating in the big dance off, so 130 people. Thats a pretty big crowd, not including the audience. After four rounds of twirling and spinning, everyone was exhausted. Watching the dance off was like being in the 1920's all over again. Students danced until they were sweating from head to toe. 

The winners were Alexis and Devon. The runner ups were Stephanie and David, Angel and Robert, and Julie and Gabby. "It was really difficult to narrow it down to the top four", Ms.Lotti, a p.e teacher at T.M.S, says. "the quality was amazing, they really worked hard to coreograph their dances. It was so much fun! can't wait to take down B.I.S." Ms Nestor, another p.e teacher at T.M.S, says,"We were excited by the ammount of kids who showed up, it was so much fun".

Everyone got a free mile pass, just for participating! Winners got a $10 itunes gift card. The runner-ups got movie passes. Thank you for all the help from teachers who were judges including, Ms.Miller, Mr. sullivan, and Ms.Villafane. Thank you Dr.Toy and Dr.Martin for the support and encouragment.

Apple's new rival?

                                                                     By: Rachel

     Apple, for the first time in years, has a rival.  The maker of iPhones, iPads and iPods has never faced a challenger that can actually make a truly popular and profitable smartphone or tablet — not Dell, not Hewlett-Packard, not Nokia, not BlackBerry, but Samsung Electronics.

The South Korean manufacturer’s Galaxy S III smartphone is the first device to run in sales. Ofcourse the iphone is still more popular, but Galaxy S III is catching up. Samsung has emerged as a potent challenger to apple since they are armed with other galaxy phones and tablets. Apple is taking 72% of all the earnings while samsung's taking the rest. They are both very different though. Samsung Electronics, a major part of South Korea’s expansive Samsung Group, makes computer chips and flat-panel displays as well as a wide range of consumer products including refrigerators, washers and dryers, cameras, vacuum cleaners, PCs, printers and TVs. While Apple here creates new markets and dominating them, as it did with the iPhone and iPad, Samsung invests heavily in studying existing markets and innovating inside them. Samsung Electronics is slightly bigger than Apple in terms of revenue — $183.5 billion compared with $156.5 billion — but Apple is larger in terms of stock market value.

New bug can possible clean oceans

Everyyear, worldwide, we use about 1 TRILLION plastic bags! 1 million plastic bags are used each minute.  10% of plastic made every year ends up in the ocean. There are probably 46,000 pieces of plastic floating on every square mile of the ocean. Hundreds of thousands of sea turtles, whales, and other marine mammals, and more than 1 million seabirds die each year from ocean pollution and ingestion or entanglement in plastic and other marine debris.  Well, maybe theres a solution. A small bacteria in the ocean was found eating plastic. The bacteria was discovered through electron microscopy on plastic items sampled at the Sargasso Sea. BUT, scientists have not yet finished researching this bug. So we don't know if it's exactly safe yet. It helps get rid of plastic but how about their degestive system?  If their digestive systems are environmental friendsly, then that means nature has found new way to limit the damage humanity causes.

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