News Prospective Parker Days Interview

 

At the Parker Days festival , in Parker, Colorado, we had a interview with some of the riders that went on the “Tower drop” They helped us to understand the feeling going up and jolt going down. 9 yr. Old Shi’eana Hall answered our questions with a relief of finishing her 7 hour day at the Parker days festival with this exciting ride.

 

Some questions we asked were…

 

Q.Were you nervous to get on the Tower Drop?

A.I was suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper nervous and at first didn’t want to even get on.But good ol’ mom change my mind as usual.

Q.How long were you there for?

A.I was there for a long, dying, 7 hours of fire, but I also got the experience to be waiting in line for thirty minutes and getting to the front and noticing the big huge sign reading no open toed shoes during this ride and being kicked off after such a wait.

 

We thanked her for the information and her time for this ecstatic news she shared. She said she came because it was her one day off of gymnastics practice. She is  training   Level 8 gymnastics with Adrenaline Gymnastics.We will look forward to a lot more events, including the the Puerto Rican Festival tomorrow with Brianna McMichaels!!!

Percy Jackson

 

There are 5 books of Percy Jackson. And in case you were wondering , I’ve read them all. And lets say i’m NOT a bookworm under any circumstances because i’m not. But, when he was fighting an enemy monster, I just could not put the book down.
In the first book, he fought the minotaur, which is a beast with fur and horns. And throughout the series he fights a cyclops, , The Furies, Kronos, Medusa, Telkines, and Hellhounds. To anyone who has not read any Percy Jackson related things, then go read it. If you think it looks boring, I salute you, and now am telling you to just read it, and always read something a little like this before you read it if you judge the book by it’s cover, and judging a book is not a bad thing. Not at all.

 

Introducing Zealandia

Introducing Zealandia

A group of geologists think that New Zealand, and many of it’s islands, should be reclassified. As of now, New Zeland is part of Australia. But scientists think that there is enough evidence to move New Zeland to a new designation as our eighth continent.

Scientists study that New Zealand is mostly underground and is about as big as India! Scientists try to collect enough data to prove to the world that we should introduce Zealandia as a new country to our world. 

Share out to us about your opinion. Should Zealandia be a country?

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Cheetahs Going Extinct

 

Racing Towards Extinction?

A new study says the cheetah population is rapidly declining

JANUARY 04, 2017

By Kio Herrera

JAMES OERTEL—MAJORITY WORLD/UIG/GETTY IMAGES

A new study finds cheetahs are in danger of extinction with only 7,100 remain worldwide.

According to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the world’s fastest land animal could be sprinting towards extinction.

The Zoological Society of London (ZSL), Panthera, and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) led the study. It estimates that only 7,100 cheetahs remain worldwide. The spotted cats are found mainly in Africa. But according to the study, cheetahs have been forced out of 91% of their native range. Cheetahs found in Asia are among the hardest hit. Fewer than 50 are left in a secluded and small part of Iran, according to the study.

Many factors are to blame for the decline in cheetah numbers. They include habitat loss and illegal trafficking, which is the selling of cheetahs and cheetah parts. Prey loss is also a problem. Humans cause it by overhunting animals that cheetahs prey on. Cheetahs are carnivores and prey mainly on smaller mammals, such as gazelles.

Fighting for the Future

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Cheetahs, such as these in the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, typically roam large areas making them vulnerable to hunters and traffickers of exotic animals.

Because cheetahs usually roam over large areas in search of food, 77% of their habitat remains outside of government-protected areas. This means that cheetahs are in constant danger of hunters and traders. In Zimbabwe, Africa, alone, the cheetah population has dropped from 1,200 to only about 170 in 16 years. This decline represents a loss of 85% of the country’s cheetahs.

Dr. Kim Young-Overton is Panthera’s Cheetah Program Director. She does not think protected habitats alone are enough to save cheetahs. Cheetahs in protected parks and reserves also face dangers such as loss of prey and illegal trafficking. “We must think bigger, conserving across the mosaic of protected and unprotected landscapes that these far-ranging cats inhabit, if we are to avert the otherwise certain loss of the cheetah forever,” she said in a press release.

Dr. Sarah Durant, of the ZSL and WCS, was the study’s lead author. She believes that the information it contains will lead to a better understanding of the felines as well as a better approach to helping them survive. “This study represents the most comprehensive analysis of cheetah status to date,” she said in the press release. “Given the secretive nature of this elusive cat, it has been difficult to gather hard information on the species, leading to its plight being overlooked.”

