TRUMP THREATENS HIS PARTY: EITHER PASSES ITS HEALTHCARE REFORM OR LEAVES OBAMACARE

Donald Trump released the biggest pulse of his presidency last night. After being publicly humiliated by the hawks of his party, who threatened to overthrow his health reform, the president of the United States could not restrain himself and ordered to proceed today to his vote in the House of Representatives under the threat of leaving the system of his Predecessor, the Obamacare, if they did not support their alternative project. The radicals did not respond to the ultimatum. The acceptance of their demands, based on a drastic limitation of the health benefits, would lead to the failure of the norm as it passes through the Senate.
For Republicans the system developed by Obama attacks the root of his ideology: broaden the federal bureaucracy, deepens the deficit and ends the freedom of choice.
The project sponsored by Trump is defined as eliminating the obligation of medical insurance, freezing the program for the most disadvantaged and ending the tax system that nourishes the health care network.

• Rocío Adame and Marina Pérez

THE BEST NEWS: KEVIN DURANT WILL BE ABLE TO PLAY BEFORE THE PLAYOFFS

If there are no relapses, you will have games and minutes before the playoffs. He was injured on February 28 and already travels with the Warriors. The Warriors showed an almost supreme version after Christmas and plummeted later in their worst crisis of the era Kerr (End of 2016 to the margin), a series of defeats that complicated the first position of the West and that had to do with a calendar (Especially Stephen Curry) and, of course, Kevin Durant's knee injury in his native Washington, which put in check the aspirations of a team whose only goal is the ring . KD was given a one-month or a month-and-a-half off period, enough to reach the playoffs if the recovery was on a positive course, and in Oakland they breathed. And they breathe more now because everything indicates that not only will Kevin Durant play the playoffs but will have games and minutes before the end of the Regular Season, a key aspect to catch pace and confidence in their movements: you just have to see how it affected To Stephen Curry his knee injury in the past playoffs and the limited that played the Finals against the Cavaliers. In addition, the team has once again picked up an excellent dynamic, re-sent in the West and the Splash Brothers regain an optimum level in their shot. All data for optimism, none as great as the good news that Kevin Durant's knee sends: the forward has already traveled with the team for the matches in Oklahoma City and Dallas, he starts to do training sessions in normal practice and, Unless relapsed, will play before the qualifying rounds.

• Isabel López

US MILITARY NUDE PHOTO SHARING SCANDAL WIDENS BEYOND MARINES

US servicemen from all parts of the military have been sharing nude photos of their female colleagues online, it has emerged.
Reports last week uncovered widespread photo sharing by current and former marines on Facebook, triggering a navy investigation.
But the BBC has seen a message board where servicemen from other branches have shared hundreds of photos.
The Pentagon said such behaviour was "inconsistent" with its values.
Male service members use a message board on anonymous image hosting website Anon-IB to share nude images of their female counterparts.
They often first post clothed photos of female personnel taken from their social media pages, and ask if any members have nude photos, which they call "wins". Others then post photos.
Those posting sometimes provide names and other details of women, including where they are stationed, and lewd comments accompany many posts.
The behaviour previously reported was confined to marines on Facebook.
A Facebook group called Marines United with 30,000 members was recently closed down after the scandal erupted.

 

• Lucía Forero and María García

THE DALÍ FOUNDATION PAYS 2.1 MILLION FOR THE PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER'S SISTER

The painting of Ana Maria was not seen again since it was exposed in 1925 Three euros from 1929 to 2.1 million euros from 2017. There is nothing like the revaluation of works in the art market. In this case, the profile figure, the painting that Salvador Dalí painted in 1925 of his teenage sister sitting in front of a window and looking out to sea. In 1929, after Dalí's first exhibition at the Dalmau Galleries, Joaquim Cusi, a friend of the family, bought it for 500 pesetas and yesterday the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation bought it for 2,109,630 euros, exceeding the price of 700,000 euros That part of this lot in the London auction hall Bonhams, as he released yesterday in a statement the own foundation that watches over the interests of the artist.

