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Ultra Music Festival was a success

by Antonia Morande (9th grade)

Ultra Music Festival 2014 took place during the weekend in March, from Friday March 28 through Sunday March 30 in Miami, Florida during Miami Music Week.

This event was held at the Movistar Arena on October 11 and 12. This is the second time that this festival comes to Chile, and as the first time, it was a success. The fans are waiting for next year to come back.

If you want to know more, click here:

http://www.underbeat.cl/2014/06/ultra-chile-2014-toda-la-informacion.html

The Duchess is pregnant again!

kate By Carmen Garcia (9th grade)

Kate Middleton with her husband announced formally that she was pregnant. She received the first minister of Singapore and his wife, and toll everybody that she was carrying a child. The British real house said that the Prince George´s sister or brother is going to born in April, so she or he is only three months.

Look for more information here: http://www.huffingtonpost.es/2014/10/21/fotos-kate-segundo-embarazo_n_6020452.html

First Face Transplant in Chile

By Victoria de la Maza (9th grade)

This morning the Las Condes hospital announced they are going to do the firs face transplant in South America to a 29 years old man who suffered an accident when he was 18 years old. However, the doctors said they have to wait for a donor.

The surgery will cost 120 thousand dollars but the hospital said they will assume the majority of the costs. The doctors that will participate also received advice from international experts.

The identity of the man is unknown but because of the transplant he has been in multiple exams.

Luis Suárez will play in the Clasico

By Pedro de la Jarra (9th grade)

Luis Suárez is maybe one of the best soccer players in the world, but his behavior and attitude in the court gave him a 4 month suspension, this suspension just ended the last week, and because of this he will be available to play the most important game of the season (so far) and also he is not only coming back to play in this game, he is also to make his debut with Barcelona fc.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/sports/soccer/suarez-may-see-action-in-clasico.html?ref=sports

Maybe we will have an Ebola vaccine next year

By TriniCorvalan (9th grade)

The World Health Organization said that millions of doses of Ebola vaccines are committed to be made by Pharmaceutical companies for the next year. Also there are two vaccines ready for clinical trials and five more that have to be tested. Maybe, one of this could be the cure of the terrible disease guilty of the deaths of over 4,800 people this year.

For more information look on one of these links: http://time.com/3536529/ebola-vaccines-world-health-organization/

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-29756301

Illegal BIP Charges in Chile

By Cristóbal Bofill (9th grade)

One of the most recent events in our country, Chile, is illegal publish transportation card charges.

It was found out that people were getting money into their BIP cards without actually paying money.

Pablo Pizarro was the person that did this, he created an app in Android were you could type an amount of money and the code of your BIP and it would credit the money onto the card.

The government reacted quickly to this problem and blocked nearly 20 thousand BIP cards, most of them being student cards for college students.

Even though this wasn’t an actual crime, the government is now declaring it an informatics crime and Pablo Pizarro is now a criminal being chased by the law.

See the complete articles here: http://www.latercera.com/noticia/nacional/2014/10/680-601698-9-caso-carga-ilegal-de-tarjetas-bip-pretenden-individualizar-gran-cantidad-de.shtml

http://www.cooperativa.cl/noticias/pais/transportes/transantiago/gobierno-denunciara-delito-informatico-por-carga-ilegal-de-tarjetas-bip/2014-10-20/112430.html

OSCAR DE LA RENTA IS DEAD

By Magdalena Beyer (9th grade)

Oscar de la Renta was one of the most renowned clothing designers in the world. He became internationally known in the 1960s as one of the couturiers who dressed Jacqueline Kennedy. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. Oscar De la Renta died of complications from cancer on October 20, 2014, at the age of 82.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/20/living/oscar-de-la-renta-death/index.html

Tim Cook meets with Chinese authorities after reports of attacks on iCloud

By Martin Araya (9th grade)

Apple’s chief executive visited China and was disturbed by the group of web information monitoring, Greatfire.org, who said the Chinese government was involved in sophisticated and extensive illegal access to Apple users’ data in the country.

4 police officers attacked in New York

by Clemente O’Ryan (9th grade)

On Friday, October 24, a man attacked four police officers in New York City. The man has not been recognized yet.

Two of the police officers are injured, one of them was stroked in the head and the another one was attacked in the arm, they are completely safe, no vital risk.

For more information go to: http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/23/us/new-york-police-attacked/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Chile vs. Bolivia Recap

By Jose Tomas Urmeneta (9th grade)

In a friendly match Chile played with Bolivia in Coquimbo. In this match Chile had a bad performance because they played a poor match and were missing three important players who for various reasons were not there.

The first goal was by a striker Carlos Saucedo from the terrible pass of Gary Medel, the Chilean captain of this match. Later Charles Aranguiz made it 1-1 just before half time. In a few minutes Carlos Saucedo scored another goal. Coach Jorge Sampaoli made changes to change-up the game with no result, but in the end he put Pedro Pablo Hernadez, and he committed a penalty against Chile and ended the game.

Read more: http://www.ilovechile.cl/2014/10/15/la-roja/122079

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