Durant says local and national officials must team up in order to save cheetahs. But first, she and the other study authors are calling on the International Union for Conservation of Nature to classify the animals as endangered. Currently, cheetahs are classified as vulnerable on the IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species. The change would focus more attention on cheetahs and help protect them from extinction. After all, in the fight to save cheetahs, it’s a race against time

The Pain of a Concussion

 

   Concussions aren’t fun.They aren’t a joke.In

fact, they stink.How do I know?Well,I had one.Here is my story.

  Beam.The event I can’t say I like.So….I’m at gymnastics,and I’m working on my backhandspring.I am concentrated on sticking this perfectly.I jump I soar I am flying!..and….

   BAM!!!!!!!!! I’m on the mats,dizzy,not knowing what had just happened.I hear and feel tweeting birds fly around my head,circling my head like it was an angel’s crown.

      “Ouch.” I say,finally.

  

I can tell I hit my head and nose.HARD.My coach comes over.It seems as if she knew this was going to happen.

   “Do you know what you just did?!?”she asks me.

    I stare at her with no answer.I’m drawing a blank.

   “You didn’t jump” she answers.

   How does that work? I’m thinking.I felt like I was 100 feet into the sky.Tears are still rolling down my face like rain drops on a window pane.I wipe them away with the back of my trembling hand.

       Three days later………………

My nose has stopped hurting but my head still hurts.A LOT.It’s Thursday in Math.Although I have an ice pack, my head is driving me crazy.

    After school, my mom takes me to the doctor.My doctor gives my brain some exercises and sits down.

    “She ….”she starts,

     I’m crossing my fingers I don’t have a concussion.

   

  “Has a concussion”she finishes.

   

   Oh no!!!!! I’m thinking.

I look at my mom who is still registering this in her head.This situation so far isn’t looking pretty.

I have competition for Level 7 in January!!!I don’t have time for this!!!!!!!!!!!!

So….now my doctor is telling me what I can’t do.Which is basically everything.

“She can’t watch TV,she can’t read,she can’t play on the computer,She can’t think….she can’t do gymnastics,meaning the balance beam,the parallel bars…….”

    Doesn’t she know parallel bars are for boys?!??

“But she can sleep”she said, matter-of-factly.

   Oh,like that’s gonna change anything.I hate sleeping!!!!!!!!! I’d rather take a walk!!(Just to be clear I also hate taking walks.)

    The next day,an hour after I woke up,I was bored to death.By the time it was 6:00 PM,I was so bored,I was crying.CRYING.For goodness sake it was only day 1!

   The second day was a little bit better, but still stank.I made Shrinky Dinks and brownies.The worst part was napping.Napping is humongous waste of time in the day.When I woke up,guess who got to sit there?Me.Yay.

     Sunday was better,cuz we went out,but not to my favorite place….but to my Least favorite place:the grocery store.I listened to some audio books and finally got to read!!!But only for 5 minutes.We went to Sally’s beauty shop and I bought some nail polish.It was SUPER cute in case you were wondering.But still,my day was terribly boring.So buying that nail polish,was the highlight of my day.

Now,today is Monday and I’m going to school.

I hate that I’m gonna miss Math and Writing.But it is only two days though.We start Thanksgiving break on Wednesday.It’s not as if I’m missing years of school….but still.

Kids and concussions are the worst match.Kinda like opposites.With a concussion,you have to rest.But kids are action packed……and that’s the problem.

 

Dinosaurs take 6 months to hatch

NEWS BRIEF

6 month Hatchlings

JANUARY 05, 2017

M. ELLISON—AMNH

Dinosaurs Took up to Six Months to Hatch, Study Finds

A new study has found that dinosaurs took between three and six months to hatch from their eggs. For many years, scientists thought that dinosaur incubation—the time it takes for eggs to hatch—took anywhere from 11 to 85 days, as it does for birds. Birds are the descendants of dinosaurs. But the study, which was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, says that dinosaur incubation time was more like the incubation of reptiles.

 

Researchers made the discovery by studying teeth in dinosaur fossils. The teeth showed “slow reptilian-grade development” that took several months, the scientists wrote. The slow development may have affected the dinosaurs’ ability to compete with more quickly growing populations of birds, reptiles, and mammals after an asteroid impact caused a mass extinction on Earth 65 million years ago.

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A New Organ in the Human Body

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J. CALVIN COFFEY, D. PETER O’LEARY, HENRY VANDYKE CARTER

Scientists Discover a New Organ in the Human Body

Scientists recently discovered what they are calling a new organ in the human digestive system. For more than 100 years, the organ, named the mesentery, was thought to be a group of separate structures inside the small intestine and colon. But researchers in Ireland say it is one continuous organ. Its specific function is still unknown.

The mesentery is a double fold in the lining of the abdominal cavity. It connects the intestine to the abdomen. Studying the mesentery as an organ could lead to new discoveries about its effect on abdominal diseases. That knowledge could present new and safer ways to perform surgery on the abdomen