  

• Ainhoa Peregrín and Pablo Miranda

EYE WITH THE SPIDER OF CORNER

Bites only in self-defense and although it may appear throughout the year, in spring and summer is more frequent. She lives in the houses, she is shy and her activity is nocturnal. It is located in dark corners, behind the pictures and in closets. He fears the light and the loud noises.

Bite Symptoms:

The bite is a stinging sensation, followed by pain and swelling. It becomes inflamed locally and appears a red spot. If an injury occurs, the center of which is black and the periphery is blue, the diagnosis is confirmed. It usually appears within 48 hours.

To avoid being bitten by this spider it is important to consider the following points:

- Keep clean and tidy corners, behind and under furniture and pictures.
- When entering a dark, dirty or closed place for a long time, carry a powerful light and make noise.
- Separate the beds from the walls.
- Do not hang clothes or towels on the walls.
- Check and shake clothes and shoes before putting them on.
- Check bed and corners before bed.
- Avoid children playing inside closets or boxes that have not been checked.
- Use suitable and authorized arachnicides.

• Rocío Adame and Marina Pérez

SAKURA SEASON: WHERE TO VIEW CHERRY BLOSSOMS IN JAPAN

In theory it's a simple pleasure, namely stopping to view and appreciate the beautiful spring blossoms -- most commonly cherry trees.

In reality, it's a hugely symbolic and much-loved source of national pride, a chance to recognize and reflect on the beauty of nature while welcoming the new season.

This being Japan, everything is perfectly organized .

When the Japan Weather Association's annual sakura forecast is broadcast live, it brings with it a flurry of domestic and international bookings as travelers rush to make the most of the country's stunning landscapes and scenery.

Given the size and geographical spread of the country, the cherry blossoms -- or sakura -- appear at different times and usually only last for a few days.

In early March they're already in bloom way down in Okinawa, but for the rest of the country, viewing times vary from later the same month until the second week of May.

 

 

• Lucía Forero and María García

LIPSTICK UNDER MY BURKHA: INDIA DIRECTOR VOWS TO FIGHT "ILLOGICAL" FILM BAN

The director of an award-winning Indian film is fighting film censors to ensure that Lipstick Under My Burkha gets released in the country.
Alankrita Shrivastava was recently informed in a letter - badly-worded and full of spelling mistakes - that her film was being denied a censor certificate for being too "lady-oriended [oriented]" with "contanious [continuous] sexual scenes".
The Central Board of Film Certification also complained that the film "has abusive words, audio pornography [meaning phone sex], and a bit sensitive touch about one particular section of society [implying it could hurt Muslim religious sentiments]".
This effectively means that the film, which stars talented actresses like Konkona Sen Sharma and Ratna Pathak Shah, cannot be screened in Indian cinemas.
The film about four women from small town India had its world premiere in Tokyo a few months ago and since then has won several awards at film festivals globally.

• Lucía Forero and María García

ONE WOMAN, A NURSING HOME AND A MAN ACUSATED OF RAPE

A man trapped a 53 years old lady because she was easy to catch. He kidnapped her and made her stay in an old nursing home. She believed she was a kid and she was found with a toy in her left hand and saliva dripping from the corner of her mouth.

"I had been attacked, attacked by a man sexually," she tells us, lying in her bed and fully dressed in high-heeled boots, with other clothing and shoes mixed in with her sheets. "I was cornered between a closet and a bathroom, me with one arm. ... I couldn't breathe."

Occasionally, as she recounts her story, she closes her eyes and looks as if she is falling asleep. Then she's suddenly alert again. She's proud of her reputation for being feisty and difficult -- she says she's always being told she complains too much. She recites -- correctly -- the phone number for the state hotline where nursing home residents can lodge their grievances.
It could be tempting to dismiss her story as drug-induced hallucinations or the confusion of a stroke survivor. Police might find her the very definition of an unreliable witness. But she is adamant she is telling the truth.

It took her about two weeks to summon the courage to report what happened. She uses the word violated.

"I was embarrassed. I thought, 'I need to tell someone,' but I was afraid no one would believe me."
She was right. At first, no one did.
The woman told police that the director of nursing at the Brian Center Health & Rehabilitation, Gail Robertson, reacted to the story with disbelief. She told the resident "to go live under a bridge, because nothing like that happened" in her facility, the woman recalled.

• Lucía Forero and María García

A STUDENT DISCOVERS A LOST NOVEL OF THE POET WALT WHITMAN OF 165 YEARS AGO

'Life and Adventures of Jack Engle', which chronicles the adventures of an orphan, was 165 years abandoned. The book anticipates 'Leaves of grass', one of the summits of modern lyric. Walt Whitman, born in 1819 and died in 1892, was a journalist, typographer, carpenter, teacher and creator of pamphlets, the father of modern American poetry took years to find himself. Before entering eternity in 1855 with Leaves of Grass, Whitman looked for in a heterogeneous set of writings that soon would condemn to the oblivion. One of these works, lost since 1852, has just reappeared. It is a novel entitled Life and Adventures of Jack Engle. 36,000 unheard-of words and after 165 years in the dark have been recovered by the almost detective work of a graduate of the University of Houston. On March 13, 1852, page 3 of The New York Daily Times, an advertisement appeared. The box reported the forthcoming publication of a novel by chapters in a rival newspaper, The Sunday Dispach. It was the "revealing and entertaining" Life and Adventures of Jack Engle. A story in the first person of the adventures of an orphan and promising, with Spanish dancer included, good doses of crime and love. The Dickensian tone and anonymous authorship was a flower of a day. Once printed (and it is not known whether praised or reviled) he fell into oblivion. It never took the form of a book or was reprinted. The story would take a century and a half to find a reader again. The finding was made by a PhD student, Zachary Turpin of the University of Houston.

• Ainhoa Peregrín and Pablo Miranda

A NEW BOOK OF SPORT'S PHOTOGRAPHY

Sports photographers have been left out of the history books,” says Gail Buckland. “They’re not part of the canon. And that’s ridiculous – because sports photography at its very heart is about the body in movement, which is one of the central themes of art, it’s one of the central themes of who we are as human beings.”

Sport photography is also important because every time we see a 1960 to 1990 women picture, the woman is domestic bur rarely a great athelete.

Sport photography has been very creative, but we do not often see it.

• Lucía Forero and María García

RICK RUBIO WAS VERY CLOSE TO BEING A PLAYER OF THE KNICKS

The hours passed and negotiations continued between the New York Knicks and the Minnesota Timberwolves. As Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical advanced, both teams resumed the talks early in the afternoon and seemed intent on reaching an agreement in which the big names would be Ricky Rubio and Derrick Rose. Apparently, the Knicks were looking for something else in the exchange and the Wolves, covering their backs, offered Ricky Rubio to more teams. In the end, the New Yorkers seemed willing to accept a direct transfer, but the Wolves did not pull the trigger. Other rumors suggest that Knicks and Wolves finally reached an agreement when there was no time left to execute the transfer.

• Isabel López

R.MADRID VS NÁPOLES 3-1

Goals:

1^st Goal:Insigne(24)

2^nd Goal:Benzema(9)

3^rd Goal:Toni Kroos(8)

4^th Goal:Casemiro(14)

COMMENTARIES:

It was a nice match with good goals and we(fans) know that Madrid will win the next match.

There were nice goals amazing.

• Pedro González and Cristian Martín

A 12 YEARS OLD GIRL TRANSMITS HER SUICIDE VIA FACEBOOK AND NOW THE POLICE CANNOT DELETE THE VIDEO

 The video of a child on Facebook relaying his own suicide has not only become viral but has in check the entire police. On December 30, Katelyn Nicole Davis decided to hang herself in the garden and share her last minutes of life through Facebook Live. Although the social network has erased the post, the video has spread and the police can not find a way to stop its spread.
Earlier, the 12-year-old said she had been sexually abused by a family member. In the video uploaded to Facebook she said goodbye and was recorded for about 20 minutes. In it it is observed how it passes away and how a woman out of plane pronounces its name several times.

• Rocío Adame and Marina Pérez

RAJOY SEARCHS A PLACE ON TRUMP´S WORLD MAP

Rajoy was the fifth European leader who called the new tenant of the White House and the less time I dedicate. Some other leaders like Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin or the candidate for France´s president, Marine LePen had called too.

• Iván Reina and Pablo Rodríguez 

BÉCQUER HIGH SCHOOL NEWS

This blog has being designed by a group of students from Bécquer High School in Seville. 
We are doing this to practise our English writing so we can improve it. We will upload news written by ourselves. 
If you are interested in participating in this project, you can contact with us by sending an email to this direction:  becquerhsnews@gmail.com 

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DONATE YOUR BRAIN

Scientists are appealing for more people to donate their brains for research after they die.
They say they are lacking the brains of people with disorders such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
In part, this shortage results from a lack of awareness that such conditions are due to changes in brain wiring.
The researchers' aim is to develop new treatments for mental and neurological disorders.
The human brain is as beautiful as it is complex. Its wiring changes and grows as we do. The organ is a physical embodiment of our behaviour and who we are.
In recent years, researchers have made links between the shape of the brain and mental and neurological disorders.

• María García and Lucía Forero

THE YPNG NBA STARS PARTY SPEAKS SPANISH

The Rising Stars Challenge opens the All Star Weekend with a Spanish accent: Abrines, Willy, Porzingis and Sabonis. Turning to the format of what between 2000 and 2011 had been a game that faced rookies and sophomores, the NBA has added something spicy with a formula that is in its third edition: rookies and sophomores Are mixed (at least three per category on each side) in a duel that faces one team of Americans against another of players from the rest of the world. So far, a win by side and two MVPs for the Wolves (Wiggins and LaVine), who could make triplet because they represent the tremendous pivot Karl-Anthony Towns. The show, which will launch the All Star Weekend at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, will have Spanish accent this year as both Willy Hernangómez and Alex Abrines have slipped, on their own merits but also at the very last hour, in the World Team For the injuries of Emmanuel Mudiay and Cameroon Joel Embiid, which was one of the great attractions of this match ... and the whole weekend. Alongside the two Spaniards will also be Kristaps Porzinigs and Domantas Sabonis, Latvian and Lithuanian but raised in Seville and Malaga. So the Spanish touch is guaranteed waiting for Marc Gasol to play with the majors on Sunday All Star Game (02:00, # 0)

• Isabel López 

ARRESTED IN ALICANTE A SEZ OFFENDER WANTED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE NETHERLANDS AND THAILAND FOR ABUSING MORE THAN 30 CHILDREN

Civil Guard agents have arrested M.F, a sex offender wanted in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Thailand, who had abused more than 30 children in Santa Pola (Alicante).
The investigation began after the analysis of the computer of a sexual assailant detained in the Netherlands, where images and chats of 15 children who were abused by Frost were identified and identified.
M.F had already been arrested by Thai police after abusing 9 children, cheating on money and gifts. In the images, which he recorded himself, he showed himself by making the heart symbol with his hands while abusing the children.
The arrest took place in Alicante and has been extradited to his country, where he is pending to be sentenced to prison, as the author of 45 sexual offenses to minors, both in the United Kingdom and abroad.
The 70-year-old detainee has served for many years as an English teacher at a UK school. He is accused of having abused several children in the school store, as well as his own adopted son.
In 1986 he tried to adopt another minor, but was eventually denied.

•  Rocío Adame and Marina Pérez

THE FBI DELIVERS TO THE HEIRS OF A JEWISH GALLERY OWNER A PICTURE TAKEN BY THE NAZIS 80 YEARS AGO

The seventeenth-century portrait of the Dutch master Jan Franse Verzijl is the sixteenth canvas recovered by the Max Foundation and Iris Stern

A painting of the seventeenth century was expelled by the Nazis in 1936 and returned by the United States justice to the heirs of a German Jewish art dealer.

The painting "Young Man as Bacchus" by the Dutch painter Jan Franse Verzijl (1599-1647) was seized by the FBI at the art gallery Luigi Caretto in Turin, Italy, which had sent it for sale at the Spring art fair Masters of New York in May 2015.

The Italian gallery has shown great generosity by voluntarily waiving its right of ownership over the work in negotiations with the FBI, the foundation said in a statement.

The FBI had intervened following the request of HCPO, the New York State's Shoah related claims office. Founded in 2002 and run by Concordia University in Montreal, this foundation is currently the world's largest project of restitution of paintings sold forcibly by its owners during Nazi Germany.

This is the sixteenth canvas recovered by the foundation. Several institutions are heirs to Max Stern, a German of Jewish origin (1904-1987), former owner of an important art gallery in Düsseldorf, expelled from the Academy of Fine Arts of the Reich and forced by the Nazis in 1937 to sell more than 400 pictures.

The return of the painting was made at a ceremony on Wednesday at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, under a landmark US court decision in 2007 in another case related to Stern.

• Pablo Miranda and Ainhoa Peregrín

MOST HONEST PHOTOGRAPHER

Martin Schoeller is one of the world's most celebrated portrait photographers. He's taken pictures of everyone from President Obama and Lady Gaga, to female bodybuilders and the homeless of Los Angeles.

"It's been 20 years that I've been taking these close-up portraits and everybody (has) the same lighting, the same setting, the same angle, the same camera. Nobody is retouched -- what you see is what you get," Schoeller explained to CNN.

By treating each portrait in the same way, regardless of the subject, Schoeller attempts to find some truth in what he feels can be a very dishonest medium.

"I do think all photographs lie. I don't think there is one picture that is really honest. You can't describe a person in a split second, but maybe in the grand scheme of photography, I think there are some pictures that are more honest than others, you know? So I'm trying to steer to the little bit more honest side of the spectrum," he said.

Out of the thousands of people he has photographed, who does Schoeller find the most challenging to photograph?

"Actors in general are difficult to shoot because they are always acting. You feel like 'Oh, this was an honest, great portrait' while you're photographing them... and then (I'm) looking at the contact sheets and I feel like, 'Oh my god, they were playing the whole time and I didn't even notice it.'"

 

• María García and Lucía Forero

A 36 YEAR MAN HAS DIED BY SUFFERING A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT IN CAMAS, SEVILLE

A 36-year-old man has died in the afternoon of Thursday after suffering a traffic accident, in particular a road exit, while riding a motorcycle on the A-49 motorway, at the height of the Sevillian municipality of Camas.

The incident occurred at about 17.20 hours on Thursday. Immediately, several witness drivers have alerted an accident of a motorist on the A-49 motorway, at kilometer 0, at the height of the Pañoleta towards Huelva.

The exact point where the accident has occured.

• Iván Reina and Pablo Rodríguez

 

TRYING TO RESCUE WHALES

Volunteers in New Zealand are trying to rescue survivors after more than 400 whales beached themselves.

About 300 whales died overnight at Farewell Spit, on the South Island, in one of the worst such cases the country has seen.

Hundreds of locals and conservation officers have been trying to rescue the survivors since early Friday and formed a human chain to refloat the whales.

 Scientists do not know what exactly causes whales to beach themselves.

But it sometimes happens because the whales are old and sick, injured, or make navigational errors particularly along relaxing beaches.

Andrew Lamason, the departments regional manager, said it was one of the largest mass beachings recorded in New Zealand.

"We managed to float quite a few whales off and there were an awful lot of dead ones in the shallows so it was really, really sad."

"One of the nicest things was we managed to float off a couple [of whales] and they had babies and the babies were following," Ms Wiles added.
In February 2015 about 200 whales beached themselves at the same location of which at least half died.

• María García and Lucía Forero